NJ.com talked to Carter Bays about tedmosbyisajerk.com and the Doogie Howser bit at the end of The Bracket:
TedMosbyisajerk.com had kind of the same origins as Barney’s Blog — it was initially just a joke in the script, nothing more. Then we realized if we’re saying “tedmosbyisajerk.com” on the show, we should buy that web address, just in case someone else bought it and threw a bunch of porn up there or something. So once we had the web address, we decided to put a little site up, with just some really simple text and a few images. And then Carl MacLaren, our associate producer, had this crazy idea of doing a song. Craig and I love any chance to write music, and I had just bought some cheap recording equipment, so we decided to write and record a little theme song for the website. Then the whole thing got out of hand, and it turned into this 20 minute opus. We wanted it to be like a long Patti Smith song, with this rambling poetry, or like the song “Turn Blue” by Iggy Pop.
Anyway, the whole thing happened really quickly — Carl had the idea last week and we recorded it this weekend. The vocals are by Charlene Amoia, the actress who plays Wendy the Waitress on the show (hence the Wendy the Waitress reference at the end). We all sort of wrote it together — some of it was written out, and some of it was just Charlene at the mic going off like Mick Jagger, which was hilarious to witness…