20 Ways Your Favourite TV Shows Were Almost Completely Different

5. How I Met Your Mother - Victoria Would've Been The Mother

How I Met Your Mother Victoria
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How I Met Your Mother's creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays may have had the ending planned for years - it was even filmed at the time of the second season - but they did have a contingency plan.

When the series looked like it'd end with Season 8 - before CBS negotiated the 9th and final season - the creators said that they planned to reveal Victoria as the mother.

Quite how they'd have managed to work the character into things like the yellow umbrella and being Cindy's roommate is anyone's guess, and it also would've meant no Cristin Milioti, no drawn-out Season 9 wedding plot, and no How Your Mother Met Me.

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