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In the era of reboots, we’re still waiting on the gang from How I Met Your Mother to suit up.
The CBS sitcom that saw Josh Radnor’s Ted unravel the world’s longest story about how he you know,…
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1. The story of how we all met How I Met Your Mother began when 20th Century Fox asked creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas to pitch potential sitcom ideas. The Wesleyan alum immediately began mining stories from their post-grad days living in NYC and writing for The Late Show With David Letterman.
"I really wanted to get married," Bays reflected to Cleveland Magazine in 2008. "And as a single guy in New York, I felt that was not the normal experience."
Among the IRL tales that became plot points: When Bays invited a date to a wedding only to realize the day before he didn't have a plus-one and Thomas' brief split with college sweetheart, now-wife Rebecca Alson-Milkman.
She also took on a small role in the CBS series' creation, Thomas revealing on Reddit in 2014, "My wife cast Lily by saying 'If you're going to base a character on me, it has to be Alyson Hannigan!'"
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