# "How I Met Your Mother" Season Finale (You bet there's spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965 "2012-05-15T04:08:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/1 "2012-05-15T04:08:39Z")
I WIN! And Ted apparently is going to douche-out after all. Bad Ted! Bad! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/2 "2012-05-15T04:14:11Z")
Was anybody actually surprised that the bride turned out to be Robin? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/3 "2012-05-15T04:28:28Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Was anybody actually surprised that the bride turned out to be Robin? I don’t win? ☹ So, Ted doesn’t end up with Victoria, but he does ruin her wedding day to someone else? That doesn’t seem right. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/4 "2012-05-15T04:35:06Z")
The AV Club write-up of the episode pointed out this line, which I thought was funny: Robin: That was not cool, Ted! Lily: Contraction! Robin: That wasn’t cool, Ted? ---
**Author:** ![Kylede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kylede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kylede)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/5 "2012-05-15T04:39:02Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I don’t win? ☹ > > So, Ted doesn’t end up with Victoria, but he does ruin her wedding day to someone else? That doesn’t seem right. NO…the wedding scene is the one we were introduced to at the begining of this season…it is Barney’s weeding, and while Ted was talking to Barney, Lily comes in and tells Ted, “The Bride wants to see you” The whole point of this season was to find out who was goign to be Barney’s bride…but we know from the “Robins Kids” episode that she doesn’t get married , unless that episode was a lie… But it is looking like Buttercup (Victoria) and Lando Calrissian (Ted) aregonna end up together. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/6 "2012-05-15T05:17:56Z")
> [@Kylede](#): > > NO…the wedding scene is the one we were introduced to at the begining of this season…it is Barney’s weeding, and while Ted was talking to Barney, Lily comes in and tells Ted, “The Bride wants to see you” The whole point of this season was to find out who was goign to be Barney’s bride…but we know from the “Robins Kids” episode that she doesn’t get married , unless that episode was a lie… > > But it is looking like Buttercup (Victoria) and Lando Calrissian (Ted) aregonna end up together. Which will make fans (like me) SQUEE! with delight. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/7 "2012-05-15T10:29:40Z")
> [@Kylede](#): > > NO…the wedding scene is the one we were introduced to at the begining of this season…it is Barney’s weeding, and while Ted was talking to Barney, Lily comes in and tells Ted, “The Bride wants to see you” The whole point of this season was to find out who was goign to be Barney’s bride…but we know from the “Robins Kids” episode that she doesn’t get married , unless that episode was a lie… > > But it is looking like Buttercup (Victoria) and Lando Calrissian (Ted) aregonna end up together. I think not. He’s supposed to meet the mother at Barney’s wedding, and he already knows Victoria. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/8 "2012-05-15T10:39:12Z")
> [@Kylede](#): > > but we know from the “Robins Kids” episode that she doesn’t get married We do? I thought all that episode revealed was that she was unable to have kids. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/9 "2012-05-15T10:42:55Z")
For a moment, I thought Barney’s wife was going to be Victoria.\* Victoria isn’t the mom, because she doesn’t fit the clues (she wasn’t Rachel Bilson’s roomate, she wasn’t\*\* in the class Ted accidentally taught, etc) Brian - In the sense of “They aren’t going to make the wife Victoria are they???” \*\* at least I’m pretty sure of it ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/10 "2012-05-15T12:01:27Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > We do? I thought all that episode revealed was that she was unable to have kids. Right. Ted never said anything about her not marrying. Just that she never had kids. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/11 "2012-05-15T12:15:41Z")
I fully expect that next season will feature Ted engineering a reconciliation between Victoria and her fiancee, which will somehow also lead to Barney and Robin getting back together, which will in turn allow him to meet his future wife at their wedding. The whole “everything that happens ultimately leads to Ted meeting the Mother” thing, which they’d gotten away from lately, is coming back, I think. I also hope next season will be the last. I really like this show, but it’s time. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/12 "2012-05-15T12:16:17Z")
They had another throw back when Lilly dove into the car after stealing the 6 pack with the ‘I would walk 500 miles’ song. I am kind of surprised at Ted riding off into the sunset like that. I thought he was going to take her back to the wedding. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/13 "2012-05-15T13:21:11Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I also hope next season will be the last. I really like this show, but it’s time. CBS renewed it for 2 more seasons, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Kylede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kylede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kylede)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/14 "2012-05-15T13:24:40Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > For a moment, I thought Barney’s wife was going to be Victoria.\* > > Victoria isn’t the mom, because she doesn’t fit the clues (she wasn’t Rachel Bilson’s roomate, she wasn’t\*\* in the class Ted accidentally taught, etc) > > Brian > > - In the sense of “They aren’t going to make the wife Victoria are they???” > \*\* at least I’m pretty sure of it It was never said he met the bride at Barney’s wedding…it was only ever said he met the bride at A wedding. We never met Rachel Bilsons roommate, who’s to say Victoria wasn’t living there then. And remember, The wife was in the class he went to on his first day of teaching, a business class and a 101 class that had 200 students in a giant lecture hall. Victoria has studied business in her desire to become a business owner. I have been saying since season one that Buttercup is the mom ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/15 "2012-05-15T13:28:05Z")
> [@Kylede](#): > > It was never said he met the bride at Barney’s wedding…it was only ever said he met the bride at A wedding. That’s not the way I remember it. I remember Ted saying he met the mother at Barney’s wedding. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/16 "2012-05-15T13:30:50Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > CBS renewed it for 2 more seasons, I believe. That was last year, they are set through next season. I believe the show’s creators, and maybe cast, have expressed a plan to end the show at the end of next season. Can’t find a cite to back that up though. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/17 "2012-05-15T13:32:10Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > CBS renewed it for 2 more seasons, I believe. Scratch that. It was renewed for 2 seasons last year. So Season 8 is the last contracted season… right now. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/18 "2012-05-15T14:00:41Z")
> [@Kylede](#): > > I have been saying since season one that Buttercup is the mom That completely ignores the entire conceit of the show. If Victoria was the mom, the kids would have up and walked away an hour into the story - because he already explained “How I Met Victoria”. The most likely guess at this point is that the mother is Barney’s sister. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/19 "2012-05-15T14:03:45Z")
> [@Kylede](#): > > It was never said he met the bride at Barney’s wedding…it was only ever said he met the bride at A wedding. Did he meet Victoria at a wedding? I totally don’t remember how they first met. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965/20 "2012-05-15T14:11:23Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Did he meet Victoria at a wedding? I totally don’t remember how they first met. Yes, she had catered the cake and was there working at a wedding. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-season-finale-you-bet-theres-spoilers/621965.md?page=2)