<P> At the gala, a GNB executive proposes a toast to Ted . While Robin, Barney, Marshall, and Lily are shown happily in their respective couplings, Ted stares out from the GNB building alone . </P> <P> Andy Gowman, How I Met Your Mother music supervisor </P> <P> Originally, episodes 11 and 12 were not planned to be shown together as a two - part, one - hour combined episode, but the decision was made to present them together after the show was preempted because of Hurricane Sandy . Show co-creator Carter Bays said, "we knew we wanted (episode 12) to be our Christmas episode, and we were thinking of creative ways to catch up...Episodes 11 and 12 really felt like two halves of the same story, so we thought, let's make this our big hour - long Christmas special ." Before the two episodes were combined, episode 11 was entitled "The Silence of the Jinx" and episode 12 was entitled "The Robin". </P> <P> Bays said that "the idea of a long con" represented by Barney's play to win Robin was influenced by "the final run of episodes in season four of Breaking Bad and that they "wanted a moment of,' Ohhhhh, that's what's been going on .' Just without anyone getting blown up or poisoned ." He adds that they are "not blind to the possible ickiness of how Barney went about getting Robin to say yes" but that it shows Barney's character "in a nutshell: loveable amorality ." </P>

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