10 Fun Facts About 'How I Met Your Mother'

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'How I Met Your Mother'

Did you know there are only TWELVE times during all nine seasons of How I Met Your Mother that "Barney Stinson" is not wearing a suit! Twelve! He was almost always "suited up."

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The Websites Were Real!

The hilarious websites mentioned on the show like "www.canadiansexacts.org", "stinsonbreastreduction.com", and "lilyandmarshallselltheirstuff.com" are real websites and were even used to sell items from the show for charity!

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The Kids Knew Who Their Mother Was All Along!

"Ted Mosby's" kids were played by Lyndsy Fonseca and David Henrie and they filmed all of their scenes during the first season since the two were growing up and Henrie was going through puberty. They even had to film the final scene where their mother is officially shown but they were asked to sign confidentiality agreements. Both kept the secret to the end, even though Henrie was frequently bribed with alcohol at bars for the truth!

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Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris gave Red Bull so much free advertising on and off the show because he loved the drink so much that Red Bull gave him a lifetime supply of the energy drink and a mini-fridge!

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The Cast's SO's Got To Join The Show Too

The cast members' significant others were also featured on the show! Alyson Hannigan's husband Alexis Denisof was the incredibly vain news anchor "Sandy Rivers", Smulder's husband Taran Killam was cast as "Gary Blauman", and NPH's husband played Lily's high school boyfriend "Scooter"!

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Cobie Smulders Secretly Faced Cancer

During season 3 at only 25 years old, Cobie Smulders was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer and did her best to keep it a secret from the public. After several surgeries she was declared cancer-free only 2 years later. Now she is very outspoken about her battle in hopes of bringing awareness to the terrifying cancer.

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Conan O'Brien Was A Background Extra

Funny Guy Conan O'Brien won a charity auction to be featured in an episode of the show. Show creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays were hoping to give him a major part of the episode but Conan thought it would be funnier and more realistic if he was only a background extra! And he was right!

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Cast of 'How I Met Your Mother'

The showrunners Bays and Thomas originally were going to have "split custody" of the infamous Blue horn but Josh Radnor asked for it so they let him have it. Thomas said giving it to Radnor "felt right." NPH took his characters playbook, Smulders took the "Robin Sparkles" denim jacket, and Hannigan took the small British phone booth.

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There Was a Real Proposal!

During the finale of season 2, the cast and crew worked together to do a real-life proposal! During the rehearsal of a scene, "Robin" finds a ring in her champagne and asks who's it is when a scene extra Timothy Russo accepted the ring and used it to propose to his girlfriend Jana Rugan right there on the spot!

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Jim Parsons Auditioned To Play "Barney!"

Did you know the fabulous Jim Parsons aka "Sheldon Cooper" auditioned for the role of "Barney"? A couple of years ago the Big Bang Theory star explained that he was surprised after reading the description for the iconic character, which said "a big lug of a guy." Then Parsons added, "I got it and was like, 'Who the hell looked at me and thinks 'big lug of a guy?'" He auditioned anyway but lost to Neil Patrick Harris.

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