Why How I Met Your Mother Desperately Needed Britney Spears 

I had no idea it was Brittney spears until now

I had no idea who Britney spears was or what she did back then

​@@ninthata69Britney is the Princess of Pop, has sold around 150 million albums and has two diamond albums ("...Baby One More Time" from 1999 and "Oops!...I Did It Again" from 2000)

Britney playing an unassuming secretary was perfect.

@@ninthata69 I was thinking the same.. but to be fair.. possibly I was watching the show because it was so popular because of her, even if i didnt know who she was..

Yes this was actually around the beginning of her conservatorship as she mentioned in her book that theres was actually another show she wanted to be in if her schedule allowed but her management chose himym instead

I'd go a step further. She nailed the role. She was cute, funny and believable. Even if she was just kind of being herself, she still pulled it off.

I mean, she played herself. She's pretty and charismatic. That's great I guess

Absolutely

She nailed the role and seemed perfectly cast. Not a total surprise as she'd been a decent SNL host twice, though she was usually playing the straight man in most of her sketches (e.g., Astronaut Jones, the colonial museum).

It was actually about a year after the fact; at this point, she had already released her comeback album "Blackout" and was about to be recording her "Circus" album

10000% I love HIMYM and I thought this would be mentioned in the video, a very important fact: Britney was going through one of the most public mental breakdowns in celebrity history, and there were many people who tuned in just to see how she was getting along. This breaks my heart knowing what I know now. Brittney should have taken her time to get better, heal, and get the support she desperately needed. This would have taken months if not years. But instead, she threw herself back into work, no doubt pushed into it by her PR team, management, and conservatorship. To everyone around her she was just a money machine. When I look back at these episodes, no matter how humorous they were, I feel sadness for her. Decades later we see the results of her not having gotten the help she needed from the very beginning.

yeah, but not a wig. Look closely and you can see her hair extensions in these clips.

@@venomander - And HIMYM had referred to it as well, when Jason Segel's Marshall impulsively shaved his head before his wedding 10 months prior to this episode. And it's not the first time Jason Segel was in a struggling show where they tried to insert Spears to save it; Freaks and Geeks producers got some pressure to have Spears in a guest role. They refused.

Actually, Cranston isn't a shocking guest, he appeared on almost everything in the 90s-2000s, fortunately including even an episode of Babylon 5.

Enrique Iglesias too!

Remind me where Cranston was in the series again?

@@arminxvs3372 he was ted's boss for a while

​@@arminxvs3372 How could anyone forget Hammond Druthers and his erections...I mean buildings?!?!

I was about to comment this

She was in this role than her leading role in 'crossroads'. The title might be wrong. Not a Brittany fan, but still, I've sadly had to sit through that horrible movie.

This show has no change at any life if it wasn’t for the guest stars. Literally was going to be canceled several times in the early seasons. Nobody cared and the ratings were poor because of reality shows at the time. There was nothing new to this show it was a carbon copy of Friends. If it wasn’t for the guests nobody would have cared about the show. I didn’t watch it until way after in season 6. I did see some episodes before that season but nobody actually cared about the show in the early seasons.

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Rushed is a nice word. She does nothing nice or cute or remotely charming (other than being acted by a beautiful actress), and does a bunch of annoying things, and then they decide to get married and we're supposed to want it to happen.

The ending was the right ending. The latter half of the show spinning its wheels was the actual problem. The show was never about the mother; the show was about Ted and Robin. The mother was a Macguffin. Macguffin's are not the point of the story. What you're actually arguing is they should have abandoned the entire premise of the show they built up over those first three seasons and just became a Friends knockoff. Sarah Chalke was great and one of the best TV actresses ever. Stella was the last great or even good major storyline for Ted before the endgame with Ted, Robin and Tracy. But Stella couldn't be the mother without destroying the first few seasons because what allowed Ted to find the Mother was giving up on his idolization of Robin, which only works if the Mother is met _after_ Ted has that breakthrough, not before, otherwise it's just Ted settling for the Mother instead of genuinely loving the Mother as his soulmate. There are tons of issues with HIMYM, but they should be lauded for the ending and making a comedy with a real story instead of being just another mindless friendgroup of white people in their 20/30s struggling with relationships comedy with a laugh track.

​@Parker-- My issue was making a whole season about how right Barney and Robin were for each other and making a big deal of letting Robin go. Imagine Tracey finding out that after she died he went back to the woman he said he was over lol I don't get how the kids were okay with it. It's icky honestly.

I hated Stella. Sure, "she owned it", but for me it was in the worst possible way. I was so happy when she was finally out of the show. Half the character and half the actress. I just can't stand to look at her for some reason, maybe she reminds me of someone that I can't put my finger on

I thought Stella brought some balance to Ted's story. With Victoria and how they ended, Ted was absolutely the baddie (I hated the Klaus retcon to try and make Ted look like less of a douchebag). With Stella, Stella was the baddie. Robin was a common theme in why both relationships failed and in a way that wasn't Robin's fault, but it also illustrated that we're not always the good person and not always the bad person in the story of our lives.

She was always a joke! In the first couple episodes shes like “ journalist are dying in Nicaragua” Sheryl and Alison bre are concerned and ask her about them amd shes ‘brush it off’ because they doesn’t know anything because shes a fake activist always was. She wants to have a cause but doesn’t actually commit. It was always the intention to make her a joke, she always needed money from her parents and was always a druggy party girl

Not sure why people keep saying this, there were hints of her being a joke in the 1st season, it felt she was playing up her intelligence for show so she’d fit in, just like Troy, that’s why the longer the group was together, they became more childish and selfish, they were able to drop the social pressures of being something they were before college….something a lot of people do anyway

She's always been both. She got more realistic after Season 1 when she wasn't written to be Dan Harmon's perfect fantasy woman

This video has been up for less than a minute. You’re telling me you’ve watched it to comment that or you’re just fishing for likes?

You didn’t even finish the video lol

Yes this. I got tired of the cat and mouse game and gev up (I did come back for the reveal). I also felt Ted was a tool. He was supposedly this romantic guy, but he was just an asshat. I can't remember any specifics right now, but the way he treated some of his romances, I thought he was a player and any marriage with the guy was doomed to failure as he'd get bored with the one he's with. Also, he didn't marry his love, he settled and its kinda a D move to be telling this to your kids.

There are a ton of people who disagree, and understand the complexities of life.

@@debuthunter5389there are also way more people who were more dedicated to the show and had the rug pulled out because that ending does not work with what the show actually was about. Which was not Robin they just were too obsessed with the character to really grasp the concept of what the audience actually wanted and was watching the show for which was The Mother whomever that would have been and the group. This was a comedy not real life and not a drama. The ending truly messed up the entire show it’s one of the worst sitcom tv endings of all time.

These stupid writers were absolutely clueless to their own show. The audience clearly didn’t want the ending to the series but they bulled the audience and said a f u for watching. The only reason we watched was for the cast the rest of the story was actually a load of bullshit since they already had that ending in season one even though it never made sense at all. Ted was also a show killer. Nobody watched it for him, it was everyone and everything else we watched for.

Drama queen.