How I Met Your Father Made The Right Choice Not Having A Barney Cameo
Warning: Spoilers for How I Met Your Father's season 1 finale!
How I Met Your Father saved its first major How I Met Your Mother cameo for the season 1 finale, but the show was right in picking Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders), not Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris). Debuting eight years after HIMYM ended, the Hulu series serves as a spinoff with a new cast led by Hilary Duff's Sophie. Though How I Met Your Father presented a few connections to the original series in the debut season, the spinoff from Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger attempted to set itself apart from its predecessor. Granted, it paid tribute to the series that came before by featuring Robin in a key sequence.
Aside from Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and Marshall Eriksen's (Jason Segel) apartment acting as yet another core setting, How I Met Your Father's links to HIMYM were few and far between. That remained true until The Captain and his wife Becky appeared in How I Met Your Father season 1's penultimate episode, «Jay Street.» Though the soon-to-be-divorced couple was also seen in the season finale, which subsequently made details surrounding the «Pineapple Incident» canon, the spinoff's first major crossover character came in the form of Robin, who encountered Sophie in MacLaren's Pub.
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Ahead of How I Met Your Father's debut, there was speculation regarding how the spinoff could connect to the original CBS series. It was announced that Sophie's story would take place in present-day New York City, specifically 2022, which would allow for crossovers as How I Met Your Mother's core cast was still in the area during this point. That said, many theories suggested Barney
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