Why is bob saget in how i met your mother

Pacific Northwest for life y'all. You must be logged in to post a comment. How I Met Your Mother. Prev Article Next Article. Active Oldest Votes. It's supported by this story : It was earlier speculated that Josh would replace Bob as the show's narrator for the finale, but executive producer Craig Thomas has reassured us that Bob isn't going anywhere for the finale.

Most likely there is a joke involved with the differences in voice. Improve this answer. Naftali 2, 6 6 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. Kevin Howell Kevin Howell So, unless I missed it, I think the joke theory is out.

The rest of your answer are still valid points, though. Pure speculation, but I think that it's because the voice we hear when we talk is pretty different from our actual voice, and when we think, we listen to the voice we are used to, not our actual voice Bob Saget is credited in a lot of episodes — caird coinheringaahing.

Add a comment. As we learn in the series finale, the Mother is already dead for six years when Ted tells his overlong story to his children and this ending was planned this way right when the show started as also confirmed in the answers to this related question : Carter Bays has confirmed that the series' tragic close was "the ending they conceived when they conceived the show 10 years ago.

Furthemore, the article notes some similarities between Ted 's group and the characters from Full House : Ted, as played by Josh Radnor, is Danny Tanner, just with a better sex life and an all-consuming love of architecture.

Ted 's life after becoming a widower could thus be seen as being continued by Full House : As part of the frantic montage of Ted's key life events in the series finale, we watch him at his dying wife's bedside, and we see him tell his children, six years later, how he met her. Community Bot 1. Interesting, but seems very far fetched. I don't think anything in the show really supports this theory.

I like the connection. Only thing i find different is Ted had a son and daughter while Danny had all girls. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Linked Related 4. Hannigan, who played Lily, also shared the screen with her husband, Alexis Denisof , who had a recurring role on the show as Robin's coanchor Sandy Rivers. During season five, the actor who played Robin and the actor who played Lily were both pregnant, but their characters were not.

So the props team just kept hiding their growing bellies behind large props and handbags. When Lily did end up having a child on the show, Hannigan's young daughter was set to play the role. But, Hannigan told the HuffPost in that they decided she was too old for the part. She was gonna be the baby, but Carter Bays was like, 'Nope.

She's too old,' and she got replaced," Hannigan said. According to Entertainment Weekly , the actor has even written a children's book about magic, so it's clear that Harris influenced Barney's hobby. You can buy the series-approved version of all of Barney's rules, and it's even "written" by Barney Stinson himself. Her Campus reported that most of the websites the characters shout out on the series are actually live on the internet. See for yourself at tedmosbyisajerk. Bays and Thomas reportedly spent a lot of time in the real-life establishment when they were both writing for "The Late Show With David Letterman" earlier in their careers.

However, not every fan was able to watch the episode live, so they had the series-long plot point spoiled for them if they scrolled past the post.

News , Bays told Reddit that a season-one cancellation would have resulted in them writing Victoria in as the mother. According to CBS News , the final scene of Ted's kids learning that Ted still loved Robin was filmed in to ensure the actors playing the kids still looked the same.

That was only a year after the show premiered and eight years before the finale aired, so several precautions were taken to keep the ending a secret. David Henrie and Lyndsy Fonseca, who played the kids, had to sign non-disclosure agreements, and only one camera operator was allowed in the room while they filmed the final scene.

Viewers quickly pointed out the inconsistency with Radnor's voice not sounding anything like Future Ted's narration. There was, however, a belief that Saget's version was more like the voice of Ted's subconscious. In reality, the series most likely wanted the Radnor to finish Ted's journey in the future timeline.

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