EW Pop Watch Accepts the Challenge of Making How I Met Your Dad Work

Entertainment Weekly's Pop Watch not only accepts the challenge of making How I Met Your Dad work, they accept the fact that it will be a challenge. The article considers the challenges of having a fresh, new character; a new gang; and the story itself. It even makes some hilarious, yet unlikely, suggestions. The aricle is well-written, funny, and it begs discussion.

I'm not going to lie; I have been writing my own version of HIMYD for years. In some circles, that's called fanfiction. Anyway, I always envisioned the mother's best friend to be a female with qualities from both Marshall and Barney. Loyal, intelligent, passionate, classy, has a ton of money and no one knows why, and loves to party. She mostly gets her flaws from Barney, but that's what makes her endearing. Well, I made it sound like Marshall and Barney had a love child.

While How I Met Your Dad does have challenges to overcome, those challenges are not unsurmountable.

CBS Officially Picks Up How I Met Your Dad Pilot

According to The Hollywood Reporter, CBS has officially ordered a pilot for How I Met Your Mother spin-off, How I Met Your Dad. The 20th Century Fox produced sitcom comes to us from HIMYM creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, and Up All Night creator Emily Spivey. That's a real vote of confidence. "We like what you've done for the past nine years, we want this ride to never stop, but we're going to bring in some outside help." In all fairness, Spivey does have a deal with Fox and they probably just needed to stick her somewhere.

The How I Met Your Dad creators took to Twitter to discuss their vision for the show.

Our hope is that #HIMYD becomes its own magical wonderful weird thing, and the two shows stand on their own side by side.
— Carter Bays (@CarterBays) November 16, 2013

Why are we doing #HIMYD? Lots of reasons, but mainly so we can finally answer where the pineapple came from. #HIMYM
— Craig Thomas (@HimymCraig) November 16, 2013

(Kidding, it's a whole new show!)
— Craig Thomas (@HimymCraig) November 16, 2013

For realz honored to work with these dudes. A fan for so long. They are m'spirit animals. Syuper excited!!!! @CarterBays @HimymCraig
— e. spivey (@spivey_e) November 16, 2013

For the record, Emily Spivey's Twitter is hilarious, so her addition is nothing to worry about. How I Met Your Dad will no doubt be funny, but will it actually be able to get a chance to stand on its own? Or will it forever live in the shadow of its predecessor?