“I'm gonna spin this as good.” That line, said by Ted Mosby in the second episode of How I Met Your Mother, is the key to the entire series, according to co-creator Craig Thomas and star Josh…
Craig Thomas — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Craig Thomas has appeared on 10 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including How We Made Your Mother. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Craig said
“An incredible amount of intelligent effort put into something incredibly stupid is my favorite comedy.”
— Craig Thomas (32:09)
“There is legitimate heartfelt emotion in this song. Like I really, I really feel something every time I hear it... I remember like pouring my heart into this absurd breakup song.”
— Craig Thomas on writing "Sandcastles in the Sand"
“Younger equals better is a real cultural lie we tell ourselves. And I like that Barney says you've gotten better, like a whiskey.”
— Craig Thomas on the episode's theme of aging
“We never worry too much about the jokes. We always want an interesting structure and to know what it's emotionally about.”
— Craig Thomas
“Writing is rewriting, except this time.”
— Craig Thomas, on the strike episode
Episode appearances
10 How We Revertigo'd to the Mall When Robin Sparkles first appeared in "Let's Go to the Mall," it was a pure comedy bit—a cheesy Canadian pop star music video that revealed Robin's embarrassing…
Bob Odenkirk was in development hell when he got the call to appear on How I Met Your Mother. He was writing TV pilots that kept not going anywhere, stuck in what he calls "a devocate hell" of…
How How I Met Your Mother Made "The Bracket" Writer Joe Kelly joined How I Met Your Mother in season three, straight out of SNL and sketch comedy. His first sitcom episode became one of the show's…
In the spring of 2008, Josh Radnor got punched in the face twice outside a bar in Columbus, Ohio. He was drunk, trying to sleep with a nursing student named Sarah who had a boyfriend. The…
The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike hit How I Met Your Mother at a vulnerable moment. Season three was building momentum, and episode 11, “The Platinum Rule,” was the one episode the…
The cold open of How I Met Your Mother’s “Slapsgiving” (Season 3, Episode 9) features Ted and Robin’s “Major General Corporal Colonel” salute, a joke that co-creator Craig Thomas claims he…
How We (Glass Shatters) | S3E8 "Spoiler Alert" The episode opens with a voicemail from a listener named Mason, who writes that he finished his first watch of How I Met Your Mother after losing his…
“I look back and I thought I was an engineer. I thought I was trying to go places, but that’s not what was happening at all. Things were given to me, the opportunities showed up, and I did the…
The episode "How We Met Everyone Else" is one of the show's most beloved installments, and in this conversation, writer Gloria Calderón Kellett, along with Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas, unpacks…
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