How I Met Your Father Used HIMYM's Original MacLaren's Pub Set
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the How I Met Your Father season 1 finale.
The creators of How I Met Your Father explain what it took to recreate MacLaren's Pub for the season 1 finale. HIMYF takes place in the universe of How I Met Your Mother, which aired on CBS from 2005 to 2014, and the show has slowly dropped Easter eggs nodding to the original show including cameos from Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Bell Bundy and a recreation of Marshall and Lily's apartment set. One of the other key sets from the original series is MacLaren's. It's the location where the group of friends at the center of the show would hang out the most outside of their apartment and is essentially the show's answer to the coffee shop Central Perk from Friends.
The How I Met Your Father season 1 finale pulled its biggest stunt yet. In a moment where she needs to make a big decision, Hilary Duff's character Sophie wanders into MacLaren's and encounters Robin Scherbatsky, played once more by Cobie Smulders. Robin gives Sophie some advice based on her years of experience finding love in New York. She also allows fans to catch up with her life, where she has found career success although she is still several years from the romantic fate promised to her by the How I Met Your Motherfinale.
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TVLine sat down with How I Met Your Father's creators Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger to discuss the season 1 finale. They were asked if the MacLaren's set was in fact the original from HIMYM, and Aptaker revealed that yes, it "was the original set." However, only the "bigger elements" like the walls and the booths were still around, so the production team had to do a "heroic
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