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** At the end of the Season 2 finale, Older Sophie pulls out something out of her bra [[spoiler:and it's a photo of Charlie and Valentina with their son, Alex, which confirms that Charlie is not the father of Sophie's son]].
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* HairConstrastDuo: Sophie and Val s the former is a blonde hopeless romantic while the latter is a dark-haired SpicyLatina.
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* CompressedVice: The gang's phone addiction in "Out of Sync" comes a bit out of nowhere.
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* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Sophie and Jesse over the course of season 2. Sophie wants to tell Jesse she loves him back but he has already got back together with his ex Meredith. Then Jesse ralizes he still loves Sophie but she's dating Roert. And then Sophie realizes she still love Jesse but he's dating Parker.
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* VictoriasSecretCompartment: In the season 2 finale, future Sophie pulls [[spoiler: a picture of Charlie and Val with her kid]] from her bra "for dramatic effects".
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** At the end of the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler:Future Sophie reveals that Valentina and Drew's hookup was a disaster. Then, she pulls out a photo of Valentina and Charlie with their child, Alex, which removes Charlie as one of the potential fathers for Sophie's son]].
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* GeneHunting: Sophie gets the idea to find her biological father in the second season.
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* GeneHunting: Sophie gets the idea to find her biological father in the second season. Also discussed, as the gang brings up several movies about parent-finding in reference to the situation (''Film/MammaMia'', ''Film/{{Philomena}}'', ''Film/TheKidsAreAllRight'' and ''Series/MyTwoDads'').
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* SpecialGuest: Includes Michael Barbaro, Music/MeghanTrainor, Series/JudgeJudy, Creator/ClarkGregg, Creator/LanceBass and Creator/JoeyFatone.
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* UselessWithoutCellphones: "Out of Sync" has the gang going on a phone-free day. But it turns out that they're too dependent on their phones because rely on them to look up very important information (e.g.: Sophie and Val do not know where the bologna factory party is and what Lance Bass and Joey Fatone of Music/{{NSYNC}} looked like in 2023) and to do money transactions (e.g. Jesse left his credit card at home).
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** In Episode 17 of Season 2, Sophie and Valentina find Ian at the bologna factory party who is now dating someone else and is teaching at Columbia University. And the reason Sophie wants to do a phone-free day is that she wants a break after seeing all the guys she dated have moved on.
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* ImprobableAge: In "The Jersey Connection", Chef Landon is the 12 years old winner of a cooking show who also runs his own restaurant. Charlie lampshades that it's not legal but Landon assures that he was emancipated when he was 9.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Discussed. Jesse and Drew's coworkers lambast her for cheating on Drew with Jesse and then not even staying with Jesse, so it wasn't even 'good' cheating.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Discussed. Jesse and Drew's coworkers lambast her Sophie for cheating on Drew with Jesse and then not even staying with Jesse, so it wasn't even 'good' cheating.
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* CelebrityResemblance: PlayedForLaughs. Jesse says his coworker Bob looks like Creator/AnnDowd. Bob takes it as an insult despite not recognizing the name. When he's informed that she's the actress from ''Series/TheLeftovers'' and ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'', he admits that he does like Dowd...and that he does kind of look like her.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: In "The Jersey Connection", both Sid and the real estate agent blatantly fake receiving phone calls and flee the room upon sensing that Rachel and Ellen are about to have a troubling conversation.
* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Deconstructed; Rachel dating her next-door neighbor Ellen actually strains their relationship [[spoiler:to the point of a breakup]] because Ellen is a [[GenkiGirl big personality]] and Rachel feels like they're too close.
* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Deconstructed; Rachel dating her next-door neighbor Ellen actually strains their relationship [[spoiler:to the point of a breakup]] because Ellen is a [[GenkiGirl big personality]] and Rachel feels like they're too close.
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* MistakenForCheating: In "The Jersey Connection" Ellen suspects Rachel to be cheating on her, and she, Sid, and Sophie wind up following her to New Jersey to see her entering a woman's apartment. [[spoiler:Rachel is not only ''not'' cheating on Ellen, she breaks up with Ellen as this proved that they really needed space]].
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* MistakenForCheating: In "The Jersey Connection" Ellen suspects Rachel to be cheating on her, and she, Sid, and Sophie wind up following her to New Jersey to see her entering a woman's apartment. [[spoiler:Rachel is not was only ''not'' cheating on Ellen, seeking an apartment because she needed space, and breaks up with Ellen as this proved that they really needed space]].when the latter is discovered]].
