Time index: Alternate Version / TV Version

35:18-35:19/35:18

Marhall and Lilly earlier in the Alternate Version before Lilly continues to speak.

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35:26/35:25

A few frames are different. In the TV Version, the shot of Marshall and Lilly is 2 frames longer. AS compensation, the following shot of Ted and Tracy beings 3 frames earlier in the Alternate Version.

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35:28/35:26

Extended shot of Ted and Tracy in the Alternate Version.

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35:32/35:30

The shot of Marshall and Lilly is 1 ridiculous frame longer in the TV Version.

0.04 sec

The Alternate Version

35:38-41:23/35:35-42:03

Old Ted speaks from the off.

Aunt Lily was half right. It was a long road. You might even say it was really, really, really long. But difficult? No. It was life. Stuff happens in life. Things fall apart. Things get put back together. When I think how lucky I am to wake up nest to your mom every morning I can’t help but be amazed at how easy it all really was.

All I had to do was get out of the apartment for a couple hours so Uncle Marshall could propose to Aunt Lily. Go to the bar. Meet your Aunt Robin. Convince your Aunt Robin to fall in love with me. Break up with your Aunt Robin. Go on the rebound. Go get a rebound tattoo. Go get the rebound tattoo removed. Meet Stella. Convince Stella to fall in love with me. Get engaged. Get left at the altar. Get fired. Get beat up by a goat. Get a job as a professor. Teach the wrong class.

Date the wrong girl. Date the wrong girl again. Date the wrong girl a few times actually. Let Uncle Barney fall in love with Aunt Robin. Let Aunt Robin fall in love with Uncle Barney. Book the wedding band. Go to their wedding. Make sure their wedding actually happened. Leave a little early. Be at the right place at the right time. And somehow summon the guts to do the stupidest, most impossible thing in the world. Walk up to that beautiful girl standing under the yellow umbrella and start talking.

Then Ted's conversation with Tracy at the platform.

See? Easy. And that, kids, is how I met your mother.

Now the title of the show, followed by the main actors and their names.

Last but not least, the yellow umbrella is being blows across the street.

Then the end credits.