Pilot How I Met Your Mother

*Scene opens in the future, Ted’s son and daughter are sitting on a couch, listening to their father, the narrator.*

Subtitle: “the Year 2030”

Narrator: Kids, I’m going to tell you an incredible story: The story of how I met your mother.

Son: Are we being punished for something?

Narrator: No.

Daughter: Yeah, is this going to take a while?

Narrator: Yes. Twenty-five years ago, before I was dad, I had this whole other life.

*The children look at eachother and look annoyed.*


*Theme song plays, show title and pictures of Ted’s life in 2005 are displayed.*

Narrator: It was way back in 2005. I was twenty-seven, just starting to make it as an architect, and living in New York with Marshall, my best friend from college. My life was good, and then Uncle Marshall went and screwed the whole thing up.

Marshall [opens a wedding ring box]: Will you marry me?

Ted: Yes, perfect! And then you’re engaged, you pop the champagne, you drink a toast, you have sex on the kitchen floor - Don’t have sex on our kitchen floor.

Marshall: Got it. Thanks for helping me plan this out, Ted.