How I Met Your Mother pulled off the sitcom's most tragic twist by ensuring that no one, not even the show's stars, knew what was coming next.
While How I Met Your Mother’s saddest scene featured a devastating twist, the sitcom's creators went to extremes to ensure that this shock was a surprise for everyone involved. For much of the show’s run, How I Met Your Mother was a fun hang-out sitcom that managed to keep the genre’s oldest institution, the much-maligned laugh track, alive in the '00s. However, like many great sitcoms, How I Met Your Mother could pull off some devastatingly dark moments from time to time.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Whether it was Robin’s revelations in How I Met Your Mother’s saddest Christmas episode or Marshall and Lily’s cliffhanger breakup at the end of season 1's finale, the series had a talent for making big emotional moments hurt. This was never more pronounced than in How I Met Your Mother season 6, episode 13, “Bad News.” The majority of “Bad News,” is dedicated to a story that revolves around Lily and Marshall trying to solve their fertility issues.
To get Segel’s real reaction when Lily told Marshall that his father died, the cast and crew of How I Met Your Mother needed to get creative. Since Hannigan couldn’t tell Segel when to react, she instead told him that the episode’s big news would arrive when she said a line ending with “ir.
HIMYM's Jason Segel Trick Made Its Saddest Scene Better Jason Segel’s reaction to the news, possibly due to this Method acting-adjacent arrangement, is more naturalistic and subdued than the actor’s usual performance as Marshall. Typically a broad, goofy character, Marshall could be surprisingly stoic at times, especially when overwhelmed with emotion.
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