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How We Made Your Mother

Flashback: How That Wasn't Moby | S1E11 "The Limo"

How We Made Your Mother

Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas

Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.8920 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate New Years, we are flashing back to our Season 1 rewatch of “The Limo.” Josh and Craig recall the episode’s ambition to be a “simple shoot” that turned out to be one of the most technically challenging due to the cramped limo set, and share behind-the-scenes stories like Jason Segel’s triumphant foggy entrance, the difficulty of getting camera shots in the limo, and the running joke of “the circuits are jammed.” They marvel at the Emmy-winning cinematography, the comic perfection of Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name,” and how the episode balances magical realism with emotional honesty. Josh highlights the cinematic final shot and the episode’s theme—that life’s unexpected detours are all part of the journey. They praise guest stars like Kathleen Perkins (Mary Beth) and JP Manoux (Not Moby), reflect on their own formative pop culture experiences, and read fan letters, including one from a Canadian listener whose wedding was filled with HIMYM references. Jordana, Josh’s wife and a clinical psychologist, closes with an insightful commentary on the spiritual lesson embedded in Ted’s narration: not everything has a happy ending, but it’s all important.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Happy New Year, everyone.

0:01.7

Josh and Craig here.

0:03.0

We are taking this week off to ring in the new year,

0:07.5

but we don't want to leave you without an episode to ring it in with.

0:12.1

So we are replaying, repeating.

0:16.5

It's a rerun.

0:17.9

Let's just say what it is.

0:19.3

Classic word.

0:20.4

We don't want to disrespect the audience. We're rerunning a great episode from season one called The Limo. We hope you enjoy it. We loved revisiting this episode. It was hard to shoot, we remember. But it turned out great. And what else to say about the limo, Craig? It's one of our own, I mean, we didn't do a New Year's episode every year. I don't think we had one in season two, for example. So it's kind of, it's cool. I love this one very much, not Moby. There are so many things in this episode that- It's our only episode, I I think that takes place almost exclusively in a limo.

0:55.0

Which we thought would be easy to shoot and was a nightmare to shoot. So please enjoy us,

0:59.2

remembering what a nightmare it was to shoot and the amazing episode. We did it for you.

1:03.0

We did it for you.

1:04.0

We did.

1:05.0

Hi guys, my name is Andrea. I'm from Mexico. and I really do love the episode about the limo.

1:13.4

I've actually watched it every single New Year's Eve right after 12.

1:19.3

And honestly the funny thing is, New Year's Eve is like my least favorite holiday of all.

1:24.7

But I don't know, this episode just says to me what's important about a holiday,

1:29.4

you know, like it's not about what party you go to or about gifts or about, you know, make

1:36.1

it in extraordinary, but about the people you actually spend it with, about reflecting, about being

1:41.3

thankful for one another. And I don't know, I guess that's just one of the things that I love the most about the show that it makes to

1:50.0

come back to the people you love and making sure you spend the most time as possible you can with them and cherish each other.

1:58.0

Thank you so much for doing this podcast.

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