dvd is the alternate ending of how i met your mother.
what is the alternate ending of how i met your mother?
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a petition was started, aiming to rewrite and reshoot the finale. the petition has over 20,000 signatures and considerable online news coverage. on april 5, 2014, carter bays announced on twitter that an alternate ending would be included on the season 9 dvd. no new material was shot for this scene. in the alternate ending, the mother is still living when ted is telling the story in 2030. future ted is heard saying, "...when i think how lucky i am to wake up next to your mom every morning, i can't help but be amazed how easy it all really was...", indirectly stating that the mother is alive. the video ends right after the train passes at farhampton station and credits start rolling, implying that ted never went back to robin and went on to have a long, happy marriage with tracy.
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the episode also features a reappearance by celeste kane (lisa thornhill), a recurring character during the first season. the second season dvd includes an alternate ending to this episode, which was released around the airing of the episode as a promotional tool. the alternate ending starts the same way as the regular ending, with veronica discovering that meg is pregnant. but instead of the episode ending there, meg's mom comes into the room while veronica hides in the bathroom. when the mom leaves, meg is dead with a pillow over her face, indicating smothering. however, veronica takes the pillow off before a nurse comes in. thomas commented that the alternate ending was never going to be the actual conclusion to the episode. he said: "we never seriously considered having that be the ending. there were various other endings that we did have, but they were so subtly different, it was like, 'when does veronica enter the room?' " the idea to promote the alternate ending was a joint venture from the upn promotions department and executive producer joel silver. after thomas learned that others wanted an alternate ending, he decided to make it very different from the episode's actual conclusion. "but once we could have a [very different] alternate ending, we thought, 'let's make it rock.' the beauty of having that alternate ending is that we don't have to play it out in the next episode."
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