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"First off, let&amp;#x27;s get right to the question on everyone&amp;#x27;s mind: Is How I Met Your Mother&amp;#x27;s mother (played by Cristin Milioti) going to survive the series finale? At the Paley Center for Media&amp;#x27;s PaleyFest on Saturday night, co-creator and executive producer Carter Bays would only say that &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;re wildly excited about the finale, and obviously we can&amp;#x27;t say anything.&amp;quot; Added co-creator and executive producer Craig Thomas: &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s beautiful, it&amp;#x27;s surprising, and it&amp;#x27;s weird. And thank you guys for going with it!&amp;quot; Read into that what you will, but I&amp;#x27;m still not convinced that the Mother actually dies. I mean, I just can&amp;#x27;t believe they&amp;#x27;d honestly go there. However, Bays did get one awesome line in: &amp;quot;We got away with waiting nine f**king years to meet the mother, and you all still watched it!&amp;quot; But back to the current world, Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders, Josh Radnor, and Cristin Milioti reunited at the Dolby Theatre to an obsessed audience of HIMYM fans. Neil Patrick Harris, knowing how much this show means to the fans, Skyped in from his place in New York City. He&amp;#x27;s rehearsing for Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway and stunned the audience not only with his surprise appearance, but when he took off his shirt before he had to say goodbye (he had to go do a surprise concert for the Broadway show). Jason Segal&amp;#x27;s whereabouts weren&amp;#x27;t mentioned, much to the dismay of the audience. Alyson Hannigan, with her brilliant one-liners and revealing secrets, was clearly the star of the red carpet and panel. A sampling... On a HIMYM reunion one day: &amp;quot;I did like 18 American Pie movies, so clearly I&amp;#x27;d be fine with revisiting the character [of Lily]!&amp;quot; On cutting her hair into a super-chic bob: &amp;quot;I just had to do something wild! The nails (which were a pastel green with gold glitter accents), the hair! I love the haircut! This is the result of not being able to change anything up [during the last season].&amp;quot; On acting advice to a young girl in the audience: &amp;quot;I was told I wasn&amp;#x27;t funny enough to be on television when I was a kid and auditioned for Blossom. I couldn&amp;#x27;t get a Saved by the Bell callback to save my life. But as long as you love it, it&amp;#x27;s totally worth it. I just hope you have a good therapist. It&amp;#x27;s hard not to take everything to heart.&amp;quot; Meanwhile Josh Radnor revealed that the entire cast was given special Kleenex (who knew there was such a thing!) that said, &amp;quot;Let it all out. No questions asked.&amp;quot; Neil Patrick Harris gave the most endearing speech of the night when he said, &amp;quot;Aly, you are the heart of this show. Josh, you are the soul of our show. I&amp;#x27;ve been so blessed to play your best friend. Cristin, I don&amp;#x27;t think any of us could have asked for a better person to play the Mother. When I see what happens in a close-up with you, I can&amp;#x27;t wait to see where your career goes. Cobie, there&amp;#x27;s no one&amp;amp;#8212;wait, there&amp;#x27;s no girl I would [rather get married to]. And to everyone who paid money to sit there at PaleyFest, thank you for staying with us.&amp;quot; Cristin Milioti revealed that the last scene that she filmed was the scene she tested with Josh for prior to getting the job. &amp;quot;It was on the set in the apartment, and even though I didn&amp;#x27;t know what role I was testing for, I had a suspicion.&amp;quot; Josh Radnor added that almost no words were changed from that test scene when it came time to actually tape it for the finale. Cobie Smulders made the audience quite happy when she admitted that her &amp;quot;biggest moment&amp;quot; from the show was filming &amp;quot;Let&amp;amp;#8217;s Go to the Mall.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know what I did to deserve it. I convinced [the producers] I could sing. [Laughs] It&amp;amp;#8217;s just such an unusual moment of playing a character who&amp;amp;#8217;s playing a character, but what a blast.&amp;quot; Josh Radnor had one of the more interesting answers of the night when asked what Ted Mosby taught him as a person. &amp;quot;Ted was a teacher in humility for me. He was going through a lot, and I had to honor him and be with him. Sometimes I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t want to be playing that to be honest, and other days I felt like the luckiest guy in the world.&amp;quot; And finally...I had to ask Alyson Hannigan and Cristin Milioti, how did they meet their significant others? Here&amp;#x27;s what they had to say: Cristin Milioti: &amp;quot;A friend set us up, but we had actually met years earlier. He had asked me out, but when he saw that I had a boyfriend, [that was kind of it]&amp;amp;#8212;but three years later we were set up on a date! That&amp;amp;#8217;s some How I Met Your Mother sh*t!&amp;quot; Alyson Hannigan: &amp;quot;I met my husband [Alexis Denisof] on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was a guest star that was just too funny to ever leave, so they kept writing him in. We were friends for a year first because he didn&amp;amp;#8217;t want to date anybody he worked with. He was all professional! Ugh, whatever! [Laughs] I was like, &amp;#x27;You know, that&amp;amp;#8217;s what you get!&amp;#x27; So, he went off to the spin-off, Angel, and I ended up dating someone else, and he got jealous. That&amp;amp;#8217;s probably why I dated the other guy, but I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know if I knew that at the time. And then he was like my guy that I would call and complain [to about other guys], and he would say, &amp;#x27;Oh, I would never do that to you. That&amp;amp;#8217;s not how I am in relationships!&amp;#x27; So it was very sweet. I mean, we were such great friends. We talked about everything. You have to have that, especially if you&amp;amp;#8217;re going to get married! Who doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t want to marry their best friend?&amp;quot; What will you miss most about HIMYM? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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