* RomanticCandlelitDinner: In "The Jersey Connection" Charlie and Val take up a restaurant reservation made when they were still dating because of its exclusivity. They're determined to make it platonic, only to learn that the ambiance is incredibly romantic.
-->'''Val:''' Can we handle it?\\
'''Charlie:''' I can. In this soft, flickering candlelight, you look... pretty ugly.
-->'''Val:''' Can we handle it?\\
'''Charlie:''' I can. In this soft, flickering candlelight, you look... pretty ugly.
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* SurpriseIncest: "Daddy" has Sophie paranoid that her new older boyfriend Robert is actually her father. [[spoiler:He isn't.]]
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* SurpriseIncest: "Daddy" has Sophie paranoid that her new older boyfriend Robert is actually her father. [[spoiler:He isn't.]]isn't, but he is ''too'' close of a possibility (he flirted with Lori the day she conceived Sophie) that they break up.]]
* SympatheticAdulterer: Discussed. Jesse and Drew's coworkers lambast her for cheating on Drew with Jesse and then not even staying with Jesse, so it wasn't even 'good' cheating.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Discussed. Jesse and Drew's coworkers lambast her for cheating on Drew with Jesse and then not even staying with Jesse, so it wasn't even 'good' cheating.
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* AngryChef: PlayedForLaughs with the chef in "The Jersey Connection", who rages at his employees at their subpar souffle... despite being a young kid. (He won a cooking show for child chefs.)
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* MistakenForCheating: In "The Jersey Connection" Ellen suspects Rachel to be cheating on her, and she, Sid, and Sophie wind up following her to New Jersey to see her entering a woman's apartment. [[spoiler:Rachel is not only ''not'' cheating on Ellen, she breaks up with Ellen as this proved that they really needed space]].
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* SpaghettiKiss: Invoked in "The Jersey Connection", where the "big-kid" chef presents his customers with a long buccatini noodle intended to be slurped at the same time, leading to a kiss. It's explicitly inspired by the scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheLadyAndTheTramp''. Charlie and Val are "trying not to be intimate" but have an AlmostKiss when they eat it.
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* BaitAndSwitchSentiment: "The Jersey Connection": After Jesse sees his coworkers hanging out without him, he asks Drew why he wasn't invited.
-->'''Drew:''' It's not that they don't like you. It's that they absolutely hate you.
-->'''Drew:''' It's not that they don't like you. It's that they absolutely hate you.
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* FlashbackCut: In "The Jersey Connection" Charlie claims that he and Val have hung out one-on-one loads of times without [[SexWithTheEx hooking up post-breakup]]. Drumbeat, cut to black...and [[SubvertedTrope then cut back to present because they've never actually done that.]]
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* DifferingPrioritiesBreakup: In the Season 1 finale, [[spoiler:Charlie and Valentina break up because the former doesn't want to have kids while the latter wants to]].
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* LongDistanceRelationship: Hannah and Sid are on this type of relationship due to the former working as a surgeon in Los Angeles. This serves as a problem for them throughout the season where Hannah revealed that she was offered a fellowship after her residency ends.
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* LongDistanceRelationship: Hannah and Sid are on in this type of relationship due to the former working as a surgeon in Los Angeles. This serves as a problem for them throughout the season where Hannah revealed that she was offered a fellowship after her residency ends. In Season 2, after being married, Hannah still works in Los Angeles and despite communicating with each other, Sid feels that he's becoming distanced from her and even suspects that she might be having an affair.
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* SolomonDivorce: Jesse and Ellen's parents split up when they were young. Ellen chose to go with their father while Jesse stayed with their mother which explains their different surnames.
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** In "Working Girls", Sophie's greeting call is "Go for Sophie" which is similar to Barnery's greeting call "Go for Barney".
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In 2050, Sophie (Creator/KimCattrall) tells her son the story of how she met their father. In 2022, Sophie (Creator/HilaryDuff) is a young woman who has not had the best luck with dating in New York City. But with the help of her friends Jesse (Creator/ChrisLowell), Valentina (Creator/FranciaRaisa), Sid (Creator/SurajSharma), Ellen (Creator/TienTran), and Charlie (Creator/TomAinsley), she might just be able to turn that around. Like the series, the show follows the ups and downs of the main friend group's personal lives, with one major difference from its parent series: Sophie meets her son's father in the first episode.
