Presenting: Dead Pilots Society table read of "New York Mythological" by Craig Thomas & Carter Bays
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this very special Bonus Episode of HWMYM, we’re bringing you a table read of New York Mythological, a pilot that Craig and Carter wrote and sold to CBS sometime around 2015. Unfortunately, this one never got made. But we’ve got the next best thing for you here.
The log line for New York Mythological - A new arrival joins the team at a museum devoted to exploring supernatural and paranormal phenomena in New York City.
With kind of a How I Met Your Mother meets Ghostbusters feel, the pilot features a fantastic cast featuring Isabella Gomez (One Day at a Time, Shrinking), Devon Bostick (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Crime 101), Alyssa Limperis (What We Do In the Shadows), Josh Fadem (The Lowdown, American Dad), Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar, Industry) Cyrina Fiallo (HIgh Potential, 911 Lonestar), Tami Sagher (Inside Amy Schumer).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We have a special bonus episode for you here. We got a very cool invitation, Carter Bays and I, to participate in this really awesome thing. This podcast called Dead Pilots Society. They take unproduced TV pilots that they think were worthy and good scripts, but never got shot, never got a table read. You know, some of them never got sold. |
| 0:21.0 | They just never got a day in court. |
| 0:22.5 | They take that script that they thought was cool, and they organize a proper table read with a |
| 0:29.1 | full cast, and they do it kind of as a Zoom table read, and they bring a dead pilot back to |
| 0:35.7 | life. |
| 0:36.5 | They reached out to us, McCarter and I, to do this for a pilot. |
| 0:40.2 | We wrote a couple years after How I Met Your Mother ended. We were under a deal. We were developing |
| 0:45.4 | new TV ideas. We're hoping to find that next hit show that would go. And we are such huge |
| 0:51.1 | fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. that's why we cast Alison Hattigan, |
| 0:54.8 | that we created this half-hour comedy pilot called New York Mythological that's kind of |
| 1:00.4 | hymn with a little bit of Buffy, with a little bit of Ghostbusters in it. |
| 1:04.8 | It's like a supernatural romantic comedy set in New York City. |
| 1:08.3 | We loved it. |
| 1:09.8 | The network passed on it. It never got a table read. It never got a pilot shoot. It never went anywhere. And we were really sad and heartbroken about it. But now, thanks to Dead Pilot Society, we have a table read recorded. And that is what we're about to present to you, the fans of How We Made made your mother we hope you like it there's definitely |
| 1:27.8 | some him-y-me-me-touches in there we hope you guys like it we're really proud of it |
| 1:31.6 | it you know the thing and so you buried the thing that's not the book and you know the thing |
| 1:39.4 | don't you love jazz yet there's a spooky surprise and the who cannot devise and nothing ever really dies |
| 1:49.0 | The Dead Pilot Society, the show that takes comedy pilots from A-list writers that were sold and developed at networks and streamers but never produced and gives them the table reads they never got a chance to have. |
| 2:17.9 | I am Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society. |
| 2:21.6 | And I've got two big announcements. |
| 2:23.8 | And neither of them have to do with the fact that my movie, Born Innocent, the Red Cross |
| 2:28.6 | Story, is now available on DVD and special two-disc Blu-ray, as well as being available |
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