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The interviews take place in Smulders’ home where she suggests several awful anniversary party ideas fed to her through an earpiece. She proposes covering the pool to create a dance floor and giving a cringeworthy sentimental toast. “There are so many stars, so many grains of sand, but when I look to you, my light, my hero, the wind beneath my wings — I have found my planet that I want to live on,” the actress says while barely containing her laughter. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4055423/cobie-smulders-best-time-ever-with-neil-patrick-harris/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4055423/cobie-smulders-best-time-ever-with-neil-patrick-harris/"},"headline":"Watch How I Met Your Mother Co-Stars Reunite to Prank Party Planners","datePublished":"2015-09-30T14:57:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:24.462Z","description":"Please tell us this came from 'The Playbook'","url":"https://time.com/4055423/cobie-smulders-best-time-ever-with-neil-patrick-harris/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","How I Met Your Mother","Neil Patrick Harris","entertainment","TV","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4055423/cobie-smulders-best-time-ever-with-neil-patrick-harris/","name":"Watch How I Met Your Mother Co-Stars Reunite to Prank Party Planners"}}]}] ```