How I Met Your Dad is a television pilot of a TV series to serve as a spin-off of How I Met Your Mother, created by original series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, with Emily Spivey. This series was expected to debut 2014, but was shelved indefinitely. 20th Television opted not to order How I Met Your Dad to series. The plot focuses on Sally on the journey of how she met her daughter's father. She lives in New York with her friends, is getting divorced from her first husband, and has no idea what she is doing with her life.

In April 2021, it was announced that How I Met Your Father had been ordered to series by Hulu, based on a rewrite of the How I Met Your Dad pilot by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, and with Hilary Duff attached to play lead character Sophie.