22 details you probably missed on the first season of 'How I Met Your Mother'

Erin AjelloSep 29, 2022, 21:06 IST

"How I Met Your Mother" ran for nine seasons.CBS

"How I Met Your Mother" ran for 9 years, but plenty of its recurring jokes started on season 1.
The mother's name, the cocreators, and cast members' spouses all pop up on the first season.

Ted's children are dressed differently for the pilot than they are for the rest of the series.

Their outfits are a little more disheveled later on.CBS

Barney is interested in Robin the first time he sees her.

Cobie Smulders as Robin on "How I Met Your Mother."CBS

The decor in the bar changes between the first and second episodes.

The main characters spend a lot of time in MacLaren's Pub throughout the show.CBS

Marshall references "The Great Gatsby" when Ted keeps throwing parties for Robin.

Marshall calls Ted Gatsby.CBS

Ted says he and Barney are the same height — and he's almost right.

Josh Radnor as Ted and Neil Patrick Harris as Barney on "How I Met Your Mother."CBS

Barney and Ted make seemingly impossible calls on a plane.

They wouldn't have been able to make calls from the air on their flip phones.CBS

Natalie has a sock monkey with a "Happy Birthday" sweater.

There are several sock monkeys on the bed.CBS

Two of Jason Segel's "Freaks and Geeks" costars appeared on the first season.

Samm Levine (left) and Martin Starr (right) on two separate episodes of "How I Met Your Mother."CBS

Robin says she never played any team sports, but she was on a hockey team.

Hockey is definitely a team sport.CBS

Radnor breaks and laughs during the matchmaker scene with Harris.

Josh Radnor played Ted on "How I Met Your Mother."CBS

Ted's alarm clock seems to have the wrong time.

The alarm clock is clear during the famous "Pineapple Incident" episode.CBS

Sandy Rivers is mentioned several episodes before his first appearance.

Robin and Sandy are coanchors.CBS

Lily's paintings can be seen in Marshall and Ted's apartment before she officially moves in.

The same painting is hanging in Ted and Marshall's apartment and Lily's apartment.CBS

Barney's old zine was named "Brainbows."

The flashbacks of Barney are much different from his present-day character.CBS

The anthropologist Marshall looks up to is fictional but likely based on a famous conservationist.

Dian Fossey was a renown conservationist.CBS

When Barney talks to Lily's class, there's a disclaimer about him on the chalkboard.

The note reads "Barney (not the purple one)."CBS

Barney successfully does a magic trick that he messed up earlier on the season.

Neil Patrick Harris does magic as a hobby in real life.CBS

Ted's favorite book outlines the main romantic plot of the show.

His favorite book is "Love in the Time of Cholera."CBS

The cocreators of the show appear as fake paramedics when Barney tests a pickup line.

Craig Thomas and Carter Bays cocreated "How I Met Your Mother."CBS

Ted trips on the roof immediately after it starts raining.

Ted tried to get it to rain throughout the episode.CBS

The real husbands of multiple cast members appeared throughout the first season.

Alexis Denisof, David Burtka, and Taran Killam on "How I Met Your Mother."CBS

The mother's name was secretly revealed on season one.

Ted meets a stripper named Tracy on season one.CBS

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