The Watcher: “How I Met Your Mother” hides pregnancies

This season, “How I Met Your Mother” (8:30 p.m. Eastern, Monday, CBS) could have been called “How We Tried To Hide Two Pregnancies.”

Last year, after production had begun on the fourth season of “How I Met Your Mother” the CBS comedy, Alyson Hannigan, who plays Lily, announced she was pregnant. Weeks later, Cobie Smulders, who plays Robin, shared the same news. Hannigan gave birth to a daughter in March, and Smulders is due soon.

The actresses have been carrying large handbags, wearing loose clothing and using the usual midriff-hiding tricks, given that their characters are not pregnant. But, as Thomas says, “How I Met Your Mother” has also been “winking at the audience” by “hiding” Hannigan’s pregnancy in ways that draw attention to it for those in the know.

Still, Thomas said it has been the “weirdest” season of “How I Met Your Mother”. Episodes were shot out of order and Hannigan only appears in three of the five “HIMYM” episodes that close out the show’s season—her scenes in Monday’s outing, in the May 11 episode and in the May 18 season finale were shot months ago.

“Quite honestly, “How I Met Your Mother” is about these five people,” said Pamela Fryman, who has directed almost every episode of “HIMYM.” “Those five people needed to be there.” Fryman said it was fun to come up with comedic ways to “hide” the pregnancy.

Still, “How I Met Your Mother” did try to keep the pregnancies from being too obvious. “For Alyson, it was a lot of winter coats. Cobie’s getting stuck with the warmer months, so she gets the dry cleaning, She takes everyone’s clothes to the cleaners,” said Fryman. “And we have the biggest purses of any show on the air.”

And as Season 4 of “How I Met Your Mother” comes to a close, the show will revisit the idea of the unplanned “pivot points” in life that bring people to their destinies.




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