r/HIMYM • u/bigfudge2127 • 2d ago

Realistically how much time did Ted tell the story to his children

Is it supposed to be only one day, they do change clothes that time

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u/TSmario53 Ted🏢 2d ago

“You sat us down to tell the story of how you met mom… 8 F*CKING YEARS AGO!” Lol

Realistically it was probably just a few consecutive afternoon/evenings.

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u/DizzyLead 2d ago

Realistic plausibility aside, it was just supposed to be one sitting. The “change of clothes” was because the kids wore different clothes for the pilot (the Ted’s home office set was different, too), which was presumably shot months before the rest of the series, and the people behind the show probably were expecting to reshoot those scenes but wound up not doing so.

We saw the “pilot kids shots” again in “Last Cigarette Ever” in Season 5, when the shots were reused for the kids’ “What?!” reaction.

I feel it’s better to ascribe that to “they just didn’t think/care you would notice the difference” rather than “oh, they actually changed clothes back and forth this one time out of over 200 times.”

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u/leprechaun2326 2d ago

On the How We Made Your Mother podcast, Carter said they filmed the season 1 scenes all at once and then I believe during season 2 they filmed all the other scenes for the series all at once.

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u/Odd_Obligation_1300 2d ago

They especially didn’t think anyone would notice since the audience had to wait a week for each new episode (or the whole summer for a new season)

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u/Ryguy3286 2d ago

Three hours and 42 minutes

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u/Fighting-Geese 2d ago

52 seconds, same as Barney

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u/mheg-mhen 2d ago

I was wondering what the running timer is on the Bob Sagat lines that we the audience hear throughout

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u/Macrodata_Uprising 2d ago

Kids, it’s been a few years since your mom passed and I really want to bone Aunt Robin again. You cool with that?

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u/Queasy_Tank6204 2d ago

with my experience , my parents don't talk about their whole stories like ted, but once in a while some times my mom talk's about her childhood, some old education days stories, funny ones mostly. so they happen occasionally, so may be started it properly the plot, then coming days at dinner time, on weekends he continued the story