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TV 5: Cliffhangers and Intros!

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jmh said:
OK, so, HIMYM. This has been brought up before, but, he's got to meet the mother soon, right? If future Ted has teenage kids (the actress who plays the daughter was 18 when the show started and the actor who plays the son was 16) in "the year 2030", and we're now in 2011, they've gotta be starting to crank out babies in another... three years or so, right?

Maybe a plot hole: If it winds up being Zoey (and it was pretty obvious they were setting Ted and Zoey up to be a couple), is it plausible that nobody remembers Honey's real name?

Tangent: Lyndsy Fonseca (who plays the daughter) has a pretty strong facial similarity to Cobie Smulders, IMO; I wonder if, when she was cast, they weren't sure whether Robin would eventually be the mother. (Though "that's how I met your aunt Robin" was in the first episode, so I guess that isn't really plausible. Either way, I think they look alike.)
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My friends and I have been debating this over the past couple of months. The cast is signed through 8 seasons, but I don't understand how they could draw out meeting the mother that long. Especially considering that they're already over on the years between 2030 and the daughter's birth. If you go back to past episodes and try to piece it together, the voice of Bob Saget said something along the lines of the daughter being born 2 years after Ted meets the mother. If she was 17 or 18 when the story is being told in the future, then this season or last season would have been the one where Ted meets the mother; that's not happening.
 
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Handyman said:
Just because the kids are that age in real life doesnt mean they have to be that age when he started telling the story. Since they have never said their age they can run with this as long as they so choose.
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Well, right, they don't have to be precisely that age, but it's pretty implausible that the characters being played by actors in their late teens were, say, 11 and 9. I think they have to get on with it sooner or later.

And I mean, obviously it won't just be about the moment that he met the mother, but also about how they wound up getting together etc. etc. That would be pretty silly if it ended with "I met your mother at a July 4th party, the end."
 
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jmh said:
And I mean, obviously it won't just be about the moment that he met the mother, but also about how they wound up getting together etc. etc. That would be pretty silly if it ended with "I met your mother at a July 4th party, the end."
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The last episode(or so) is going to be Ted meeting the mother at that wedding, going on a date with her, realizing their paths have almost crossed a billion times(Slutty Pumpkin, dating service date Ted never went on, St. Patty's Day, etc.), and then Ted saying 'I love you' on the first date like he did in the pilot and the chick being into it.
 
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I always like to think up different angles. Like the possibility that Ted and their mother are no longer together for any number of reason when he is telling this story, and who knows when they seperated. I think it would be kind of spiffy if "Aunt Robin" is pretty much their mother figure, and for who knows how long she has been.
 
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MaizeRage said:
The last episode(or so) is going to be Ted meeting the mother at that wedding, going on a date with her, realizing their paths have almost crossed a billion times(Slutty Pumpkin, dating service date Ted never went on, St. Patty's Day, etc.), and then Ted saying 'I love you' on the first date like he did in the pilot and the chick being into it.
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Yep, that is what it will be...a 1 hour episode where they meet, have a date that goes back over the entire history of the show and how close they got then and how perfect for each other they are now.

The best thing the show did was make sure Robin WASNT the mother in the pilot.
 
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You guys are discussing what may or may not happen on a sitcom? You actually make Star Wars and comic book nerds look manly. Awesome.

(laugh with me...)
 
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Pruitt Taylor Vince was on The Cape the other night, one of my favorite actors If anyone wants to see a slightly offbeat, quirky, yet beautiful, charming little foreign film, you should check out The Legend of 1900, with him and Tim Roth.
 
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Slap Shot said:
You guys are discussing what may or may not happen on a sitcom? You actually make Star Wars and comic book nerds look manly. Awesome.

(laugh with me...)
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I would rather laugh AT you since you are the guy who is so "manly" he has to mock us :p
 
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Handyman said:
I would rather laugh AT you since you are the guy who is so "manly" he has to mock us :p
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You know as well as anyone I'm just having fun. I don't begrudge any hobby that doesn't hurt anyone, at least give me points for observation. :)
 
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Slap Shot said:
You know as well as anyone I'm just having fun. I don't begrudge any hobby that doesn't hurt anyone, at least give me points for observation. :)
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Now you need points from me to prove your "manliness" sad really ;)

:D
 
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OK, I know Two And A Half Men catches a lot of flak (and rightfully so) for being lowbrow and uncreative, BUT, credit where credit is due: the plotline with Alan running (unintentionally at first) a Ponzi scheme is some great work by their writers.
 
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Slap Shot said:
You guys are discussing what may or may not happen on a sitcom? You actually make Star Wars and comic book nerds look manly. Awesome.
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What makes it better?

1. That it's the most chick-y sitcom since Scrubs to also be sort of popular with guys.
2. That it has one of the more obvious "laugh machine" laugh tracks out there today.
3. Whatever, I still think it's awesome.
 
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So I've been watching No Ordinary Family lately. The storyline they currently have involves a freshman in high school dating a senior in high school. I went on IMDB to check out some of the cast, the freshman has a '96 birthday while the senior he's supposedly dating on the show has an '82 birthday. I'm sure this happens relatively often on TV shows, but that's crazy.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
What makes it better?

1. That it's the most chick-y sitcom since Scrubs to also be sort of popular with guys.
2. That it has one of the more obvious "laugh machine" laugh tracks out there today.
3. Whatever, I still think it's awesome.
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Barney Stinson is this decades Dan Fielding :)
 
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