Everything How I Met Your Father Reveals About What Happened After HIMYM
How I Met Your Father’s cameos, Easter eggs, and in-universe references reveal several key details about what happened after How I Met Your Mother. Hulu’s How I Met Your Father is the first HIMYM spinoff, which follows Sophie (Hilary Duff) telling her son the story of how she met his father. While none of How I Met Your Father’s main characters were featured in the original series, the spinoff has plenty of overlap with Ted’s stories from How I Met Your Mother.
Sophie’s story in How I Met Your Father begins in 2022, which is set 9 years after HIMYM’s present timeline. However, HIMYM’s two-part finale featured several flash-forwards to reveal what happened to Ted, Robin, Marshall, Lily, and Barney between the years 2013 and 2030. As such, How I Met Your Father viewers are already aware that Barney and Robin got divorced in 2016, Barney had a daughter in 2020, Marshall became a justice of the New York Supreme Court, Ted’s wife Tracy died in 2024, Lily and Marshall had another child after Daisy, and Ted and Robin will get back together in 2030. Despite so much of the HIMYM characters’ futures already being revealed,How I Met Your Father continues to fill in the blanks for details that weren’t addressed in the original show’s finale.
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How I Met Your Father season 1 also sees several HIMYM characters return for cameos, including George “The Captain” Van Smoot (Kyle MacLachlan), Becky (Laura Bell Bundy), Carl the Bartender (Joe Nieves), and Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders). Additionally, even without an on-screen cameo, some characters, like Ted, Marshall, and Lily, have been referenced in How I Met Your Father. From a continued mystery involving
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