# The How I Met Your Mother end of season 9 thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 22, 2014, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444 "2014-01-22T12:34:00Z")
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2014, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/1 "2014-01-22T12:34:00Z")
There are plenty of HIMYM threads, but none seemed appropriate.
I don’t think it is worth having one thread per episode, but I figured we could have a thread for the rest of the season.
Here is an episode list for season 9:
> **[Season 9](https://how-i-met-your-mother.fandom.com/wiki/Season_9)**
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> Season 9 of How I Met Your Mother aired during the 2013-2014 television season. It's the final season of the series. How I Met Your Mother was renewed for a ninth and final season on December 22nd, 2012, with an official announcement made by CBS on...
I’m really surprised there has been no talk about the names of the kids (Penny and Luke)
And we find out what Barney does (PLEASE - Provide Legal Exculpation And Sign Everything) becoming the legal fall guy for GNB. But it turns out he is a mole.
Next episode is 200 - “How Your Mother Met Me”
Brian
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### Author:  [@BrianJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianJ)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/2 "2014-01-22T12:37:43Z")
Interesting, I figured him meeting the mother would be at the very end.
This season feels too drawn out so far, although I enjoyed this weeks episode.
PS, your name suggests you are fine, upstanding young man. 😃
-Brian
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/3 "2014-01-22T13:18:10Z")
> [@BrianJ](#):
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> Interesting, I figured him meeting the mother would be at the very end.
There’s no reason to think we’ll actually be shown them meeting.
I know others are excited about the names, and there’s discussion on other boards and such - but I honestly don’t care. I assume “Luke” is a Star Wars reference, and no clue what the Penny name is about.
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### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/4 "2014-01-22T14:34:49Z")
> [@N9IWP](#):
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> And we find out what Barney does (PLEASE - Provide Legal Exculpation And Sign Everything) becoming the legal fall guy for GNB. But it turns out he is a mole.
I was half-afraid he was going to be GNB’s Fredo. Good to know he was just supposed to be the Fall Guy.
Also, I wouldn’t call him a mole. Being a mole is just a side-effect ofr his true purpose:
REVENGE!!!
Seriously, dude. Don’t piss him off.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/5 "2014-01-22T14:41:24Z")
This week’s episode showed Luke (the younger Mosby child) being born in 2017. Meanwhile the flash forward scenes from the early seasons show the children being told the story in 2030 and, as I remember, the son looks older than 13.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/6 "2014-01-22T15:40:35Z")
It is interesting that Barney’s job basically involves not having to do anything but sign documents. Makes you wonder what he does at his desk all day. Maybe he posts here? 😉
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### Author:  [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/7 "2014-01-22T15:44:47Z")
> [@Munch](#):
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> There’s no reason to think we’ll actually be shown them meeting.
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> I know others are excited about the names, and there’s discussion on other boards and such - but I honestly don’t care. I assume “Luke” is a Star Wars reference, and no clue what the Penny name is about.
In an earlier episode Ted talks about an old penny he found that he credits for a long chain of events that caused him to miss an interview which he initially thought was a Very Bad Thing, but Future Ted realizes that would have had him relocate to Chicago and thus would never have met the mother, so the penny turned out to be very lucky. It makes sense then that he would name his daughter Penny.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/8 "2014-01-22T18:20:41Z")
Good reason for “Penny”, **Mauvaise**
I’m guessing the mother will meet Ted, but not vice versa, in episode 200.
somebody will say “that’s Ted, the best man” but Ted will be across the room or something.
just a guess
Brian
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/9 "2014-01-22T19:09:33Z")
Thanks, Mauvaise.
My guess is that it’ll just be a series of events where the mother had near misses with Ted, and it leads up to her being on that train platform.
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### Author:  [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/10 "2014-01-23T04:46:08Z")
Maybe it’ll be a “Haaaaaaaave you met Ted?” introduction. "D
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/11 "2014-01-23T15:21:20Z")
I like the explanation for Penny, **Mauvaise**.
The past episode with truth serum drunk was the best of the season so far.
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/12 "2014-01-23T17:00:18Z")
I didn’t catch the girl’s name … I like the “Ted’s penny” explanation. I also assumed Luke was just a Star Wars reference.
I had a moment of outrage this past week when they showed the flash-forward to 2017 and I assumed (briefly) that this was supposed to be the first pregnancy–when it had already been established that Penny was an infant at the 2015 Star Wars Marathon. But they fixed that, and I decided not to be mad. 🙂
Loved the reveal on Barney’s job–some of these things, I really have to wonder how much of it has been planned for years and how much they managed to retcon into existing parameters.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/13 "2014-01-24T18:16:24Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> This week’s episode showed Luke (the younger Mosby child) being born in 2017. Meanwhile the flash forward scenes from the early seasons show the children being told the story in 2030 and, as I remember, the son looks older than 13.
The actors were 17 and 15 during the filming of the storytelling scenes. Which makes Hollywood sense for the 15 and 13 they were supposed to be.
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### Author:  [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/14 "2014-01-24T18:58:11Z")
I’ve enjoyed the new season. It’s not as funny as the show was in the early seasons, but there’s enough laughs that I enjoy watching it (as compared to last season, where I basically just put it on as something to make noise while I fold laundry).
I think the new format was a good idea. It gets a bit stretched sometimes, but it gives the writers something new to work with, which after nine seasons, is pretty much a necessity.
I liked the reveal that Barney, king of the long-con, has basically had his entire persona and career since before the show began be part of one long revenge plot.
And I’m probably more amused by the “ring bear(er)” schtick then I should be.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/15 "2014-01-24T19:59:28Z")
I was amused that “Drunk Enough to Make Plans With Strangers” Barney is basically the story of how he met Ted.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/16 "2014-01-28T02:04:11Z")
Of course, the Econ class.
The preview for next week was cut off so I missed it.
So Robin’s mom hasn’t checked in - guessing there is more to that.
Brian
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### Author:  [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/17 "2014-01-28T02:36:09Z")
The preview was cut off for me too in the Mountain time zone. They VO’d an intro for it and then previewed “The Crazy Ones.” I may have used a bad word.
Sweet episode. Was that really the mother singing at the end? Pretty voice.
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/18 "2014-01-28T03:58:25Z")
A really good episode. I would have liked even more from her point of view.
I’ve also ended up listening to about six different versions of “La Vie En Rose” on YouTube 🙂
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/19 "2014-01-28T04:06:12Z")
> [@Lare](#):
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> Sweet episode. Was that really the mother singing at the end? Pretty voice.
Cristin Milioti’s a Broadway star. She was also really playing that [ukulele](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEB2zIxS5qY).
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-i-met-your-mother-end-of-season-9-thread/679444/20 "2014-01-28T12:45:45Z")
> [@N9IWP](#):
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> So Robin’s mom hasn’t checked in - guessing there is more to that.
In one of the first episodes of the season, Robin’s mom called her and said she wasn’t coming.
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