'How I Met Your Mother' Is Releasing an Alternate Ending on DVD

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By Neha Prakash2014-04-07 16:02:51 UTC

Warning: Spoilers ahead about the series finale.

OK, quit your bellyaching.

How I Met Your Mother co-creator Carter Bays announced on Twitter Friday that the show will release an alternate ending to the controversial series finale. Bays called the new ending "very different."

The alternate ending will be featured on the series DVD box set, available this fall.

Following the series finale, in which "the mother" passes away, leaving Ted Mosby widowed and pining for former flame Robin, fans were outraged, claiming they were duped and the ending was unfair. Before announcing the news of the alternate ending, Bays tweeted that the producers stood by the first version of the finale, but still "loved" the other version they edited out.

Will the alternate ending show the mother alive and well? Will Robin and Barney never get a divorce? Will we finally learn about the pineapple?

For those who simply miss a How I Met Your Mother-type sitcom in their Monday night TV lineups, the show's spinoff, How I Met Your Dad, is already in the works.

Bays tweeted that work had already started on the editing process for the spinoff. Hopefully, Bays won't need to release an alternate ending for that show, too.

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