I’m pretty sure when the professor of the economics class walked in, he said it was a 300 level class. Also, Rachel Bilson’s roommate (the future mother) played bass in a band. I think that’s something Victoria would have mentioned to Ted while they were dating.
+1 for the mother being Barney’s half sister and +1 for ending the show next season. I love it, but it’s run its course.
Ted met Victoria at Claudia and Stuart’s wedding back in Season 1 (she baked the wedding cake.)
That takes care of the “met her at a wedding” clue, but like some other posters, I think fitting her into the roommate and “there when he taught the wrong class” clue is going to take a lot of reverse engineering.
The Runaway Bride bit is so old it shouldn’t even count as a clue. Ted and/or Victoria will eventually snap to their senses and end up back at the church.
+2 for the Mother ending up as Barney’s never-seen half-sister who’s “at school.”
I’d like it to end after next season, but it’s ratings have been surging this past year and that has a tendency to keep shows on the air longer than they should be.
I read an article that said that the rating increase is because new viewers came to the show after watching syndicated reruns, or watching the show via Netflix. And the show is unusual, in that it’s a serialized sitcom, in which earlier events figure into later episodes.
I’m 99% sure he said he met the mother at Barney’s wedding. They showed the scene with him and Barney talking, and then he said to the kids, “That’s the wedding I met your mother at.”
How did Ted ruin anything? Victoria’s the one who chose to leave her fiancé at the altar. When Ted called her, he didn’t even know for sure that she’d gotten engaged.
This. Regardless of whether Victoria and Ted get together, she really shouldn’t marry the guy at the wedding.
I’m just tired of the on-again off-again relationships on the show. This made the second time someone is left at the altar and the . . . fourth(?) time an engaged couple breaks up/“takes a break.”
Ah, true enough. Victoria’s response should have been, “Well, I’m about to get married, so why don’t we get together for coffee after I’m back from my honeymoon?” Or just tell him to have a nice life - one or the other.
Yeah Victoria can’t be the Mother because too many clues suggest otherwise but she should be.
The mother’s identity is just like the location of Springfield. The producers drop clues, you think you have it figured out, then the producers drop clues that take you in another direction entirely.
We still haven’t seen anyone singing “Memory” with an English muffin or laughing at Ted’s shellfish joke, so there’s plenty of misdirection left.
The only difference with Springfield is that Matt Groening has made it pretty much impossible for Springfield to be any specific city, while Thomas/Bays are keeping their options open.
You know, I enjoy this show & most of the cast - but I really don’t give a damn about Ted and who the mother is anymore.
Oh, agreed. Ted has been the least interesting and most annoying character for the last 4 or 5 seasons.
Kids, did I ever tell you about the time I was written out of my own story?
It was the fall of 2012…
I, on the other hand, like Ted, never really liked Barney* much, so I was disappointed to see Robin as the bride. She looked especially lovely though.
*I have a history of not liking the most “over the top” characters in a sitcom. Kramer from Seinfeld as an example.
I like Barney and Ted - Ted is like the bread of a sandwich, and Barney is the over-the-top tasty part that you can only handle in small doses (vegemite? caviar?). Hell, I like all the characters - they all play off each other wonderfully.
Ted is Victoria’s lobster.
So did I. Then, for an even briefer and more confusing moment, I thought Robin’s wife was going to be Victoria. Which would have been out of left field, but more interesting than anything else that’s likely to happen with Victoria at this point.
I would have been quite happy with an ending where Ted realized that he and Victoria weren’t meant to be and decided to move on, but this business with Ted and Victoria running off together makes me wonder if it’s even worth watching this show anymore. There’s no way Victoria is the mother, so for however long this relationship lasts we’re going to know it’s doomed. (This was also the case with Ted’s relationship with Robin, but she is at least a major character so his time with her wasn’t a total waste.) Ted has not only failed to grow as a person, but now seems like bigger jerk than ever. If Victoria had cold feet about her wedding then that’s not Ted’s fault, but having been left at the altar himself I’d think he’d realize that his involvement is likely to make things even worse for the would-be groom. And again, this is for the sake of a woman who the viewer knows he won’t be involved with for long.
I HATED that episode! 
:mad:
I’m seeing similarities.