Segel is oblivious to the news that was going to hit him until it actually hit him on camera, for the first time. So much effort was taken to authentically recreate the experience of getting bad news, and like many of coming of age experiences that How I Met Your Mother put the audience through, this one too feels legit.
The episode spends some time establishing that Marshall and his father have a relationship predicated on good news, making the circumstances of this situation all the more poignant. These feel like nothing at the time, but just like in real life, after the news drops, these final almost-moments with the departed resonate and mean ever more as a result. Something impossibly mundane becomes a lasting memory. The universe is playing with us. In that regard, the episode functions even better as a fundamental, inevitable slice of life.
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The script for the episode "Bad News" originally had the twist written as Lily being pregnant. It was only on the actual day of shooting that the writers revealed to Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan that the ending would be different, and even then, it was only Alyson who knew the final scene. She and Jason worked out that he would react when she said the word "it", which turned out to be the end of the sentence "He didn't make it".
Until that moment, Jason had no idea what he would be reacting to. What you see in the episode is the one and only take they shot of his reaction. According to the episode's commentary, Jason Segel's line "I'm not ready for this," after hearing about his dad's death, was improvised. The number 2 of the countdown appears on a clock, referencing the series statement that "Nothing good happens after 2 a. In the closing moments of the episode Marshall finds out the his dad has passed away.
Through-out the episode there is a subtle countdown to the moment Marshall hears the news on objects through out the scenes. The countdown starts at 50 on a calender and goes all the way down to the number of the taxi that Lily arrives in to tell Marshall the news.
Some other numbers include: The number 11 on the front of an architecture book, the price of 45 cents for buffalo wings, the conference room Robin has a meeting in is 39 and Lily and Marshall's apartment number is There are numbers hidden within scenes throughout the episode that count down to Marshall hearing the news of his father's death. The numbers start at fifty and count down to one. In the episode 'Bad News' season 6, episode 13, numbers are seen 'hidden' throughout the show starting at 50 going down to 1 which is seen on the taxi cab Lily pulls up in to tell Marshall the bad news about his father.
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