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In 2050, Sophie (Creator/KimCattrall) tells her son the story of how she met their father. In 2022, Sophie (Creator/HilaryDuff) is a young woman who has not had the best luck with dating in New York City. But with the help of her friends Jesse (Creator/ChrisLowell), Valentina (Creator/FranciaRaisa), Sid (Creator/SurajSharma), Ellen (Creator/TienTran), and Charlie (Creator/TomAinsley), she might just be able to turn that around. Like the series, the show follows the ups and downs of the main friend group's personal lives, with one major difference from its parent series: Sophie meets her son's father on the night depicted in the first episode.
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In 2050, Sophie (Creator/KimCattrall) tells her children the story of how she met their father. In 2022, Sophie (Creator/HilaryDuff) is a young woman who has not had the best luck with dating in New York City. But with the help of her friends Jesse (Creator/ChrisLowell), Valentina (Creator/FranciaRaisa), Sid (Creator/SurajSharma), Ellen (Creator/TienTran), and Charlie (Creator/TomAinsley), she might just be able to turn that around.
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In 2050, Sophie (Creator/KimCattrall) tells her children son the story of how she met their father. In 2022, Sophie (Creator/HilaryDuff) is a young woman who has not had the best luck with dating in New York City. But with the help of her friends Jesse (Creator/ChrisLowell), Valentina (Creator/FranciaRaisa), Sid (Creator/SurajSharma), Ellen (Creator/TienTran), and Charlie (Creator/TomAinsley), she might just be able to turn that around.
around. Like the series, the show follows the ups and downs of the main friend group's personal lives, with one major difference from its parent series: Sophie meets her son's father in the first episode.
* GeneHunting: Sophie gets the idea to find her biological father in the second season.
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* HowDadMetMom: Sophie proclaims in the trailer that she's telling the story of how she met her kids' father. Unlike its parent series, which tells the events leading up to the meeting, this series begins with the night of their first meeting and tells the story of how they fell in love. The twist is that she met at least five men on the same night.
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* HowDadMetMom: Sophie proclaims in the trailer first episode that she's telling the story of how she met her kids' father. Unlike its parent series, which tells the events leading up to the meeting, this series begins with the night of their first meeting and tells the story of how they fell in love. The twist is that she met at least five men on the same night.
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* AccentInterest: Women flock to Charlie because of his RP accent. He hates it because they only see him as a British plaything. Jesse suggests they switch places so Charlie puts on an American accent while Jesse imitates a young Creator/MichaelCaine. Through this they get dates with a pair of women, but now have to find a way out of their fake accents. [[SnowballLie They wind up pretending to be actors, who are then requested to do a scene...]]
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* ChocolateBaby: Inverted. When the gang checks out three men who match the information they have on the biological father of Sophie (a white blonde), since her promiscuous mother doesn't have anything concrete, one candidate is immediately ruled out for being Asian.
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** During the search for Sophie's dad, the gang compares it to several movies such as ''Film/MammaMia'', ''Film/{{Philomena}}'', ''Film/TheKidsAreAllRight'' and ''Series/MyTwoDads''
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** During the search for Sophie's dad, the gang compares it to several movies such as ''Film/MammaMia'', ''Film/{{Philomena}}'', ''Film/TheKidsAreAllRight'' and ''Series/MyTwoDads''''Series/MyTwoDads''.
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* AgeGapRomance: In "I'm His Swish" 30-year-olds Sophie and Valentina partake in such relationships: Sophie dates Robert, a guy who could be her father, and Valentina dates Swish, a college boy. Valentina constantly infantilizes Swish and finds his ignorance of things amusing; Sophie is horrified at the possibility that Robert sees her the same way. [[spoiler:He doesn't, but they mutually end their relationship after realizing that he literally could be her dad, i.e. he didn't sleep with her mom, but they were handsy at the concert Sophie was conceived at.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Sophie muses that she's reluctant to find her dad because:
-->'''Sophie:''' What if he's a criminal, or a drunk, or a prop comic?\\
'''Barney:''' Ew.
-->'''Sophie:''' What if he's a criminal, or a drunk, or a prop comic?\\
'''Barney:''' Ew.
* BondingOverMissingParents: Sophie crashes into Barney's car and the two bond over having {{disappeared dad}}s. Barney gives Sophie advice on how finding his dad and becoming one in turn affected his life.
