I still believe How I Met Your Mother is one of the best sitcoms of all time . While I certainly empathize with people who were disappointed by the tragic series finale in 2014, you cannot deny that its pilot episode, originally airing on CBS in 2005, was something special. The first chapter of Ted Mosby’s (Josh Radnor) search for love not only did a wonderful job establishing the awesome characters in the HIMYM cast , the show’s unique narrative structure, and its irreverent tone, but it also introduced one of the series' most iconic recurring elements: the Blue French Horn.
The unusually colored brass instrument is first spotted at the restaurant where Ted and Robin ( Cobie Smulders ) have their first date and would go on to appear in more of the best How I Met Your Mother episodes . It has since become recognized by fans of the show as a symbol of Ted’s almost heroic approach to romance, but how did such a unique object like this come to be such an important part of the show? Kids, allow me to tell you that story. The Blue French Horn Was Invented To Be Ted's Right Of Passage In my opinion, one of the top How I Met Your Mother moments that prove Ted is a good guy is in the pilot (which was a maddening experience for Radnor to revisit , apparently) when he steals the Blue French Horn and presents it to Robin as a token of his affection.
On a rewatch podcast he hosts with Radnor called How We Made Your Mother , co-creator Craig Thomas explains what led him and Carter B.
