How I Met Your Father's Biggest HIMYM Connection Is Perfect
Warning: Spoiler ahead for How I Met Your Father's pilot episode!
Hulu's How I Met Your Father made a connection to the original How I Met Your Mother series, and the link couldn't have been better. The standalone sequel, created by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, comes over seven years after the Carter Bays and Craig Thomas' CBS sitcom ended. After several failed attempts in developing a HIMYM spinoff, there was uncertainty in how How I Met Your Father would connect to the title that started it all in 2005.
Whereas HIMYM followed Josh Radnor's Ted Mosby as he sought to tell his children the story of how he met their mother, How I Met Your Father centers on Hilary Duff's Sophie. Like Ted, who shared the tale in a future timeline with the help of narration from the late great Bob Saget, Sophie's present-day story is being revealed by her 2050 self, played by Kim Catrall. She, too, is documenting the events of how she met the future co-parent to her child, in this case, a son. The mystery of the titular character's identity still lingers, but unlike HIMYM, only a few candidates exist by pilot episode's end.
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Ahead of How I Met Your Father's debut, there was ample speculation in how the Hulu show would link to How I Met Your Mother's continuity. It might not be a true spinoff that shares characters, but Aptaker and Berger's show exists in the same HIMYM universe. This is further confirmed at the end of How I Met Your Father's pilot episode, unveiling that Jesse (Chris Lowell) and Sid (Suraj Sharma) lived in Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segal) and Lily Aldrin's (Alyson Hannigan) former apartment. The apartment, which Ted also lived in for a
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