How I Met Your Mother/Trivia: Difference between revisions

** Inverted with Robin who is actually a couple of years ''older'' than Cobie Smulders is in real life (presumably to shift her being a news anchor out of [[Improbable Age]] territory).

*** Lampshaded in one episode, when Barney claims Robin always says she's two years younger than what she really is.

** Full versions of the music videos for both ''Let's Go to the Mall'' and ''Sandcastles in the Sand'' have been created and both songs are up for purchase on itunes. [[The Bro Code]] and The Playbook were also made into actual books. Also, an in-universe example when Robin describes the building Ted designed as "a building in your head that became real."

* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: Jason Segel was not told that the bad news in "Bad News" was {{spoiler|his character's father dying}} until the words came out of Alyson Hannigan's mouth while shooting the final scene (which was just one take). He also improvised the line ''"I'm not ready for this."''

** Hey, [[Baldur's Gate|Sarevok]]/[[Knights of the Old Republic|Jolee Bindo]] is Stan the security guard?

** [[Angel|Wesley Windham-Pryce]] is a news reporter? [[Angel|Fred]] is one of Barney's conquests?

** While at it Ted's mum ([[Heroes (TV series)|Angela Petrelli]]) is now married to [[Buffy|the Mayor of Sunnydale]] and I think I saw [[Buffy|Harmony]] in one episode as well. This show is where Joss's characters go to catch up.

** This probably has something to do with [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Dr. Horrible]] and [[Buffy|Willow Rosenberg]] being main cast members.

** It is never stated in the show, but the creators have confirmed that Carl's last name is MacLaren and that he owns the bar. This is a [[Shout-Out]] in and of itself - Carl MacLaren is a member of the ''HIMYM'' crew.

** Marshall once made Ted swear on the names of his unborn children: [[Star Wars|Luke and Leia.]]

* One episode shows a picture of Robin appearing on Letterman. In real life around the week later Colbie appeared on that show to talk about her role in the Avengers movie.