The How I Met Your Mother Blog

Today is a big day for HIMYM. I almost hate to post this and detract from the wake of awesomeness that is Alicia Silverstone’s being cast for the show. I have to assume that not everyone is as excited about that as I am so here’s some more tidbits for you to chew on, much of which relates directly to comments made on this blog:

• Reader john d’arc was wondering if the St. Patty’s day episode “No Tomorrow” was written as a one-off, just to get the show back on track. Turns out that the episode was partially written before the strike and planned as a New Year’s Eve story. When the strike was over, the story was re-purposed for a different holiday. I think this is great since the show already has a New Year’s episode. There aren’t many holidays left to cover.
• Reader Jess pointed out that Ted has been wearing the same shirt a lot lately. The show creators have described the character this season as “outlaw Ted”, maybe that explains the persistent plaid.
• Like the Super Bowl episode last year, we’ll see another sports tie-in this season:
  

  Another March episode has an NCAA tie-in – Barney constructs a bracket of all the women who have reasons to hate him, in an effort to find out who’s sabotaging his efforts to pick up women. The episode is called, not surprisingly, “The Final Four.”

• The rest of season 3 won’t be all fun and games. First, we’ll revisit Robin Sparkles and her second hit “Sandcastles in the Sand”—a bitter break-up ballad that tackles “the saddest chapter in her 16-year-old life” according to co-creator Craig Thomas. While we’ll only get a peek in the episode, the entire video will be available online afterward.
• It is also hinted that The Barnacle will get a more dramatic storyline this season. Neil Patrick Harris says:
  

  He hasn’t really ever had [scenes with] pathos, that stuff usually goes to Josh and Cobie. I’m not sure what it is, but Barney’s involved in some friction, and I get to be part of that. It’s cool to be flexing my funny bone so much but there are a lot more levels one can do…. I think for these last nine episodes of the season we need to represent well, and I think we’re coming out swinging. We’re working hard and hope people will get into it.

Are you as excited as I am to see these episodes air? I really can’t wait.

News via The Chicago Tribune

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