Special Guest Stars

Kyle MacLachlan As The Captain (George Van Smoot) Recurring

Guest Stars

Bob Odenkirk As Arthur (Arthur Hobbs) Recurring	David Burtka As Scooter Recurring
Jennifer Morrison As Zoey (Zoey Pierson) Recurring	Dan Bakkedahl As Curtis

Co-Guest Stars

Ted Jonas As Russell

Main Cast

Josh Radnor As Ted Mosby	Jason Segel As Marshall Eriksen
Cobie Smulders As Robin Scherbatsky	Neil Patrick Harris As Barney Stinson
Alyson Hannigan As Lily Aldrin	Bob Saget voiced Narrator / Ted, 2030

Recap

The show opened with Barney and Lily getting ready for a black tie and tuxedo event at a historical art museum at which the best of the best local art was going to be shown and to be auctioned off as a fund raiser for a charity. Barney was reminiscing about his college days as he best but sometimes mistakenly recalled it: the care free days he spent with Lily, how much time he seemed to have just for goofing off with friends doing silly things, where did the time go, what happened to the legendary stamina he seemed to have in large quantities in those days, why he didn't seem to be able to accomplish the goals he had set for himself back then, etc. Lily, with considerably more common sense and reality-based judgment, was trying to explain to him that those were his younger days, that his daydreams for himself back then might have been just a bit wild and unreasonable, and that he was a much better man today, more mature, longer lasting when it counted, and so on. Lily helped Barney into his tuxedo and tied his tie while he agreed with her outwardly, but appeared to be flogging himself within just a little because he seemed to feel he had somehow failed his long ago self and dreams...

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• Creator	Craig Thomas  |  Carter Bays
• Executive Producer	Carter Bays  |  Pamela Fryman  |  Craig Thomas  |  Stephen Lloyd (1)  |  Chris Harris
• Co-Executive Producer	Theresa Mulligan Rosenthal  |  Suzy Mamann Greenberg  |  Chuck Tatham  |  Jamie Rhonheimer  |  Kourtney Kang
• Supervising Producer	Joe Kelly (3)
• Producer	Tami Sagher  |  Rob Greenberg (2)  |  Stewart Halpern
• Co-Producer	Missy Alexander  |  Robia Rashid
• Associate Producer	John Mabry (2)  |  Reid Watanabe
• Production Designer	Steve Olson
• Editor	Susan Federman
• Casting	Collin Daniel  |  Brett Greenstein
• Unit Production Manager	Suzy Mamann Greenberg
• First Assistant Director	Michael Shea (2)
• Second Assistant Director	Dorothy A. Steinicke
• Music Editor	Michael Brake
• Music Supervisor	Andrew Gowan
• Costume Designer	Julie Bennett Block
• Key Grip	Robert G. Lestak
• Set Designer	Daniel Saks
• Set Decorator	Susan Mina Eschelbach
• Property Master	David Baker (3)
• Script Supervisor	Janet Kagen
• Script Coordinator	Jenni Hendriks
• Post Production Supervisor	Bryan Dych
• Re-Recording Mixer	John Bickelhaupt  |  Charlie McDaniel, III
• Gaffer	Steve Blaich
• Director of Photography	Chris La Fountaine
• Production Secretary	Kelly Harris
• Associate Director	Jim Rose (1)
• Executive Story Editor	Matt Kuhn
• Production Accountant	James Jimenez
• Score	John Swihart
• Main Title Theme Written/performed	The Solids
• Department Head Make-up	Lona Jeffers
• Original Casting	Megan Branman
• Assistant To The Producer	Patrick Kang  |  Shannon Dietterick
• Hair Department Head	Grace Hernandez
• Production Sound	Mike Clark (1)
• Writers' Assistant	George Sloan  |  Kristin Rejkowski