A.J.'s Spec Script for HIMYM
Hey patrons!
Just in case you missed it, A.J. wrote a spec script/nightmare for How I Met Your Mother called "Have Ya Met Ted?" and you can read it right now by clicking on the link below!
Here's the tagline:
"After one of Barney's plays leads to his untimely death, Ted must reexamine not only his relationships to everyone in the group but, also, to himself. Lily and Marshall enjoy a good steak!"
If you're wondering if the thing devolves into a Lynchian nightmare in typical A.J. fashion, we would argue that that's entirely the wrong question.
The real question is: "Haaaaave ya met Ted???"
Link to the script!
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Comments (4)
Honestly this is a much more hopeful and romantic ending than I thought Ted would get in a surreal nightmare.
Definitely the Catholic in me (A.J.) showing but, if a person is truly penitent and wants to change, even the worst of us (and to be clear, Ted is the WORST of us) deserve a second chance. And that change is hard: he's got to break old cycles by killing his toxic self aggrandizing and literally go through the pain of birthing his new self to get it, and even THEN there's no guarantee it'll work out with the Mother. There's only the opportunity that maybe this time it will be better. Which is absolutely hopeful and romantic because I think all first meetings are, inherently. And those feelings are ones I remember the show instilling in me at its best so, I did the best to capture that!
tf did I just read?
Looks like somebody met Ted!