How I Met Your Father’s [SPOILER] Cameo Perfectly Nailed Its Own Silliness
Warning: This article contains spoilers for How I Met Your Father’s season 1 finale.
While How I Met Your Father’s season 1 finale cameo from a major How I Met Your Mother cast member worked, the scene also acknowledged its own silliness in a rewarding way. It isn’t always easy for spinoffs to ground cameos from cast members of earlier shows. At its worst, bringing back a member of the original show’s cast on a spinoff can smack of desperation and come across as an attempt to establish a firmer connection between the two projects.
However, How I Met Your Father’s first cameo from a How I Met Your Mother character avoided this fate for two reasons. For one thing, the spinoff waited until its ninth episode before bringing back a How I Met Your Mother star and for another, the character in question was a minor figure rather than one of the main cast. Continuing this successful streak, How I Met Your Father’s season 1 finale pulled off a more substantial cameo from a How I Met Your Mother cast member by keeping its tongue firmly in cheek.
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It is a sweet idea for How I Met Your Father’s young heroine Sophie to get some unexpected life advice from How I Met Your Mother’s older, more independent star, Robin. However, finding a circumstance where this would occur organically is a tricky thing to pull off. As a result, How I Met Your Mother’s spinoff leaned on the fourth wall when establishing the cameo, and the cheeky moment of self-referential humor worked to help ground the scene. When Sophie came across Robin at McLaren’s and the How I Met Your Mother character started interrogating her about the troubles in her love life, How I Met Your Father’s heroine reasonably
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