General Questions | S1E10 "The Pineapple Incident"
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this bonus “General Questions” episode of How We Made Your Mother, Josh Radnor, Craig Thomas, and Alek Lev dive into fan-submitted questions about “The Pineapple Incident,” covering everything from the origin of the pineapple (a mysterious “alien fruit”) to the challenges of shooting nonlinear narratives. They reminisce about the kind, collaborative atmosphere on set, the influences behind HIMYM’s story structure (like Rashomon and Memento), and how props like the yellow umbrella and blue French horn have become iconic fan symbols. The episode also includes some vacation banter, and a heartfelt discussion about gratitude, presence, and the legacy of the show.
Questions We Attempt to Answer:
Why a pineapple?
Has the pineapple changed your lives forever?
Were you inspired by any fictional work or did it come from any real life event?
Can you walk us through the order of the shooting?
How do you plan shooting so many scenes that need to come together to form a timeline that makes sense?
GET YOUR MERCH!
We’ve got HWMYM merch, which is now just a FEW CLICKS AWAY.
CRAIG’S BOOK IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!
Head over to CRAIG’S WEBSITE to pre-order your copy of That’s Not How It Happened today.
JOSH IS STILL ON TOUR!
Tickets are available HERE for the final shows of the EULOGY TOUR.
And if you’re a business with big orders to fulfill, Amplifier is there to help growing consumer brands and influencers create a unique experience for their customers during the fulfillment process. Visit AMPLIFIER to learn more, and name-drop How We Made Your Mother for special pricing for your emerging brand's program.
CONNECT WITH THE SHOW:
Official Website (Send us your audio and written messages)
Substack (Join the mailing list, get announcements, and read more from Josh and Craig)
HOW YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
Donate to our ongoing campaign to support congenital heart disease research
AND MORE:
Josh’s “Museletters” on Substack
Josh on SpotifyCraig’s Official Website (with links to his published writing)
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another bonus episode, a very special bonus episode of how we made your mother. |
| 0:19.2 | We call these bonus episodes, what do we call them? Oh yeah, general questions. General questions. General questions. I give that a C minus. What? That was great. I thought it was as good as we've done it. Which is a C minus? Yeah. Is there a rule about, because I just did it with my left hand, |
| 0:38.4 | and I realized I was doing it. |
| 0:39.7 | I think it's right. I think it's got to be the right. It's right hand, right? Yeah, yeah, man. All right. We're calling a part of it. Welcome to general questions. General. General. Not to believe of the point. That was the worst yet. All right. We are answering all your questions and doing, |
| 0:54.3 | can I just, let me say something |
| 0:57.6 | i was i woke up i woke up in an arbor michigan at 4 30 in the morning to catch a 7 a m flight from |
| 1:07.3 | detroit and i'm here and you guys know that's just my deep commitment to this gig. |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah, man. |
| 1:14.2 | And my friendship with you. |
| 1:15.9 | But I feel this may be useful, because I feel probably like Ted felt when he woke up with |
| 1:23.0 | Trudy and the Pineapple. |
| 1:25.4 | I am as disoriented. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you as disoriented. Yeah. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.9 | So you were in a different state. |
| 1:31.9 | You were in Michigan. |
| 1:32.9 | Here you are. |
| 1:33.7 | You're back in Brooklyn. |
| 1:35.0 | And you're somewhere, your brain and awareness is somewhere between those two times at the moment. |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.3 | It's probably in one of the great lakes. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.