While How I Met Your Mother’s saddest scene featured a devastating twist, the sitcom’s creators went to extremes to ensure that this shock was a surprise for everyone involved.
For much of the show’s run, How I Met Your Mother was a fun hang-out sitcom that managed to keep the genre’s oldest institution, the much-maligned laugh track, alive in the ’00s. However, like many great sitcoms, How I Met Your Mother could pull off some devastatingly dark moments from time to time.
Whether it was Robin’s revelations in How I Met Your Mother’s saddest Christmas episode or Marshall and Lily’s cliffhanger breakup at the end of season 1’s finale, the series had a talent for making big emotional moments hurt.
