About the Mother from How I Met Your Mother.
March 4, 2008
I feel that a big question for How I Met Your Mother fans has always been “Who is the mother?” And while we don’t have a definite answer, we can take what we do know so far and begin to formulate some ideas. This is a long one so go grab a drink and pull up a chair. By the way, HIMYM returns to us on March 17th! So hopefully soon there will be more to add to this list! Disclaimer: I love theories, but I have not posted anything here that cannot be backed up. Enjoy!
Who we know is NOT:
1. Robin is not the Mother. We learn this in the first episode and and it is reconfirmed countless times in all 3 seasons. No matter how much people “want it to happen, ” it just won’t. Get used to disappointment. In fact, for those still
letting the thought wonder in the empty space in your head let me share the best explanation / recap on the subject from tv.com forum user RUdaPs:
To explain the surprise of the “…and that’s how I met your Aunt Robin.” line in the pilot…
If you pay attention throughout the pilot, Future Ted always says things like “…and then I went to her apartment.” The assumption is that the kids are thinking the whole time that “she” and “her” are their mother because Future Ted says that he’s telling the story of how he met their mother. The only thing is, he doesn’t say a name. So at the end when he says “…and that’s how I met your Aunt Robin.” the kids are surprised.
It’s like watching “The Sixth Sense” for the first time. (If you haven’t seen it and would like to you should stop reading this and skip to the next paragraph.) You always assume that Bruce Willis is alive but it is never clearly stated. Then if you go back and watch it again, you realize that only the kid talks to him throughout the movie. Even though you thought it was obvious the story was about one thing it was clearly about another and you can go back and see what it was really about
2. The string of possible girls throughout Season 1. There was Natalie (Return of the Shirt), Ted’s old girlfriend, who knew Krav Maga. Coat Check Girl (OK Awesome), that Carter Bays even joked that if the writers strike ruined the show for good, she was the mother. Even though we never meet her (which would be a great idea for this season…hint, hint), the Slutty Pumpkin (from oddly enough the episode called the Slutty Pumpkin). Dr. Sara O’Brien (Matchmaker), the engaged 9.6 match found by love solutions. Trudy (the Pineapple Incident), who came back in the Third Wheel…let me side track here for a moment. Ted only says “I left Trudy a message, but she never called me back”…to me this implies he never saw her again, but I suppose that was the way around things for that episode (that and “Some stories you tell, some stories you don’t”…seriously, would would ever tell their kids they rode the tricycle)…anyhow moving on. There was Victoria from episodes 12-18, she was great, would have been nice, but she won’t be back (at least not as marriage material). Let’s not leave off Mary the Paralegal (and that is a shame…but when you don’t laugh it just seems mean). And I can sum all these up as “not the mama” because in the episode Lucky Penny from Season 2, Ted says:
“My destiny was to stay in New York. Because if I hadn’t, I never would have met your mother.”
Thus saying that up to this point, he has not met the mother yet, so we have not seen her. Take a moment and let that sink in if you need to.
3. Ted’s soul mate. Let’s camp on this one for a moment. Season 1 episode 21, Milk, the dating company finally comes through and finds Ted’s soul mate. Now if #2 is true then she could be included in that group. However, Ted never actually met her in person. Will this be a loophole? Will she ever play back in? I leave it to you…personally I feel, the “Soul Mate” is out of the picture or at very least not the mother…I just felt she needed to be mentioned.
4. The girls form Season 3 (so far). Well Season 2 was a wash as far as “the mother” because Ted was with Robin the whole time. And in Season 3 so far I don’t think we have seen any potential for a “mother character”. In some of the recent interviews with the creators of HIMYM they confirm this thought (more or less). In the Platinum Rule, Ted say something about that being all with Dr. Stella for now…but I seriously doubt she is the mom…and here is why….
WHAT WE DO KNOW SO FAR:
1. Her name. Now this is just a theory but it seems to be a pretty strong one. The mother’s name is Tracy…don’t believe me? Season 1 Episode 9, Belly Full of Turkey, at the end of the episode a “burlesque entertainment artist” approaches Ted and says what he did was sweet… She says “I’m Amber”…then says “Actually, I’m Tracy”… then future Ted’s (Bob Saget) voice pops in and says “And that kids is the true story of how I met your mother.”
The kids are blown away surprised. He does say he is kidding…however ponder this if you will…why would the kids even believe it for a moment if their mother’s name was not Tracy?
*Update: Here is some more info on the Tracy Theory.
2. They meet in New York. This is a slight assumption too, however in Lucky Penny he says if he wouldn’t have stayed in New York he would have never met her.
3. The Yellow Umbrella. Season 3 episode 1, Wait for It, Ted says, “Kids, there is more than one story of how I met your mother. You know the short version, the thing with your mom’s yellow umbrella…” So we don’t know much, but we do know there is a yellow umbrella involved (You can thank Captain Obvious for that one).
All in all this is just what I have picked up so far…If you find something I have missed then let us know. Enjoy. Share. Comment. Be Awesome.
Also if this is yoru first time here be sure to check out the How I Met Your Mother Show Reviews for the lastest info “the mother”.
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March 4th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I’m a firm believer of the Tracy theory. I’ve been telling people that one since the first season aired.
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Anthony Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
I think Robin may be the mother although the kids call her Aunt Robin, We all know kids are not part of Robins plans therefor if she makes the kids believe she is thier Aunt she can still stay in thier lives anonomously
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March 5th, 2008 at 7:38 am
I CAN’T WAIT for new episodes! I have to admit that I haven’t really kept track of the “mother” because I’m usually too busy laughing at something Barney says.
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May 19th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
remember the same lucky penny episode
where robin n ted discuss who was actually responsible that they missed their flight(s)
robin and ted figure out the person responsible for them not making to chicago was who dropped the penny on the subway and can be traced only if he knew her
and ted said” I WISH I DID”
so person who dropped the penny is the mother
so we can try to conclude some thing abt the mother
a) her name is tracy
b) fond of coins
c) yellow umbrella
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Rickard Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
I really think it´s the girl he walk into in season 3, ep 12, time 13.24-13.35
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Ashrla Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
I’m with you Rickard, when I saw this, I just though: “she’s the mom!!”. The mother went to this party because the yellew umbrella was there, so… it’s a hint?
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Ateet Reply:
January 24th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
yes.. true.. thats the mom.. one whom Ted bumps into @ St. Patrick’s Day celebration jsut before Barney explainin his theory of Knowing a gal’s age from her elbow !! I knew it right away .. she must be the one
Jade Reply:
January 27th, 2010 at 5:54 am
I told dad that it was her!!! I also told my brother her name was Tracey… wow… people have the sma theories as me… *frowns* or I have the same theories as them
el Reply:
January 28th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
me too i m absolutly sure it’s the girl he walk into on st paty’s day i keep telling my self why whould they turn on this part if it was meaningless.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
@neeraj…
You could have something there but I honestly feel as if that may be a bit of a stretch…I will re-watch the episode and get back to you on that.
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June 1st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I have my doubts about the Tracy theory. Even though she claimed her “real” name was Tracy, no dancer would give out a real name, so it is quite possible that was another fake. As far as the kids reaction, I know personally that if my dad told me he met my mother while she was stripping, my reaction would be utter disbelief for a moment before actually processing the information and thinking logically about it. I seriously doubt the writers would have wrote themselves into a corner by nailing down the name of the mother that early in the show.
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June 1st, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Jason,
I can respect your theory doubts…but consider this:
1. There have already been instances of the writers writing themselves into a corner. Consider Ted’s 30th birthday and the goat. Despite the eventual ending of the episode, the writers still had to explain the goat on the birthday.
2. The dancer gave her “fake name” first (Amber) then said she was actually Tracy…either way, that wouldn’t matter so much as…
3. The kids reaction. This proves it beyond a doubt…because while yes, it would be shocking like that however, unbelievable if the name didn’t match.
For more info read this post: The Name Tracy Theory, and thanks for visiting.
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
One observation (also occurring in “lucky penny” was the comment that the person who got the job had to relocate to ORD “in 3 years” – this episode was set in 2006 – leading you to believe that if he had relocated (in 2009) he would not have met their mother…. So we can assume that he does not meet her until an episode that is set in 2009 or later.
I rarely find good TV but this show, two and a half men, rules of engagement and big bang are some of the absolute best on TV in a long long time.
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June 19th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Excellent observation Lee… I often wonder how much the writers mean to trap themselves into somethings (ex. the goat, Tracy, etc..) and how much the fans just pick up on and enforce as gospel?
Thanks for the visit!
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June 21st, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Retraction time!!!!!!
Coincidentally, my TiVo recorded “lucky penny” sometime recently… My fiancee was watching it while I was reading the paper. I did however hone in on a couple of parts and noticed I was mistaken in my earlier post. And quite honestly the correct information is not near as interesting…
It was actually 2007 not 2006. and he said 3 MONTHS not 3 years. So that clearly makes it less of a revalation. Sorry for the confusion.
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July 4th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I think I MAY know what the mother looks like!
In season 3 episode 12 where ted goes to the saint patrick’s day party with barney, at the start of the episode ted says that the mother was at that party…. then later when he goes over to barney to tell him that ashlee is married he bumps into a girl says “oh im sorry” and she replies “thats ok”. Why would they put that bit in there if she was not the mother? Plus she kinda looks like the daughter!?
Thats my theory let me know what you think.
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JenniiFer Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 1:10 am
wow….. u could be right!
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roddy Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 11:33 am
if its not her then she definately has something to do with it. never in any tv series have i seen something done so blatantly. normally if ted were to walk into someone it would be done maybe slightly out of the shot or their apologies or whatever would be less audible. in this episode however they are center frame and the shot lingers on them. she is definately of significance to the story. oooooor the whole thing that ted was wasted could have made it more obvious to him, where in reality she looked pissed off at him or something. either way i reckon she has some relevance to the story.
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Torriboy Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
I don’t agree with this sorry cause at the end of that epasode he tells his kids that your mother was at the same party but we didn’t meet till years later…
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July 13th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Me again!
I saw somthing else in the episode that kinda points to that girl ted bumps into being the mother, its not huge but i think its something…
At the start of the episode (season 3 episode 12) where they show the mother with her yellow umbrella going into the club, you can see if you look closely that she is wearing blue jeans, and guess what the girl ted bumps into is wearing?…. thats right BLUE JEANS!
again let me know what you guys think
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July 24th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Ok folks. At work today, I was watching the first episode of HIMYM on my new sweet, awesome iPod Classic 80gb. My job is quite lame, and I got a lot of time to spend.
Anyhow, about the Tracy-theory:
Robin is named several times, and even introduces herself. And yet at the end of the show, the kids are surprised that he talked about Robin.
Therefor, it leads me to the conclusion that future-Ted does not reveal the names of some of the people in the episodes.
Bam. Lawyered.
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July 29th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Wow..How did I miss all there comments!
@ Lee – thanks for the retraction. I suppose I should follow up on these things more instead of taking them as Gospel.
@Steve – I have read and discussed this with quite a few people on some different sites, and while we know that “the Mother” was at that party, very few people think the girl Ted bumps into is “the Mother.” Mainly because we believe the writers like screwing with us but also because though intense HDTV analysis many have concluded that the shoes of the “party bump” girl and “the yellow umbrella were different”…I think the jeans look different too but I digress. Good thoughts either way.
@Ludde kic….I’m not typing all that…anyways. – First off, congrats on having an awesome 80gb ipod…also on having a job like that; However, you should probably use it to watch the episode once more because throughout the entire episode Robin’s name is NEVER mentioned. Not during the intro, not during the news cast, nada, nill, nothing…(so much for lawyered…but good use of the phrase)
Also, in the episode “How I Met Everyone Else” from Season 3 he tries to remember a name and says he can’t so calls her “Bla Bla”, this shows that the names are important enough to make mention of not remembering/ mentioning one.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is…oh hold on, I need to make a call..
Hello, Leg factory?
Yea Ludde needs something to stand on…
What?!? Nothing for him to stand on.
Well thanks…
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August 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Hold on to your seats cuz ima about to drop some premium knowledge brau(bro)
It cant be the girl from the party because near the end of the episode ted says that their mother was at that party he just didn’t meet her, and hes lucky he didnt cuz she wouldn’t have liked him.
LAWYERED
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roddy Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 11:35 am
he didnt really ‘meet’ her he just bumped into her.
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August 8th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
@nahom…another good point to add to the “not the girl Ted bumps into” theory. I could get more technical but I’ll stand with just my original explanation earlier… This seems to keep coming up..Maybe time for an updated post.
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August 13th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Technically Ted did not meet the girl form the party, they just bumped into each other. The girl that he bumped into was wearing jeans and was carrying a burgandy pocketbook. I kept rewinding and viewing the beginning sequence that showed the girl with the yellow umbrella in line, the pants look close, though the girl in line appears to have baggy pants as opposed to the girl he bumps into. Also in the opening scene there is no clear view of the umbrella girl carrying a pocketbook.
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August 25th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
now in the 1st episode
ted says” and there she was”, then a break…….
then barney breaks in and directly introduces him to robin……….
and we all know that barney has crush for robin and it could have been possible that he thought ted saw robin first, so as a wingman he should give robin to ted…….
so guys its possible that the mother was there in the first episode but not introduced…..
Then in second episode he says he was seeing robin and also in bla bla episode, but those statements could be made to make ppl believe that he had seen robin…..
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September 9th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Hey guys
What if those are not his kids?
Then Robin is not their mother and he marrys Robin.
Yepeee.
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roddy Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 11:37 am
oooh good call, that would be a nice twist
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tahlia rose Reply:
January 21st, 2010 at 12:47 am
yeah that would be cool
but what about Barney???
and ted is always like ” kids that how i met YOUR mother ”
but then again like Rishlin said they don’t hav to be his kids
who even said ted had to have a wife for all we know he could
be gay but that would be no fun
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September 11th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
guys
there are three episodes which gave me an idea of flaws and may be an idea who the mother could be, ofcourse it can be a stretch but i’ve been watching himym quiet a lot lately….
season 2 episode 4- ted moseby architect
1. ted talks to a random girl in a bar, but never introduces himself…..
2. barney steps in and impresses the girl in his own way taking ted’s name….
3. barney and the girl end up sleeping together and barney says her name was anna, and while writing her name on the letter he forgets her name, so was her name really anna???
4. anna was brunette….
season 3 episode 14 bracket
1. there is a girl who is sabotaging barney’s deal with girls
2. he has problem remembering name, alan aulda or something which reminds him…
3. the search begins, and there are some dreadful reasons why a girl wold hate barney, but anna reason is not one that could take her to top 4….
4. barney remembers her name(strange)!!!!!
season 3 how we met each other episode
1. there seemed to be a lie/manipulation which was told by characters during their first meeting, barring robin and ted
2. if there was a lie/manipulation in ted meeting the mother then barney taking his name could be one………..
and the whole theory that the children had done a bit with the mother in season 2…..
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September 22nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
[...] my reason for disagreeing because of the name Tracy theory and the article on what we do know about the mother. Luckily for me (hooray), Sarah seemed to agree saying: “I don’t think I am, I have no idea, [...]
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
I just noticed something in one of the episodes that might mean something? It stood out in my head as a clue with regards to who the ‘mother’ might be.. In season 3, episode 12 (the one about the St. Patrick’s day party and Ted taking the yellow umbrella at the end) he bumps into a woman at the club on his way to meet Barney at the bar – it seemed random because Ted and the mystery woman seem to share a little secret look and I don’t see how else him bumping into a stranger could have anything significant to do with the plot for that episode. What do you think?? We’re told that the ‘mother’ was at the party that night but Ted just didn’t meet her – maybe he only bumped into her?
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December 7th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
@rishlin:
I love that theory…thats what my angle is on the whole things, coz im really rooting for robin and ted and i honestly cant imagine anyone who would be awesome enough to be accepted by the audience (thats what its about)…so I was looking all over for the scences of 2030, coz I’m pretty sure one of the kids says “Dad” at one point…couldnt find them…does anyone else have evident for or against that theory?
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December 11th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
To paula & rishlin:
I had offerred this supposition to people over the years (more as a gotcha)… I would half jokingly say, “just because he calls them ‘kids’ and says ‘your mother’ doesn’t mean he is the father.” I also believed that supported the theory he could marry Robin.
HOWEVER I was watching sometime this year and do not have the recall to cite the episode – BUT, Ted is called “Dad” at some point by the kids. That shot my theory to hell…
It did not occur to me to post it here since I had not seen anyone else sharing that theory – plus hate publicly admitting when I am wrong!
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jeremy Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 6:57 am
i think his wife left him
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December 25th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
i’m watching this show religiously… and in all honesty… i don’t think we have seen the mother yet, the writers are just messing with us. making us think we have.
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December 28th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
I have to agree with some of you that the whole mother thing still could be aunt robin and uncle ted
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December 31st, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I’ve just recently became a fan after getting the 3 season box set. I’m so intrigued by this storyline!!!
The “Tracy Theory” makes sense. The “Ted not the Kids Dad” makes sense too. I’m not too sure about the girl he bumped into at the St. Patty’s Day Party.
I want to bring up one awkward moment in Season 2. I would have to go back and watch it again, but I recall a moment at the bar where Ted & Barney were talking to each other. And there were 2 girls right behind Ted with their backs turned. It was awkward because while Ted & Barney were having this conversation, the camera seems to be focusing on these 2 girls. Did anyone get that feeling too?
