One of the most popular sitcoms of the 21st century is of course how I met your mother
But there are quite a few things that happen behind the scenes of this hilarious show that you probably don't know about
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Many of the cast significant others appeared as extras on the show
But is a little inside joke the significant others were only allowed to play bizarre characters for example
Alyson Hannigan husband played the weird Newscaster, Sandy Rivers
Cobie smulders husband appeared as Gary Blauman and neil Patrick Harris as husband played scooter Lily's high school boyfriend
On-screen couple Lily and Marshall had a little bit of drama during filming
Marshall was played by Jason Segel who had a smoking problem at the time of filming and Lily's actress Alyson
Hannigan hated kissing seagal on screen because it was like kissing an ashtray
Segal managed to quit for a year, but eventually fixed to have it back out
The original cast of the show look very different from what we know today
Originally Scott foley was planned to play Ted and Jennifer. Love Hewitt was planned to play Robin
He would eventually turn down the role
so she could be on the new CBs show ghost whisperer which unfortunately didn't go too well for
There was a lot of confusion around the character Stella Pop star Britney Spears had expressed interest in being on the show
but the producers were actually worried that spheres would want to play Stella a
Character that they had big plans for and did not want spears to play luckily spears was more interested in playing Stella's receptionist, [Addy]
The episode that britney spears appeared on titled ten sessions went on to be the most popular
Episode of the time and ended up saving the show from cancellation Stella was then planned to be played by Alicia, Silverstone
But after spears was recruited to play stella's receptionist silverstone's representatives made her pull out of the show in fear that her performance would be
overshadowed by Britney Spears
Eventually Sarah Clarke was signed on to play Stella, and she ended up being the great final choice
[Penny] and Luke had to film their scenes at the end of the show nine years early
during the kids would go through Puberty before the ending of the show
The crew had to film penny and luke scenes in the finale [all] the way back during season [one] of the show
the two kids even had to sign a confidentiality contract which of course they honored and
Nine years later the world got to see the scenes that the kids shot all the way back in season one
Most sitcoms are recorded in front of a live studio audience
[but] the pilot [episode] of how I met your mother was actually recorded in a regular studio without an audience
In fact the pilot episode took a whole three days to film as there were far more scenes in the production team expected
Once the episode was finally finished it was shown into an audience
[who's] laughter was recorded and added to the sound mix of the pilot before day?
Did you know that Conan o'brien actually appeared on the show?
But he didn't appear [in] the way you might think we probably expect someone of Conan's caliber to have a lead role
But believe it or not conan actually entered a charity auction to be an extra on the show and why?
After winning the auction the producers of how I met your mother wanted to give Conan a larger part but o'brien declined the offer
Thinking that it would be much funnier
If he was just somewhere in the background, so on the episode no pressure conan appears in the background as a regular extra
The gang likes to hang out at the bar Maclaren's
But there's more real about this bar than you probably know
The name comes from [Carl] [McLaren] who worked as an assistant to the producers of the show for two years before
[how] I met [your] mother started production
The actual bar is based on a New York City bar called McGee's where the producers hung out while working on their previous show letterman
Did you know that there was a real proposal on the set of the show during the filming of the season two finale?
One of the extras in the restaurant saying Timothy russo proposed to a fellow extra [Janna] rügen
Russo's Brothers friends was one of the writers for the show and managed to help organize [the] entire thing
Perhaps the most memorable character on the show is of course Barney played by the LeGendary Neil Patrick Harris
But did you know that neil wasn't actually the first choice [for] the character?
Barney was originally supposed to be played by Jim parsons who many know is Sheldon on the big bang theory
However, had auditions for the show parsons was beat out by Harris for the role and a good thing
He did if things had gone differently
Barney would not be the character. We know and love today and the big bang theory likely wouldn't have Jim parsons as Sheldon
So we'll just call [it] a happy incident
But there we go guys that's it for our list of 10 things you probably
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