How I Met Your Mother creator Carter Bays: ´´Having Britney was delightful´´.

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How I Met Your Mother co-creator Carter Bays has praised Britney Spears for her ‘delightful’ cameo in a classic episode of the show.

While it’s been close to 10 years since the time-hopping series came to an end, it remains hugely popular amongst fans, and the so-called ‘Britney Spears Episodes’ remaining firm fan-favourites.

The third season saw Gimme More singer Britney, who recently married long-term boyfriend Sam Asghari, play the role of dental receptionist Abby, a sweet, naive woman who falls head-over-heels for Ted (and gets caught up in Barney’s ruse in the process.)

Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Carter recalled the ‘circus’ around her cameo and praised her for bringing ‘a ton of eyes’ to the relatively new show.

‘Having Britney was delightful,’ he said. ‘It was really cool.’

‘There was such a circus around that when it happened, it was such a surprise and out of the blue!’

He explained how they had written the episode that introduced major new character Stella, played by Scrubs star Sarah Chawke, who would go on to become engaged to Ted.

‘Then we heard Britney Spears wants to be in this episode. And we thought “Britney Spears wants to play Stella? We’ve never seen her act before, this is a huge part, is she up to this?”‘

They then learned that Crossroads star Britney instead ‘wanted to play the smaller role, this character Abby who had maybe two scenes.’

‘We were kind of surprised by this choice,’ he admitted, adding that he believes she ‘wanted to start small and dip her toes in the water.’

‘But she came in and she really shone in those scenes and we brought her back for another episode.

‘It was wonderful,’ Carter said. ‘It brought a lot of eyes to the show.’

‘We were doing okay in the ratings but we weren’t really exploding, and [Britney] brought a ton of new eyes to it.

‘I’m very thankful that happened to be an episode I was really proud of and that had a lot of funny stuff in it. It was a big turning point in the show, our audience grew sizeably that day.’

Asked if Britney was a fan of the series and had requested the part personally, Carter admitted he had ‘no idea,’ but ‘sometimes the phone rings and you take it and its like “Okay, I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth!

“The most famous person in the world wants to be in our show, let’s do it.”‘

Britney’s episodes even included the scene Carter is most proud of out of the entire series: the two-minute date Ted uses to convince busy mum-of-one Stella to go out with him.

‘It’s such a great… showcase of how well everyone on the show did ther jobs, I was so proud of everyone,’ he told Metro.co.uk

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/25/how-i-met-your-mother-creator-recalls-circus-of-britney-spears-cameo-16886475/

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Cool 

[CentralCJ]

Abby Should’ve been a recurring character, britney played her so well. Comedy is definitely where she belongs. More insta skits plz 🙏

[Isla]

She was so good on that show

[GlitterRain]

Abby was so funny! 

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5 hours ago, Caleb Ellis said:

Abby Should’ve been a recurring character, britney played her so well. Comedy is definitely where she belongs. More insta skits plz 🙏

Very good and without forcing. We want more parodies. 

[ovoxo]

I’m so here for roles like this for her. So natural and I love seeing her in this kind of setting/lighting, she’s so pretty 

[ElectricPlatypusLove]

Glanced at this thread title and thought it said "Her Mother, Creator says "Having Britney was blast" LMAO