I will need to get back to you guys on this!
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December 31st, 2008 at 6:44 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 1:18 am
alright so the st. patrick day theory doesn’t hold cause if you look at what the “mother” is wearing in the beginning, baggy blue jeans, no clutch, and also you can see that she isn’t wearing a low cut top (take it frame by frame and you can see wear the skin ends, t-shirt, then coat.)
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January 5th, 2009 at 1:29 am
i could be wrong cause i just noticed that at the end when he goes to grab the yellow umbrella there’s a clutch on the chair that’s the came color and type as the one the girl he bumped into was carrying.
maybe in a future episode when they meet, they just missed each other when she went back to get her things…recognizes her umbrella…icebreaker?!?
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January 6th, 2009 at 1:33 am
update: ted is the father. first season, second episode, two minutes in: Future Ted tells kids how he said “I love you” to Robin on first date. Daughter says “Oh DAD!”
LAWYERED!! To Everyone with the Uncle Theory!
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January 6th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Thanks kidani! I have been meaning to look more into the uncle theory because I honestly just didn’t believe it… I mean I love LOST and all but that plot line is way to far fetched for HIMYM.
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January 7th, 2009 at 12:27 am
In the pilot in the first five minutes future ted says “back before I was Dad…” so the uncle theory is a no go.
But let’s all keeep in mind that many shows go back on earlier canonical material when it actually becomes successful.
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January 7th, 2009 at 6:12 am
another thing – kinda supporting the robin-theory against everything else – at the end of the super-ball episode ted makes a generell statement about how you can still enjoy something although you know how it’s gonna end…so if you think about the whole story it’s always leading to robin and ted…i dont know how, but i still have hope that their is a weird twisted way in which it is possible
and more…considering the similarity between robin, her little sister (who looks like a young robin-version) and the daughter in 2030 sitting on the couch…how could it now be robin!?
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jeremy Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 7:02 am
i think he switched the names of the mother and robin is the mother and their aunt is some 1 elts
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January 15th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I always wonder if we’re being played by the producers. As in: Maybe he and Robin did get married and the kids aren’t his. He always seems to (as far as my memory goes) refers to it as “your mother,” and not necessarily “my wife,” at least not in the flash-forwards.
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January 19th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Lots of stuff to reply to so here I go.
– is the girls Ted bumps into at the bar the mother? Maybe but I doubt it, I lean to towards “the writers are goofin’ with us” theory. I’ve listed my reason’s before and I shall not do it again here.
- the Uncle Ted Theory… this is total crap and I’ll tell you why, besides the other reasons that people have listed go re-watch “Season 2 Episode 1 – Where Were We?” at the very beginning Ted’s DAUGHTER says: “DAD can we just skip ahead to the part where you meet MOM?” …That would be a true use of the word lawyered. But this is fun, I love researching the theories.
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January 20th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Tell me what you think ?
In the episode where Barney succeds in taking Ted at the Saint Patrick’s Club Party, ted says to his kids that its that night he met their mother. I truly believe that the future mom is that one girl he bumps into just before reaching for the bar where Barney is standing with the girl he finally hooks up with.
Any comments ?
( French Fan of HIMYM)
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January 21st, 2009 at 8:25 pm
i think ted and robin end up together, it is inevitable thats the engine of the show. whether robins name isnt robin and “robin” is the name of some other chick in media thats friends with robin is a bit of a stretch and debatable. More than likely Ted is telling this story to the kids because they wondered what went wrong between ted and their mother and how they ended up split up. Either way ted and robin will be together in the end… im such a ted
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aaron Reply:
January 27th, 2009 at 9:15 am
@bob… not to be mean, but have you read through all the info in the post and the comments? Nothing points to the Ted and Robin end up together theory other than a few fans who blindly want it to happen but won’t let the idea go! … plus how weird would it be for Ted to be telling how things went wrong with the mom and then keep calling Robin, Aunt Robin!
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January 26th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
okay, so I COMPLETELY agree with whoever said that the mother is the girl he bumps into at the St. Patrick’s Day party. At the beginning, when she is waiting to get into the club, under her umbrella you can see that she is wearing blue jeans. Then, is it really necessary for the show that Ted bumps into that woman? but oh.. what is this! the woman is wearing BLUE JEANS!!! I’m so convinced that woman is the mom! If not, writers, you suck!
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January 27th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
It is definitely not a robin… but somewhere on the web i found sth about wendy the weitress, but thats probably bullshit.
Do u think 5th season will end the show???
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January 30th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
guys, I am TED MOSBY, SEX ARCHITECT!!! and I can without a doubt confirm that the MOTHER of my kids is…….my wife!
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February 5th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
ITS TOTALLY VICTORIA!!! COME ON NOW……
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February 8th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Alright, not an answer as to who the mother is, but certainly an interesting idea. When older Ted talks to his kids, yes HIS kids, he always refers to the mother as “your mother”. He never once says “my wife”. What are the odds that the kids’ mother is NOT Ted’s wife? Maybe a one-night-stand? He’s explaining to his kids how he met THEIR mother, kind of like, sorry it happened this way, but… (Could this be the first time he’s meeting them and decides to explain things a little? Unfortunately, as I wrote this I realized that since they call him “Dad”, it’s probably not the FIRST time, but you see my point?) Now I know some are going to read this and say “one-night-stand? There’s two kids!” Can they not be twins? When are their ages ever mentioned? Don’t they look at least similar in age? I think that the whole storyline of Ted trying to find a wife is not necessarily the same story of how Ted met his kids’ mother. Ideas?
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February 8th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Me again! To some of those out there rooting for Ted and Robin to get married, it might be possible (but I am completely open to debate this). Take this as an example: Ted may have children with a woman, whether he marries her, never get married but live together, or just a one-night-stand went wrong as I suggested above. Providing that one woman is NOT Robin (as it can’t be due to the whole “Aunt Robin” thing), can’t Ted and Robin still get married? The mother isn’t Robin. Say the kids then live with their mother (whoever that may be), and NOT Ted. Ted visits or something and tells the story to HIS kids. Robin, being married to Ted, would be considered what to the kids then? Is it possible they call her “Aunt Robin” as nothing more than a term of endearment similar to how one might call an old friend of a parent?
Another theory (I’ve had too many and I just found out about this forum): How literal could the “Aunt Robin” be taken? Could the mother actually be Robin’s sister? I know she’s pretty younger than Ted, but isn’t it at least possible? Maybe it’s a LITERAL “Aunt Robin”… Besides, who can say without any hesitation that the kids DON’T look like Robin at least a little?
Go ahead now, bash my theories! I’m open to it
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February 9th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
The theory about the kids being twins is absolute nonesense (or it would be a mistake by the editors again) because I have just read the script oft the pilote where it says that the boy is 14 and the girl 16, so i doubt that it was only a one-night stand. The theory about Robin’s sister being the mother sounds logical, but I think that the producers would not make it that easy for us to figure out, who the mom is (and by the way Lilly is called “Aunt Lilly” as well, so it could also be her sister)
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My personal theory is that we never really saw the mother , except under her umbrella because the producers just need a broader freedom to make up some new stories to produce some more episodes. In the end they will show up with a constructed seemingly logical explanation of who the mother is, and we have no other chance but to wait for this day. (I think they neither know who the mom will be)
But I also hope that he might be married to Robin in the end, although she is not the mother of the kids (which would be kind of sad for the kids, when thinking bout it little longer
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February 11th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Like I said Ted and Robin will end up together. Ted will not be with the mother of his kids. We know names have been changed in the show already, and lots of stuff has been misremembered. Sit Coms are not rocket science, they might go the friends route and make crazy things happen (joey and rachel = barney/robin) but we knew from the beginning rachel and ross would end up together. People like their comfort zones. And im not the one who is blindly rooting for Ted and Robin, but if you can see the outcome ahead of time it seems fairly logical to point it out. This show is not about the writing, albeit it has solid writing, but about the chemistry between the gang. Do not expect some crazy mind blowing finale where every clue falls in place. Its a sitcom, and a damn good one.
p.s. ted & robin 4 eva xxxooo
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February 13th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Great read so far. Thanks.
@Bob, this bit is great….. More than likely Ted is telling this story to the kids because they wondered what went wrong between ted and their mother and how they ended up split up
I really think Bob’s angle is interesting. Also, I haven’t seen the party episode so I must watch that. Not expecting anything so obvious though. I read somewhere that the writers did have a plan for the whole thing. Who knows? After George Lucas saying the whole Star Wars story was all planned at the very start, it’s made me not necessarily believe this kind of thing.
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February 20th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
there is a slight possiblity in the tracy theory because of the way the kids react, but also observ to the way they react to other names such as “aunt robin” also another thing on the aunt robin am sure she will recognise her own sister in a strip club.
there is an episode in season three were future ted says listen closly now kids in this story i meet your mother but only for a second. ted is in a party an he bumps into a lady there i strongly believe this is the mother and it is a different person to tracy.
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February 20th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
@tony, The “Tracy Theory” never states that the stripper was the mother, only that the mother’s name is Tracy
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February 20th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
if they already know their mothers name why do they react only when ted says thats the true story on how i mer your mother
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February 20th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
because Tony…the story wouldn’t be believable if he used a name they knew wasn’t their mothers.
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February 20th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
has any ever thought that the kids dad was actually ted ive been watching HIMYM for a while now and not once have they mentioned ted in the future.
i will look into it but ive heard them say it
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February 20th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
iam not sayin that why didnt they react when she says her name is tracy
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February 20th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
@tony. Sorry Tony, you just confused me on the name thing. No worries.
However on the “is Ted the Dad” thing the credits always list him as “Old Ted” so that part has always been pretty much given. Good thought though, I like your thinking.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Aaron,
I don’t know why you’re so hung up about the Tracy thing. It is an idea, but you keep praising it as the absolute truth. I completely understand your reasoning, but (and I know the idea has been brought up before, but you just shot it down and ruled your idea as fact) if Ted tells a story about a stripper and then says that she’s their mother, the kids are bound to react shocked at least for a second, which is only how long they do react. I think you’ll be upset to see when the mother’s name is NOT Tracy.
Also, has anyone ever tried pausing and/or zooming in on pictures around the room where the kids are seated? I did once and a guy who looks like Ted is with a blonde woman. I only tried for one episode though. It might change to throw us off, I don’t know. Also, I couldn’t zoom in and get a clear enough picture to even definitively say it was Ted, it just looked close. Can anyone get some clarification with that? Thanks
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February 26th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Another Thing which wasn’t mentioned till now:
Apparently, the mother has dark hair, at least at the wedding. Because in Episode 15 of season 2, when older Ted says his destiny was to stay in New York, you see the wedding, and for a tiny moment you see her hair and it’s dark brown or black…
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February 26th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
I have a theory as well…regardless of who the mother is, I believe that in the future as future Ted tells the kids the story of how he met their mother that the mother is actually dead. This would make it possible for Aunt Robin and Ted to be together raising the kids which would be a pretty happy ending for those of us who like Ted and Robin together. It’s also a good explanation as to why Ted is telling this long drawn out story in this way about how he met their mother.
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March 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
Christine, the problem with your “the mother is dead story” is those kids would be waaaay more interested in this story if that were the case. Can you imagine, if their mom was dead, them sighing and rolling their eyes and sarcastically asking their dad if he could tell the short version of the story??? They’d want to hear every word about the mother they had lost. Every word he had to say.
I’m very interested in the “Ted and the Mother are Divorced” theory, though. That would explain very nicely why she’s always referred to as “your mother”. I know when my dad talks to me about my mother he just calls her “mom”…he would never use such a detatched phrase as “your mother”.
I think all these theories flying around about us already seeing the mother are crap (no offense!!!) Like the one about the mother being the girl from the St Patty’s Day party. Intriguing, but think about it. If this woman, who was in the show for a mere 5 second cameo, turns out to be the mother, you know the producers won’t get away with using some other actress when the time comes to reveal the mother. They’d have to get THAT WOMAN to play Ted’s wife. How are the producers supposed to be sure that this random extra is going to be free and available for a role on HIMYM sometime in the not-so-near future when the “mother” character is revealed? It’s just not practical at all.
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March 1st, 2009 at 5:41 pm
hey guys,
I’ve read all your comments so far and would like to add something to it (altough some of it might be old news).
On the uncle theory: in season 4 when Ted and Stella break up there’s a flash-forward kids with blond hair and Ted says something like (I don’t remember exactly) that’s what you would’ve looked like if i’d married Stella. So that states Ted IS indeed the father.
On Robins’ sister being the mother: On the st. Patrick’s day episode we see the mother with a yellow umbrella standing in line for a club. But Robin’s sister is underaged! So she couldn’t even get into a club (Ted finds the yellow umbrella in the club so the mother has indeed been IN the club that evening).
btw, i like the Tracy-theory very much!! Never thought of that before reading these blogs.
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March 4th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Maybe, in the st patricks day episode, as Ted finds the yellow umbrella belonging to the Mother, the Mother finds the cell-phone belonging to Ted. Robin was not at the party – so she could not be the Mother.
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March 4th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
@Lily, well, wouldn’t they have already filmed that? The wedding is already shot, you just need to show the face. I think they could get away with it if they wanted. I just truly hope it is not Robin and they surprise us.
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March 10th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
@Lily,
Regarding the St. Patrick’s Day party at the bar, they say several times that the mother is in fact at that party…
Also they don’t necessarily need to get the same exact extra for whenever they plan to reveal the mother. A similar situation occurred in season 3 with the whole mess regarding Barney getting slapped by the girls he hit on. The girl that talks to Lily (go figure) had curly blonde hair, but was NOT Britney Spears, who it turned out to be in a later episode. In the commentary with the Producers on that episode, they even say that it is not Britney, and that at that time they didn’t even think of getting her to do that scene, but things worked out that she wanted to come back and they wanted her back, so they elaborated on the character of that girl and gave Britney Spears the part.
The just is: It doesn’t need to be the SAME EXACT girl
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March 11th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
First, I’d like to commend everyone on their comments and ideas. Its amazing how many clues have been researched. For my ramblings on who the mother might be, I have the following idea(s). If the Aunt/Uncle references aren’t merely titles given to friends of the family, then the only way I can think of them being actual Aunt’s and Uncle’s is for their to be a biological Mother that is related to either Barney, Lilly, Robin or Marshal. I will admit that I’m not an avid watcher as some of the people on this blog are, but I feel fairly certain that Barney could have a sister that he doesn’t yet know about. This would allow a story line to develope where one of Marshal’s brothers marries Robin’s sister. Robin would be married to Ted and the biological mother of the children would be related in an Aunt / Uncle type way to Lilly, Robin, Barney and Marshal.
Does meeting someone mean you at least exchanged names? I’m not sure if every person I’ve bumped into I would considered to have met.
That’s all I had for now. FLAME AWAY!
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March 17th, 2009 at 1:03 am
New Theory!!! I just watched the latest episode about how Lily messed up 6 of Teds previous relationships one of which was Robin! The episode gets Ted and Robin talking about things and they both agree to be each others backups if they end up alone by age 40. Sooooo I think Ted meets the mother has the two kids but eventually they split up, leaving him and Robin to pick up there promise and they end up together in the end! Think about it, Robin doesn’t want kids and wants to be spontaneous, well that’s what is happening in this time Future Ted is talking about, shes doing her thing. Ted wants kids, wants to get married, so he does only to find out his marriage doesn’t end up working out. He still loves his kids he’s probably still friends with his ex-wife aka the mother…. ladeladela…. ends up with Robin under terms that fits both of there personalities! The story of how he met there mother was probably told on his “weekend” to have the kids or something! Here is a bit more hard evidence: In season 3 on one of the first few episodes Robin dates a guy with a kid and its weird to her cause she isn’t a kid person, and she thought the kid drew a picture of her that said “My new Mommy”. By the end of the episode, Future Ted says something about her ending up in some more drawings “yours” he says to his kids, then it showed pictures of them with aunt Robin. Why??? Because she and Ted end up together, she spends time with them because she is with Ted! That’s my story and I’m sticking with it. If anyone else agrees awesome, otherwise I’m going Han style…SOLO!
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March 22nd, 2009 at 8:42 am
check out episode 12 season 3, when ted bumps into the chick at the club and says i’m sorry and the chick says oh thats okay and ted said he met her there, why would they just make that random bump from no reason? could be something there
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Nope Reply:
February 24th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. LOL. You should read the other 14 million posts on this before posting.
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February 24th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
thanks for saying it…I feel like I’m beating a dead horse when I tell people that’s old news and already dismissed.
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March 24th, 2009 at 12:40 am
I think it is the girl from the wedding that baked to cake and works at a bakery because they never broke up by arguing they broke up because she had to leave to a different country and long distenece could not work for them
and the daughter looks like her a bit
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March 24th, 2009 at 12:48 am
oh and its not robbin because thats the kids aunt so that means its robbins sister or he just says she a aunt
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March 26th, 2009 at 3:25 am
@Marko: I may be mistaken, but I think the girl he bumps into is the one that orders drinks on the name Ted then picks up, so bumping into her could just be a way to build suspense and make us wonder if he will get caught.
I would also love Robin to be the mother, but the twist had to be a real good one considering the kids have a aunt names Robin.
I loved Victoria the baker, but bringing her back would be kind of lame imo.
