Neil Patrick Harris was on the David Letterman show last Wednesday. On it he spoke about flying Jet Blue, filming of his hit show How I Met Your Mother. I was hoping they'd touch on his blog he did over the summer with Felicia Day called Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog.
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Neil Patrick Harris on Letterman
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
An Open Letter By How I Met Your Mother's Creator
LETTER TO THE FANS
Hello HIMYM fans. Motherheads? Howsiers? What are you calling yourselves these days? So first things first, thank you for the incredible support you guys have given us over the years. We mean it. When you create a show, you never think you're doing anything more than telling a funny story. But apparently we've created a community, and it seems to be a community of pretty decent people. It's a community we'd probably want to have a beer with. Our fans seem cool and smart and funny, and it drives us to want to make the show better, to never let it stagnate, to always push ourselves to try something interesting and new. So thank you.
Anyway, we'd like to take a little moment here to come out from behind the desk, cool-11th-grade-english-teacher-style, roll up our sleeves and "rap" at you guys for a bit. We want to talk about the strike. By now you probably know what strike we're talking about, but if you don't, watch this movie: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oJ55Ir2jCxk
What it boils down to is this: Tonight’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother” is the last new one for a while. Starting next week, we grimly trudge off the map and into the desert of reruns and reality TV.
We can’t tell you how difficult this last month and a half has been for us, both personally and professionally. We work with the best people in this business – the best at their jobs, the best at being nice and decent human beings – and the thought of all of them out of work over the holidays is almost too much to bear. We miss them all every day.
That’s by far the suckiest part of the strike – nothing tops that. But there’s other suckiness, such as the suckiness of having to put this story on pause. We love our show. We love the stories we get to tell. And this year on How I Met Your Mother, we think the story is particularly great. A very juicy, breathtaking, funny, and (to use our director Pam's word) yummy story was just starting to unfold as the ax began to fall. We're very excited about the second half of this season, and not bringing it to you right now, factory-direct, sparkling-new, is simply killing us.
But enough with our problems. The reason we’re writing today is to beseech you guys, the fans of this show, to bear with us. The love and support you’ve shown us over the last two and a half seasons has been truly surprising and awesome, and we hope you’ll rejoin us when this whole mess is over with. But for now, this is going to have to be a long distance relationship. We know you’ll get lonely, and Mario Lopez is such a good dancer… but come on, hang in there. Sure, long distance doesn’t ever work for anyone, but we’re different. What we’ve got is special. We can make this work.
But in the meantime, if you want to help us end this strike quickly, please visit www.fans4writers.com. That site explains exactly what the WGA is asking for, exactly why it’s completely reasonable, and exactly how you can show your support.
And just in case the strike goes on so long that the medium of television goes out of business forever and we never get to make another episode, the mother is the coat check girl.
Happy Holidays!
Carter Bays and Craig Thomas
Hello HIMYM fans. Motherheads? Howsiers? What are you calling yourselves these days? So first things first, thank you for the incredible support you guys have given us over the years. We mean it. When you create a show, you never think you're doing anything more than telling a funny story. But apparently we've created a community, and it seems to be a community of pretty decent people. It's a community we'd probably want to have a beer with. Our fans seem cool and smart and funny, and it drives us to want to make the show better, to never let it stagnate, to always push ourselves to try something interesting and new. So thank you.
Anyway, we'd like to take a little moment here to come out from behind the desk, cool-11th-grade-english
What it boils down to is this: Tonight’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother” is the last new one for a while. Starting next week, we grimly trudge off the map and into the desert of reruns and reality TV.
We can’t tell you how difficult this last month and a half has been for us, both personally and professionally. We work with the best people in this business – the best at their jobs, the best at being nice and decent human beings – and the thought of all of them out of work over the holidays is almost too much to bear. We miss them all every day.
That’s by far the suckiest part of the strike – nothing tops that. But there’s other suckiness, such as the suckiness of having to put this story on pause. We love our show. We love the stories we get to tell. And this year on How I Met Your Mother, we think the story is particularly great. A very juicy, breathtaking, funny, and (to use our director Pam's word) yummy story was just starting to unfold as the ax began to fall. We're very excited about the second half of this season, and not bringing it to you right now, factory-direct, sparkling-new, is simply killing us.
