How I Met Your Motherstar Alyson Hannigan shares the perfect reboot idea, which would bring back original cast members. Hannigan, well known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg onBuffy the Vampire Slayerand Michelle Flaherty in the initialAmerican Piemovies, played Lily Aldrin throughout the entirety ofHIMYM. She was a frequent scene partner of Jason Segel, who portrayed her boyfriend and later husband Marshall Eriksen.
In recent comments toPEOPLE, while discussing her partnership with Kevin’s Natural Foods, Hannigan reflected on her time as Lily and pitched a way to revive the popular sitcom. The actor pitched a redo ofHow I Met Your Mother, only withSegel’s Marshall character doing the voiceover and revealing the actual true story of what happened. Hannigan’s remarks are included below:
It’s like, ‘No, no, no, no kids. That’s not how it happened.' And then it starts out with, ‘We were a lot older, first of all …’ and then we can just do the show again. Everybody tells the story differently.
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Even though it’s not explicitly stated by Hannigan, a version of the sitcomwhere Marshall reveals what really happened could be taken as a corrective tothe divisiveHow I Met Your Motherfinalein whichTed Mosby (Josh Radnor) ends up with Robin Scherbatsky(Cobie Smulders) at the urging of his adult children. This happens after Tracy McConnell (Cristin Militoti) has passed away with a terminal illness.
But for a single season, or even just ten episodes, as is standard in the streaming era, it would generate a lot of headlines forHow I Met Your Motherto go back and attempt to relitigate the heavily criticized ending.
Robin and Ted end up together, whichfans of both Tracy and Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) found to be unsatisfyingbecause of the relationship that Robin had built with Barney, which seemed to be downplayed. But inan alternate ending ofHow I Met Your Mother, kept to the show’s DVD release, Tracy is alive and still married to Ted. That could serve as the basis for Hannigan’s revival.
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It likely wouldn’t work as a long-term revival. But for a single season, or even just ten episodes, as is standard in the streaming era, it would generate a lot of headlines forHow I Met Your Motherto go back and try to relitigate the heavily criticized ending. But it would also create some obvious problems, like why Ted would choose to lie about some major facts, including the death of his wife.
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How I Met Your Mother is a television series that follows a father telling his children about his past. Released in 2005, it explores his experiences and adventures with four close friends, leading up to meeting their mother, as depicted through a series of flashbacks.
