How I Met Your Mother: They Appear in the Spin-Off How I Met Your Father!

Warning, spoilers. The following paragraphs show the story elements from the series How I Met My Father. If you do not want to know anything, go ahead.

How I met your mother! The spin-off series How I Met Your Father could not resist the temptation to summon some legendary characters from the parent series to appear in the spin-off, which is already available on Disney + in France. We have to wait for the last two episodes to see the given guests, but these delicious cameos give us some details about the lives of these characters.

At the moment, only four characters from the original series are spinning off, but how I met my father, who has already been updated for a second season, would not be surprising if other characters in the series appear. The following episodes.

Reminds me of how I met your father, the action unfolds in 2022, leaving many old characters with the opportunity to appear in this spin-off as we know how the life of the soundtrack ends in the 2050s.

Captain (Kyle McLachlan)

The ex-husband of Zoe Pearson (Jennifer Morrison), George Van Smut, the same captain (Kyle McLachlan), is a fan of the rich boat in the movie “How I Met Your Mother”. After divorcing Zoe, who had a brief affair with Ted (Josh Rednor), the Captain hires a consultant for Lily (Allison Hannigan) to buy paintings for a while before marrying Becky, Robin’s former colleague.

So we see him years later, how I met my father in the 9th episode of Season 1, who betrays his wife Beck. And the Captain’s story will be important for the rest of Sophie (Hillary Duff) adventures. In the 10th episode, he negotiates the terms of Beck’s divorce, an event that will affect the heroine’s life.

Beck (Laura Bell Band)

In How I Met Your Mother, Becky (Laura Bell Bond) is Robin’s former TV colleague. After appearing in the commercial with her famous song “Boats, Boats, Boats”, she falls in love with the captain (Kyle MacLachlan) and marries him. So, years later, we find him in the movie “How I Met My Father”, where he finds out that the captain is betraying him.

In retaliation, he demands that during the divorce negotiations, his boats be confiscated in order to destroy them, even in Australia, where Jan (Daniel Augustine), a marine biologist with whom Sophie had a meeting, worked. You in the first episode of the Tinder series. In the finale of the first season, Ian returns to New York and Sophie crashes into a photo exhibition she attends.

Carl (Joe Nives)

This is one of the main characters in How I Met Your Mother, who accompanied the band from near and far to McLaren in the evenings: bartender Carl. In “How I Met My Dad,” he returns, now bald but still in McLaren, to pour a drink on Sophie (Hillary Duff), who cares about his feelings for Jesse (Chris Lowell).

Robin Sherbatsky Kobe Smolders

In the movie “How I Met Your Mother” she was a new girl in Teddy’s group who knew how to make room for herself. How I met my father, in the finale of Season 1, we meet Robin (Kobe Smalders) with McLaren, who drinks and advises Sophie on a romantic relationship. Robin is still a journalist and she divorced Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) at this very moment in 2022.

Bonus: Teddy, Marshall and Lily flat

Another material connection between how I met your mother and how I met your father: Teddy and Marshall (Jason Segel)’s apartment, which later became Marshall and Lily! We learn from the pilot that Jesse and Sid (Suraj Sharma) live there and were able to find this apartment thanks to an advertisement for an “old couple” (namely Marshall and Lily) on the site of a former university student, Weslean. The college where Marshall, Lily and Teddy studied. And left a small souvenir: two sabers hung above the fireplace!