Production
- During a flashback wherein Robin thinks Ted is proposing to her, it turns out the ring belongs to another couple. That on-screen proposal is real, and by the real couple, Timothy Russo and Jana Rugan. The couple were friends of writer Matt Kuhn, and huge fans of the show. They were brought in specifically so Russo could propose to Rugan on-set. For rehearsal takes of the scene, two actors played out the engagement with a prop ring, then for the real take Tim delivered the "it's mine" line and really sprang a surprise proposal on his startled girlfriend with the genuine ring. Rugan's acceptance had to be dubbed in post-production due to her being overcome in emotion at being asked. As part of the DVD special feature,Empty citation (help) Cobie Smulders and Josh Radnor humorously re-enact the proposal in a ribald way that could have ruined the take for airing. Radnor describes the proposal in his TV Guide blog.
- The DVD extras include a scene titled How It Really Happened: Showdown (1:08). Barney reads a toast at the wedding but completely forgets to mention the bride and groom.
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Famous quotes containing the word production:
“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits depend on language, a limited audience, and individual creation. In short, the filmed novel, in spite of certain resemblances, will inevitably become a different artistic entity from the novel on which it is based.”
—George Bluestone, U.S. educator, critic. “The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film,” Novels Into Film, Johns Hopkins Press (1957)
“The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally to be nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)