Each ‘How I Met Your Mom’ Reference in ‘How I Met Your Father’

A legen — watch for it — dary tribute! How I Met Your Father has launched its viewers to new characters and storylines — however the Hulu sequence continues to honor its predecessor, How I Met Your Mom.

The OG sitcom, which aired on CBS from 2005 to 2014, adopted Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and his group of associates in New York Metropolis as they tried to search out happiness of their private {and professional} lives. Within the sequence, Ted recalled his previous to his future son and daughter as a option to clarify how he met their mom.

How I Met Your Mom additionally starred Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan and Cristin Milioti. In the meantime, the voiceover for Future Ted was accomplished by Bob Saget.

Creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas in the end didn’t return for the present’s spinoff How I Met Your Father in 2022. Bays, nevertheless, did obtain an govt producer credit score for the Hulu present.

How I Met Your Father, which was launched in January 2022, explores Sophie (Hilary Duff) and her associates’ lives in Manhattan. On this gender-swap model of the story, Future Sophie (Kim Cattrall) recounts to her son the occasions that led to her assembly his father.

The spinoff present additionally stars Christopher Lowell, Francia Raisa, Suraj Sharma, Tom Ainsley and Tien Tran.

Since its launch, solely Smulders has reprised her function as Robin to supply Sophie some recommendation about her relationship life. (Within the HIMYM finale, Robin lastly married Barney (Harris) however the couple rapidly known as it quits. The information anchor later reunited together with her ex Ted (Radnor) — which left many followers upset.)

Though Harris hasn’t returned as Barney but, he beforehand confirmed his assist for the sequence.

“I hope it’s nice. I believe the structural conceit of that present was superb storytelling,” the Emmy winner completely advised Us Weekly in September 2021. “[Creators] Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, they got here up with a extremely cool concept that future narrator is telling youngsters a narrative about their previous. It permits for fast edit cuts. It permits for gildings inside character’s growth as a result of it’s a narrative that he’s telling. It’s not the precise factual issues that occurred. And so, morals may be heavy handed. There may be left turns that you just weren’t anticipating. We had a good time filming that present.”

Forward of HIMYF’s second season premiere, Radnor hinted that he wouldn’t thoughts making an look on the present. “I had a extremely candy e-mail alternate with Hilary Duff,” he advised Newsweek in January 2023. “We form of went forwards and backwards about being the ‘I’ on How I Met Your. She has stated publicly [that] she would like to have me on, so I wouldn’t flip down an invite.”

That very same month, Duff confirmed one other alum filmed scenes for season 2. “I believe I would lose my job if I advised you who, however we do have a particular visitor from the unique forged coming this season,” she stated throughout an look on Good Morning American. “It was a dream come true working with them. I believe our dream would have all the forged come by means of in some unspecified time in the future.”

Scroll down for each time How I Met Your Father paid tribute to How I Met Your Mom: