How I Met Your Mother: Season 7

[BlueNGold]

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Some of these episodes haven't been too great or anything, but I'd be lying if I didn't say some of the moments have had me close to shedding a tear or two. This past episode being a good example.

[The GIGGAS]

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http://puzzlesthebar.com/

It is such a great website too.

[BlueNGold]

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http://puzzlesthebar.com/

"there's even a place to bang."

[Cutter15]

Did Doug ever explain why the damn hats were wet?

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I guess that was the puzzle...

[goh]

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Yah wasn't much of a story but there were a lot of good jokes.

No he didn't explain why the hats were wet.

[Leon]

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I hope Puzzles sticks around. It already has something better than Maclaren's - a theme song!

[TheMatrix31]

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Nice Cheers ripoff, lol.

[Leon]

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Nice Cheers ripoff, lol.

I call it "modernization!"

[HealyMonster]

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http://puzzlesthebar.com/

Puzzles is just so...

I can't think of the right word.....

Oh yeah...

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Steak-sauce!

[BlueNGold]

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The creators of How I Met Your Mother, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, pull so many tricks and twists on their audience, it's hard to believe anything they tell us. After all, Robin's whole "storytelling to her kids" episode was a dream sequence, and that broke our hearts, dang it!

But there is someone on HIMYM that you can trust, and the answer may surprise you…

"Our rationale was that our narrator has never lied to us," Carter Bays says. "We take the stuff he says as gospel. Ultimately, it's a pretty reliable narrator. I think people can trust what Bob Saget says."

So we invite you all to go through every episode of HIMYM and write down what Future Ted has said. Then email us the notes. Thanks!

And of course the question everyone is always thinking came up: when the freak do we get to meet the mother? And will we meet her before the series finale? Bays and Thomas may not have given a straight answer, but the important thing is that they have the answer.

"We have it worked out," Bays reveals. "We kind of know what the endgame of the series is. It's obvious this show is around one central question, so that meeting will be part of the endgame of the show. How much the show will go beyond that, we can't really say one way or the other."

The casting of the mother is "very tough" for the HIMYM team. "There's one school of thought where she turns around and it's Jennifer Aniston, some huge star. Or you might want someone you've never seen before."

Other highlights from the HIMYM TCA presentation:

• Bays and Thomas have "talked about" when to end the series, and they definitely plan on letting fans know when the end is coming. "I would imagine going into the final season we'd probably hint people to that. I think we're keeping undecided as for now and we'll see how things shake up."

• Jason Segel is also on aboard if the show goes past his contract. "I really agree that I'd like to see the story come to its natural end, whether it's 8 years or 9 years. I was so relieved when I found out there was an actual plan," he laughs.

• Ted (Josh Radnor) will eventually address why he is no closer to getting married since Lily and Marshall's engagement in season one. "We're going to see Ted do that exact assessment. He's going to come up with what he thinks is the answer and then we're going to explore whether it is the right answer for him. There's big soul searching going on for Ted in episode 16, 17 and 18," Thomas reveals.

• How will the gang manage to all hang out together in the bar with Lily's baby situation? "We have a solution to that and you'll see how it unfolds," Bays teases. And though Marshall and Lily are hanging out a lot in the East Hampton house, they might not permanently shack up there. " We're going to explore them realizing it's isolating living in the suburbs. Its not necessarily a permanent stop."

Do you think the mother should be a big well-known star or an unknown? When do you think HIMYM should wrap up?

Read more: http://ca.eonline.com/news/watch_wit...#ixzz1jGCVoehv

This one touches on what could/will go on between Barney and Robin, as well as spin-off possibilities and a spoiler for this season which some may not want to read (hint: it's somewhat obvious and nothing "game-changing", but I know not everyone likes reading these things).

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Get ready to "woo" like a "woo girl," How I Met Your Mother fans! You have been warned.

Just got back from a reporters' lunch with HIMYM bosses Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, and they ponied up loads of goodies that will make you get your "woo" on, particularly if you dig "so in love" (!!) Barney and Robin, or the idea of HIMYM's unique brand of humor never going away...

Barney and Robin Are Not Doomed: Let the angels sing, and the haters weep! Everything that HIMYM's big bosses said about Barney and Robin during this lunch leads me to believe this couple is the endgame. (There, I said it. And yes, I have completely fangirled out on you.) Now, I should also point out that in the current season finale, we will find out whom Barney marries (and it will be a flash-forward to the future). It's certainly not a slam-dunk that it's Robin, but it sure sounds like Carter and Craig are planning on Barney and Robin in the end.

When I asked Craig and Carter whether Barney and Robin cannot end up together because he wants kids and we know she does not want them, and does not have them, they were quick to defend the show's fan-favorite coupling.

"We don't look at that as a singular deal-breaker for Barney and Robin at all," Craig says, pointing out that "Barney wants to have kids in a very hypothetical sense. He thinks having kids will be cool. He made fun of that baby for pooping in its diaper. He may not be totally ready to be a dad. Barney, deep down, doesn't know what he wants."

Adds Carter: "Barney and Robin are so in love…They are doomed as a relationship in some ways because they are both so messed up. But part of this show is them taking themselves apart and rebuilding themselves. We're seeing them learn how to move past everything that screwed them up in the past and make this work for real."

"Make this work for real?" Ummm...Anyone else hearing the ding-dong of future wedding bells? Do not lead us astray, oh holy [narrator who never lies] Bob Saget!

There Could Be a Spinoff: The writers tells us they have "joked" about a series called "How I Met Your Father," in which, after HIMYM ends, we go back and see what the mother was doing all those years. Another idea, courtesy of my dear frenemy Michael Ausiello: "After I Met Your Mother," which picks up after the mother reveal.

Craig admits that both ideas could be more than "jokes," but right now, they are focusing on the original series, saying, "We are figuring all that out now, whether it will be eight seasons or nine." He adds that it was really exciting to hear this morning that Jason Segel wants to keep going.

Ted and Robin Will Have "Fireworks" This Season: "There's gonna be some fireworks with Ted's undealt-with feelings for Robin," Craig says of the February sweeps episodes. "Some stuff happens that makes Ted and Robin question their living arrangement," Carter adds," and how intimate they are as friends, and is that actually way weirder than we're letting on, which I think it would be."

Still, Ted and Robin fans, don't get too excited. Aside from all that aforementioned Barney-Robin love stuff, Craig says: "We can still definitively say that Robin is not the mother."

So are we back to Jennifer Aniston?

By the way, another name thrown out during the lunch: Anne Hathaway. Yes? No?
Anyone else hoping for nine seasons, and then How I Met Your Father, and/or After I Met Your Mother, too? Note to Craig and Carter: There can never be too much.

Read more: http://ca.eonline.com/news/watch_wit...#ixzz1jGCfnzd4

[goh]

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Jennifer Aniston is 43 years old. The heck would she be doing in his college class? Kinda has to be someone younger right?

[TheMatrix31]

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Count me in on the "unknown star" preference for Ted's wife.

[Bellsprout]

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I'm hoping it's a sort of known person that they could actually build a spin-off around.

Because I would actually watch How I Met Your Father. I think it'd be interesting to see this whole story retold from the other side.

[DonkeyJote]

Yeah, I think How I Met Your Father could be really good.

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[BlueNGold]

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Jennifer Aniston is 43 years old. The heck would she be doing in his college class? Kinda has to be someone younger right?

I they they were just using her as an example.

Count me in on the "unknown star" preference for Ted's wife.

Me too. When I see the mother I don't want to go, hey, there's Brooklyn Decker! I kind of want it to be an unknown (or relatively unknown) actress.

Yeah, I think How I Met Your Father could be really good.

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It could be. At the same time though, it'd probably be following the same formula and I'm not sure how well that would work. It would all depend on the cast and characters of course.