But enough with our problems. The reason we’re writing today is to beseech you guys, the fans of this show, to bear with us. The love and support you’ve shown us over the last two and a half seasons has been truly surprising and awesome, and we hope you’ll rejoin us when this whole mess is over with. But for now, this is going to have to be a long distance relationship. We know you’ll get lonely, and Mario Lopez is such a good dancer… but come on, hang in there. Sure, long distance doesn’t ever work for anyone, but we’re different. What we’ve got is special. We can make this work.
But in the meantime, if you want to help us end this strike quickly, please visit www.fans4writers.com. That site explains exactly what the WGA is asking for, exactly why it’s completely reasonable, and exactly how you can show your support.
And just in case the strike goes on so long that the medium of television goes out of business forever and we never get to make another episode, the mother is the coat check girl.
Happy Holidays!
Carter Bays and Craig Thomas
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Alyson Hannigan in Page Six Magazine
Alyson Hannigan, of the very funny CBS show How I Met Your Mother, recently did a spread in Page Six Magazine. Here are some pictures of the 33 year old looking better than usual outside of the show.
How I Met Your Mother airs on CBS, Monday at 8pm EST.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Happy Slapsgiving on How I Met Your Mother
This clip is from last night's How I Met Your Mother where Marshall administers the 3rd of 5 slaps in his slap bet with Barney. The episode was ridiculous, and when the slap actually occured, Marshall broke into song. What's great about CBS is they like to release tons of additional footage on their site for this show, one of which being a produced music video of Marshall singing his Slapsgiving song. Way too funny, if you're not familiar with this show, watch it for God's sake. It's one of the funniest shows on TV right now.
How I Met Your Mother airs on CBS Monday's 8pm EST
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Daily Links
- One posed for a photo as she scrubbed a Palestinian corpse. Another stripped a man to his underwear and then beat him. A third helped cover up the abuse of a young boy. The six Israeli women who feature in the documentary "To See If I'm Smiling" each wrestle with memories of their compulsory military service that they would rather erase. Source (Yahoo News)
- The Ten Video Games That Should Be Movies (and the Directors Who Should Make Them) Source (NYMag.com)
- Hollywood film and TV writers who've been on a nearly two-week strike against studios will return to contract negotiations on Nov. 26, their union and producers said Friday. Source (Yahoo News)
- NBC has reportedly fired "nearly the entire production staff" on TV show Saturday Night Live following the Hollywood writers strike. Staff working on the hit program learned of their fate on Friday, according to reports. Source (Star Pulse)
- While the maple syrup smell remains a two-year-old mystery to us, 30 Rock entered the fray with a hypothesis. On last night's episode, Liz Lemon, who smells waffles from her Upper West Side apartment, calls Tracy Jordan to remind him to practice his Re-Run dance for the What's Happening! sketch. Source (Gothamist)
- 10 Black Friday Secrets Retailers Don't Want You to Know. Source (Internet News)
- Barney's Mail Sack. Source (CBS)
Finally, here is the 4 Minute preview for the upcoming Heroes episode "Cautionary Tales", airing November 19.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Alternate endings to this season - Writers Strike Strikes Back
I have to say, I am immensely disappointed that the WGA is striking right now. It's not that I do not support their cause, I work for a business which exploits its creativity as much as it can while compensating them as little as possible. I completely agree with writers wanting a piece of that 500 million dollar pie (see this video I posted earlier regarding the faux daily show recorded by writers at the picket lines). However what's really upsetting me is the disruptions in my weekly television viewing.
Yeah, call me selfish, I consider myself to be so.
But you know what, having to fish through all of the crap on the air right now, the few shows that I actually enjoy are the only solace I have to get me through the week some days when I'm rotting away at work. Mondays, the worst day of them all, the only way to get through a work-day sane is thinking about what awesome story twists Heroes is going to pack, or what hilarious catch-phrase Barney, played by Neil Patrick Harris, is going to surgically deliver to make me nearly piss my pants laughing. Or Thursdays eagerly awaiting the final episodes of Scrubs after 6 years of story build up and character development.
It's no fair to us. Yes, the writers should make their respective money for their talent. But come on!
So, in lieu of this strike that doesn't seem to have an ending in sight. I've decided to write up how I think things should end in the television universe on my favorite shows. These are in no way endorsed by the respective television shows, only by the limits of my twisted and corny imagination. So without further adieu...