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March 26th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
I totally agree with you marko, i was just about to say that. about that random bump with the girl in the club she’s a brunette and ted does say he met her mother in the club and it did seem a bit too random
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March 27th, 2009 at 7:52 am
listen all…. I will try not to say this is a rude way. I love the enthusiasm for the theories, really, but try to add to the discussion and not try to bring up the same idea (ex. girl from the St. Patricks Day party) like it’s something that no one has ever thought about or mentioned. That idea has already been brought up and discussed several times on this thread. Could she be the mom? Suppose so, but please, the discussion is better for everyone if you read through what everyone says and try to add & not rehash.
Thanks and as you were.
*this has been a public service announcement from aaron. If this was an actually emergency there would have been screaming, some gun fire, a rubber chicken, no fewer than 2 reference to Superman and possibly cupcakes at the end. Thank you.
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March 27th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
About the Tracy theory: Sorry for x-posting, but I crafted this response to the “Tracy theory” post before realising I was a year too late for anyone to read it. So here goes:
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No – it can’t be someone called Tracy; that would be attaching a name to it too early and the writers couldn’t be that short-sighted.
The fact that the kids were so shocked was that they thought Older Ted was implying their REAL BIRTH MOTHER was a stripper named Tracy. For all we know the woman they know as their mother is an investment banker called Mildred. Or a stripper named Jenny. Who knows. But I’m guessing that’s what they thought at the time. Old Ted knows who the mother is – the kids thought (for a split second, until he said it was a joke) that this was his way of telling them who their birth mother was.
It’s not like the kids were witnesses at their own births. They look close enough in age to either be twins, or that one couldn’t remember being at the birth of their younger sibling. I’m 3 years older than my little brother, and I don’t bloody remember him being born.
But then, that’s just my theory of this theory. I really think the Tracy thing is a very well-done red herring.
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March 28th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Plus…if you look at the sitcom on the surface, it’s called “How I Met Your Mother”. If he already met her in S1 or something, surely the story of how he met their mother is over. What else is there to tell?
He hasn’t met her yet, otherwise the whole point of the show is over. It would be different if we didn’t see the kids reacting to Older Ted’s stories. If we had met her already, we would have seen a reaction from the kids…not 6 years later when they reference a character that’s already been introduced as the mother.
Unless…the kids REALLY don’t know who the (birth) mother is. Okay, so this is a completely new theory now!
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March 30th, 2009 at 2:49 am
Personally, I think the Mother is the girl he bumped into at the party on St. Patricks Day. Why else would the writers put her in the scene??? Or in the show, even. And if not, I would have to say, I love the show (ALOT!!!) but if the silly writers don’t go on with the story line and tell us who the Mother is, I think the shows going to lose fans. All in all, it certainly is a great storyline, and the Mother is yet to be revealed.
P.S OMG! It’s sooo cute that Robin and Barney are going to get together though. Their so cute together!!!
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March 30th, 2009 at 2:55 am
And no offence due JuliaJolie, but I highly doubt that the kids dont know who the mother is. Did you see how excited they where in the first episode when they asked “And thats how you met Mom?” They obviuosly thought that was going to be thier Mother. Dont forget they dont know what the Mother looks like, as it was a long time ago and they wouldve already spotted her out by now.
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March 30th, 2009 at 2:58 am
And continuing on from JuliaJolies “Tracy theory”, Ted knew how much his kids just wanted to get the story over and done with, so he was probally just trying to mess with thier heads and annoy them.
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March 30th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
one thing is clear the mother is ted’s wife and it is their children…….
i have probably seen each episode some 10 times and here are the clues which i could gather abt the mother
HAIR: she has brown hair, as the children- coz in an imaginary plot it was shown that children hair matched with stella. had he married her.
WHETHER SHE HAS COME IN THE SERIES: in “the spoiler alert” episode the gang says “that you knew it was around, but you would lose interest if you know it”- so i presume she has made an appearance .
NAME: i still back the tracy theory, coz there was a stress on the name tracy….
about no. of girls ted would have serious relationship: ans is 8 in “cockamouse” episode the marriage councilor said there are 8 women in new york
1. robin 2. skin specialist (same episode) 3. victoria 4. the girl ted was abt to meet but didnt go 5. stella 6.??? 7. ???? 8. ?????
in ted mosbey architect episode: ted:”just out of curiousity, if a guy told you that he was an architect, what will you think of that”
girl:” bla bla bla, how do you think mr. brady scored a babe like karen”
ted” solid poit, she did have hair of gold”
old ted”hmmmmm…..(you have to listen for it)”
and in barney’s recap there is no humming sound
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April 1st, 2009 at 3:55 pm
neeraj,
What does the fact that Ted discreetly went “hmmmmmm…” have to do with anything? I don’t quite get it. I remember that episode and that part (i too watch the episodes very frequently). If you’re implying that since Older Ted “hmmm”s, as in agreement, somewhat reveals that the kids’ mother does in fact have blonde (or gold) hair, why did you say she definitely has brown hair? That’s the only thing I can think of why you would mention that little dialogue and it contradicts what you say about her having brown hair (which I too believe).
Also, try to take a good look at the trinkets and pictures when they show the kids. I’ve tried and it’s hard to make things out, but if you have a clearer picture than me, there might be clues…
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April 7th, 2009 at 12:12 am
@Neeraj = HAIR: she has brown hair, as the children- coz in an imaginary plot it was shown that children hair matched with stella. had he married her.
==> with you on this one – and after the picture changed from the ’stella’ looking kids to the original ones, i thought, the girl really looks like Robin…so yes, i still want Ted to end up with Robin and i really do think that the son looks like ted jnr and the daughter looks like robin jnr…plus – robin has a lot more set up than just being uncle barney’s future wife…and yes you can now call me crazy
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April 7th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I read nearly all of the posts on this page and unless I just happened to miss one that has addressed this…I have to add my thoughts:
So many of you put your own personal context on these characters that it’s kind of funny. Someone who went through divorced parents thinks maybe they are divorced. You want Ted and Robin to be together because it would be nice? That must be it. I can’t even believe how obsessed anyone could be about a bit role someone played in an episode. If they showed the actressess face, do you really think they could be assured they’d get that same actress to come back and play “mom” 3-5 years later (assuming the show continues)? That’s a huge stretch, and considering how obsessed some *cough* people are about the most minute details of this show, it’s not like the writers wouldn’t know heads would explode scanners style if it’s not the same actress.
Has anybody considered that Robin and Ted split,…Barney or any of the other characters have kids. They are still close (as it seems they probably always would be). The biological parents (ie Barney or other main characters) die in a plane crash or car accident and the logical person(s) step in to raise the kids? Thus why he would go through a huge story about how he met their mom. He’s NOW their “dad” for all intents & purposes. This would also explain how Robin is their “aunt” and he’s their “dad”. There’s no reason why that doesn’t fit.
I’d say “LAWYERED”, but it seems that every time someone says that on here they are missing something pretty obvious.
Cheers,
Bryce
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April 13th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I cant remember what season this is attached to (either 1 or 2) but in the special features, we see interviews with the writers. The whole ‘how i met your mother’ story, is the writers’ personal story of how he met his wife.
The pilot episode and the finale has already been writen or at least thought of. All the rest in the middle are just to help make television – of which I am very grateful!! HIMYM FTW!!!
So obviously, they would have auditioned for the ‘mother’ and they have shot the wedding (already discussed further up).
Some good theories on this thread. Could they refer to Barney and Robin as Aunt & Uncle because they get married (Im half way through season 4 atm & Barney is trying so hard to get Robin!) Lily & Marshall are clearly Aunt & Uncle as they are married.
All will be revealed in the last episode! Oh why!!! haha
I dont think I can wait 10 years (ie what ‘Friends’ put us through!). But I guess the more HIMYM episodes, the better!!
Thanks
PS. Marshall has the right to use the phrase ‘lawyered’, because he is a lawyer…
I think we need an intervention!!!
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April 17th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
In the episode where Ted and Barney go to the St. Patricks Day party at the club, Ted notes that their mother was at the party, and that she had that Yellow Umbrella. Now I think that he did meet their mother at that party, and she was the girl that he bumped into inside on the floor for like one second on the way to the bar to talk to Barney. Just my thoughts…and that one day on the show he will have that yellow umbrella, and she will note that she once had one but left it at a party…
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April 22nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I am a longtime follower and fan of HIMYM. But to think that we know or have met the mother yet is completely idiotic and a waste of everyone’s time. I enjoy these theories, don’t get me wrong, but I strongly believe that even the writers have no idea who the mother will turn out to be. They are just worried about getting picked up next season.
The problem with the show is that it is episodic in nature, meaning that every episode is a self contained plot which operates within the general story arc of finding out who the mother is. The problem with that is now HIMYM has been doing sub story arc, i.e., Stella, Barney and Robin, Lily moving away, just to name a few. And these arcs must be closed eventually with some bad conclusion before the season ends incase CBS doesn’t pick it up again. The writers of the show are just leaving themselves an easy out in case CBS pulls the plug.
The Tracy Theory is entertaining but if to step back and take it in the context of the entire show, you realize that it is just a blunt oversight on the writer’s behalf. I am a big proponent of the girl in the St Patty’s Day bar. We know for a fact that she was there and that small encounter is too big of a thing to just be put in for no reason at all. We also know that the mother is a brunette (from the flash forward) and the girl for the bar is brunette is.
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April 28th, 2009 at 7:48 am
I’m a firm believer in the fact that the writers are giving themselves “outs” every season in case they don’t get picked up again for another season (let’s hope not). i.e. there is a potential mother thrown up in every season (e.g. bump girl).
However if the seasons keep coming and the possible mothers keep building up they are actually writing themselves a whole heap of potential mothers to choose from in the end (or they could always make themselves a new one). At this point I think that bump girl would be too obvious and the writers could easily write the mother in as another girl at the bar.
I think that Robin could potentially end up married or at least in a relationship with Ted. What if Ted does find the kid’s mother but stays great friends with “Aunt” Robin and the mother passes away or they separate and Ted and Robin end up together just before the narration begins. However, I think that the writers are actually trying to swing the audience towards warming to the fact that Barney and Robin are going to end up together (Sorry Robin+Ted fans).
I don’t think that Robin’s sister is a candidate as Ted calls all the gang either “Aunt” or “Uncle”.
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May 4th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
I think the creators know who they will make the mother out to be, because of the plot mirrors their lives. Marshall’s character is based on one of them, and Ted’s character is based on the other. The only thing we know is he met their mother before March 2014. In 2030 his daughter is 16 (season 1 ep 1 transcript states this) so the mother got pregnant 9 months before (maybe early 2014 and had baby end of ‘14. So at most we’ll only have to wait 5 more years. (At least we won’t have to wait longer, because of the kids ages being so close, 14 and 16, we can rule out sperm bank and surrogate mothers unless it’s the same surrogate mother for both kids) {How about that theory! LOL}
They may have left clues, but right now they are all just theories. It might be some big soap opera style explanation, no one knows.
I like this thread and hearing the theories, though. HIMYM is one of my all-time favorites. Maybe second behind The Wonder Years.
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May 5th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
didn’t last night prove that Stella was the mom? I saw on Yahoo recap earlier that they are claiming that HIMYM revealed the mother on last nights show. and It was Stella. And are the kids his kids or are they the kids of someone else. like I could tell you the story of how I met your mother an dI could be called your uncle TED!! so what if they are his niece and nephew? or what if he is baby-sitting for one of his friends?
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May 5th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
The story of How I met your mother doesn’t necessarily mean I’m your father!
(sorry about the triple posts)
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May 5th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Can I just say that people are really addicted in trying to find out who the mother is, myself include, hahaha ü. Don’t think to much of the Aunt Robin, Uncle Barney, or whatever Aunt or Uncle it is, it’s just basically a term some people use because they are close to that friend like a brother or sister. Since they have been friends for a long time, that’s what they use. And all we know from the St. Patrick’s episode that the mom owned the umbrella and that’s it, no need to think otherwise. For those who still want Robin and Ted, just want to say hope all you want, but don’t try to make sense of it, you’re not watching lost mixed with gossip girl, it’s how i met your mother, things doesn’t need to be complicated.
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May 5th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
check out this guy’s piece of proof about Stella being the mom..very interesting
http://seat42f.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2245&Itemid=94
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May 5th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
@Jason… I think the Yahoo story was jsut poor reporting. If you remember Shelter Island (i think that’s the ep) Ted goes on a flash forward to blond kids then says but it didn’t happen like that and..yatta yatta, Stella wasn’t the one.
I think it’s more likely that Stella either introduces the mom or brings about some cause and effect time in Ted’s like much like this episode. I went here because…
also no worry on the post thing.
@HeS..you hit it on the head. We are addicted to knowing!
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May 5th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
In the episode where Ted meets Stella, Stella does mention that the only time she ever went out in the last year was to a St. Patty’s Day party as well. But I have a feeling that the umbrella doesn’t even belong to Stella, just someone she knows, and Ted is going to spend time searching for her. I really doubt Stella is actually the mother.
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May 5th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I don’t think this was mentioned yet but on the dvd (I wanna say 1st season) in the special features the writers say that the final episode has already been written they just don’t know how many episodes (or seasons) will come in between. I also think, not saying that these theories arn’t interesting, but you guys are reading way to far into this. The show is called “How” I met your mother not “Who” is your mother. It is about the journey that led him to meet their mother so much more so than finding out who their mother is. So to say the writers can’t make any strange turns at any moment for the sake of good tv would be foolish on your part. I am 99.9999% confident that if you really think the wife’s name turns out to be Tracy you will be sadly disappointed. I bet the writers didn’t even realize that scene would cause such a stir. I for one haven’t enjoyed a show as much as this one in some time so I don’t wish to find out who the mother is anytime soon because that means that will be the end of the series.
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May 5th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
check the cast for episode 88
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1425523/
Christine Scott Bennett … Tracey
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2320532/
So assuming the Tracy Theory is right, she has to be the mother..
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May 5th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
If we have seen the mother before i think it’s the girl Ted bumps into in the episode “No Tomorrow”. The mother was at that party and it was so fast that he could have forgotten, but a cool flashback for us!
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May 5th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
@YoubeCrazy… yea it’s all been mentioned before but thanks anyhow.
@Alexander… “if” we have seen her it’s her, but I really don’t think it is. Seemed like too obvious of a moment to me. Who knows though. Maybe the next two eps will give a reveal.
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May 6th, 2009 at 11:24 am
As for Stella being the mother I very much doubt that.
Drawing on other theories (theories yes I know) about names, there is no way the kids wouldn’t pick up on the fact that Stella was a doctor same as their mother (if indeed Stella is the mom). Also, there is an episode, I cannot remember which, wherein you see a possible future where the kids look different and Stella shows up while Future Ted is telling the story. So I very much doubt Stella is the mother. Everything in the show is about the person he had to become before he could meet and get together with their mother.
This last episode shows the moment where the direct chain of events leading to “how he met their mother” begins. At least that’s how I see it. I don’t think we’ve seen her yet.
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May 6th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
The mother should be Victoria(Ashley Williams)! Are there any theories on her??
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May 6th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Ok — I read most of the entries… I think the episode “Milk” where that dating service finally finds Ted’s “soul mate” was talking about the Mother. I need to re-watch the episode when I get home, but I’m pretty sure the “soul mate’s” name was Tracy… I could’ve sworn the name was mentioned… and it would play into the whole “Tracy Name Theory.” I always thought that the “soul mate” he blew off for Robin was her… What do you think? Anyone remember that episode?
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May 6th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
hey guys i dont think its stella, cause heres why…
he says if he hadnt done all those things he wouldnt have met the mother…well if he hadnt done all those things he wouldnt have met stella either…so by meeting stella at this time, they talk maybe become friendly, whatever, and through her he meets the mother, hence meeting stella at that corner helps him meet the mother…
also (this is me being very picky and i personaly dont think the writers think this closely but who knows) in this episode, ted has a yellow umbrella, which if u watch closely has the same opening strap on it as the one in the opening of season 3. and ted says theres several stories about meeting his mother, what if he soon meets the mother, gives her the umbrella for whatever reason in some episode, and only ends up meeting her again becaues it blows away.
personaly idk if any of this is right or wrong, but im gut says he really “met” the mother…possibly a minor character from an episode like “ok go” or “the st. pattie day party” could return but no one major
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May 6th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
on the yellow umbrella theory…everytime someone is holding a yellw umbrella doesnt mean thats the mother, its just building suspence and stuff, i think its just a reminder of the subtle clues of who the mother is
also the tracey theory…i think that just people looking too far into it, he doesnt tell his kids every detail that we see in the show, the truth is what we see as an audience is more detailed than the story the kids are getting…so when she says her realy name is tracey, and we jump on a name, all the kids got was “so i started talking to a stripper and thats how i met you mother” im not saying that the tracey theory is wrong, and the fact that someone is cast as a tracey in an upcoming episode has me very excited, but i just want to offer this as an alternate theory that its not deffinate
also i personally wanna see robin end up with barney, and she isnt the mother of the children because seaon 3 episode 4 little boys, ted tells the kids how from a young age they made pics of them with robin, all labeled aunt robin, so ted could still end up with robin like in several other theorys, but still shes not the mother of the kids on the couch
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May 7th, 2009 at 5:28 am
well, with the yellow umbrella episodes(Season 3 episode 1 and Season 4 EP 22). Who got the umbrella at the first place?………………….want to know XD
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May 7th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
@The Tracy Theory
Isn’t it possible that the kids react that way just because he mentions the name Tracy?
