Why The Very Strange How I Met Your Mother Spin-Off Failed

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How I Met Your Dad, not to be confused with How I Met Your Father, was the first attempt at an attempt to recapture the magic of How I Met Your Mother. Though after seeing the Pilot for How I Met Your Dad, it's obvious even the creators of How I Met Your Mother didn't know what they were doing.
Everything seemed to fall short of it's predecessor How I Met Your Mother, and test audiences unanimously agreed.

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or maybe because viewers didn't trust those hacks aftr they completely cheated viewers of the original show and proved that they really had no plan to begin with?

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Things that make you go "hmmm":

34. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 03/03 **13**
The Hit That Wasn't: In a world of really bad pilots and hopes and prayers some new television show will be a hit, there was a network (CBS) that had a surefire one. It was a spin off of a very popular long running comedy ("How I Met Your Mother") on that network. The original had a huge cavalcade of stars. The spin off ("How I Met Your Dad"/2013) had this alliterate A- list actress/director/multiple Oscar nominee (Greta Gerwig) who was really only an actress at that point. The pilot was a huge hit. The show was going to be a huge hit. It was a guaranteed money maker. So, why was the show never made? Our actress wouldn't sleep with the head of the network (Les Moonves/1995 to 2018). He took it personally and wouldn't give the show a series order. Greta Gerwig/"How I Met Your Dad"/CBS/Les Moonves