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* ParentalSexualitySquick: The end of "Stacey" sees a SexyDiscretionShot as Drew and Sophie make out on a bed. In the future, Sophie's son disgustedly interrupts the narration.
** Sophie is horrified that her new older boyfriend once had a relationship with her mother 30 years prior, even if they didn't go all the way.
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* ParentalSexualitySquick: ParentalSexualitySquick:
** The end of "Stacey" sees a SexyDiscretionShot as Drew and Sophie make out on a bed. In the future, Sophie's son disgustedly interrupts the narration.
** Sophie is horrified that her new older boyfriend once had arelationship sexual encounter with her mother 30 years prior, even if they didn't go all the way.
** The end of "Stacey" sees a SexyDiscretionShot as Drew and Sophie make out on a bed. In the future, Sophie's son disgustedly interrupts the narration.
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* TellMeAboutMyFather: Sophie asks her mom about how her biological dad but Lori doesn't remember much of the details other than meeting him at 1991 Lollapalooza where he works there before and that he has a tattoo on his arm.
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* {{Pixellation}}: The penis cake that Charlie brought for Ellen's bachelorette party is pixellated. Ellen describes the cake to be "very realistic".
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** During the search for Sophie's dad, the gang compares it to several movies such as ''Film/MammaMia'', ''Film/{{Philomena}}'', ''Film/TheKidsAreAllRight'' and ''Series/MyTwoDads''
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** George "The Captain" Van Smoot (Zoey's ex-husband and Lily's boss) and his wife, Becky a.k.a. "Boats Boats Boats", showed up at the beginning of episode 9, though their story has no connection to Sophie's story at that point.
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** George "The Captain" Van Smoot (Zoey's ex-husband and Lily's boss) and his wife, Becky a.k.a. "Boats Boats Boats", showed up at the beginning of episode 9, though their story has no only a tangential connection to Sophie's story at that point.point and they don't interact with the main cast.
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-->'''Ellen:''' Because you're crying? Or because you're going to town on yourself?\\
'''Jesse:''' ''Crying''!\\
'''Sid:''' Bro.\\
'''Jesse:''' ''(resigned)'' Both.
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'''Jesse:''' ''Crying''!\\
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-->'''Ellen:''' Because you're crying? Or because you're going to town on yourself?\\
'''Jesse:''' ''Crying''!\\
'''Sid:''' Bro.\\
'''Jesse:''' ''(resigned)'' Both.
-->'''Ellen:''' Because you're crying? Or because you're going to town on yourself?\\
'''Jesse:''' ''Crying''!\\
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'''Jesse:''' ''(resigned)'' Both.
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* RuderAndCruder: The show has the characters swearing words like "shit" or "motherfucker" than ''How I Met Your Mother'' where they had to censor the swear words with "stuff" or "fudge".
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* RuderAndCruder: The Now on streaming instead of broadcast television, the show has the characters much stronger swearing words like "shit" or "motherfucker" than ''How I Met Your Mother'' where they Mother'', which usually had to censor the swear words with "stuff" or "fudge".Future Ted sanitizing coarse language for his kids' sake.
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* RedHerring: Robert, the chef that Sophie met during Valentina's party in episode 9 of season 2, [[spoiler:is hinted to be Sophie's father due to the clues her mother mentioned to her such as the 1991 Lollapalooza where Robert remembered a song and Lori remembers meeting Sophie's father there. Then, Robert also has a photo of him and Lori, making Sophie assume that she might be dating her dad. Though Lori messages her that Robert is not her father]].
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* RedHerring: Robert, the chef that Sophie met during Valentina's party in episode 9 of season 2, [[spoiler:is hinted to be Sophie's father due to the clues her mother mentioned to her such as the 1991 Lollapalooza where Robert remembered a song and Lori remembers meeting Sophie's father there. Then, Robert also has a photo of him and Lori, making Sophie assume that she might be dating her dad. Though Lori messages He isn't her that Robert is not father, but he did have a sexual relationship with her father]].mother, which is still too much for them to get past]].
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* TheFaceless: The son's face is not shown in the flash-forwards; only his voice is heard. While this has behind-the-scenes benefits[[note]]the previous show eventually began recycling StockFootage of Ted's children because the actors aged out of what was supposed to be a one-night-long story[[/note]], it also helps hide which of the men fathered him, since a couple of the candidates are men of color.
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* CelebrityParadox: In "Daddy", Sophie mentions Creator/BryanCranston who also played Ted's boss Hammond Druthers.