How would you react when your dad tells you about a girl named Tracy and then says “that’s how I met your mother”, when as far as you know, your moms name was Barbara or Bob or something. Pretty shocked i guess?
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May 7th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Haha, exactly the kind of site I’ve been looking for!
About the Tracy theory, here is a possibility that can shoot it down.
Since future-Ted said “I’m only kidding”, to support this joke, he names this “burlesque entertainment artist” as Tracy (their mother’s name). That is part of the joke he was telling (not only wasn’t it the mother but it’s also not the “artists” real name)! That is how he manages to fool them in to thinking this was the mother (since you so thoughtfully pointed out that they shouldn’t have bought in to it if the identity wasn’t correct).
What do you think? =)
Btw, I also think it MUST be Robin! Yes, I know all about the hints about she isn’t. There is a loophole. I just haven’t thought enough surrounding it. If “you” were a writer, how could you still write Robin as the Mother? The fact that they were so quick to dismiss Robin as the Mother only proves they wanted to throw the audience off as quickly as possible. They never made a big deal out of it (for example as a season finale thing etc). There is no disappointment and anticipation for when the true revelation comes at the end of the series that she is in fact the Mother. I mean, imagine if this was served for the first season and beyond and even serving as a season finale, to finding out she isn’t the Mother but at the end of the series finding out that she is the Mother. THAT would’ve been a cop-out and annoying as hell! With the setup now, there is no coyness, no promises or anticipation, they have even gone as far as dropping clues she is not the Mother. That serves as the perfect setup to revealing her to be the Mother at the end! I promise you that! From a writer POV or as a x going series, it has to deserve its end. It has to live up to anticipation. Finding out that Ted’s x Jane Doe girlfriend, being around for a couple of eps to audiences, being the Mother won’t move or change one heartbeat!
PS. Has the executive producers said anything about WHEN to end the show? Has they set an expiry date?
PS. How has the writers buried themselves by saying that Ted is 30 years old and the goat?
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May 9th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Season 4, episode 21: “(…) When I got your mother’s number, I called her right away.” Ted said this towards the end, which leads me to assume that the mother has yet to be introduced. Thank god it’s not Stella!
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May 9th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Why the hate for Stella? I loved her! Sarah Chalke is so damn charming and cute!
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aaron Reply:
May 9th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
no real hate for Stella from me. I love Sarah Chalke… I just know she is not the mother.
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May 10th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Aaron, I was replying to Fredrik’s comment: “Thank God it’s not Stella!” =)
Btw, what did you think of the things I said in my post earlier?
PS. I really love the preview function on this site WHILE you are writing a post. Brilliant! Did you write the programming code for this site yourself?
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May 10th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
@Johnas gotcha and Thanks. The preview deal is just a wordpress plugin. But the programming looks fairly simple.
As far as what you said above. you pretty much nailed my reasoning for the Tracy theory. And thought parts of the Series finale have “supposedly” been shot (like the kids part), there is no final date for the show.
The goat was just an instance of how they buried themselves, and got called on it by fans so they had to so something about it. And while I love your thinking I still disagree with you on Robin. There is way too much that says definitely not, but like I say I love to be proven wrong. =)
@Fredrick. Yea, I think some crappy reporting helped in the reports lately that Stella was the mother. I talk about this a little in this post: the return of Stella…warning. spoilers.
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May 11th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
@Jonas H. The reason I have “hate” for Stella has, first off, nothing to do with Sarah Chalke. It’s the character. If you look around in the series, you get the very obvious image of Ted as being super, if not exceedingly, romantic. Robin even says in “Shelter Island” that his marriage to Stella is not the big romantic ending he deserves. That he was disappearing into someone else’s life. No matter how they choose to twist it that will always be the case if it turns out to be Stella.
Going through the series you start to set standards for the characters. If Barney decided to have a wedding and then bail on the bride, we’d most likely accept it because, well, we’ve accepted worse from him and they’d make it funny. But with Ted there is no way we will see him go back to the woman who virtually left him standing at the altar.
Concerning names.
I think it is difficult to discern what the kids hear and what we hear. I think there are too many details in the show to assume that the kids know what we know. But when ever Bob Saget mentions a name or an event, I think we can assume that they know that. And he does mention Stella’s name to them and he does mention Aunt Robin as well. That to me suggests a) that Stella is not the mother otherwise the kids would’ve known already and would’ve either been shown surprised at their first wedding or have mentioned that now they had heard the story and b) that he refers to her as Aunt Robin suggests that she isn’t their mother. She’s even in their drawings from when they were little.
Okay I’m done
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May 11th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
I just want to quickly add my two cents.
Another character from the season 3 finale makes a return for the season 4 finally. Bill, the hospital orderly / male nurse, has been cast for the season 4 finale. To refresh your memory, Ted is in a car accident and has to go to hospital. Later in the episode, he proposes to Stella.
I’m not sure what role Bill will play, but I’m guessing there is another hospital stay in store for one of the main characters. Maybe there is a possible leap off the roof ny Ted??? The finale is titled “The Leap”. Maybe Ted’s future wife is the attending doctor, appropriately named Tracey. You all can call me a prophet next week after it comes true.
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May 13th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Did episode 23: As fast as she can, air yet? I don’t get American shows very fast where I am.
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May 13th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
@Frederik, yes, it aired last night. You can watch it on my site though..LEt me know if you have problems.
Watch As Fast as You Can Here
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May 13th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Thanks man but it says it’s unavailable when I go by your front page. Can’t click the link you put up there
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May 14th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I think that the mother is the girl Ted used to date, who went to Germany to become a pastry chef. I think she comes back and things work out between them, and that is how he met their mother. The Tracy theory is really something too but, it could also be a diversion! but, I want to know for sure now!! the suspense is killing me!!!
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May 15th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
As much as i love that Robin is not the mom but she is Ted’s wife theory, I am afraid it has proven not true:
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/video/video.php?cid=544192181&pid=5YAxscGyrkxXfktTWvqCCmFq7ns4KSUo&category=recent&play=true
From the interview, Josh had mentioned that scene is significant about meeting the “wife”, not the kids’ mother…
Of course, the actor may not know the plot as well as the writer does…
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May 16th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Paula:
After fast forwarding through episodes, found it. Season 1 ep 7 second 22. The girl says: whow, that was a great story DAD. Wer’re gonna watch TV
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May 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
To all of you quering about the aunt an uncle stories. My theory is that, all of them know each other for years and they consider themselves as family. I think Ted even mentions that a few times. Like a christmas in new york where he says” this year I’ve decided to spend it with my other family” or something like that. All the guys even call each other BRO’s, so it is natural for the kids to consider Ted’s friends as uncles / aunties
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May 18th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
some days ago in wikipedia’s page of himym was written the name of the actress playing the mother’s role! now it’s disappeared! unfortunatly i dont remember her name but is the woman in the last seasons of Dr. House MD.
Anyway i pretty much support the trace theory and the st.patrick day theory both, as they arent exclusive.
One thing that hasnt been pointed out yet and is important to finally realized ted must be the real father and the mother is the actual ted’s wife is the episode where at the end we see ted lily and marshall “eating a sandwich” at their college re-union party.
Ted clearly says: where is my wife??? obviusly referring to the wife-mother!
Last thing…i think that the mother will be…Stella’s sister!
greetings from tallinn (estonia)
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May 18th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
I’ve been a fan of this show for a while and I’m convinced that the Slutty Pumpkin is the mother and here’s why:
Whenever young Ted or another character mentions the possibility of the mother, Old Ted clears it up while narrating. Example, Okay Awesome, Marshall says, “Hey, maybe it will be that cute coat check girl.” and Ted says, “Yeah, maybe it will be.” Then Old Ted says, “It wasn’t.” But, then in the Slutty Pumpkin episode Young Ted says, “Come on, wouldn’t it be the coolest story ever if the Slutty Pumpkin turned out to be my future wife?” And Old Ted says nothing while Lily responds with, “Oh well, on the off chance that that could happen, maybe we should stop calling her the Slutty Pumpkin.”
My Slutty Pumpkin theory does not negate the St. Patty’s or the Tracey theory. Ted ‘dresses up’ as the hanging chad because he wants her to recognize her implying that she wouldn’t recognize him otherwise, which means the Slutty Pumpkin could still be the girl from the St. Patty’s party and Ted just didn’t recognize her. Also no names were included so the SP could be named Tracey.
Anywho, these posts were very interesting to read, and I wanted to add my two cents!
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May 19th, 2009 at 10:13 am
i’d love the slutty pumpkin turning out to be the mother but it’s very unlikely because:
-now we know ted meets her in her architectural class at uni, she was studying in a totally different area and it’s hard to predict she would go back to uni after so many years
. in the website tedmosbyisnotajerk.com there is her history! and she states she is now working in antartic region
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May 25th, 2009 at 5:00 am
there was this episode in season 3 i think, where ted and barney go to this club (where ted got punched in the face), the voiceover says the mother was also in that club and we see a top shot of the line of people going inside the club, and there we see a yellow umbrella.
there was a very short scene (less than 5 seconds) where ted bumps into a girl on the way to the bar and says sorry. that part of the scene i think had nothing to do with the whole episode and my theory is, that girl was the mother.
its a long shot but i felt that part of the scene was really unnecessary unless the writers wanted to sneak in a clue regarding who the mother is.
the said girl was wearing jeans, the girl holding the umbrella in the line outside the club was also wearing jeans.
my theory. its a long shot.
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May 26th, 2009 at 7:01 am
@Conrad…
I’m not trying to be rude but PLEASE,PLEASE! try to come up with something original or something that hasn’t been mentioned on this thread at least 10 times. Reading even a few comments would help.
From here on out, unless it’s a new angle on the bump girl the comment will be promptly deleted. Sorry and Thanks in the same breath.
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May 27th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Wow I just read this entire page, took me about 15 minutes ! Some people are very deep thinkers ! I did have my own opinion before reading all of this, I think its only been mentioned once, very briefly.
Firstly id like to say the mother cannot possibly be Robin, otherwise why would she be referred to as “Aunt Robin” > Also the term ‘Aunt’ might not mean a parents brother or sister, but could easily mean just a close friend, hence “Uncle Barney and “Uncle Marshall” Its also worth noting I have seen seasons 1-3 and about 15 episodes of season 4.
I think the Mother is Stella. Firstly, the yellow umbrella business, there is an epsiode where Bob Saggot says something to the effect of “the short story of how i met your mother involves the yellow umbrella – Can be seen in 1st ep of Season 3 “wait for it” – Then theres the Saint Patty’s Day episode ‘no tomorrow’ > he says “funny story, your mum was there” – Easy to conclude that the mother is the Lady at the front holding the yellow Umbrella.
When Ted is visiting Stella in the “10 sessions” episode, to get his butterfuly tattoo removed, she says how busy her life is with her Daughter Lucy, how she only gets 2 minutes to herself each day, shes only been to 1 party in the last 12 months, Saint Pattys day – she says it sucked and she had to leave early. Surely its possible she left her Umbrella at the party, which Ted found – and she might find his mobile phone, which theyll then return to each other when they get back together again. I know they broke up early in the season, but is it possible theyll get together again, possibly in a later season?
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May 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I didn’t read through ALL of the comments posted, however, I do remember the one episode, I think it was St. Patty’s day, he says at the end that the mother WAS at the party that night, but he didn’t know that until later.
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May 28th, 2009 at 11:41 am
also someone mentioned how in the season 4 finale we learn that ted meets the mother in his class…but this doesnt mean that she is a student. its possible hes teaching and someone walks into the class, or because of that class hes at the college and bumps into someone, idk but i feel like 30ish ted dating and marrying a 20ish student of his will be a little off character for him, although that may be a breed one night stand in a latter episode.
also besides the slutty pumpkin idea offered early, i personly hope the mother hasnt been met yet because most women i dont want to be the mother. stella broke his heart and many of his ex’s are exs for good reasons. as for robin i think the end of season 4 really pushed the idea of barney and robin and we’ll see how that plays out next season but i really think ted will be ok with it, no internal problems again and barney and robin will be a couple for a long time
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May 28th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Back to something HANNAH said a while back… If it is true that in season 4 when Ted and Stella break up and they flash foward and Ted says something about “that is what you would’ve looked like if I’d married Stella…” then I would say that infers that Ted did INDEED marry their mother. He’s comparing their relationships. This is what would’ve happened if I married Stella vs. but this is what really happened because I married your mother. If he hadn’t married their mother, then he would’ve said… this is what you would’ve looked like if Stella was your mother.
I also agree with JuliaJolie. It does not make sense that Ted has met their mother thus far in the story. Especially because if the St. Patty’s Episode. He clearly says that He did not yet meet her. So when he does, even if it’s just a bump into at a club, he would say… “that is the first time I saw/met your mother.” That is also why Robin is not the mother, I think we’ve confirmed that by now.
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May 28th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I think we should also give up the Robin/Ted thing. This is definately not a Ross and Rachel scenario. I think we can be happy with them not ending up together. I’ve gotten over it by now that they aren’t together. I’ve also had enough with the sick ways you are trying to put them together. Why would we think that maybe the mother has died? Let’s just say that no one would write a comedy sitcom based on a man’s story to his kids of how he met their mother who is now dead. Kinda morbid. I also really don’t think that they are divorced. Why do you have to be divorced to say “your mother.” My dad always says “your mother.” “where’s your mother… Have you talked to your mother.” Same as “your brother.” Has anyone checked on if Ted has ever called her “mom?” Either way, I think that HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER sounds better than HOW I MET YOUR MOM. They always say “Mother” and “Father” on tv.
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May 29th, 2009 at 11:22 am
The mother is girl from season 3 episode 12 (“No Tomorrow”)! At 13:46 Ted ran into her and they accidentally hit each other, then Ted apologized and she said: “That’s OK”! It must be her, because Ted sad that they met on that party, but didn’t talk to each other! I can put bet on it!!!
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May 29th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
He never says that he actually met her or bumped into her at that party, he just says to the kids “funny story your mother was there” – He couldve found that out 10 years later in a dinner table discussion for all we know !!
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June 3rd, 2009 at 4:13 am
i think it is robbin i dunno why but she has been in the show since the start!!
or
barney and ted hook up and get a surrogate mother to have the kids for them LOL
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June 3rd, 2009 at 6:49 am
i think when we finally find out who the mother is a bunch of scenes from all the previous seasons will flash and i bet the actor playing the mother will be there in all of them. We would have just brushed her off as some extra in the background but it would be cool if the writers had placed her there strategically
also im anti robin being the mum *yawn* to boring/predictable and i love robin being with barney anywayz…awww he needs somone to love
and the whole stripper convo – i think you’re all going to deep and ted saying it was the mother was just a way to get his kids interested in the story.
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June 13th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I think its the girl ted bumped on the st. Patrick day party. i’ve also got a hinch that she is the same girl who is said to be his soulmate in season 1 milk. and she is infact the same girl with the umbrella as she is wearing jeans and a jacket she could have eaisly removed the jacket once inside.
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June 14th, 2009 at 7:39 am
hey everyone, been reading all the messages and find it quite interesting.
I dont think its Robin, well aunt Raobin.. been discussed. BTW what about Holly, she was in the 3 day rule. They leave the scene together, and in the next episodes there are no further mentionings, nothing good and nothing bad.
So i think we need to focus on the ONLY true hint the writers give us who the mother is. The yellow umbrella. i just saw the “At the right place at the right time” episode and no one mentioned that “a” yeollow umbrella is in the appartement, which ted then uses. This wud indicate that its robins umbrella of teds umbrella and he loses it to the real mom. but then again, it cant be robin. and in that episode theres a curiousity bout stella. but shes married and the kids wud be blond. so it cant be hear. but i feel she has to do something w stella. maybe her sis who slept with barney? but no evidence there. let me know wat u think.
later
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June 14th, 2009 at 7:47 am
ok scrap that theory. she was crazy and shes out. and the umbrella found in no tomorrow.
damn
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June 17th, 2009 at 5:23 am
hey….
i personally feel that robin is the mother.
ted is delibrately saying aunt robin so that we as an audience could nt guess by any chance…..
i dont have any proof… its just my intitution.
thanxx
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June 18th, 2009 at 6:34 am
im pretty sure we have not seen the mother yet. With all the facts laid out in the comments, theres no way that we have met her yet
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June 19th, 2009 at 4:13 am
yeah id have to agree with Dld. i doubt we saw her, but if we have then she was someone who walked across the screen with no importance, like a party person. but im guessing that the writers will sowly let us see more and more of her when we come to the end of the show, which shud never happen. cuz the show is lengen….wait for it….dary !!!!!
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July 1st, 2009 at 9:37 am
hey…
loadza commetns…
Did u notice that the boy never calls ted ‘dad’….its only the girl…cud be lik hes talking to the son when he says “thats how i met YOUR aunt robin”…….
basically im looking reasons to put ted nd robin back togeda
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July 3rd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
They have already shown her.
Just watch the Saint Paddy’s day episode when Ted and Barney went to the club. She was at the club with a yellow umbrella. Freeze the part they show her, then pay close attention.
Back in the club, he bumps into her, and they both share a quick moment. That girl was wearing the same exact pants as the woman with the yellow umbrella…….it’s that simple
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July 15th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Exellent Post!
A lot of people said hat it’s not Ted that is talking with the kids but Barney, with this explanation they want to say that Robin is with Ted. I don’t want to believe it..
Robin is not the Mother. I think it’s one of the few thigs we know for sure.
