I thought of that too, but the statement that he always dressed as the hanging chad was before Lily and Marshall’s wedding, so that’s okay.
Ok, good to know. Thanks for remembering for us!
Late response - but that is pretty much Barney: everything to excess and generally the emotional outlook of a child. At first he was just telling James that he was going to side with Robin on the ring - but then he carried it to the legendarily awesome conclusion that Robin is the only family he needs.
You people are monsters. This season has been fantastic. Some might say legend…
…ary
(insert “Wait For It” here)
She has chosen - Wesley.
Barnmellow and Robinpad. 
Nailed it.
In the nitpickiest of nitpicks, I’m pretty sure Ted said the proposal was two years down the line. 
Drat! You’re right.
I never much liked Ted, but the last few seasons have made him somehow even more awful (along with everyone else sliding down the very slippery slope to unwatchable). When he proposed, I was rooting for her to say no. Her goo goo eyes at him, her enthusiasm towards him? I just can’t see it based on what a whiny loser Ted’s been. And because of how this season is being done, it doesn’t seem like we will see the Ted that she will see.
We did have narrator-Ted talking about how she hit the proverbial reset button on his love life. Maybe the writers will be able to get away with Ted quickly becoming more happy and pleasant, once he’s in a good relationship. I doubt that the writers were clever enough, though, to intentionally make Ted get gradually more awful over the years (and drag his friends down with him), and then snap back.
Which means, if my math is correct, that, unless they left a baby girl at the bottom of the lighthouse, their daughter is at most 14 in 2030. Now I feel like a perv.
Can somebody please explain the joke where Ted’s mom’s boyfriend (it wasn’t his dad, was it?) yells “I will not go back to coaching the Browns!” I don’t follow the NFL much.
She’s a baby at the 2015 Watching Of The Star Wars … so she might be at least 15. 
But now the timeline is screwed … if Ted and Mother meet in May 2013 and he proposes two years later … dammit show, why you make me think so hard? Meh. Ted is, at best, an unreliable narrator. I’ll give him six months’ leeway here and there and stop thinking about it.
There are a couple of possible explanations; that it was just a random thing to throw in there, that Cleveland is so rinky-dink that any old guy could coach the Browns, that he smokes a lot of drugs and he only thinks he coaches the Browns. Oh, I guess it’s possible that in the show he actually does coach the Browns.
The guy is Ted’s step-dad, by the way - Ted had a hard time with the wedding a while ago.
FYI, CBS is considering a spinoff; How I Met Your Father.
I really enjoying this season, which is something of a surprise (I had my doubts about the concept for this season). I’ve been struck by how much “The Mother” sounds and acts like Lily, which fits into my long-standing notion that Ted has strong feelings for Lily (not that he’d ever act on them, but I think he’s idealized the Marshall-Lily relationship as what he wants from life (note that he started his search for a wife immediately after Marshall and Lily got engaged), and so naturally seeks someone like Lily for himself).
Well at least if that get’s cancelled on short notice they can always tack on a scene at the with the lead actress waking up after a drunken one night stand.
Its certainly been better then last season. And I think this is one of the best episodes in a long time.
I think having a definite end in sight is making the writing a lot better.
Ah, when I saw the title I was kinda hoping the idea was to have The Mother from the current season star in her own show, which would rewind the clock several years and feature her and her own group of friends as she moved towards her meeting Ted.