How I Met Your Mother Final Episode and Series Finale Spoiler: What Happens to Ted? PLUS 'How I Met Your Dad' Spin Off Casts Greta Gerwig as 'Sally'
Spoiler Alert: Don't read this if you're still waiting to watch the finale!
The finale episode of How I Met Your Mother got varied reactions. Spoiler theories had been coming out for weeks before the last episode. Some concluded that the final episode would see Ted having Alzheimer's disease or the mother's death; however, none of these happened.
The last episode revealed that Robin and Barney had a divorce. After Ted finished telling his kids the story of how he met their mother, his children told him that they know how much he loves their Aunt Robin. His children urged him to call Robin but Ted decided to go to her apartment instead. He was holding a blue horn when Robin opened the window, which alluded to an episode of a past storyline in which they dated. And that was how How I Met Your Mother ended.
Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, the creators of How I Met Your Mother, are already planning a spin-off titled How I Met Your Dad with Greta Gerwig playing Sally, the main character. Aside from being the lead actor, Gerwig will also write for the spin off and function as a producer. Thomas and Bays will write the first episode with Los Angeles as the setting. New York will replace LA if the series has a big enough following.
What will happen to HIMYM's actors now that the series has wrapped up?
Josh Radnor has no shows lined up but says he wants to work behind the cameras; he has directed a few films before.
Cobi Smulders has two more commitments to play Agent Maria Hill in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron, both of which are on their way.
Neil Patrick Harris will feature in Gone Girl (a movie version of the novel) coming this October, A Million Ways to Die in the West, a movie by Seth MacFarlane coming this May, and a Broadway play Hedwig and the Angry Inch which will open officially on April 22.
Alyson Hannigan has a role in the CBS TV series More Time with Family with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as executive producers.
Jason Segal has a good line up of movies coming up: Sex Tape with Cameron Diaz as the lead star and The End of the Tour, a David Foster Wallace biopic due this September.
Cristin Millioti, who was last seen in The Wolf of Wall Street, is a part of The Occupants, a thriller movie that is underway and A To Z, a pilot rom-com on NBC.
Lyndsy Fonseca and David Henrie, the kids, will go on to have acting careers too. Lyndsy has a role in Moments of Clarity with a release date later this year while David has roles in Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and a few other films.