How I Met Your Mother's Creator Brings Memories to Life
If my writing partner, Carter Bays, and I hadn't missed New York City so much, we probably never would have created How I Met Your Mother (Mondays, 8 pm/ET, CBS). We wrote the pilot script a couple of years after moving out to Los Angeles, fueled by a near-fatal case of East Coast nostalgia. Like so many writers without a really good idea, we decided to write about ourselves. When CBS greenlit the show, we swore we'd remain true to reality, right down to the awesomely crappy apartment we shared on 75th and Amsterdam, with its tiny converted hallway of a kitchen. Our first meeting with the set designer went like this:
Us: These characters can't afford a huge place like on Friends. This apartment should be much, much smaller than what you usually see on TV.Set designer: Yeah, that won't work. It has to be big enough so