HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Episode 200: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, and Cristin Milioti Preview ‘How Your Mother Met Me’

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER is just a few months away from its series finale, but there is a very important milestone to celebrate in the meantime — the 200th episode, which airs Monday, January 27th. And, fittingly, to commemorate such a big occasion, the show is doing something a bit different: it’s telling the story of Ted and the Mother from the mother’s perspective!

“We didn’t plan the season going ‘200 has to be a big episode,'” HIMYM co-creator Carter Bays told reporters as the show was filming “How Your Mother Met Me.” “It just kind of landed nicely that this 200th episode is really special. I think it’s one of the best we’ve ever done. It’s also, really, unlike any other episode we’ve ever done. When you see it, I think it’s an unlikely choice for a 200th episode. The 100th episode was very much a celebration of this cast with the big musical number. This one is about the story, and about the tale we’ve been telling.”

“[The Mother] is the star of episode 200,” HIMYM co-creator Craig Thomas added. “We want [Cristin Milioti (The Mother)] to win an Emmy for this episode — she’s beautiful and funny and hilarious. I don’t want to say too many details about it [but]…people who want more Mother are going to love this episode.”

Longtime fans of the series will also be treated to some nostalgia with the episode, as the showrunners noted that the 200th episode will include some recontextualizing of previously aired scenes.

“We recreated a little piece of the pilot,” Thomas teased. “A little glimpse of it. We sort of reshot part of it and added to the scene. I won’t say what it was, but it was really weird to say, ‘That was nine years ago.’ So surreal. It’s fitting we did that.”

And while the rest of the cast might be a little sparse in “How Your Mother Met Me” — “It’s been a week off!” HIMYM star Alyson Hannigan (Lily) laughed — Milioti seemed excited about viewers getting the chance to learn more about her character.

“Without giving anything away, it’ll fill in a lot of the blanks,” Milioti said. “It’s a very awesome episode. There’s a lot of really, really fun stuff in there. And a lot of really…there’s emotional stuff, too, that’s very beautiful. It’s a really wonderful episode. And it’s been a blast to film.”

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HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER airs Monday at 8 PM on CBS.

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