How I Met Your Mother Season 9 spoilers on 200th episode, Marshall and Lily's big fight
How I Met Your Mother will air the midseason finale of Season 9, the show's final one, on Monday, and it will feature Marshall's arrival at the Farhampton Inn as he FINALLY rejoins the rest of the group. But what's waiting for him is an angry wife and some "twists and surprises," according to executive producer Craig Thomas.
Thomas told EW.com that Marshall and Lily's big fight would be indicative of the second half of HIMYM's final season:
"This season - especially the second half of it - is largely about showing where our characters will be heading in the future, so the debate of who will get to pursue their dream, Marshall or Lily, is a big one in determining their next life chapter. And it's such a real issue in any couple: Who's gonna get what they want and who's gonna sacrifice?...The way it plays out contains some pretty big twists and surprises."
Finally, Thomas said that the show "will get to this issue sooner than later in the second half of the season."
HIMYM is also rapidly approaching its 200th episode, which will air on Jan. 27. Executive producer Carter Bays called it "a really different, strange episode" that spans eight years of The Mother's life. If that weren't enough, he teased the episode with the following:
"We were all fighting tears by the end of [the run-through]," Bays says, "and that's a credit to Cristin [Milioti]. It's a new trick. We're showing a new trick in episode 200 that we never could have done in any other season. And to me, more than anything else, episode 200 is why we did season 9. If you were going to epitomize it in one 21-minute capsule, this is why we did season 9. And you'll see what I mean when you see it."
Consider us intrigued.