How We Made it Rain | S1E22 "Come On"
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Josh and Craig close out season one revisiting “Come On,” celebrating the show’s early confidence, playful narrator tricks, and willingness to dip into magical realism—culminating in Ted’s euphoric rain dance to keep Robin from camping with Sandy Rivers as Marshall and Lily’s relationship hits a seismic crisis over her San Francisco art fellowship. They talk about cramming emotion into 22 minutes, the power of the Block Party needle‑drop “This Modern Love,” and why grand gestures (roses!) often fail while messy, heartfelt acts can work.
There are shoutouts to Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, script supervisor Janet Kagan, and the crew; a candid story about CBS urging them to be “less serialized” after season-one ratings wobbles (which they ignored and doubled down on in season two); Jordana’s tender reflection on watching Josh-as-Ted; and a fan‑letter medley about how HIMYM taught English, offered comfort, and now truly “belongs to the fans.” They tease a cool opportunity making season two “bigger and better,” thank listeners for riding along, and promise they won’t be gone long.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Ryan from Argentina here and this show really means a lot to me. |
| 0:06.5 | What you've made here is absolutely a masterpiece. |
| 0:10.0 | I watch it when I'm sad, when I'm angry, when I'm happy, when I'm frustrated. |
| 0:15.0 | I've watched it for a lot of years now. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm 25. |
| 0:19.0 | Last year I was diagnosed with autism, so I learned that this show |
| 0:23.3 | had also helped me make some social skills and understand social cues in a way that I didn't |
| 0:29.9 | quite understand. It scratched that edge for me, and it really has helped me with a lot of |
| 0:36.0 | relationships right now and in the past as well. It really has helped me with a lot of relationships right now and in the past as well. |
| 0:39.3 | It really has, in some way, shaped who I am as a person. |
| 0:44.3 | You've made something really, really beautiful here once again, and thank you for making this show. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm alone. What a pity. I won't be soon in New York City when I see you. |
| 1:02.0 | Please permit me to tell you everything in New York City. |
| 1:09.0 | I can't believe it, Craig. Can you believe it? I can't believe it, Craig. |
| 1:11.4 | Can you believe it? |
| 1:12.6 | I can't believe it. |
| 1:14.0 | We're here. |
| 1:14.9 | Here we are at the end of season one of How I Met Your Mother, episode 22, appropriately titled The End. |
| 1:25.7 | Welcome to the end of season one, but certainly not the end of all that. We got |
| 1:31.7 | eight more seasons to go, but welcome to how we made your mother, where I, Josh Radner, who played |
| 1:36.6 | Ted Mosby, on all nine seasons of how I met your mother, am going back through the show with all, all these years later, uh, |
| 1:46.4 | with our, our older eyes and our wiser minds, uh, with Craig Thomas, the co-creator of the show, |
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