Why We Have The Creators Of How I Met Your Mother To Thank For Its Catchy Theme Song

The opening theme music to “How I Met Your Mother” is actually a song called “Hey Beautiful” from a band called The Solids, a band which just happens to contain both creators of “How I met Your Mother,” Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.

At a talk at their alma mater, Wesleyan University, Bays and Thomas were asked what would have been different about the show had they never gone to Wesleyan, to which Bays responded, “There would be no show.” Thomas then chimed in, joking, “We probably would have done ‘Big Bang Theory.’ That made real money. That wasn’t depressing at all. No one died!” But all jokes aside, the two definitely credit their chance meeting in college with their current success.

A few fans expected the opening theme to play a role in the show that it never did. A 2014 Reddit thread in the r/HIMYM subreddit suggested it could be the song that the show’s titular mother could be playing with her band when Ted finally meets her. “The part that we all know and love doesn’t occur in the until the very end of the song,” wrote u/kudrew12. “I was thinking ahead and thought about how wonderful it would be if the wedding band was playing that song as Ted happened to see The Mother on stage.” While fans liked the idea, the prediction failed to come true.