How I Met Your Father Perfectly Sets Up A Robin Sparkles Connection
Warning: Spoilers ahead for HIMYF!
How I Met Your Father has perfectly set up a connection to Robin Sparkles. After wide speculation about how the two shows would connect, How I Met Your Father episode 1 ended with the perfect crossover, revealing that Sid and Jesse are living in Ted and Marshall’s iconic HIMYM apartment. While this has been the most significant tie-in so far, small Easter eggs like Ted and Marshall’s swords, a Glen McKenna scotch mural, and a “have you met Ted” riff have also cemented How I Met Your Father's connection to its predecessor.
Although not necessarily setting up HIMYM’s Cobie Smulders to cameo in the series, How I Met Your Father’s first few episodes have suggested a possible Robin Sparkles connection. Robin Sparkles is the stage name of Robin Scherbatsky, who became a teen-pop sensation in Canada in the mid-1990s due to her hit song “Let’s Go To The Mall.” Robin had a few popular singles thereafter, including “Sandcastles in the Sand,” “The Beaver Song,” and “P.S. I Love You,” with the latter being released under her grunge-era stage name Robin Daggers. As much as she desperately tried to cover up her teen pop star past, Robin Sparkles’ songs and legacy always came back to find her throughout How I Met Your Mother.
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While Robin Scherbatsky's career as a world-famous New York City newscaster has yet to be brought up in How I Met Your Father, the spinoff series has perfectly set up a subtle way to connect back to her alter ego Robin Sparkles. How I Met Your Father’s character Valentina (Francia Raisa) has repeatedly worn t-shirts of famous female singers from the 1990s such as Selena and Aaliyah, suggesting this will
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