General Questions | S1E9 "Belly Full of Turkey"

How We Made Your Mother

Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas

Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode of How We Made Your Mother, Josh and Craig return to episode 9, “Belly Full of Turkey,” to answer listener questions, share new behind-the-scenes stories, and read exclusive commentary from writer Chris Miller. They dive into the magic of set construction, the evolution of Marshall’s Minnesota roots, last-minute casting shake-ups (including how Bill Fagerbakke became Marshall’s dad), and the contributions of the beloved stand-ins. Josh also shares heartfelt stories from his recent music tour, including fans flying in from across the world. It’s a fast-moving, funny, and emotional look at the people who helped shape one of the show’s most memorable episodes.

How many sets were in this episode, and how were they managed?
What inspired Marshall’s love of Minnesota and the Vikings?
Did Jason Segel enjoy the Minnesota scenes?
What was it like working with Bill Fagerbakke as Marshall’s dad?
Was another actor originally cast in that role?
Who were the stand-ins, and what did they contribute to the show?
Have any of you ever been arrested for public urination?
What was in the Thanks-tini?
Was the seven-layer salad based on a real recipe?
How did you cast such tall actors for Marshall’s family?
What’s the story behind the acoustic “Mr. Roboto” cover that didn’t make it in?
Can you talk about the music selection and supervision process on HIMYM?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special bonus episode of How We Made Your Mother.
0:17.2	I am Josh Radner.
0:18.7	I am joined as ever by my good friend and how I met your mother co-creator
0:22.4	Craig Thomas. Hello, Craig. Hello, Josh. And this is a, these are episodes that we call
0:30.9	general questions. General questions. I was waiting for you. It's always a lag. I was trying so
0:39.9	hurt and I was going to try it again. We try it again. This is a little bit of that we call general
0:46.2	questions. General questions. We're never. No, but that was a little better. I think it's actually
0:52.8	like like in Einstein terms, the time, the space time continuum, I think we did do it all at the same moment.
1:02.0	We just had to wait for it to go into space and come back.
1:04.1	Here's how I hear as I hear.
1:05.4	This is how we did it on the show.
1:06.6	I'm just honoring that, and I know, Alec, you created this in some ancient past, but I say, that's a general questions, beat, general questions. You have to just honor a beat. I panic. Can't be too long. You panic. You panic. You give too long a beat, Craig. Yeah. I know, I know. General questions. General questions. Yeah. See, Josh and I are, I mean, it's Craig. we've figured this out. Yeah. Yeah. I'll take the head. All right. Someone, by the way, I don't know who it is. Someone put a, did a super cut of us fucking. Of us fucking up. Did you put that on Instagram or something? I shared it. I liked it. I did something. I clicked. I clicked a button.
1:46.0	Well, thank you. Thank you for...
1:47.0	Now, am I screwing it up, or am I geniusly, ingeniously extending a runner?
1:51.2	No. Who could say? Well, you just want the bit to go on. Your comedy, your comedy brain is like,
1:57.3	we got nine seasons. I see it as material. Okay, here we go. So material. So we're following up with some additional stuff around episode nine,
2:06.5	belly full of turkey written by Chris Miller and Phil Lord.
2:11.1	And what do we got, Alex?
2:12.7	We went pretty deep on this episode last time, but let's finish it off.
2:18.9	Lightning around.
2:20.3	Yeah.
2:20.9	Well, we did.
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