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How We Made Your Mother

Favorite Cold Opens with the Office Ladies

How We Made Your Mother

Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas

Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.8922 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Josh and Craig joined Jenna and Angela on The Office Ladies podcast to talk about their favorite cold opens from How I Met Your Mother and The Office. And so, (as we smash to credits), here we go!


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Transcript

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0:00.0

So for our second season of how we made your mother, we united forces with the office ladies who are just the best, Jenna.

0:09.2

The best.

0:10.1

And Angela over at OLN, the Office Ladies Network.

0:14.1

And they loved our show.

0:16.3

And they said, come on over.

0:17.9

Come on to the umbrella that we have so lovingly created. And so we just

0:24.0

huddled up next to them. And we've been working with them for a while now. And they're just

0:30.0

unbelievable, Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey and all the folks over there. So every once in a while,

0:36.4

we'll drop into their podcast and they'll come

0:38.9

on to ours. And we've done that before. And we just did a really fun one. Craig, tell us,

0:43.7

tell the audience what we did. Yeah, I love they had this really focused idea of let's all

0:49.0

talk about our favorite cold opens. Cold opens are in a TV show are the funny little mini vignette, the mini

0:55.0

little story that kind of opens and kind of smash cuts into the main titles, launches the

0:59.4

episode. And so the two of them chose their all-time two favorite office cold opens,

1:05.6

and we chose our two favorite How I Met Your Mother Cold Opins. And we had this great discussion

1:09.8

about them. We play all the clips from them, we talk about them, we dissect them.

1:13.6

And we talked about how the cold opens of those two shows were often quite different and what was brilliant about them.

1:19.6

And it was an awesome chat.

1:21.6

So we're really excited to share it here.

1:23.6

So enjoy our chat with Jenna and Angela about cold opens on the office and how I met

1:30.5

your mother. This is a cold open about cold open. Hey, I'm Anderson Cooper. Grief can feel so lonely. But talking

1:40.6

about it and listening to others share their experiences helps. It's probably the only thing that's really helped me.

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