The third season of How I Met Your Mother is scheduled to premiere in the fall, and creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are preparing to give fans a wider view of the show using the worldwide web.

During the show's session at the TCA summer press tour, Bays and Thomas announced that fans will be able to see racier versions of certain scenes by logging on to the show's website.

"It's going to be called 'How it Really Happened.'  And you have to go online and search for it.  It's going to be the story that the dad couldn't tell his kids,” Thomas explained.  “When parents tell their kids a story, obviously some censorship and sanitizing happens.  So you'll be able to see the real version of certain scenes all through season three, which we're really excited about.”

How I Met Your Mother is a comedy series that is told in reverse, with the central character, Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), telling his children about how he came be with their mother.  The series is, in this sense, made up of flashbacks that highlight significant moments in Ted's love life.

Although the series pilot indicated that Ted's friend, Robin (Cobie Smulders), is not the “Mother” in the show's title, she and Ted were involved for quite some time.  However, in the second season finale, it was revealed that he and Robin had finally gone their separate ways.  According to Bays, fans should not expect for the two characters to reconcile when the series continues.

“They've had their relationship.  They tried it out. It didn't work. So now the future is wide open,” Bays said.

With that said, the How I Met Your Mother creators also let slip that starting with the season premiere, the show will be dropping more hints with regards to who the “Mother” in the title really is.
"Episode one will show that we have not forgotten the title of our show, in a very exciting way,” Thomas said.

Aside from the exciting new developments in Ted's love life, Bays also mentioned that Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan), the newlywed couple whose stable relationship serves as a contrast to Ted's often chaotic search for his ultimate partner, will be buying a New York apartment and “making every mistake you can possibly make.”  Moreover, Barney's (Neil Patrick Harris) gay brother will make another appearance in the upcoming season of How I Met Your Mother, and his presence "will figure actually into the story of Barney's first love, the woman he lost his virginity to."


-Lisa Claustro, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: MSNBC's Test Pattern
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