I nonetheless imagine How I Met Your Mom is among the finest sitcoms of all time. Whereas I definitely empathize with individuals who have been upset by the tragic collection finale in 2014, you can not deny that its pilot episode, initially airing on CBS in 2005, was one thing particular. The primary chapter of Ted Mosby’s (Josh Radnor) seek for love not solely did a beautiful job establishing the superior characters within the HIMYM solid, the present’s distinctive narrative construction, and its irreverent tone, but it surely additionally launched one of many collection’ most iconic recurring components: the Blue French Horn.
The unusually coloured brass instrument is first noticed on the restaurant the place Ted and Robin (Cobie Smulders) have their first date and would go on to seem in additional of one of the best How I Met Your Mom episodes. It has since turn out to be acknowledged by followers of the present as an emblem of Ted’s nearly heroic strategy to romance, however how did such a singular object like this come to be such an vital a part of the present? Children, enable me to inform you that story.
The Blue French Horn Was Invented To Be Ted’s Proper Of Passage
In my view, one of many prime How I Met Your Mom moments that show Ted is an efficient man is within the pilot (which was a maddening expertise for Radnor to revisit, apparently) when he steals the Blue French Horn and presents it to Robin as a token of his affection. On a rewatch podcast he hosts with Radnor known as How We Made Your Mom, co-creator Craig Thomas explains what led him and Carter Bays to include the instrument into the story. As you’ll be able to see from the next quote, the duo seemed to the unlikely space of Greek mythology for inspiration:
We knew we wished Ted to need to deliver one thing on this type of elemental storytelling approach. Like… he’s bought to deliver the heroine a present to realize entry into her lair. You recognize what I imply?… After which it was like, ‘Let’s consider one thing memorable that would hold on a wall.’ And that was the way in which we bought to that.
Radnor then mentions how Ted in all probability by no means dedicated an act of thievery earlier than this event, earlier than Thomas admits seeing him and the gang discussing the primary time they stole something may need made for an excellent episode. I’ll admit that I understand it sounds odd for me to reward a criminal offense like this, however Robin was clearly moved by the gesture and was delivered to tears within the Season 2 ender when the couple was compelled to return it. Regardless of how one could really feel concerning the collection finale (which additionally had a extra favored alternate ending), I hope they have been no less than excited to see Ted current the Blue French Horn to her as soon as extra in its remaining scene.
Josh Radnor Is The Present Proprietor Of The Blue French Horn
You probably have ever puzzled the place the Blue French Horn is immediately in actual life, that query can also be answered in the identical episode of How We Made Your Mom. Because it seems, the proprietor is Ted Mosby himself.
Radnor remembers, after How I Met Your Mom had wrapped, being requested by the props division if he and the guy solid members want to hold something from the present. He selected to take the Blue French Horn, which now hangs in his residence in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as he acknowledges on the podcast.
It sort of makes me surprise what occurred to any of the opposite iconic props from How I Met Your Mom? Does Neil Patrick Harris have Barney Stinson’s ducky tie? Did Cristin Milioti hold the yellow umbrella utilized by Tracy “The Mom” McConnell? Possibly these questions will probably be answered in a future episode of How We Made Your Mom.