Weekly How I Met Your Mother Fun Facts!

April 23, 2010

Sure, you guys know your fair share of How I Met Your Mother trivia. Sure, you know that Neil Patrick Harris was Doogie Howser before he was Barney Stinson. But here are five How I Met Your Mother fun facts that will separate you from the mass of fans and promote you to a super awesome HIMYM fan.

1. Scooter (played by David Burtka), AKA the guy on Lily’s hook, is Neil Patrick Harris’ real-life, long-term boyfriend.

2. HIMYM creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are members of the band The Solids, who perform the show’s theme song “Hey Beautiful”.

3 During one episode, Robin freaks out in a restaurant when she mistakenly thinks Ted is proposing to her after she receives a champagne glass with an engagement ring at the bottom. When Ted tells her “That’s not mine”, another gentlemen at the table behind them says “It’s mine”, then proceeds to propose to the woman at his table. The proposal between the man and woman was real. The man set up the whole scheme with the show’s producers, and told his girlfriend that they won a contest and got to be extras in a HIMYM episode. Instead, he proposed on camera, and the proposal will live on forever as part of the episode.

4. Before “How I Met Your Mother” began, Neil Patrick Harris and Josh Radnor had already acted together, as lovers in a Los Angeles production of the Jon Robin Baitz play “The Paris Letter”.

5. Alyson Hannigan’s character on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, Willow Rosenberg, once mentioned that she wrote “Doogie Howser, M.D.” fanfiction as a girl. She now stars with Doogie himself in HIMYM!

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