Is there anything better than seeing Cobie Smulders rocking it as Canadian teen sensation Robin Sparkles on How I Met Your Mother? No, eh?

So when we recently hit the set to get scoop from her and castmembers Kal Penn, Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel, we just had to bug them about Ms. Sparkles coming back to our TV lives.

“Fingers crossed, I’d love to do more Robin Sparkles stuff,” Smulders tells us about the return of the “Let’s Go to the Mall” singer. “Those are some of my favorite episodes. We just have to get really creative as to how we bring her back, because it can’t be like, ‘What?! We found another one! Another video!’ The writers are geniuses and I’m sure if we do decide to bring her back, they’ll find a really fun creative way. You know we’ve done it quite a few times. It’ll be nice to do it at least one more time before the series is over.”

Duh, Robin Sparkles has to come back for one last hurrah. Maybe she’ll come back for Barney’s wedding? Unless Robin is the bride, which is what all Barney-Robin fans want. But Hannigan might not be in that camp. “I feel like Lily wouldn’t want Barney to just settle down, which wouldn’t be good,” she says. “But I don’t think she’d want Robin to go for Barney because Robin can do so much better than that.”

Really? Because we think they belong together. But right now Robin is with Kevin, her therapist, played by the always-awesome Kal Penn. And pretty soon, Kevin is going to hit a rough patch in his relationship with Robin. “My character, Kevin, has to make up for something that he did that didn’t go quite the way that everybody wanted, so he’s basically painting the entire apartment here and trying to save face simultaneously,” he said of the episode they were shooting.

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The final moments of Monday’s How I Met Your Mother could have been interpreted many ways. As Victoria boarded a bus out of Ted’s life, she left him with parting words, “There is a reason it didn’t work out between you and me. It’s Robin. She’s so much bigger in your world than you realize.”

Your post-episode confusion is exactly what creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas intended.

“We chose our words carefully as we always do, and it’s all right there,” Bays tells EW exclusively. “Obviously we’re not telling the whole story right away because there’s still a lot of story left, but I think Robin had always been an integral part in Ted’s life. If you look at all the moments that he’s kind of come close with girls, Robin has always kind of been there at the moment where it fell apart. If you look at him and Zoe, if you look at him and Stella, it’s definitely a monkey on his back that he needs to figure out how to move past, or, not move past.”

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How I Met Your Mother has found its Slutty Pumpkin! CBS confirms to EW that Katie Holmes will step into the show’s iconic (and, until now, mysterious) role for a Halloween-themed episode this season. And after mulling over this choice for nearly an hour…my head hurts.

Could Holmes be The Mother? The Slutty Pumpkin has always been an important part of Mother mythology, and, on a deeper level, an important symbol of Ted’s belief in love. (Quick recap: In 2001, Ted met the Slutty Pumpkin at a Halloween party in which he was a hanging chad, and she was a pumpkin with strategically placed holes. But Lily accidentally tossed her phone number, so, for years, Ted went to the same party, in the same costume, hoping to meet her. He never has.) In my brain, that’s the perfect person to have come back and play the most important person of Ted’s life. Additionally, my guess would be that the show would want a big name to helm the title role.

Years ago, I not-so-secretly wanted The Mother to be Rachel Bilson. And when that went out the window, I at least hoped it would be someone equally as likable. I’m not saying I don’t like Holmes, but I’m very protective over the shows I love. I just want it to be the right fit, and I’m not entirely sure she would be the one I’d want to see in the part. I mean, her strength has been in dramatic roles; maybe she’s been hiding some amazing comedy chops all these years?
This is all speculation, of course. She could be a one-episode wonder, but I just don’t see that happening with the Slutty Pumpkin. We’ve been told many times that there is a grand plan for this show, and I’m almost entirely certain they wouldn’t build up the Slutty Pumpkin just to bring her in for a single episode. Time will tell…

Meanwhile, you tell me, PopWatchers: What do you think of this casting choice? What do you think the Slutty Pumpkin’s appearance means for Victoria and Ted’s chances? (Yes, in my head, they’re already dating again because I love them together so much that I can’t entertain the idea that they won’t give it another chance starting in episode 2. We’ll see.) And are you excited to see the episode? (Source)

Ask Ausiello has posted a small (but juicy) How I Met Your Mother spoiler! Robin Sparkles, anyone? If you do not want to be spoiled, I recommend not reading the text below.

Question: Any update on the return of Robin Sparkles on How I Met Your Mother?
Ausiello: No news on the Sparkles front, but exec producer Carter Bays tells TVLine that this season’s 10th episode features “a very funny song that [co-creator] Craig Thomas wrote. The less I say about it the better.”