Em Burnham

But I think they filmed a few different endings, but they had to film it all with the kids in that section.

And then those kids never came back because they would age and he would have been like, and that's how I met your mother.

And you'd cut to them and they're like, that's a full-blown man.

That's how long the story took.

So those actors were like, yeah, we pretty much knew the ending of How I Met Your Mother for like seven years.

We just keep it to ourselves.

But the only good thing about the ending, at least they got to the creators of How I Met Your Mother got to actually create

play out the ending that they wanted.

Like they knew that was their final season.

And so they were able to build to it because there were a few, like it was always a popular show, but there were a few times, like with a network TV show, you just never know.

There were a few times in How I Met Your Mother's history where they weren't sure if they were coming back when they filmed the finale or they thought they might get one more season.

And they're like, well, we can't bring in the wife now.

The audience won't know her.

So they actually had, the reason Victoria, the character of Victoria is in there is she was going to be the mother option.

Ah.

if they had to end the show then, which for a while was a possibility.

So at least we've got someone here who can be that character, who can fit that way into the story, but they ended up being able to have the finale season they wanted.

I think the finale was okay.

The last season felt off.

And it was all taking place in the hotel with the wedding or Lily was on a train or Marshall was in a car.