I was doing a wedding gig and saw him talking to someone. I was almost positive he taught the Architecture 101 class I took a few years back in college so I went to ask him if it was him and we got to talking and decided to have dinner that weekend and the rest is history. Weird story, turns out he dated one of my roommates at one point. Anyways, don’t let him tell you the story of how we met or it’ll take all night.
…8 years and you will never be able to look at Aunt Robin again.
Nitpick. Mom was not in the Architecture 101 class that Ted actually taught. She was taking Econ 302 or something, and Ted showed up at the wrong room and made a fool of himself for ten minutes before someone pointed out that they weren’t there to learn Architecture. 
I think there’s a little continuity issue. As I recall in some of the teaser scenes where Ted is waiting outside in the rain, the mother comes along and her legs are quite chunky. Now the mother who we finally saw has slender legs. Did they just use random leg models in previous teaser scenes?
Has it been established one way or another that the mother is still alive in the year 2030? I got this weird sense in a recent episode (not the season finale, but one from several weeks ago) that she might not be. It was the episode where 2030 Ted tells his kids that if he could go back in time, he would go immediately to the mother’s apartment so that he could spend an extra 45(?) days with her. Now, obviously, Ted is a romantic, so that wouldn’t be out of character, but there was something in the desperation of it, how he needed those extra 45 days, that made me think that his time with her was limited. Which makes the whole conceit of the series somewhat more poignant.
Just idle speculation. I could be completely off base – does anyone remember anything 2030 Ted said that would refute this?
Perhaps the mother died in childbirth, so that they’ve never met her? Although the idea that the mother has been dead all along is a really depressing element for a sitcom.
Ahhh, yes, forgot about that part. IIRC that was Ted’s first day teaching as well.
Future Ted refers to The Mother in the present tense in “Girls Vs Suits.”
Of course they did.
Wasn’t there a flash-forward to their college reunion where Ted mentions her wandering off. In that scene, I think they looked much too old to have kids the age of the two in the bumpers.
That seen was from “How I Met Everyone Else” and supposedly takes place in 2020.