Comments on: How I Met Your Mother Theories – Tracey, Yellow Umbrella, and more

By: RB7ate9

RB7ate9 — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:04:30 +0000

Hello,

As we all should know by this point:

1. Not Victoria
2. Not Robin
3. Not anyone we’ve seen before
4. Not Love Connection Girl (The episode with the Mother’s roommate talking about the Mother was the first description Ted had ever heard of her, ruling out the previous description from Love Connections)
5. The kids are his. The show can be dark, but that’s a reach.
6. The Mother is alive by the time of narration. In flash forwards, sandwich’d Ted asks at a reunion: “Where’s my wife” way too dark of a joke if she was dead.
7. Kids are not adopted. There is a definitive deadline for Mother-meeting

Now that that’s out of the way. Two theories:

1. Mother is Carly, Barney’s half-sister
2. Mother is a complete stranger with no familial relation to the gang

It is my hope that they tout Carly as the potential mother, having her show up in the Flash Forward Wedding but ultimately a red herring. As the season progresses and Barney follows through with his wedding, we end up meeting Carly (usual custom is for folks to meet the bride and friends before the wedding in a wedding rehearsal or, you know, to know the friends and family). That will instantly eliminate her (but allow for her character to contribute to the larger Barney wedding arc). Then the situation will revert to the wedding, where the big reveal (say, mid-season) is that the Mother is at the wedding as neither friend or family, but working (like Victoria) in the band as bass player (natch).

I happen to like my mid-season clue vision of that particular episode (after eliminating Carly as a Mother candidate) to flash forward to the wedding and have Ted walk past a partially opened door, where we can see band members (male only) setting up, closing the episode with the starting bass chords of “Only in Dreams” by Weezer. Awesome.

I can only imagine that the creators are having Ted travel back in time to continue by…..

*******Spoilers for Season 7 Finale*******

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Running away with Victoria (hopefully, initially) is to have him break down and do the opposite of what he does normally (believe in fate, destiny, etc.) and take life by the horns in an over-compensating manner. When this falls through (and it will), he will revert to being a bit more whimsical, less jaded, and more open to life, making him more available mentally and emotionally for a complete stranger to enter his life. This thinking is based off of season 1 (designed with Victoria as the Mother should it have been cancelled) where Ted had to get over the past (i.e. Robin in Season 1, EVERYONE in season 6-7, and to take a chance on destiny with a girl working at a wedding (i.e. Victoria season 1, the Mother in season ????). I think the creators’ are sticking to their guns and their vision, leading Ted to experience a romance beyond “Drumroll, Please” that would endear us to him finally meeting his mother.

TL;DR: Ted meeting the Mother will parallel Ted meeting Victoria.

By: luk

luk — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:49:13 +0000

for the people that look the color thing you have to watch the desperate day episode. robin and her friends wear purple to protest valentines day and nora wears yellow because she is against the protest ” of love ”.

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:53:38 +0000

@Natalie234

There are now a lot of SPOILER interviews that answer a lot of this Blog Comments but not the identity of the Mother YET. We know it is not Victoria or Robin or anyone Ted Meets up through Barney’s Wedding. At the reception that is a different story. So after Barney is married to Robin Ted will meet his Wife and future Mother of Luke and Leia. Sounds like Jerome’s Daughter is in the mix still unless we Ted meets her before the wedding. I think the Love Connection missed Date is also in the running for the Mother title.

By: Natalie234

Natalie234 — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:55:02 +0000

Some people!! Ted will not be with Robin. It would be so ridiculous to justofy her being ‘Aunt Robin’. And the one thing I don’t understand is that the last episode seems to give the impression Barney marries Robin but then on the episode where Barney takes his friends out to the bar ‘hopeless’ with his dad, Robin bumps into a guy who she met in a department store and at the end of the episode, classic Smosheby says ‘But we’lll get to that later’ indicating Robin has another boyfriend before Barney, if it is Barney at all. I hope it is

And loads of people say the show shouldnt end with ‘And that kids is how I met your mother’ but that IS the story. It would be nice if we got to know her but surely the entire point of the series becomes moot?

And I figure it could be Barney’s half sister as Jerome says she is in college and Ted teaches in the university so it seems quite cool. Although I totally thought it was Bump Girl -_-

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:00:12 +0000

I think you’re right with the Barney’s half sister theory. It would make for a good episode: “My sister?! Ted you can’t date my sister!” And Ted breaking the bro code for love-at-first-sight seems plausible. Also if Barney married Robin then essentially Barney and Robin would be the kids’ Uncle and Aunt. (And not to be outdone, Marshall and Lily would want to be called Uncle and Aunt as well.)
And with all the flashbacks this show has had, there have to be clues that will fill in the gaps to it being Barney’s sister. If they’re weren’t flashbacks, i would feel jilted. LOL!
Regardless of who is the mother, I hope they build it up to a grand finale. I adore this show and I want to see its sendoff done right.

By: Kiitos

Kiitos — Sun, 06 May 2012 01:24:48 +0000

watch every seconds of How I met your mother’s opening theme; you can see Ted’s wife

By: BigRon

BigRon — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:33:25 +0000

Just read through most of this. I like all the scenarios. Few things I think could happen
1) Of course Barneys half sister (seems most plausible…for now)
2) The mom could be playing bass guitar in the wedding band.

Also on him talking to the kids, I sometimes wonder if the mom may have passed on. So with him talking to the kids he gets to relive the experience, walk down memory lane if you will.

By: that guy

that guy — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:27:51 +0000

@Ross. Yea you’re right. I watched the episode where all of them decided to quit smoking and Ted did say that he had his last cigarette 2 weeks after he started dating the mother. Ted’s “kids”, in an interview, said that the fans of the show would be happy with the ending. Apparently they filmed the finale with the kids and were sworn to secrecy. That interview though is just throwing me off.. because I’m sure a lot of fans would love to see Ted and Robin end up together but all the signs are saying they won’t. Oh well. It’s still a great show and as long as they keep making people laugh, it’s all good.

By: ross

ross — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:29:54 +0000

Older Ted has said that he did not wait after getting her number (he did not wait three days to call). Ted talked in trilogy about hoping his daughter got her mothers looks. Older Ted said Robin never became a pole vaulter (mother). Most adoptive parents call themselves parents Dad and Mom. Sorry this and so many things say Ted is not married to Robin. Ted Met Quinn not at Barney’s wedding but at the Club where Barney first hooked up with her. Quinn is not going to end up with Ted. The bride will be someone Ted has yet to meet. Remember he also gives up smoking two weeks after meeting her if I remember correctly.

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