Nostalgia on Instagram: "Follow @moviesforall88 for more 🎬 Fun Fact: How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) The creators, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, always envisioned the series as one long story with a definitive ending. To protect that ending, they actually filmed the kids’ final reaction scenes in 2006 — during Season 2, years before the finale aired. This was done so that David Henrie and Lyndsy Fonseca, who played Ted’s kids, would look the same in the last episode as they did in the early s