When Will The Way I Met Your Mother Finish? Plus: Ted's Soul-Searching, Marshall and Lily's Large Move

The Way I Met Your Mother When will The Way I Met Your Mother finish? There's one real question that needs to be clarified first: "We must find out if the Mayans were right first," Jason Segel joked to reporters Wednesday at CBS' winter TV preview. Requested when the lengthy-running comedy - presently in the seventh season and restored to have an eighth - comes with an finish date, co-creator and executive producer Carter Bays stated, "it isn't a higher priority" for that series. "I'd imagine starting the ultimate season, we'd [alert] individuals to that... Beyond that, I believe it's difficult for all of us to express on [confirmed date] we'll formally be from ideas." Watch full instances of The Way I Met Your Mother When on that day comes, however, producers possess a arrange for the way the show will wrap. "The meeting [from the mother] will participate the finish game," Bays stated. For just how much audiences might find beyond that initial meet-cute, producers declined to express. Bays and co-creator and executive producer Craig Thomas happen to be considering casting the pivotal role, and seem to be leaning towards a mystery, pointing to the prosperity of casting then-unknown Cobie Smulders as Ted's first love, Robin. "She must have been mom,Inch Thomas stated. "We messed up!Inch Regardless of how lengthy it requires for Ted (Josh Radnor) to satisfy the main one, Segel stated he was now available to seeing the storyline right through to the finish he formerly stated the show should wrap after Season 8. "Let me begin to see the story arrived at its natural finish, be it eight years or nine years," he stated. "I had been so relieved after i discovered there is a real plan." Take a look at photos from The Way I Met Your Mother Within the interim, producers taunted what they have got planned for Feb sweeps. There's "large, soul-searching stuff" ahead for Ted because he analyzes his readiness to got married and questions why he still has not found the main one. "He will develop what he thinks may be the answer after which we'll explore whether that response is right." Marshall and Lily will even have a problem with their next large existence step because they prepare to possess a baby. "It is a real identity crisis whenever a baby is in route and we are likely to explore that," Bays stated. Next week's episode might find the pair formally proceed to the and surrounding suburbs and cope with getting away from their buddies. But Thomas stated the 'burbs are "not always a lasting stop." The Way I Met Your Mother airs Mondays at 8/7c on CBS.