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July 16th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Have anyone tried to google or something the story of how the writer met his wife? (probably yes, but it was just a guess). anyways, nice theories. I just hope there’s some legendary twist in the end that no one was expecting.
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July 19th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
here my bit! Robin is the mother…reason:
The kids don’t know who their mom is. He is actually telling them who their mom is as well as how he met her. I guess He n Robin got married, but Robin left them. The show will end with both of them coming back together. In a way, he is preparing the kids!!!
St Patricks day: The event is know by Marshal and he has not told it to anyone. So Robin might have been there that day. She is shown in Lily&Marshal apartment, but she may have been there earlier or later.
Yellow unbrella: Robin may have one. The next time Ted takes out “a” yellow umbrella, it is when he is sharing an appartment with Robin. So it may be hers and a different one.
Compared to other characters, Robin’s is the most simple to describe..”with” Ted or “without” Ted (like they send her to all weird places). Most of her actions only bring variation, but no big change in the story.
Anyway, the 4th seaon finale left lots of questions! Lets see how she fits in the “class” theory!
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
I’m one of those people who want it to be Robin, and so i try and find any possible reason for the mother to be her.
Well, perhaps Ted is using a fake name for all the characters. The children dont seem to recognise any of the names.
Bedanta uve got a good point, but one other thing. If im wrong, Ted never calls Lily aunt Lily to the children. It would be weird if she was the mother but ?
However, in the finale of season4 ted says his future wife was in the class he was teaching. No-one we yet know(i think) had an interest in architecture. (Except holli) season 4
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July 21st, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I know this is speculation and a million to one chance but as Ted has the mother’s umbrella and we know she’s in his class which is how he meets her then this is just an idea of how they could get talking.
It’s a rainy day so Ted comes in to school with the yellow umbrella. One of his students mentions that she had an umbrella that was exactly the same that she lost whilst out drinking one night. Ted tells her when he found it and at which club. Obviously the mother realises that she was at the club at the same time on the same night and she left her umbrella there. They strike up a conversation and blam! That’s the real story of how he met their mother!
What do you think? Believable?
Correct me if I’m wrong about his phone going missing but maybe it was the woman on St. Patrick’s Day that bumped into him pick pocketed him! :O
Ha, that’d be nice.
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July 25th, 2009 at 10:34 am
ted said, that their mother was at the same st patrick’s day party as he was.
so, when stella tells him about her daughter, she’s also telling him, that she’d been to only one party in the past few years, on st patrick’s day… and that she left early….. but still…i hope that robin’s the mother ;D
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July 27th, 2009 at 3:21 am
i dont know how their goin to do it if it is the case, but i hope somehow robin’s the mother. Theres soemthin wrong about some random chick comin up and marrying ted.
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July 28th, 2009 at 4:22 am
In the very first episode Ted says “…Marshal has found the love of his life, even if I was ready..which i’m not..but if I was it like ok, where is she?”
The over voice then says and there she was, as the camera zooms in on Robin and a Blond talking. As it has already been stated that Robin is the Aunt I am guessing that the Blond who’s face we never see is the Mother of his children.
It is likely that towards the end of the show we will find they were always so close to meeting each other, always crossing paths, but never making contact. So I’m betting that Ted will meet a Blond called Tracy in is architect class.
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July 28th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Hey, sorry to burst your bubbles about the kids arnt his theory but at the begining of season 1 episode 1 he says “25 years ago, BEFORE I WAS DAD, i had a whole different life” which proves he’s thier dad which im annoyed about because i wanted him and robin to get married but that kinda shoots tht out of the water
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July 28th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Now I am a firm believer in the “Tracy Theory”, and I’m pretty sure the mother is not going to be Stella, yet I can’t help coming back to the scene where Ted is in Stella’s clinic asking her out, and she says something like: “I haven’t been out for ages, the last party was a St. Patricks day one…”
Why would they put that in? Ted says that she was at that party but he didn’t meet her. I also wonder how Ted got his yellow umbrella that he walks around with, maybe Stella left it at his house? In which case it would be her yellow umbrella. But still, I think the “Tracy Theory” is true.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:29 am
I really lykd the Ted not being their father theory even though it has been proven rong. However just because he refers to Robin as “aunt” it doesn’t completely cross her out as the mother, after all doesn’t he call the other characters aunt Lilly and uncle Marshall .
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:39 am
@Romy
Future Ted does call them aunt Lily and uncle Marshall sometimes, here’s an example from s04e10 ‘The Fight’ “Kids, I can’t tell you whether fighting is good or bad; and i can’t tell you not to do it. I can only give you one piece of advice about fighting: don’t get into a fight with your uncle Marshall. ‘Cuz that guy’s crazy.”
@ Celeste
I think Stella being out on St. Patrick’s Day was just a bit of a red herring by the writers. Also, he got the yellow umbrella when he went looking for his phone at the club he was at in ‘No Tomorrow’ (St. Patrick’s Day episode) because as he was leaving in the morning it began to rain so he went back in and got the yellow umbrella.
@Everyone else
I really think Robin is NOT the mother, I think her being a love interest was just a way for the writers to make it so they could string the story out for longer, note the way on the penultimate season 1 episode ‘Milk’ Ted was supposed to meet his soul mate but chose not to and went for Robin instead. I think if there were plans of cancelling the show they would have made him meet his ‘Love Solutions’ soulmate and been able to end the show.
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July 31st, 2009 at 6:49 pm
one is clearly:
Robin is not mom
Robin was raised children (drawings of aunt Robin and children)
Ted is dad (few times children called him dad)
Someone else is mom, probably they dont know who is mother!
i just scared that robin end with barney
i want robin and ted!
robin and ted-i zaljubljeni par, kad se budu zenili kupit cu im dar a u daru trube da se boje jube!
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July 31st, 2009 at 7:55 pm
or is the story a little different and “or how the story begins and ends with robin”
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July 31st, 2009 at 9:25 pm
aaron have u considered that if tracy first introduces herself as amber and then says: “actually… it’s Tracy” the kids may thought that their mother was indeed tracy but changed her name again. If i was told that history i’d be like (eg: what??? mom’s real name is tracy, and she was a stripper??)
i think the mother’s name isn’t Tracy.
sorry for my english… i’m portuguese. cya
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August 1st, 2009 at 1:44 pm
@xl….
I’m having trouble following what you are getting at. I would think the kids know their mom’s name (please don’t read too much into the possibilities of that statement.) To me the Tracy theory only holds any validity because the name matches their mom’s name.
I mean otherwise, the kids wouldn’t even believe old Ted’s story. “That’s funny dad, but mom’s name isn’t Tracy!” that sort of thing. Either way, it’s just a theory… I haven’t placed large wagers on it in Vegas or anything contrary to popular belief.
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August 2nd, 2009 at 4:14 am
So many replies. Way too many repeats though. To the people that keep bringing up the “girl he bumps into at the bar” scenario, look up the phrase “red herring.” Stella was a major red herring but it became absolute fact that she is not the mother. Stella and Tony are each others “the one.” End of that story.
I believe we haven’t seen the mom yet. If we don’t get to meet her in season 5, I’ll be so disappointed.
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August 3rd, 2009 at 3:38 am
I believe that Tracy is the mother.
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August 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Just a quick thought…..
I don’t know who the mother is, but I think that we have to have met her at some point.
The alternatives are that in the final episode, we meet some random woman that we have never seen before, she is the mother, and everything is over. Disappointing to say the least. The show is called how I met your mother. Not “several years of crap I did with a handful of people you aren’t related to, but call aunt and uncle.” Don’t get me wrong, I love the show, and would watch it even if it had the second title. However, it would be incredibly anticlimactic to just make it be random extra number 12 that is on set during the last day of filming.
Secondly, this has been going on for a while now. I hope it lasts a lot longer, but who knows how long it will go…. it can’t go on forever without resolving its namesake issue. As it heads down the road here, they can’t very well introduce a new member of the club that we come to know well enough to want it to be the mother without hanging a neon sign around her neck blinking “MOTHER” for the final several episodes. I, for one, and going to be pissed if it is just Jane Doe we see once.
I don’t know who she is, but I strongly believe that we have meet her before, because it needs to be someone that we are familiar with already so as to make it interesting, or someone that we have at least had a passing introduction to so that a re-entry will not be too terribly obvious.
Is her name Tracy? Maybe. But if it isn’t the stripper (and it isn’t, lets be honest here) then knowing her name means we get hit with a mallet the first time he meets a pretty brunette named Tracy (or perhaps he dates 6 tracys in season 7) or in the last episode, the mother, who we never meet, don’t know, and could care less about, will be named Tracy.
Is it Robin? I would love it to be so…. but I think the book has been closed on that.
I don’t know how they are going to close it…. they have written themselves into a lot of corners, and we will have to see how they get out.
jb12
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August 4th, 2009 at 4:37 am
I… am the Mother.
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August 4th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Again I will say I hope it is robin, and hopefully there is a way it can be robin, but I think the mother will be some chick that me throughout a season like stella. We will meet her at the beginning of the season and the finale will be the marriage. Whether this happens in the next season or the one after I don’t know. What how much longer can they stretch it on. But with the Tracy theory, if the people behind the scenes introduce someone called tracy, every1 will know she is the mother and some people wouild stop watching. Its all about the money and the viewers, so I don’t believe the tracy theory is valid
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August 4th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
-well.. it is not robin forsure because if hes just saying aunty robin to trick us then the show is retarded..which im sure the creator are smarter than that. it is not stella forsure either because stella laready has a daughter..where is the third daughter ? why is he only telling stories to two of his kids.
-i want robin to be with barney bc they are soo perfect for each other..
-i have the feeling the mother is that girl who moved to Germany i believe for 2 years. shes a brunette, n so are the kids.. n not only that..when season 5 comes out..it should be about 2 years already.
maybe ted inspired her and she wanted to be an archetic n she attend his class n he met her agian.
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August 4th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
wow…this post has been getting a ton of activity lately. Pretty awesome.
great discussion by all. I think I’m going to institute something like great debate so it’s easier to follow!
@sisi, I would love for it to be Victoria and while I do hope we see her again, I know she is not the mother from some different things that old and new Ted have said.
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August 5th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
jb12, good points. It would be kind of lame if they introduced this completely new character to us fairly late in the series. They’re creeping up on their 100th episode right? To finally introduce us to a new but VERY SIGNIFICANT character so late is a major risk. We’re obvously supposed to fall head over heals over the mother because this is the person that Ted’s been longing for. I dunno if the fans would automically do that just because she is the mother.
I don’t think it’s Victoria. I don’t believe it’s Robin. She was the very first red herring of the show. I think it’s the Slutty Pumpkin. Whether her name is Tracy or not, who knows.
I’m so ready for season 5.
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August 8th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Calling Robin “Aunt Robin” is not because she is the mother’s sister, it’s likely just a term of endearment. This is highly supported by the fact that he also calls Lily, Marshal, and Barny Aunt and Uncle.
The scene where Ted bumps into the girl at the party was too out of place to be cast aside. I’m not sure that she is the mother but I don’t think it should be discounted so quickly. I doubt the writers put so much thought on the wardrobe for the two scenes of the umbrella carrier and the party bump girl.
We’re not going to really know who the mother is until the final season because then the story will be over. Which is kind of sad because the premise is a bit silly and insignificant. I’m sure I’m not the only one who watches the show for the characters and the episodic plots, not simply to find out who the mother is. It’s sad that the characters won’t be able to continue existing when the mother is met.
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August 10th, 2009 at 3:30 am
The mother be “jasmine from pilot episode” …….
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August 10th, 2009 at 7:11 am
JUST FIND OUT WHO THE HELL IS THE MOTHER AND LET ME KNOW < ITS DRIVING ME NUTS
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August 11th, 2009 at 5:20 am
read all your theories, and here’s my take on it:
The show is “How I Met Your Mother,” it’s not “Friends,” so scratch all the Rachel-Ross parallel that it will be Ted and Robin in the end; and it is also not the movie, “Definitely, Maybe,” so scratch all theories that Ted is divorced with the mother in 2030 or that she’s dead, or that Ted is using fake names while telling his kids the story. No.
As far as I know, except for the scene where director pam fryman passed by McLaren’s under the big yellow umbrella one rainy night pretending to be the mother, we haven’t met the mother yet. She is somewhere in Ted’s class in Columbia University (could be a student, a TA, a guest speaker for his class, or the janitor, haha).
The creators has completely shot down alot of the theories mentioned here, like the Tracy theory: i still think the kids reaction was more from their dad joking that their mom was stripper, it doesn’t really conclude that the mom’s name is Tracy;but on the other hand, it doesn’t negate it either. However, i think Tracy from Iowa in the last episode of Season 4 is the creators’ way of telling us to stop with the Tracy theory already.
As for Bump Girl, i think she still could be the mother, but i highly doubt it.
The narrator IS the older version of Ted and the kids are his biological kids, coz the creators and Bob Saget said so (watch the episodes with audio commentaries from the dvds and read interviews).
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August 11th, 2009 at 5:21 am
And Robin is definitely not the mother, coz even in the episode “Lucky Penny,” when Ted and Robin were clearly still together, Older Ted said that if he didn’t stay in New York, he would not have met their mom. Same goes when Ted and Robin revealed that they already have broken up during Lily and Marshall’s wedding, Older Ted said Robin got to travel and he, on the other hand, met their mom.
As for the back-up marriage pact when they are 40, again, this is not Friends. Like Bump Girl, i think it’s just red-herring. I think Robin is merely instrumental in helping Ted find the mother, just as she promised to him in the early episodes of season 1. Plus, it’s sooooo gonna be Barney and Robin. that’s canon. I also think it doesn’t do Ted or the whole series justice if we find out in the end that Ted’s romantic quest didn’t have a happily ever after, so the mother would still have to be alive in 2030 and still be with Ted.
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August 21st, 2009 at 9:55 am
People who think Robin is Mrs Mosby: You are telling me that after 4 seasons we are waiting to know who the mother is at the end the mother is Robin??? NO WAY! I’d kill the writers i want Robin with Barney..
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August 25th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
okay, remember the episode that took place on st. patricks day where ted and barney went to a huge party. and ted said that the “mom” was at the party, so i think that the mom is the girl who ted bumped into and he said “oh, sorry”, then she says “thats okay” because why would they put that in if it didnt mean anything. in shows if something little like that happens, it will usually have something to do with the show/movie later on. thats my theory
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August 25th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Sorry Zoe, but I have to disagree. The writers have thrown in so many red herrings that they must have assumed people would pick up on the things we did. I’m sure Ted says “If she did meet me” which means she didn’t, right? Maybe, I don’t know, I just have this strong feeling we’ve yet to meet the mother.
Ps. guys, saying Robin is the mother is like saying Marshall is the father. It’s just not happening. Also, who doesn’t long for Robin and Barney?!
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August 28th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Here is my 2 cents
1) ROBIN IS NOT THE MOTHER !!!!!!!!!! I actually missed the 1st episode and started watching it from the second. I got to the end of the first season, and start of the 2nd, before I got the 1st season on DVD and found out it was AUNT ROBIN (which had myself and my brother PISSED as we BOTH wanted Ted to get with Robin). Since then there have been too many hints to show that Ted and Robin don’t end up together (Kid’s pictures of “Aunt” Robin, constant references to Aunt Robin, Robin traveling for her job and Ted staying in NY and meetoing their mother etc)
2) Ted is CLEARLY the kids father. There are enough references of the kid’s calling him DAD, and him refering to himself as their DAD, to make that clear
3) I like some of the theories about who the mother is, and I have personally always subscribed to the “Bump” girl as the mother
a) I doubt it is the “Slutty Pumpkin”. It is a HUGE stretch to go from Marine Biologist to Architect, plus she was introduced in the 1st season and he doesn’t meet her until AT LEAST the 3rd season
b) Stella. There is the missing “Lucy”, Stella’s child from the 1st relationship. Where is she (possibly at College I suppose). Also the “If I married Stella” kids with the Blond hair. STella, who Ted HAD ALREADY MET before the CLUB incedent in “No Tomorrow”, also went to a PARTY on St. Patrick’s Day, but “left early” What nightclub in NY would be FULL OF WOMEN at a time which could be considered EARLY ???
c) For me, it HAS TO be the “Bump” girl. I doubt that the character HAS NOT been seen in AT LEAST 1 episode in first 4 season (as mentioned above, I would be surprised if there wasn’t a series of clips showing ALL of her appearances along the way). I also wouldn’t be surprised if her identity was withheld from the credits to prevent people from piecing things together. It was mentioned that the mother was “at the club” but Ted never “met” her. What do you consider “meeting” someone ??? a random bump in a club when you are wasted (Ted was well into the Champagne (shown by a tankled Ted in the Marshall missed messages on his phone the next morning, when the bump occured. He probably wouldn’t recognise her again if even if he wanted to). The “yellow umbrella” person which was constantly referred to had jeans and a coat on. Bump girl had jeans on but who wears a coat in a club ??? I also like the theory that Ted and the mother meet in class based on a rainy day and the mother noticing that Ted has her yellow umbrella.
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August 31st, 2009 at 12:54 am
ok so i took the time to read pretty much most of these theories/ entries, and no to mention absurd fantasies that people have have bout the outcome of this show. I have some very important info that is crucial in who the mother is. the director and producer and the kids are the only people who know, since on an interview i read a while back, they apparently shot a scene with the mom during season 2, and no one was allowed to present other than a few individuals needed to shoot.
