Yes, as the other poster said, and as the writers talk about in the commentaries; it became quite obvious as they started filming season 2, that the actors playing the two kids were getting older. The son in particular had gotten notably taller between the start of season 1 and the start of season 2. This lead to the creators deciding to film a bunch of stock footage of the kids which they could use through the rest of the series, as well as their side of what they planned to be end of the show. This is why the kids stopped interacting with Future Ted after season 2; with the exception of "Last Cigarette," which they inexplicably used footage from the pilot for their reaction, even though they're wearing different clothes, and they had a similar reaction when Future Ted joked about meeting their mom when she was working as a stripper.
Now, the major problem here is the fact that they knew how the show was going to end, and did a piss poor job steering the show in that direction, but that's neither here nor there.
As for Ted's voice, it was predominantly a narrative device, to help viewers differentiate between present day Ted and the narrator; especially given how much the show bounced around in time through flashbacks and flash-forwards, this way we knew that when Ted sounded like Bob Saget, it was the furthest point in the story, in 2030.
It's also not that uncommon for people's voices to change over time, if albeit subtly. Whether or not they always planned to have Josh in that final scene, is not known. People have argued, not unreasonably, that the framing device of Future Ted's narrative is from such a point of view, that the voice we're hearing may be from Ted's perspective; how Ted hears his voice, which of course is different from how other people would hear his voice.
"Sorry, I mistook you for a corpse."
reply
share