I was wondering, through season one all the way uptil the final seasons years later, DO THE KIDS EVER AGE? I'm talking about the children that Bob Saget is supposedly telling this years-long tale to. Do the children stay dressed the same? Are they continually played by the same young actors and actresses? What's the story here?

Every once in a blue moon, a question is asked on this forum that no one can successfully answer. This is obviously one of them. I know this sitcom has a large fan base on this messageboard because they are always touting this show.

the kids would not have necessarily even needed to actually know the ending - all they needed was a bunch of different reactions, and the producers didn't need to tell the kids what any of the reactions were for.

David Henrie was also on that Disney show Wizards of Waverly Place - he doesn't look like he's aged all that much since the show began anyways, so who could tell?

I am NOT knocking any poster in this thread, but I continue to be beyond fustrated at the lack of understanding and life maturity obviously needed to have understood the series and one of the best finales in TV sitcom history.

For the masses that wanted everything tied up in a happy rainbow, you haven't lived enough of what life is and can be......I wrote countless volumes trying to explain every facet of what this series was trying to communicate. (anyone feel free to look up my posts)

to answer the first question in brief, the series was a victim of it's own success, the reaction shot and yes kids knowing was shot at the end of season one, and held for whenever the series ended. It did not take the character of Ted Mosby to tell his children 9 years of how he had met their mother, it took days or hours as the entire series took place in the future six years after the mother died as Ted told past stories to his children from episode #1.

Because of uneducated viewers the producers were practically forced to put the happy pappy alternate ending on the recent finale season 9 DVD. OMG kudos to the producers/creators for sticking to the original ending that was planned all along.

If anyone has season 9 DVD and didn't like the ending, I please ask you watch the extra about the final episode found on disc 3, it explains things about life in great detail.

To sum it up......"Life is what happens when your busy making other plans" (John Lennon) during "The Long And Winding Road" (Paul McCartney)

I don't think calling people that didn't like the ending "uneducated" is fair.

I didn't need a happy ending, but the entire tone of the series has been basically about a group of friends having fun and to all of a sudden do a complete 180 and turn the entire show into a tragedy seems like a cheat.

When you find out that the mother dies, it makes it seem heartless that Ted would have been spending all of this time talking about everyone BUT their mother; surely if the plan was to have the mother die all along, then some of the focus would logically have been about the mother. Maybe they had never intended for the show to run quite so long and ended up stretching things out because the network and the fans wanted the show to keep going, but honestly the show was always more about the group of friends than anything to do with the mother.

I was most upset by the way they had to break up Barny and Robin just so that Ted and Robin can get together again (who obviously would break up again in a few months because they are terrible together). It all seemed like they just randomly threw characters together into relationships just to watch them fall apart again and eventually ruin what was a series of great friendships throughout the show. If you were happy with the ending, then great - but for me it basically ruined the best part of the show, the friendships.



Back to the kids - if you are looking back at the show now, it seems plausible that the kids weren't aging as the story was told and that the storytelling only went on for a very short period of time; it just seems a little unrealistic that Ted would have spent that much time NOT talking about the mother.

Discovering the show now in re-runs I was surprised at seeing Lindsay Fonseca as one of the kids, I've mostly seen her in movies which is why.

Bear with me gentlemen because I am as FAR from a "How I Met Your Mother" fan as one can be, but if I am to understand a few of you correctly, it only took a "few hours" for Ted to say NINE seasons of narration to the children? I mean just counting his words and descriptions alone meant that this would have taken weeks and weeks.The entire premise is that he is speaking to his children. Hence his using the phrase "kids" each and every show. So one has to assume, as is clearly intended, that each and every single word of narration over the course of this nine year presentation (granted it was a weekly show spread out over 9 years). . .was said to and heard by his children.

That guys a terrible story teller. Most of his story don't have anything to do with his mother. Why does the show title imply the show is about meeting the mother and she's only at the end of the story. And not for very long.

Ok kids, before I met your mother I loved many women and you are going to hear about every one of them.