AND FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME THE MOTHER IS NOT ROBIN. nor is ted divorced or some other twisted plot where we ends up with robin, ted is the type of man who probably will not be in a failed marriage. And please people the girl that ted bumped into in the bar on patties day was just one of the tricks that the writers use to fool impressionable minds like YOURS. They would not show the mother in such a blunt and obvious manner.
Alright and we also know that the Mother is not Stella, because the yellow umbrella is not hers. When Stella and her husband met Ted in the street corner she didn’t say anything about the yellow umbrella that ted had with him at the moment. The reason that meeting was so crucial is because is allowed Stella’s husband to offer the teaching job to ted, where he met the mother. And yes the mother can be student because this is a university where individuals of al ages can attend this institution, so she can be in her 30’s or late 20’s.
i think that is all i have to say for now, thanks
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August 31st, 2009 at 1:07 am
another thing to note i’ve herd that they plan on having the season finally in 2011, thus start introducing her in 2010
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September 6th, 2009 at 8:36 am
I believe the mother is the girl Ted bumped into at the club on St. Pat’s Day, Season 3. Episode 12, 13mins 25 secs in. It was mentioned the mother was at the club that night eg. yellow umbrella. HIMYM Expert you are a noob, u know nothing!!!
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September 8th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
i dont know about the tracy teory because sometimes he says one thing to the kids but the audience sees something else like when he said that he and victoria went around new york and they actually stayed in bed or when he “eats sandwiches” with marshall and lily
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September 8th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
My guess (which is as good as anyone else’s guess, short of the producers and writers):
We have most likely seen the mother as … wait for it … the Woman in ‘No Tomorrow’ (S03E12) while Ted was at the bar celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Yes, the Woman he bumps into while walking through the crowd.
Sure, she might have pick-pocketed the phone, but I kinda doubt it. That moment just felt optimistically ‘right’ to me.
With regard to “Lily”’s comment above (01 Mar 2009, comment 5140) about this not being the Mother since the producers would not be able to guarantee ‘this random extra’ being available in the future, I can promise you that if the writers and producers choose to follow this course as the desired thread of Ted’s love, then they will have no problems whatsoever putting the actress who will play the Mother into that scene. On numerous occasions in the past, the production has recreated scenes to reshow a flash-back. We have scene Carl the bartender re-introduced into scenes where he was not originally present, and we have seen the hair of Barney’s Stalker go from wavy to straight as Britney Spears was re-introduced to that flash-back. They can choose to either re-shoot that one brief exchange in the original shot, or they could relatively easily replace the actress’s head/face with a digital composite (this is my industry). My recommendation would be the former since this would be a very easy re-shoot, it would probably be less expensive than the digital comp shot, and would provide the correct eyeline and timing since the actress might change (though I think Nicole Muirbrook is quite the cutie and has a great look for the role). And if they did choose to use this fetching ‘random extra’ (btw, not that much is random on set), I am guessing (again) that this show has garnered enough inertia that the producers and studio could throw enough do$h at this actress to have her be available on the days they will need her, especially in a potentially long-term (recurring) national network role (what many an actor dreams of landing).
Just my conjectures (what you call noise).
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September 14th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
More on the yellow umbrella-The mother does’t have that umbrella. In No Tomorrow, Ted goes back to the bar, sees the umbrella, and takes it home. I assume that the mother recognizes it as hers, but she won’t be carrying it.
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September 19th, 2009 at 3:23 am
hey guys,
wateva it is 1 thin is 4 sure….. dat ted meets da mom in da 5th season….. bcuz wen da last episode f season 4 ends he has started teachin in dat architecture coll n jus b4 da episode finishes he says ” n kids sumwhr in dat architecture class sittin in a row was your mother.” so its gotta b now.
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September 21st, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I’m at 90 % sure who she is. In the St patrick day episode in the club, ted walks into a woman and says sorry before speaking to barney. It is said ted’s wife was at that party, she is rather young so she can attend Ted’s architecture class and I don’t see the interest of this scene if it’s not a clue.
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September 21st, 2009 at 4:43 pm
ive heard the mother is stellas sister on several forums
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September 22nd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Is ANYone tired of ‘who’ she dragging on for so long AND the barney/robin thing…… i lOve all the characters, except barney. Robin is a little more Barney-esque that she used to be. All in all, I’m finding the show boring. Bring back ‘Rules of Engagement’ instead!!
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September 24th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Has anybody Considered the Kids age?…since Future Ted is telling the Story in 2030…and by looking at his kids the Girl is older and looks like shes in he 16-17 years of age. and is that is the case then:
She was Born around 2013-2014. Given Ted Track record of Falling inlove in a short period of time and need to start a family very soon. this gives Ted about a year and a half of Dating, Marriage and conseption and Birth of their first born. Ergo Ted doesnt meet “the mother” till 2011-2012. Since Future Teds Story moving along with our present time…Ted will not meet the mother till about 3-4 years from now…
But then again Ted could evolve as a character and takes it slow with her…
Any thoughts?
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September 27th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
What a discussion. Great stuff!
Okay, my two cents.
1. In the extras of the First Season DVD, the creators said “we know what the final episode” will be. That is an outline, and until then, anything goes to keep us entertained, and tuning in. That seems to be working.
2. It makes sense that they had mother’s lined up to deal with the reality of the show being canceled. It’s all of our faults that we don’t know who the mother is, because we love this show too much, and keep turning in to further it’s success. Perhaps Victoria was intended to be the mother if the show only lasted one season. Perhaps Stella was intended to be the mother if the show only lasted 3 seasons. Perhaps Robin was intended to be the mother if the show only had a pilot.
3. I personally believe that when the mother is revealed, that we will learn that the mother was “around” the entire time, quietly in the background unknown to Ted. There she is at the Halloween party laughing at Ted waiting for the Slutty Pumpkin. There she is giggling at Ted being knocked out at the St. Paddy’s Day party. I’ve found that the things we look for most, are sometimes around us all the time, we’re just not paying attention. Plus, when you meet that person, and find out they they do similar activities as you, it makes sense that hey they might have been at your favorite bar some night, or in line with you at the Empire State Building, etc.
4. As for the St. Paddy’s Day party, no one has mentioned that 1) Ted lost his new phone, and 2) Ted’s phone had been dialing Marshall all night and leaving messages. Wouldn’t Ted’s phone called when Ted bumped into the “Bump girl”. That just leads to the reality that the writers built in all these loose ends to be used, or not used, later on in the show.
5. It’s possible that the “Tracy theory” is correct, and, the “Slutty Pumpkin” theory is correct, and…etc. It’s quite possible that Ted finally meets “mother” and they laugh about how much they have in common, like hey I did this dating match thing, and they guy “no showed” and, oh, that was you…ha ha. Oh, I had a “yellow umbrella” once, but lost it on night, but I found this cool phone…ha ha.
My two cents. Enjoy.
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September 29th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
about the ‘Tracy name’ theory : could it be their mother’s second name? I know this doesn’t help much with the revealing of the mothers identity but that could be exactly what the writers want : a small clue that a fan would notice and that would satisfy them when they find out they were right about that, but again it gives them freedom for introducing new charachters without revealing that small detail.
Also i believe that the mother is shown (not in the first season – because of what ted says in the finale, but could be somewhere in the second season, not as Ted’s date – btw this was ruled out in the text, or later), that would mean the slutty pumpkin is not the mother.
Maybe she’s the ‘bump’ girl named Tracy, that way nothing is revealed but the true fans will be somehow rewarded for their ‘experitze’.
*my engish isn’t so good so i apollogize
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October 4th, 2009 at 4:47 am
I have an idea of who the mother is.
It may be the “bump-girl” from the party cause she looks a bit like the one who I think the mother is.
As we know we will meet the mother in Season 5 and I think there were already 2 hints one in S05E01 and one in S05E02
S05E01
At the end when Barney and Robin are walking out of the screen together there comes a young girl out of MacLaren’s Pub and Ted is pretty much checking her out. He looks at her for a few seconds!
Not that much of a hint as he is searching for “the one” !
But it gets better:
S05E02
At 10:55 as Ted and Jen from 2009 follow Ted and Jen from 2002 a girl walks by between the two!
And again Ted (from 2009) is looking after her as she walks away!
And I’m pretty sure that it is the same girl as in the 1st Episode of Season 5
And there are a lot of similarities between her and the “bump-girl” but as I said I’m not too sure about this!
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October 8th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
The writers on the show tend to cheat at times… take for example the “Doug the Bartender episode” when they basically photo shopped him into familiar scenes and moments of our favorite 5 people. It was never as if he was actually there when those scenes first aired. Its possible that it doesn’t matter how observant you are or what clues you pick up on. The Tracy theory is possible, but its also possible the writers may do some sort of callback to that moment in a later episode and change how it actually happened… similar to the Doug montage… this episode was demoralizing because it shows that they’re willing to change how events “actually” transpired if they want to.
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October 9th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Hey
I was reading on a website and it says that ted meets her at collage or uni or where ever it is and it says that she is not a student and that he meets her not in a arcetect class bit a cooking class. I don’t know what the site was but you type into google- how I met your mother season 5 cast and i think it’s the first one then you go to the bottom and click episodes.
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October 11th, 2009 at 2:42 am
So is the Mother in the Arcutecture class or the Econimics class ??? At the start of S05E01 he says he if he knew 2 things that his life would be different (or something to that effect), 1 being that the mother was in the classroom (doesn’t say if student/TA etc), the other that he was in the wrong room. It would be slightly dodgy if he married a student, but a student from the college is another story.
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October 13th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
One thing I noticed, and I don’t know if anyone else saw this and thought it was suspicious too, was a part during Season 3 episode 12 – No Tomorrow. Before going into the club Narrator Ted says that the kids mother was in there that night. Later in the club after leaving the married girl to go talk to Barney, Ted bumps into a girl, but it seemed to be so much more suspicious than if he had really just bumped into someone, because the camera focuses on both of them, and for a moment she turns around and her face is shown. They look directly at each other. Just a thought though…
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October 14th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Duuuude JMac!
Sorry to say that but you suck!
If you would have taken one minute to read through just like 5 comments then you would have recognized that “your” idea had been discussed since July 2008!!!
And @knighty: I pretty much sure that she is in the econimics classroom because later in S05E01 future Ted says: “Your mother was sitting right….” and the camera goes to the top right but then stops and Ted continues saying:”wait let me finish this first”
But to my theory from couples of days ago, I haven’t seen the girl I expect to be the mother appearing in either E03 or E04
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October 18th, 2009 at 3:25 am
My 2 cents:
I have to say I love the Mother mystery and I’m hoping the ID was planned far enough in advance to sprinkle clues throughout the years, sort of like the final Cylon in Galactica. I want to see a revelation that makes everyone go “OH! I should have seen that!” with tiny clues here and there, some in the background, and some obvious.
I think we know for sure Stella’s not the mother (I say that because of the alternate future scene with Stella as the mother and the kids were different). Just wanted to point that out since it wasn’t mentioned in the blog post (admittedly I didn’t read EVERY comment so I’m not sure if that’s been mentioned.
As for who it is my theory follows some of the others:
-I think the name is Tracy
-I also think it is the girl he bumped into at the St Patrick’s Day party
-I wonder if somehow Ted left with the mother’s umbrella and she left with his phone.
-She may also be the slutty pumpkin (primarily because of the girl walking behind Marshal at the Halloween party in The Leap wearing a pumpkin costume and carrying a battle of Kahlua)
-There’s also the girl that he stood up when Lily was apply for the Art Fellowship.
- She was in the economics class (as mentioned above, for the same reason).
I know the narration can sort of discount most of these hints, but it all depends on interpretation. He didn’t really meet Bump Girl, an apology for running into someone isn’t really a meeting. Why include the (possible) Slutty Pumpkin in The Leap if it’s not a hint? They could have chosen another year, or left her out all together. As for the girl he stood up I can’t remember if he knew her ahead of time or if it was a blind date. As for St Patty’s Day (again), it’s been mentioned that in script writing for TV/movies every moment is important, it seems to me that if Bump Girl isn’t the mother then the run in and the losing of the cell phone were pointless and should have been cut in script editing before primary shooting even started on the episode. Unless they ran out of ideas and had a 17 minute episode to fill a 22 minute slot.
I do believe we’ve seen the mother at least once. I’ve read that there is already a future scene shot with the mother meaning she could already be cast, unless it’s a shot of everyone but her and she’s photoshopped in later like Will Sasso was (Mind you, mention of the scene already being shot came from wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt).
I know some, if not all, of this has been discussed before I just thought I’d throw together some of theories I’ve come up with or read and hopefully offer something new in this wall of text.
On a final note: I hope the show doesn’t end when he meets the mother. It could easily run another year (maybe two) with them dating and end the series with their wedding. I’d rather not see the series end with something like:
TED
“You’re mother is (…)”
Fade to black, roll credits
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October 20th, 2009 at 5:17 am
This isn’t about the mother but I was reading a site on the Internet and it had different things about all the charecterd. It says barneys relatives are tom then in brackets it said brother in law. Does anyone know who tom is?
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October 21st, 2009 at 2:50 am
“# Jaz said:
October 20th, 2009 at 5:17 am
This isn’t about the mother but I was reading a site on the Internet and it had different things about all the charecterd. It says barneys relatives are tom then in brackets it said brother in law. Does anyone know who tom is?”
I think that is the guy his black brother married.
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October 21st, 2009 at 2:51 am
Oh and as for TheSteelBlade and the chick Ted stood up, it was a girl from the “Love Connections” matchmaking service, not a blind date
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October 29th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I haven’t followed every comment here, but I was thinking about something.
At the start of the Ted&Stella-Story the future Ted mentions something like: The whole Stella-story leads him to meet the mother.
Of course Stella is not the mother, but I think it could be someone connected to her (for instance on of her friends, Ted&her are together in the movie at her first-not-date or who knows Amy…?…lol).
When Ted & Stella do have their first date, she has no time because of her work & daughter & mentions that she has been on one party during the last year. It was the one of St.Patricks Day, but only for a short time. It could have been the same party as Ted&Barney have been.
This theory would include the following points:
The St.Patrick’s party, the yellow umbrella, the whole story with Stella
What I also found intressting at the St.Patrick’s Party. Did Ted found his mobile? I think not. If they both found each other’s stuff on the party – that’s the long version of how they met.
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October 29th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
to correct myself:
In “wait for it” – The story with the yellow umbrella is told the first time. The kids seem to know the short version but not the long one. Why does the father tell this right now and not at another episode? The episode must have some impact to the story of meeting the mother even if indirect. (It could be Amy but I don’t think so)
My theory: He meets Amy and gets the “tramp stamp”. therefore he has to go to the doctor and meets Stella, later he meets the mother, which Stella knows.
Of course Stella is not the mother, but I think it could be someone connected to her (for instance on of her friends, Ted&her are together in the movie at her first-not-date or who knows Abby(?)…lol).
When Ted & Stella do have their first date, she has no time because of her work & daughter. She mentions that she has been on only one party during the last year. It was the one of St.Patricks Day, but she was there only for a short time. It could have been the same party as Ted&Barney have been.
The mother definately was at the party. Obviously Ted lost his mobile and she probably her yellow umbrella.
This theory would include the following points:
The St.Patrick’s party, the yellow umbrella, the whole story with Stella including strange stuff like the Party-comment, the End-scene of “As fast as she can”.
But most important is the scene in “the right place, the right time”, where the future ted says “that this is the most inportant part”. He sates “that the universe is in motion and has a plan”…he conclude’s the last chapters by mentioning pictures with “the butterfly” and other stuff, which all leaves us to “the right place at the right time”. In excact this moment Stella tips on his shoulder. So I say Stella has to do sth with it. She knows ted’s wife.
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October 29th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Dammit…correct nr.2:
I totally forgot about Tony in this scene/episode, who was part of the reason why ted becoming a professor. Isn’t the mother sitting in one of the classes later in the “definitions”-Episode of Season 5?
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October 30th, 2009 at 7:48 am
If Ted and the kids refer to Robin as ‘Aunt Robin’, that might mean it is Robin’s sister who is their mother? Does Robin have a sister? I like the theory further up the list that suggests that the kids aren’t Ted’s, that he is just explaining – how he met their mother, so maybe he did end up marrying Robin afterall!!
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November 1st, 2009 at 5:02 pm
robins little sister appers in a episode but she is like only 16 or someth9ing so i highly doubbt it is her.
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November 2nd, 2009 at 5:25 pm
and karen. seriously. ted saying all story to his children, the story of how i met “your” mother. (how ted met the kids mother. thats what we are watching.)
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aaron Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:04 pm
I completely agree yusuf…also, sorry about deleting your other comment. I just get tired of people bringing up the bump girl at the party like no one has thought of it before.
Cheers!
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November 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
its ok. i didn’t read all comments here. . but the bump girl was very awkward. =)
peace all. i love how i met your mother but 5. season going really bad =)
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November 4th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Have ya guys noticed the pictures in the background of the couch on which his children sit?none of the pictures has ted’s wife in it….there is this one picture towards left in which one could see three people,most probably ted along with his son and daughter…there is this other episode in which future ted is shown along with marshal and lilly at some college reunion getting high and he goes like,”where is my wife?” since he is high and not in his right mind i am guessing the wife wasnt with him at the reunion at all…maybe they got seperated or divorced and he was given the children’s custody…and there is when robin comes in….see there is an episode in which he talks about robin being an important part of the artwork of his children…u see the children with robin…the mother is no where to be seen in the picture.. its just a wild guess but i think things dont work out between ted and his future wife “the mother” and his kids are raised by him as a single father with robin being an important part of their upbringing!!!any comments would be most welcome!!!
