I’m a huge “How I Met Your Mother Fan” and I can’t wait till season 7 starts on Monday! So here’s the million dollar question this season for all of you HIMYM fans… but first, for those who haven’t seen season 6…
SPOILER ALERT!!
They revealed in the finale that Barney, the most renowned womanizer in the history of television, is going to be getting married soon. Soooo…
Who is Barney going to marry???
Cant be Robin
Remember when Ted is telling the kids about Aunt Robin, I’m sure there was no mention of her being married - the dislike of children being resolved but not her being married.
Remember the Bro Code - Dude
The wedding is where Ted meets the mother for the first time right?
I can’t remember any implication that it was “soon”, but I did only see the episode once and may have forgotten it. I chose Robin, as I was under the impression that the wedding was a couple of seasons away.
I’m going to go for ‘cliffhanger for the sake of cliffhanger, quickly done away with as a ruse on Barneys part, dream sequence or mistelling, with absolutely no consequences whatsoever.’
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what do I win?
I’m going with Nora. Barney’s been talking way to much about her, especially for Barney. Plus remember when Barney and Robin were dating for the long haul how they looked? Neither one of them want that.
i can see them doing something funky like a love triangle thing with ted, nora, and the stinster.
They did that with Robin, Ted & Swarley a while ago - do you think they will do it again?
Actually, it was a quadrangle, since Don(?) was there. The pantsless guy who stole her job.
It’s going to be Robin. If nothing else because it would make the whole Aunt Robin/Uncle Barney thing fit better*.
The whole “we know that Aunt Robin got over her hate of kids thing even though she never had any” in no way makes it more or less likely it’s her and Barney - it just means that whomever she ends up with (if anyone), it just means she never had any kids.
-Joe
*Yes, I know they could be a separate aunt/uncle duo, or even separate but single, but I think it’s cuz they’re together.
I think so, because with out it Barney’s love story will lack drama. They could also go with forbidden love and include a 3rd party - arranged marriage - or the parents objecting, etc. But yes, some impediment and Ted just seems natural.
No David Burtka option?
But yea, I vote Robin. Nora’s been too marginal a character for her to marry one of the majors.
Plus future-Ted is theoretically telling the story of how he met his wife. The first episode is his meeting Robin, and he meets his wife at Barney’s wedding, so it makes sense for it to be Robin’s wedding as well.
I’m voting Nora. I have a suspicion that unless they want to pretty much kill the show in the next season or two, they won’t make it the “2 couples and Ted” show.
The dynamics between the happily married couple, the womanizing Barney, the romantic and stupid Ted, and the somewhat confused Robin is what makes it work.
You could have a big, relatively long story arc that goes on about Barney/Nora and how Robin’s affected by it- sort of an odd love triangle, but in the end, have Barney marry Nora to not wreck the basic dynamics of the show.
I suspect will be Robin; with us not finding out until near the end of the shows run.
I’m thinking Nora for two reasons.[ol][]As has already been shown, when Barney and Robin get together, the Universe cannot handle that much raw awesome in such close proximity to each other. Barney’s and Robin’s individual awesome not only cancel each other out, but creates a massive field of Negative Awesome[sup]TM[/sup].[]Also in separate experiments run by Anita and Nora, the one word that leaves Barney powerless and unable to resist has been found… “No.”[/ol]
I vote Robin, she needs him for a Green Card and he is willing.
Nah, Barney and Ted marry. The two children are born of Lily and Robin. The arrangement is that no-one knows the biological father.
Wait, who was Nora? I don’t remember her.
British woman that Robin introduced him to. In the end Barney chickened out about meeting her parents.
-Joe
I just watched the cliffhanger episode last night (for the second time) - I was watching the interactions between Barney and Robin carefully, knowing how the episode ended, and I think Barney is marrying Nora. Robin and Barney seemed to work out all their unfinished business together, and Barney is moving on. It wasn’t completely clear whether Robin is, though.
Hey, Victoria is on “Warehouse 13”! Cool!
In my opinion, it fits even better than you realize.
barney marries Robin…we know that Ted meets his wife at this wedding…who is his wife?
Barney’s half-sister.
From the episode where Barney has dinner with his father, Jerome (played by John Lithgow), has a daughter, but we never see her. However, Jerome does say she attends college in NYC…it’s a stretch, but she could easily be an economics major at Columbia…and therefore was in that class Ted started teaching by mistake. and she could have been Rachael Bilson’s roommate, etc…
And therefore, since she is Barney’s sister, Barney becomes ‘Uncle Barney,’ and his wife, Robin, becomes ‘Aunt Robin.’
Of course, we already know from Narrator Ted referring to Marshall and Lily as Uncle and Aunt, that being actual family isn’t a prerequisite to being called aunt and uncle, so my theory does have some holes…but I’m sticking by it.