When the show’s producers talk about it in an interview with *New York *magazine, it’s hard for me to consider it a spoiler.
However, just to clarify, my guess that she will deliver a Very Important Message is only my guess, and I do not mean to imply I have inside knowledge of the script.
What, Xenu is coming for Ted?
Could you spoiler box what the “Very Important Message” is? I can’t think of anything that would remotely fit.
-Joe
There are plenty of people who avoid reading those sort of interviews just because they want to be surprised by an upcoming guest star, or plot point.
Not so much me, at least not with a sitcom (I was more careful about avoiding spoilers when I was in the middle of watching Lost or 24 or something.)
Really? She’s just as hot as ever!
Bit of a stupid question, but are we going to see Barney wear that tie a year? Will he win another bet to get out of it?
You misspelled “prettier.”
Yes, you like small boobs. I know. You keep pointing it out over and over. And no, I did not misspell “prettier”.
-Joe
Because it is so hard to not read New York magazine.
I apologize for peeing in your Cheerios. In the future I shall aim at – oh, let’s say Alexis Denisof’s.
If Robin is the mom then they have a major loophole put in place somewhere. It’s been made pretty clear she is their Aunt Robin. (I’m assuming “Aunt” is just a title they call her by, and not that Ted marries a sister of Robin). I agree it would be an ending that fits well comically and emotionally, but it doesn’t fit with the clues we have.
(I also hope that doesn’t mean they are dumping a character though.)
Did anyone else find that Lilly and Marshall had aged twenty years over the Summer?
Trying to fit a couple of theories together. . . at the Halloween party on the roof, did Barney meet
The slutty pumpkin? Could it be his half-sister?
Given the attention to detail the writers and producers have demonstrated in the past, we either will indeed see him wear the tie for an entire year, or they will contrive some way to get him out of it. Yes, another bet is a possibilty. But I guarantee they won’t just drop it.
Those who don’t want to be spoiled should not read what’s in the spoiler boxes. :smack:
They covered that in the Russian remake. Personally I wonder if we’ll get to meet the lovematch girl.
We already saw him still wearing it last week in the flash forward. (I’m surprised I got through that sentence without having to make up weird tenses)
Fun extra: YouTube “HIMYM Ducky Tie sneak peek” for an extended version of the “the girl who…” scene
Didn’t notice regarding Marshall, but my wife and I agree that Alyson Hannigan now has “Mom-face.” It happens to some women when they have kids. Not Cobie though.
People keep saying that - what was the explanation?
My pet theory is that Robin marries Barney and Ted marries Barney’s half-sister (she’s in college, IIRC, and wasn’t that perfect, unseen roommate of Rachel Bilson’s character also in college?). So the four end up actually related by marriage (although Aunt Lily and Uncle Marshall are honorifics).
Clearly I spend too much time thinking about this, but I think it’s an idea that’s close to expiring. It would be nice if they could do the reveal and somehow keep it going…like real life, you know? There’s so much comedy to mine in the future years of the characters’ lives but dragging on the search for mom is getting kind of old.
Can you imagine the show running for another decade and evolving along the way? Callbacks in 2021 to stuff we’re watching now?
I meant Robin is Barney’s bride. Robin being the mom would be the biggest “fuck you” from any show writers ever.
The perfect ending would be to go through everything, all the way up to the finale, and have the mother be some total stranger that we’ve never seen before. Then have Future-Ted tell his kids “Just kidding. I met your mom in a bar.”
Or perhaps, in a nod to Lyndsy Foseca’s current gig, Ted met her after being hired to architect the top-secret facilities for a covert government agency named “Division”.