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November 7th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I may be wrong on this but, we never see future robin or future barney anybody else find that a lil curious?
sorry to get off topic
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November 8th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
You guys do realise that the mother doesn’t have to also be Ted’s wife. If it was about Ted’s wife it would be called ‘How I Met Mom’ or ‘How I Met My Wife’. He calls them ‘kids’ and they never call him ‘dad’. Who’s to say Ted isn’t just a pal of the kid’s parents? They could be Barneys?
Ted doesn’t have to be with ANY of these women-the show could end with Ted still being single as long as the mother is tied up, since it hasn’t actually got to be the same person. See? It’s just a very clever writing method to make us think one thing then BAM. I’m not sure if others have had this theory or not, none of the one’s I read had.
This would also solve the Robin conundrum> Aunt Robin. Aunt is used in the US as a friendly name for family friends. He would therefore be uncle Ted to the kids. See? Didn’t Ted mention he had a brother? He could literally be their uncle and Robin could be the Aunt…it would also explain the physical similarities between Ted and the kids and why he is even chatting to the kids…I mean, if they aren’t his kids, why would he talk to them, surely they would have to be pretty close…like family?
I could be wrong but it’s pretty solid and lets the writers mess with you because it leads us to believe that it’s Ted’s story and that all the women that he meets are related to him…but they aren’t.
Any thoughts on this? It would change perceptions…wouldn’t help with who the mother is but it cuts the chord between Ted as the husband of the mother…I mean-if it was his wife, surely she would be talking to the children?
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November 9th, 2009 at 5:54 am
“If it was about Ted’s wife it would be called ‘How I Met Mom’ or ‘How I Met My Wife’. He calls them ‘kids’ and they never call him ‘dad’. Who’s to say Ted isn’t just a pal of the kid’s parents? They could be Barneys”
There are a number of times where the Kids refer to Ted as “Dad” so they are differnetly his kids …………… (Season 2 Ep 1 comes to mind)
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November 9th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Yeah they do call him dad and also there is an ep. when he does go to his sisters house and the kids so that not his neice and nefew
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November 9th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
DAMN IT! That would have been such an incredible idea. I guess I’m just better than the writers. Pah
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November 12th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Anyway watching from denmark. I find the writing and acting to be awesome.. I guess since its called “how i met your…”. The cast probably dont even know themselves.. however even though Robin is constantly referred to as aunt Robin, Future Ted never states that he is not married to or partner with Robin.. i wouldnt put it past the writers to put an additional spin to the main story. Awesome rock on
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November 13th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Just one more thing against the ted not the father thing…
Barney and Marshall have both been called ‘uncle’ to the kids. So if Ted is not the father, who is?
And yeah, the kids have called Ted ‘dad’ repeatedly.
But overall, I think that the writers are indeed messing with the viewers, because let’s face it, we can spout off theories all day, but we don’t know anything for sure…
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November 16th, 2009 at 1:09 am
i understand the idea that the writers are messing with us by ted bumping into the girl in the bar during season 3 however i have to disagree. it doesn’t make sense for the awkward encounter to take place without their being a reason. plus, the same girl makes a brief appearance in a flash back later i believe in season 4. Also, don’t quote me on this but i am pretty sure when barney and robin solidify their relationship in season 5 (after being locked in the bedroom together and lily won’t let them out) they all walk outside to the front steps of the building and the same girl is walking out of McLearens (sp)…kinda fishy.
my point is this…why would they bring back a girl that was just a “random” run in at the bar for two extra episodes…seems more like a LOST conspiracy for that girl to not play an important role…
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November 24th, 2009 at 6:06 am
@ Izzy
Your theory is just awkward. In the episode Brunch, Ted’s dad says “I met your mother at a bar”. Then Ted decides that when he has kids that “he will tell the whole damn story”. So its clear that the kids are his.
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November 24th, 2009 at 6:07 am
My Theory.
Okay, First of all this is just an assumption so dont get pissed off when this does not become true.
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But this assumption of mine is way more logical than any other lurking in the internet.
For the past 3 weeks i have been watching all the episodes back to back to find a clue about the mother. A interesting episode was “The Milk” In Season 1 due to the following reasons
1. The 600Ghz computer at Love solutions found a perfect pair to Ted, as the future ted narrates. If you have closely noticed, the Future Ted never lies. For instance,
Incident 1 : The Goat incidence which was first brought up in the same episode and it was aired 3 years later in season 3.
Incident 2 : In the latest episode “The Playbook” The Future Ted says “ironically, that was the day Robin met Dom”. That does mean that the Dom guy has to do something with the future.
And various other incidents which proves that the Future Ted NEVER lies. So the pair found at Love Solutions was infact PERFECT
2. The perfect women “Liked dogs, Spent summers in North Carolina, Played bass guitar, did crossword, Played Tennis, Liked old movies, Liked Lasagna, Liked Otis Redding, wanted two kids- a boy and a girl.
They showed a picture for every single element in the above paragraph but what was the bloody need to hide the face? She DID have something to do with the future and thats why they hid their face.
3. This is an extract from Wikipedia
A scene directly relating to the identity of the mother, involving Ted’s future children, was filmed near the beginning of season two for the show’s eventual series finale
“beginning of season two”
The milk was the 21st episode of season 1 so when it was aired, they should have been shooting season 2(with the mother) so that during the finale, they may rewind with those pictures of Ted (with the exact appearance as he had in season 1 and 2).
4. Ted did not meet that Perfect girl only due to his feelings for Robin. Now he is completely over Robin. More over if you notice there has not been a single reference to the “Love solutions girl” ever since that Milk episode got over so that it may come as a bomb shell to us.
5. Why can’t “the girl with the yellow umbrella” and the “girl who shared the meaningful look at St.Patty’s day” be this girl?
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November 24th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
In the St. Patrick’s Day episode, Ted says that the kids’ mother was at the same party he was. He then walks out holding a yellow umbrella he found on the floor.
Yellow Umbrella theory.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
So anyhow.
I would just like to put down once and for all the theory about Robin being the mother.
She clearly is not the mother, because in one (or more) of the episodes, he says “And that is the story about how i met your _aunt_ Robin”
Anyhow, hf
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December 2nd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
I’m surpirsed there is not more theories that Abby is the mother- is there anything that discounts her?
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December 3rd, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I wish it was stella.
but i think it could of been at the st patrics party!
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December 3rd, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Has anyone ever stopped to think that Ted could still end up with Robin? Ted isn’t necessarily the father of the kids. Robin is Aunt Robin, but why can’t Ted be Uncle Ted?
Follow the sixth sense theory and watch how he talks to the kids and how they talk to him. They don’t call him dad and he always says “Kids, this is the story of how I met your mother”…..clearly a story that an “uncle” could be telling some kids……..
The show also refers to all the friends as uncle/aunt. Unble barney/marshall/etc.
The kids mother could just be a new friend introduced to the group.
I firmly believe this to be true, and have a long standing slapbet in place with one of my friends. I hope our commissioner is ok with me posting here
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:35 am
yellow umbrella theory again…
girl outside the party with the yellow umbrella, has blue jeans… but they dont appear as tight as the blue jeans worn buy the girl ted bumps into later… that may just be a continuity error, but otherwise, the blue jeans match up, and they wouldnt have written that into the script, its too meaningless to be filler, which to me seems like its not meaningless at all… im gonna go with the yellow umbrella theory.
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:36 am
-written that *bumping into* into the script-
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:52 am
as well… has anyone denied the “definitely, maybe” theory? (for those of you who havent seen the movie SPOILER following) Maybe future ted has just changed the names of some of the characters so that it adds a twist for the kids when they hear the story, similar to that of Definitely, Maybe.
any thoughts?
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December 5th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I think “Bump Girl” from Season 2 is Natalie Imbruglia.
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December 5th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Obviously I meant season 3. Oops. But I still think it’s Natalie Imbruglia.
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December 7th, 2009 at 12:53 am
there is a possibility that the kids never knew their mother so they might not have known her name, which means the stacy theory is irrevalent
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December 7th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
There is a thing that has been bugging me:
The name of the show says How i met YOUR mother… It does not directly imply that Ted IS the father…
For all i know those could be Robin’s kids, and Ted is just talking a story to them…
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Diego Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Then what would be the point to the rest of the story? If he met “their” mother, Robin, in season 1 – the rest is insignificant.
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December 7th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
I’m not saying Robin IS the mother, but I don’t support all the “It’s impossible” voices either.
Look at the characteristics of “How I met your mother”.
A LOT of times, Future Ted tells something, which later didn’t happen. Small things like the “What he/she/we/I SHOULD have said” episode and bigger things I can’t really remember right now, but they WERE there. :3
It COULD be, that in the end he says something like “And all this would have happend like this, if I really were in the bar that day and met Robin like this, BUT…”
Or something like that. I lost allmost all hope, BUT it’s still hope out there.
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December 8th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Wanted to moment to give you credit, yes please keep on with your posts, i truly enjoy them. You constantly can publish something entertaining that doesn’t bore me to death alike what you see on other websites.
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December 9th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
i have a major problem with the ted not being with the mother theory… and basically it comes from the fact that there is no way that the audience would be happy, after waiting years for this amazing love story between ted and the mother, to find that they didnt get together.
also, im pretty sure that in an interview one of the writers stated that the mother hasnt been met yet, and that as far as the girl he knocks into goes…that it was there as a red herring to keep the viewers excited…
also, i think there may be a long wait before we find out…since the oldest child is written as being 16 in 2030…meaning she was born in 2014… which could mean a bit of a wait…
also, they yellow umbrella from the st paddys day ep could also be a red herring…it could be that the mother could have a matching yellow umbrella to the one ted picks up…having said that i think that since you dont see the girl with the yellow umbrella’s face it means she is the mother… just not the actual person in the same way that the stalker in season 3 was re-shot to be britney…
just some thoughts…
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December 10th, 2009 at 3:30 am
in the ‘no tomorrow’ episode, ted says the mother is at the club that night. and when ted goes to talk to barney at the bar, he bumps into a girl, says sorry to her and continues to barney. i think the mum is that girl, because the writers may have wanted to show her in an earlier episode….
what do you think??
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December 12th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
The kids don’t know who their mother is. Their dad Ted decides to tell them the whole story. And that’s how he met their mother. It is why they are suprised when he says Aunt Robin in the pilot episode.
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December 13th, 2009 at 9:26 am
If you watching Season 3 No Tomorrow, when Ted bumps with that girl,
obviously it prove a few things below:
1. Kids’ mother is not Robin, as Robin, Lily and Marshall was at that apartment, assuming both scenes happened at the same time and previously ted already said their mother went to the party as well
2. Ted take the yellow umbrella, which someone left it, it could be the bumped girl left it, as we can see the girl walk in a rush towards the party door, so their mother could left the umbrella over there.
But it is not the bumped girl, because ted said he never met her at the party, and obviously both of them see each others when the knock is happened.
Tracy Theory = 50% accurate
Why I say so, the children get surprise might because they thought their mother is a stripper/dancer, as you can see his daughter putting her hand on her chest (luckily is not my mother)
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December 13th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Definitely ted is the kids dad, in season 1 episode 2 – purple giraffe (0:53), his daughter said “Oh Dad!”
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December 13th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Hey I know after watching himym that robin us not the mother but maybe he falls in love with robin after having the kids and the kids are just visiting like the movie definately maybe where he falls in love with the mother has the kids then get a divorce what do you guys think????????????????
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December 13th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Sharna,
Obviously this is not going to be happened.
as Ted said clearly their mother is in the party/pub taking a yellow umbrella, and Robin is not there obviously because she visited the lily & marshall apartment at that time.
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December 13th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
What do you guys think of my theory that future Ted is actaully telling the
kids about how he met their step mom? and the kids are actaully from between Robin and Ted. I always thought since the fisrt ep of first season that the kids didnt look so what should i say, ” enthusiastic” about finding out who their mother is.
I am thinking that kids are from between robin and ted and maybe they are just about to find out whos their new mom( step mom) is. At the end of episode “Little Boys” in season 3, Ted says Robin appeared in lots of their drawings and shows three drawings which says ” Us and Aunt Robin” and decribes ONLY just three of them( Robin, daughter and son) which i thought was really weird. What are the chances of kids being so close to their aunty spending time JUST with her?
I am thinking that when kids were young Ted and Robin agreed not to tell their kids til they are old enough that Robin is their real mother and those drawings are from when kids were spending time with their real mother( you know when a couple get divorced kids spend times with mom and dad separatley) cuz Ted won the custody.
But then first ep Pilot in season 1 kinda belies my theory when Ted tells his kids: thats how i met your Aunt Robin” cuz kids shoulda known that Robin isnt their Aunt anymore.. i dont know :S i am confused myself now. thats just what i think
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December 14th, 2009 at 10:51 am
People!
I read the most of your discuss, of who the mother is. Well one thing left to say, the of the TRACY THEORY.
It’s not right. Remember the very first, “Pilot” Episode?
Ted says: “And kid’s, that’s how i met your Aunt Robin”
Kids: “I thought this was a story of how you met our mother!”
So the kids were surprised then too. It’s a TV SHOW. Maybe we hear the names but they don’t. Are i dunno how old are they they dunno their mother’s names
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December 14th, 2009 at 10:58 am
@starkiller… maybe you didn’t read enough… it’s pointed out several times that Ted never mentions Robin’s name until the end of the episode. Watch it.
And sheesh! I know it’s a show..don’t get our panties in a wad if you don’t like the THEORY.
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December 14th, 2009 at 11:02 am
We’ll we know for sure that it is’nt Robin. Both because of the before-mentioned “No tommorow” (Robin’s not at that party), but also because Ted says in S05E01 that their mother was in his class (Well actually not his. The one where he teaches at first, but finds out he’s in the wrong classroom). Robin is not taking that class.
We even know that the mother is on the right side of the blonde girl who was going to tell Ted that he was in the wrong class (if you notice Ted says something like “Your mother was sitting up here” then camera goes to the right. Then he just goes “… wait, let me finish this up real quick” and the camera goes back). So we know that shes in the right part of the class, not on the front row and she was at the st. Paddy’s day party. Also, it’s pretty likely that she’s a brunnete, seeing as both the kids are brunette, but that’s not for sure.
That’s what i think. I don’t know who the mother is though, but then again, who does?
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December 15th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
omg… u guys are retards takin this too seriousliii… its jst an television series meant for total entertainment of public. dont u guys get the concept of this story in all these years. guys there is NO mother… i mean NO MOTHER THT WILL BE EVER SHOWN ON TV IN THIS SERIAL. if a mother is presented then its the end of the story. there is a chance u mite see a mother at the end of the serial… but withot a face. now jst get back to ur real lives n stop acting like retards pls. n dont blow ur brains with whos the mother… jst enjoy the show… thank u
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December 15th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
n btw robin cud still b the mother… if a face will be shown its gonna b her cos there is no other usual face ted ever dated in the show. n nothin is impossible for those creative writers. u guys need to understand how shows work.
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December 15th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
you’re hilarious skipper…chastising everyone then saying btw Robin could still be the mother (which she is not, more than abundant evidence)…. are you sure you understand how the show works? lol
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December 15th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Just read an interesting fact from the episode “the window” at the very end when Ted is talking to Barney at the newspaperstand. A woman walks behind them and grabs what appears to be a yellow book from the shelf and turn around. Dont know if its overanalyzing, but that might be the mother, or at least a forshadowing that someting is about to happen relating the whole umbrella mystery.
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December 27th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Haha it’s fun to read all of your ideas, but the daughter looks like robin ?? i hope its her
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December 28th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Hey…. Maybe the kids are ADOPTED! :O. Adopted kids still call their foster parents “Mom and Dad”, and maybe he met “the mother” when he and ROBIN (sorry, but I want that to happen) want to adopt!
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December 28th, 2009 at 10:32 am
If you watch other sitcoms, we’ll all see that the main characters somehow always eventually end up together. For instance? Ross and Rachel in Friends is a typical and classic relationship of these kinds. Falling in love, then as friends through the mid seasons, then finally get back together. Wake up guys! Lets take a look at big picture, who else apart from Robin would be with Ted? Robin may not the physical mother of Ted’s kids does not mean that they aint getting married. The only reason that a “mother” exists is that the writer could have rooms to run the whole show toward a mysterious question: “who is the mother?” to attract views. The bottom line is always the views. I reckon there’ll be a similar ending like Friends, Ted+Robin (Ross+Rachel), Marshall+Lily (Chandler+Monica), Barney is like Joey still single tho they’re great at girls. At the end of the day, just asking yourself is it that important to know who is the mother or to see how dynamic relationships among them will end up?
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January 3rd, 2010 at 6:50 pm
I personally believe that the mother is revealed in Season 3 Episode 12: No Tomorrow. There are a lot of little clipits throughout the show that seem unnecessary that sometimes last until seasons later. The one area in the middle of the episode, around 13:23, Ted bumps into a girl at the party. We know that the mother was at the party, but he did’t “meet” her, per ce. Possibility? I believe that that woman is the mother.
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January 5th, 2010 at 5:11 am
hey guys just wondering in season 4 ep 4 do they all move away or do they all stay in new york??
