HIMYF Just Avoided Recreating One of HIMYM’s Best Loved Locations

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AlthoughHow I Met Your Father has borrowed a lot from How I Met Your Mother, the spinoff made the smart decision to avoid borrowing one iconic location. How I Met Your Mother featured plenty of memorable catchphrases, running jokes, and memorable locations throughout the show’s nine-season run. As such, some fans were excited whenHow I Met Your Father debuted in 2022 and continued the sitcom franchise.

While many fans of the show want to see How I Met Your Father reference its predecessor regularly, the series still needs to carve out a distinct identity of its own. To avoid How I Met Your Mother’s mistakes, the show will need to avoid over-reliance on running gags. As such, How I Met Your Father’s decision to avoid re-using one of the earlier show’s best-remembered locations was an admirable choice.

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Throughout How I Met Your Mother’s first few seasons when the show’s group of mismatched friends were still twenty-somethings, the show set many of its big party scenes on the rooftop of Ted and Marshall’s apartment building. There, the friends hosted idyllic parties that utilized the location’s romantic potential and its size for maximum benefit. How I Met Your Father featured a scene set on Sophie’s apartment rooftop in “Dirrty Thirty” (season 1, episode 5), but when Drew asked why Sophie didn’t have her 30th birthday party up there, she noted that her neighbor’s beehives made it impossible. After many iconicHow I Met Your Mother episodes like the Halloween special 'The Slutty Pumpkin' used the setting for their action, it was a canny choice for How I Met Your Father to avoid stealing the set.

The revelation that bees inhabited Sophie’s rooftop was a nice excuse