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• Writers/producers/co-creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are members of the band "The Solids," which performs the show's theme song "Hey Beautiful".
  
  
• Barney and Ted meet at the urinal for the first time.
  
  
• Marshall is from Minnesota.
  
  

• Lily's nickname for Marshall is "Marshmallow".
  
  
• From season 2, there are scenes shown before the opening credits
  
  
• Ted's favorite music artist is Otis Redding.
  
  
• Ted is from Ohio, just like Josh Radnor.
  
  
• Ted's middle name is Evelyn.
  
  
• Alyson Hannigan's character on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997), Willow Rosenberg, once mentioned that she wrote "Doogie Howser, M.D." (1989) fanfiction as a girl. Hannigan went on to star in "How I Met Your Mother" (2005) with Neil Patrick Harris, who as a boy played Doogie Howser.
  
  
• Alyson Hannigan, who plays Lily, is perhaps best known prior to starring in ‘How I Met Your Mother’ for her role on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997). The creators of both of these shows -- Joss Whedon of the Buffy series and Carter Bays and Craig Thomas of HIMYM -- all graduated from Wesleyan University, as well as did the characters Lily, Ted, and Marshall on HIMYM.
  
  

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