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January 7th, 2010 at 7:44 am
i think they should keep the comedy going and say its mandy moore the one who got him the tramp stamp that will be funny plus the girl haves reddish brown hair and mandy moore had red and brown hair…and they finished telling the mom story because both kids are on disney now and they are real old now so they have already shot the scene where they find out..oh and the bump girl at the st.pattys day party mite be her like every one says because every hint they show its a brunnet with jeans maybe the same girl?oh i just thought of this it can be victoria he cooking thing haves to be done by now right???
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January 12th, 2010 at 2:49 am
Just wait untill the newest episode.. episode 12 of season 5… there will be so much more questions then… i was a nervewrack when i saw that
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January 12th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
in Season 5 Episode 12 Girls Vs. Suits ted dates her roommate and it tells us she has a little yellow bus, she paints robots playing sports, she makes breakfast foods sing show tunes, she has a album called the unicorns who will cut our hair when were gone which ted also has, she gave her roommate worlds end by t.c boyle as a birthday gift and ted likes that book and she plays bass guitar in a band and ted says his ideal woman plays bass guitar. ted says in an voice over that he gets a little bit closer to meeting the mother and she got her yellow umbrella back after he left it there (in her apartment) hope i have helped =)
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January 12th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
yes, but we know that her roomate is the mother, he told it him selfe, and we can see her foot as she walks in to the shower. he says that to… so now we are one step closer to finding out
but it can take a while.. does anybody know how many seasons they have planned to make??
sorry if my english is crappy.. i’m from Norway :p
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January 12th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Sorry Dan, i missunderstood what you wrote.. thought you didnt figgured out that he dates her roomate, so i thought you were a little stupid there.. hehe sorry
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January 12th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
*SPOILERS* (for anyone who hasn’t seen the “Girls vs suits” episode)
Another massive clue is that we now know she’s white.
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January 13th, 2010 at 7:26 am
They have to announce the mother at about 2013/2014, because the daughter is 16 in 2030. Probably have they met each other one or maybe more years before that, so they have to meet in 2012, so in two years.
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January 13th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
GirlsVS.suits confirms all of this
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January 14th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I just want to say to all those wishing that Robin is still the mother or Robin and Ted end up together, girls vs suits disproves all of those. We haven’t met the mother yet so all the EXes are not the mother.
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January 15th, 2010 at 4:18 am
ehm he has been calling robin for aunt robin for allmost 5 seasons now, so why would people still think that?
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January 18th, 2010 at 11:54 am
it cant be any of those things, and the reason i say this is because they have no idea who the mum is, that script hasnt been written, the only thing we know is the actress they have, dont remember who it is. but if they have a new actress then that means we have obviously not seen her yet. Just putting it out there
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January 18th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
i have been thinking the same my selfe. that they havent “written” the mom yet, and all these theorys with the girl he once bumped in to, and a girl he looks at a couple of times+++ its just to make the audience curius.. they are just doing it to mess with our head i think..
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January 18th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
It is now out that Kelly Rutherford , the mother from gossip girl is the mother!! according to BBC and CNN!! She announced that in a bar in London last weekend, during she was drunk! They are now trying to cover it!
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tahlia rose Reply:
January 21st, 2010 at 3:13 am
not to be rude or anything, but they would hav already writen
the script these writers are smart they hav everthing planed out it’s fool proof.
unless some idiot blurts out who the mother is then there stuffed
but the question is would they change the person or not bother with it.
guess we will hav to just wait and see ..
U
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hannah Reply:
January 21st, 2010 at 3:26 am
I agree with tahlia rose here i mean, they wouldn’t just put a tv show on
without writing & finishing the script thats just plan fukin dumb*#.la la
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knighty Reply:
January 25th, 2010 at 1:57 am
Does anyone have a link to this “Kelly Rutherford is the mother” story or is it all BS ???
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aaron Reply:
January 25th, 2010 at 10:56 am
I’m fairly certain it was just a hoax as I have yet to see a concrete article or story saying anything about it.
If I find anything I’ll let you know.
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January 18th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
woooow! do you think they will change the skript now?? i just saw it”!
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January 21st, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Ok, for those of you saying the mother is the ‘bump girl’ from the Saint Paddys Day episode, I think you are WRONG. The episode is about Ted doing things that would normally result badly. About the universe having ’shifted’. Well what would normally happen if you just bump into a girl at a bar while drunk? She wouldn’t for sure say ‘Oh, that’s ok’ with a smile on her face. But since Ted’s theory of the universe shifting is working at first, she would!!
And I also strongly think that since Ted no way mentions ‘how i met my wife’ only ‘how i met your mother’ that he divorces the kids mother, and goes on to marry Robin. I know of people who call their stepmom or stepdad aunty or uncle, so this is still plausible!
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January 22nd, 2010 at 4:49 pm
guys let me tell you something…The bump girl from the Saint Paddys Day was also in the class(economic)..I paused the video in the scene that Ted says”Your mother was in that class” and i took a closer look…and it’s the same girl Ted bumped into at that club.
Also coolguy2000…Why would they show us that scene in the club???Don’t u think it’s kind a silly and pointless thing to do???He said the girl with the yellow umbrella was at the same club..He bumped into a girl..I think it is clear!!
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aaron Reply:
January 22nd, 2010 at 5:37 pm
ok…I’m about sick of the bump girl theory… it was funny at first but even the show creators have confirmed she was just a red herring in case the show was canceled and (listen closely people) is NOT the mother.
As for the classroom girl that looks similar, in that show the camera is starting to pan over to the mother and never gets there.
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January 28th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
In season 5 episode 1 he says that their mother is in the crowd of the wrong auditory that he entered so that must mean that shes an economist
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January 31st, 2010 at 1:54 pm
i havent watch them in detail but i have camera experince ive watch all the episode and because of my knowledge with camera angles when ted is talking to barney at the bar there always background WOMEN walking across in the background they wouldnt do this for no reason usually they would zoom in just to get the actors talking not the whole bar its the kind of thing they do which you will not realise.
Therefore thats why they put all these red herrings in
what about the girl in the first episode he asks out on a date and she is going out with the bar tender.
i do belive in the friends idea because all the charcters are the same marshall and lily are chandler and mon, barney is joey abit simple, ted is ross he knows what he wants but doesnt know how to say it and then robin is rachel she is confused.
Overall when we find out we will go OMG how obvious was that, thats how all these kind of things go. Its the more simple things we dont pick on, not the girl in the bar and all the other stuff its a way to take your mind off the little thing which none of us have picked on
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January 31st, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Hey guys
I live in Ireland and so on the TV it’s only on season 1.
But, In one of the episodes Ted sees the foot of the ‘Kids” mother! She is the roommate of one of his students (I think). He and her were dating but had to break it off because of college rules or something like that , if I’m not mistaken, or maybe it was because they had nothing in common. Anyway, she tells him that everyone falls in love with her roomate, and Ted promises he won’t. He’s pointing out all the things he likes in her apartment and it turns out that all of these things are her roommate’s belongings, and this is when they break it off and as he’s leaving he sees the foot of the roommate as she gets out of the shower and runs by. He tells the kids that that was the first time he saw their mother. She owns a little bus ornament which they have in their house now.
PLEASE comment and tell me if I am wrong lol.
x
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Faith Reply:
January 31st, 2010 at 4:34 pm
oops, it’s not in season one, haha. x
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January 31st, 2010 at 4:48 pm
okay i just realised like everything i said was wrong
hahahaha
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February 7th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Omg omg omg…
The mother is a student at the same university taht Ted teaches at.
All taht U’ll get to know @ season 4-5
He also dated her room mate
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February 20th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
I’m sorry i couldn’t read ALL of these but her is my theory if Ted is the Dad but hes divorced to her ! and has anyone considered that the producer haven’t even decided who the mother is !And maybe someone else could have had a yellow umbrella (I’m sorry if any of this has been revealed i haven’t seen all the episodes i watch them on E4)
Then here is a theory why hes telling the story maybe he snuck in cause he finds out he left something there (it might tell you that near the end or maybe there’s some other reason) Then the Kids met him and he tells them he’s there real dad cause maybe she got re-married at some point ….. Plz don’t leave any mean stuff about this and tell me if i haven’t seen something about the mother that makes whatever i say wrong ! Thx
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aaron Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 3:44 pm
the mother hasn’t been cast but they do know how they will introduce her, from what the creators have said in interviews. And I won’t spend time going back to find the details yet (though after almost 300 comments I think it’s time for a revised post to clear things up) but I’m almost 100% certain you can dismiss the divorce theory. The overall plot is simple and not twisted, he is just telling a VERY long story about how he met their mother.
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February 20th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
can someone tell me about this class room girl ?
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aaron Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 3:46 pm
we never see her… it’s just mentioned she is in the econ class he mistakenly talks to on his first day… he later dates this girls room mate and leaves the yellow umbrella there.
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February 21st, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Please im waiting for someone to reply !!!!!!!!! Is it one of Barneys Ex’s cause that’s what I’ve Heard !!!!!!!! But its probably wrong if anyone knows TELL ME PLEASE !!!!! I ♥ HIMYM !!!
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February 21st, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Dose anyone look at this site |:(
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aaron Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 3:48 pm
I look on this particular page not too often. In fact I have to delete more comments than I get cause a TON are repeat ideas (I blame me more than others) and for everyone else it’s hard to read through 300 comments before posting their thoughts.
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February 21st, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Here are a few things to think about.
1. The Universe in Motion Theory – The Slutty Pumpkin, Bump girl, Yellow Book girl, exiting Mclearans, University girl, and Shower foot can all be tied back to together if the writers choose to do that. People who dispell bump girl on the grounds that writers have dismissed her as a Red herring are falling into a trap. Keep an open mind becuse you’ll be miffed when / if the writers decide to tie her back in.
2. Red herrings – Bump girl theorists should by the same token remain open minded since they can easily dump her theory in a half second. Lets just supposed Stella was at the very same St pats party, We already know she left early perhaps even before Ted got there Whose to say the friend she went to the party with did not also leave early with Stella. The writers so far have done a great job using potential red herrings to confuse everyone. The idea of a red herring is its fake but looks real. They can take these things in either direction Validate and make it try or dump it.
3. Hair color theorists – don’t forget Women change hair color on purpose all the time. When its time for the big reveal they can make her hair color any shade they want and explain away any forshadowed colors as someone that likes to change her hair. That being said a blonde would stand out from Lily and Robin and would be easy to link to her apparent infatuation with the color yellow. (Umbrellas, buses, books, etc.) Don’t get caught up on kids hair colors I know couples with opposite hair colors and the kids hair does not always have to match Mom’s. Plus maybe she bleached it and lives as a blonde but her kids hair does match her true color.
4. I’d like Robin to be the mother of my future kids but she is a character so we know that will never happen. Sadly, it won’t happen for Ted either. You can throw out any theory you want Divorce, Death, Robin marries Ted but they use a Surrogate because robin does not want or can’t have her own kids, etc. Plenty of variant theories can be raised but these kinds of social issues aren’t usually addressed in sit coms unless the show is centered around them to begin with or they are forced to as in (8 simple rules).
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February 24th, 2010 at 7:19 am
Do you remeber when Ted has found the umbrella – in a disco party? He said as narrator “few years later it turned out that your mum was there in this pub” and right after this words a girls bumps into him. He says sorry and they walk away. It has no connection to the plot of the episode whatso ever. So I ve been thinking this must be this dark haired chick – we can even see her face!
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February 24th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
So what you’re saying is…you didn’t read the other 400 posts on this thread mentioning the exact same thing. Thanks for adding nothing to the discussion.
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aaron Reply:
February 24th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
“Thanks for adding nothing to the discussion.”
I agree… I know there are a lot of comments but If you think you have an original idea at least have the courtesy to read a bit.
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February 26th, 2010 at 3:08 am
ohhh
well ‘aunt robin’ is the kids auntiess rightt, soo he married someone related to robin?? or either they just call her that,,,.. hahaha omggg cant wait till we find out who the mommm is
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February 26th, 2010 at 9:55 am
I have seen spoilers that say something about Barneys Ex but every time I see a leaked script or a awesome spoiler from plot details they change what was leaked. I wouldn’t believe anything I read online. It would make sense that one of Barneys 200+ x-hookups could be the mother as they do live in New York and most people in the city live in small confined neighborhoods and constantly cross the same paths.
my other thoughts:
it is not Robin, not Stella, unfortunately not Rachel Bison cause she is awesome.
maybe all of the red herrings (Tracy, bump girl, slutty pumpkin…) are the same character and hence the mother. but who knows.
Yellow umbrella and a foot shoot are all we know for sure about the mother.
The only thing I know for sure about the show is it was renewed for another year in the last couple of weeks. So we have some time before we will know for sure. I just hope they don’t say something like “And kids that is how I met your mother” the moment we see her face and end the show. I hope we get a little character building on her. 5-6-7 years who knows I want a little gratification for my loyal following of this awesome show.
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February 27th, 2010 at 12:54 am
you forgot to mention that she is (the mother) one of Ted’s date roomate!
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February 28th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
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March 1st, 2010 at 12:47 pm
by the way the thing about barneys hook up is wrong cause its just that in one of the episodes it valentines day and lilly and somebody are finding ted someone and they go through barneys Ex’s ! That might be the last episode and if it is they never tell you who the mother is but its probably not !
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March 5th, 2010 at 9:34 am
well first of all, we’ll have to wait until 2012, that’s what the producers want us to…
and those guys stated, that they shot the scene, when the mother is actually revealed at the same time as the beginning of season two, so the whole plot but the details is already written
in my opinion it’s not really necessarily that the mother already appeared in the series
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March 5th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Wow. Let me first just say that it took me so very long to read every single comment (except for a few bump girl comments because it was annoying the hell out of me). Anyway, it’s clear that Robin isn’t the mother. But why is that to say she’s not the wife? Why are people saying that the mother and Ted couldn’t have gotten a divorce? Because I don’t see how this couldn’t be the case. Then Robin could be Ted’s wife and because the children aren’t really Robin’s, they could love her like a mother but just call her ‘aunt’ because she’s not the real mother.
I believe it is likely the show will make the mother either some random who we havn’t seen yet or maybe someone we have seen in the background but don’t really know. So, if the mother was to be them, it would surely disappoint the audience and people would be like, “Oh, so that’s the mother…” the end. But if she is the mother and Robin then turns out to be the wife, then the audience will be happy and there’ll be no reason for that to be the end of the series.
I know others also have posted a similar thing, but to you other people reading, how does it not make sense???? In the pictures the kids drew, it’s them and aunt Robin. The mum is no where to be seen….
Or, i just had a thought then… Maybe in the end Ted and Robin do get together but Robin can’t have kids… but it’s Robin’s friend who is the yellow umbrella girl, shower leg girl and roomate, and so she is the “birth mother” or “surrogate” mother or whatever…. but Robin is like, a mother to the kids…. Or maybe they they later find out that that mother was near Ted all those times and it just so happens that she’s the birth mother…
Whatever happens, I think Ted will end up with Robin… not just because I want that to happen, but because they’ll do it to make tha audience happy and it’ll somehow all fit together!
Okay, i’m finished.
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March 6th, 2010 at 9:08 am
@Rach: well, good thoughts, but i believe it was in season three, when ted finally get to that point that robin isn’t “the one” for him
actually for me it wouldn’t make any sense if robin would be the mother, and this thing with the picture, neither was ted in the picture… so? but he’s the father, right?
and the way, ted speaks about the mother, so loving and heartwarming – i can’t even imagine that they could be divorced in the future
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March 6th, 2010 at 11:39 am
But what if they arent talking to Ted at all? The narrator isnt the guy who plays Ted its Bob Saget, so maybe its not Ted talking to them and it could be Barney or someone else?
And also I do have to say the kids look alot like Robyn.
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aaron Reply:
March 6th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
nope…it’s old Ted… that has been confirmed in numerous ways
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March 7th, 2010 at 6:21 am
I haven’t been watching the show religiously, but the curiosity of the whole situation is incredibly overpowering nontheless. I have to say that a lot of the brief moments that have made their way into the fully fledged theory books are probably the writers messin’. it’s like LOST. as much as i want to believe that every tiny little thing is premeditated and all links to one higher purpose…i don’t think they do. sometimes you just ‘can’t make it up’. I wouldn’t be suprised if it is Robyn through some weird twist of fate. just going on the way american sit coms tend to go. however, i think there would be strictly no way to workout who the mother is for reasons like this thread…they want you to be curious so you’ll keep watching. I don’t think there is any way of knowing for real though. so it’ll be interesting if there is any through line when we’re finished here.
Aaron: are you a fan of Monkey Island by any chance. Some of your comments tend to make me think you might be. if not, you would probably love it.
Thanks.
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aaron Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
I’ve never heard of Monkey Island…I have to check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
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March 10th, 2010 at 9:55 am
i have not been able to read all comments i have not been on here for a while but i have 2 new theories
1. the mother could be someone disguessed thats always around but never really see them like what they done with that crazy man with the stupid wig (dont remember his name) therefore could be someone like wendy the waitress.
2. i have recently watched HIMYM alot, an i have come across an interesting theory. older ted always refers robin to aunt robin an only occasionally calls the others ‘Aunt or uncle’ i remember a few years back (2-3 years) robins little sister comes to town when she is 16, an now ted has saw her foot an knows she was in the university where he teachers basic maths 16 + 2 or 3 years is 18 or 19 perfect age to be in university an this always explains why the kids look like robin.
please comment!
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