Hulu’s How I Met Your Mother, successfully tying Ted and Sophie’s stories together through loose connections. In addition to Sid and Jesse living in Marshall and Lily’s old apartment, Ted and Marshall’s swords hanging in their place, various Glen McKenna scotch labels, and cameos from Robin, The Captain, Becky, and Carl, How I Met Your Father is expected to ramp up the Easter eggs and references to HIMYM characters in season 2.
Since How I Met Your Father season 2 will likely take place in early 2023, the timeline between the sequel series perfectly overlaps with some big moments revealed in How I Met Your Mother season 9’s flash-forwards. The spinoff's Robin cameo already connected the two stories well, but Ted’s appearance is what will truly bring HIMYM and HIMYF together. In fact, one detail from an image of Charlie (Tom Ainsley) and Ellen (Tien Tran) sets up a subtle Easter egg for Ted Mosby’s architecture career during How I Met Your Father season 2’s timeline.
HIMYM Ted Easter Egg Could Appear In Charlie’s Newspaper
How I Met Your Father’s early images feature a shot of Ellen shaving Charlie’s beard, with the latter character attentively reading the arts section of a newspaper. How I Met Your Father typically prefers subtlety in its connections to HIMYM characters, so Charlie’s newspaper is the perfect way to drop an Easter egg regarding Ted Mosby’s artistic achievements as an architect. Only a few years before How I Met Your Father, Ted was still famous for his design of GNB’s new building, meaning it isn’t out of the realm of possibility that he could have another New York City high-rise going up in 2023.
Hilary Duff’s character Sophie already revealed that she was a big fan of reporter Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Father season 1, so it’s more than likely that the new characters are aware of Ted Mosby as a famous New York architect. If so, the America-residing British character Charlie could be reading a piece in the arts section of the newspaper that spotlights Ted’s career or one of his new buildings. Subtle connections like these are arguably the best way to organically connect the two shows, especially given HIMYM season 9’s focus on making its main characters notable figures in New York society.
Will Ted Mosby Ever Appear In How I Met Your Father?
Since Cobie Smulders unexpectedly returned as Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Father season 1, it seems cameos from all the original main characters are in order. As the core character in HIMYM’s story, Ted Mosby is the most likely figure to make an appearance in How I Met Your Father’s future. It’s unclear if HIMYM cast member Josh Radnor is up for reprising his role as Ted in the spinoff, but How I Met Your Father has set up plenty of avenues for his character to appear in Sophie’s story.
Popular How I Met Your Father fan theories suggest that Ted Mosby could appear in the spinoff series when his wife Tracy becomes sick. How I Met Your Father character Hannah is a surgeon, which led some to believe that she could turn out to be Tracy’s doctor in HIMYM’s future timeline. Jesse is also a music teacher at an elementary school, so it’s possible that he could turn out to be a teacher for Ted’s young children Penny and Luke in How I Met Your Father. Whether Ted Mosby actually appears for a cameo or not, there are apt to be plenty more Easter eggs that reference the original main character.