Kids, Bob Saget has one more story to tell.
The pilot episode of “How I Met Your Father” premiered Tuesday with a special note to Saget, who voiced the narrator and older version of Ted Mosby for the entire nine-season run of the original sitcom, “How I Met Your Mother.”
“In Loving Memory of Bob Saget,” read the title card at the end of the first episode.
Saget, 65, died in his Orlando, Florida, hotel room on Jan. 9, a day after kicking off his stand-up tour in Jacksonville, Florida, and was buried Sunday at a private funeral in Los Angeles.
Police and a preliminary autopsy have ruled out foul play and drugs but a cause of death has not yet been publicly announced.
“The wit, the wisdom, and, above all, the kindness fans heard in Bob Saget’s voice (as Ted Mosby in the year 2030) was no act. It’s who Bob really was. And it’s how all of us in the How I Met Your Mother family will always remember him,” executive producers Craig Thomas, Carter Bays and Pam Fryman said in a statement to the Daily News Tuesday.
“R.I.P. to a truly legendary human. You’ll be so missed, Bob, because you were so loved.”
Though best known for playing overeager dad Danny Tanner on “Full House,” Saget’s voice — he never appeared on screen — was synonymous with “How I Met Your Mother’s” love story as Ted (Josh Radnor) regaled and horrified his children with his dating successes and failures.
The sitcom’s sequel, “How I Met Your Father,” puts Kim Cattrall in a similar on-screen role as the older version of Sophie (Hilary Duff) as she searches for her own happy ending. Chris Lowell, Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley, Suraj Sharma and Tien Tran also star.
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