Insider Facts About Your Favorite TV Shows

TV: we watch it weekly, binge it, and catch up on back catalogs. But even though you let their characters into your living room, how well do you know your favorite TV shows? Here are 44 facts on everything from Game of Thrones to Gilligan's Island.


How I Met Your Mother Facts

44. Kids, Did I Ever Tell You…

All of the scenes with Ted’s kids in How I Met Your Mother were shot in 2005, the year of the first episode. While the rest of us waited nine seasons to find out the mother’s identity, the actors playing the kids knew and kept the secret for years.

How I Met Your Mother facts

How I Met Your Mother, 20th Century Fox Television

43. How I Almost Killed Your Father

Josh Radnor, who played Ted in How I Met Your Mother, is so allergic to dogs that a scene with Robin’s Dalmation ended up with a call to the paramedics.

How I Met Your Mother facts

How I Met Your Mother, 20th Century Fox Television

42. I’ll Be There For…Who?

The show we know and love as Friends today could have been called Insomnia Café or Six of One.

Favorite TV Shows Facts

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