How I Met Your Mother’s Finale Made Sense Of 1 Perplexing Pilot Episode Choice

The ending of How I Met Your Mother is controversial, but the way Ted’s story concludes explains one perplexing aspect of the show’s pilot episode. Created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, How I Met Your Mother has a fairly common premise: it follows Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and his four best friends as they navigate life in New York as young adults. However, the sitcom’s storytelling structure is what makes it so unique. The events of the nine-season series are narrated by Future Ted (voiced by Bob Saget), who is telling his two children the story of how he met their mother.