HEROES
- Micah and Monica start a duo crime-fighting team. They dress up in costumes, Monica like batgirl and Micah as the ridiculously ambiguous 11-year-old technopath. Together they paint the town red, white, and blue... in matching sequence fighting off criminals like the Hamburgler and amateur internet hackers. After cleaning up New Orleans, they decide to start their own nudie website with Monica as the star, in the footsteps of Nikki. Micah rigs every computer connected to the internet to hit his website and together they become the richest moguls in the porn industry, far surpassing Linderman's wealth.
- Maury never gets out of his nightmare that Matt puts him in, leaving him forever in a coma, and stuck in a 70's style apartment with nothing to do but watch 24 hour-a-day reruns of Quark.
- Mohinder and Matt finally make that lasting commitment and marry each other, Matt after being fed up with women after his wife had his ex-partner's baby. They adopt Molly Walker, who then becomes Molly Walker Parkman-Suresh, and move to the East Village where they live happily ever after.
- Nathan decides to jump back into politics. However, after abandoning his constituents after the last election, getting nearly blown-up, and becoming an alcoholic, he can't get any jobs in public office higher than the DMV. He turns back to alcoholism and dies of liver disease at a young age.
- Claire, being fed up with having to run around the country with her parents, brother and Mr. Muggles, reports them to Homeland Security and gets them deported to a secret detention camp overseas. With them out of the way she starts her life with West, but then realizes how much of a tool he is, and reports him to HLS as well. She eventually starts up her own ring of fight clubs and becomes the undisputed champion of Ultimate Fighting Championship for 60 years straight until she gets bored and retires.
- Bob, having seen the enough of the company, moves to Hollywood to become an actor and remakes Groundhogs Day, writing himself a bigger role this time around.
- After a string of attacks, Elle is considered a sociopath terrorist by the US Government. They subdue her using tranquilizers, and jettison her into space on a one-way ticket straight into the sun.
- Sylar kills Alejandro finally, then settles down in Texas with Maya and have little psychotic babies. Sylar gets a job at the local Dairy Queen, but then soon finds himself on a quest to stop Maya from being deported and becomes a lobbyist for immigrant rights in Congress.
- After Claire broke up with him, West becomes all emo, and one night while flying in the sky and crying over how sucky life is, misses the oncoming 747 and gets sucked into the engine fan like a pigeon.
- Hiro, deciding that saving the world over and over again will get old, goes back to Feudal Japan and finally gets a piece of the swordsmith's daughter. He later finds out she's pregnant, and when Hiro decides he doesn't want the child, but Yaeko does. Hiro takes the family job of swordsmithing and becomes fat, bald, and poor from the many children Yaeko pops out.
- Ando, still in the present time, misses Hiro everyday.
- Peter, realizing he has Adam's power already and doesn't need him, teleports him back to his cell. He then attempts to go back to the future to save his horse-faced Irish lass of a lover, Caitlin, where he contracts the virus and dies.
How I Met Your Mother
Ted finally meets his future wife. It only took 3 years. Some funny stuff happens in between and Barney sleeps with more women than he can count. The end.
Scrubs
Laverne suddenly rising from the grave and changing her name to Shirley makes everyone realize she's a zombie. They all burn her at the stake outside of the hospital and roast marshmallows. Kelso finally brings Enid to the hospital where she decides to get a job. Bob subsequently abandons his position as Chief-of-Medicine and disappears to some tropical island with an army of Asian masseurs to do his bidding. Turk and Carla stay married and have a few more kids, Turk still mistaking her for a Puerto Rican even 35 years into their marriage. JD and Elliot finally hook up again. Their love is then tested by the Janitor, who challenges JD to a fight to the death for Elliot's honor. JD gets a restraining order and gets him fired from Sacred Heart. The Todd hooks up with Beard Face, and has an open relationship with Mickhead. Cox, finally accepting JD into his life, becomes the father figure JD always wanted. Then promptly moves to the other side of the world with Jordan without saying another word a week later.
The Office
Michael still acts like a jackass. Pam and Jim realize they both hate each other, then begin fighting for Dwight's affection. Dwight still lives on the farm with Mose playing ping-pong and growing beets. Stanley finally gets a raise!
Bizzaro TV, you gotta love it...
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