How There Was Something About Mary [with director Pam Fryman] | S1E19 "Mary the Paralegal"
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This episode features the long-awaited guest appearance of director Pam Fryman, who helmed nearly every episode of How I Met Your Mother. Josh and Craig share stories of how Pam shaped the show’s tone, protected its emotional core, and created a supportive, joyful set culture that lasted nine seasons. They also look back at the episode “Mary the Paralegal,” reliving Sandy Rivers’ debut, Ted’s misguided date, and the first-ever “lawyered” and telepathy jokes. The group reflects on the challenges of shooting without a live audience, the benefits of breaking sitcom norms, and one outdated line they wouldn’t include today. The show opens and closes with moving fan letters that highlight just how deeply HIMYM continues to connect.
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| 0:24.4 | who can act keep in touch with them all the time. They'll be on it all the time. He could walk to school by himself. She could see something she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. So, should I give my kid a phone? Growing up with phones isn't always easy. Introducing E.E. Safe for Sims. Sims that help moderate usage and shield harmful content on any smartphone. |
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| 0:46.6 | Hymium really taught me a lot about how to love and how to be a man, especially to be a man you know but growing up with a |
| 0:58.0 | very religious toxic abusive father was very difficult for me and so I really hid my |
| 1:08.2 | emotions I was thought it wasn't okay to cry, wasn't okay to be vulnerable, but |
| 1:14.3 | Ted taught me that, and also being disabled, having cerebral palsy and autism, him taught me how to |
| 1:23.5 | properly interact with people, and I'll to read social cues and all that stuff. |
| 1:29.5 | So it made me become a better communicator, and made me become a better friend. |
| 1:35.6 | It made me become a better lover. |
| 1:38.3 | Not just in the romantic sense, but in a proper platonic sense as well. |
| 1:44.7 | So thank you, Josh. |
| 1:46.8 | Thank you, Carter. |
| 1:48.8 | Thank you, Craig. |
| 1:50.9 | Thank you to the whole team. |
| 1:52.6 | I will continue watching the show forever |
| 1:55.2 | because it's wait for it. |
| 1:57.8 | Legendary. |
| 1:58.6 | I'm alone. |
| 2:01.3 | What a pity. |
| 2:03.5 | I won't be soon in New York City. |
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