How I Met Your Father Just Remembered HIMYM’s Best Narrator Trick
Warning: Contains spoilers for How I Met Your Father episode 4.
In How I Met Your Father episode 4, “Dirty Thirty,” the show remembered and included one of How I Met Your Mother’s best narrator tricks when Sophie told a story about a taxi. While How I Met Your Father includes references to its predecessor, it is clearly trying to define itself as its own show. However, as it uses the same framing device, HIMYF has a bag of traditions and tricks that it can reuse and be confident they'll land a second time around.
In How I Met Your Father episode 4, Sophie (Hilary Duff) goes on a date with Drew (Josh Peck) and they share a classy dinner together. Afterwards, rather than calling a ride-share, Drew tries to hail a cab and talks about the magic of being able to put your hand out and have a taxi appear. However, when he does this, no taxi appears at first, and he tells Sophie that when she tells this story she should edit it to have the taxi appear then. At that moment, Sophie from 2050 (Kim Cattrall) chimes in as the narrator to say “Whoops!”
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Having Sophie apparently forget to edit the taxi story at first calls back to Ted Mosby’s How I Met Your Mother narration. At several points, Ted either realized that he was telling a story wrong and had to change what was happening in the episode, remembered that a story was being told out of order, or deliberately edited the story for his children’s consumption. It serves as a reminder for the audience that the framing device is reliant on an unreliable narrator and that Sophie could — if she chose to — edit the story to portray herself and others however she liked.
One of the best uses of this narration
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