It’s amazing that a story about meeting the mother of one man’s children has lasted for seven seasons and the kids hearing the story haven’t gotten up to leave the room, but How I Met Your Mother is still going strong. And this season, the writers are throwing back to a character referenced only in the comedy series’ first season and quite a big name has landed the role. Vulture has learned that Katie Holmes will be the infamous Slutty Pumpkin. Fans of the series should remember Halloween harlequin as a potential love interest Ted (Josh Radnor) once met at a Halloween party, but lost touch with eventually. This will be Holmes’ first TV appearance since a guest role on Eli Stone in 2008 and creator Craig Thomas says, “Katie is a lovely and talented actress, which is why we’ve saved for her perhaps the most classily named character in our show’s history.” Should be a fun role for Holmes and an interesting time for Ted, but when the hell is the mother of his children going to show up?
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Damn, I always thought the slutty pumpkin would turn out to be the mother.
Katie Holmes is really gorgeous. She’s amazing. That woman is incredible.
I hope this will be the final season and Josh Radnor and Cobie Smulders do more mainstream movies from now on like their co-stars.
It has some positive qualities but they are really dragging it on now and are taking the mickey if they expect audiences to wait a few more years before they finally reveal who the mother is.
They should have made it shorter but better written and they could have ended it by now.
I know this is cliche, but the show has always been about ‘the journey’ and the characters that ride along with the journey. Yes, the identity of the mother is of great importance, but that idea is just the hook (or the gimmick) of the show. Plus, the show has been renewed for 2 (maybe three) more seasons, so they have a long way to go. Whether or not we meet the mother at the very end or sometime in between – I don’t think it matters, because I think the characters are great and it has been an incredible journey so far.
That is a great picture of Katie Holmes, girl looks good