I thought this episode sucked for the most part. I did think it was funny that Robin was selfish enough to steal Marshall's drink, and that Marshall even made the drink in the first place. It was actually a pretty depressing episode, but at least they seem to be close to doing something with the mother soon.

shooting one scene isn't a lot of trouble.

He's saying, "you know what I'd do first" to say that if he knew who the mother was, he'd have gone and run to her place and done that speech for her because he was that lonely on that particular night. This show isn't deep enough or good enough to somehow pull off an ending where the mother is met, courted, married, and then dies (in the future, I suppose) all in one season (plus an episode or two where Ted presumably meets her to cap off this season-- I could see it being an hour long season finale this year).

I thought this episode had some potential, but the story around the future versions of Ted, Barney, coat check girl was pretty poorly executed and never really explained at all. Not that they needed to be explicit, but it was just one stupid "revelation" and new future version of each character after another, and it just didn't work at all.

In short, there have been much better episodes this season, though the ending was certainly interesting. However, we already pretty much knew everything it "revealed," save for what I'm assuming is a timeline for the finale. That would put it at about May 13th if I'm not mistaken.

Oh, I did like the Billy Joel a capella number at the end though.

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singing at the end was no doubt the best part...ugh, when will this show end?!...or get back to where it was.

I thought the singing at the end was kinda dumb.

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She's not dead because they have already admitted they filmed the scene with the mom and the kids. They did it a number of years ago when the kids were still young.

I seriously doubt they would go to all that trouble if she were dead.

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Whoa really? Do you have a link to that? I know that back during season two they filmed a scene for the finale, but I hadn't heard any details of it.



Another idea I've heard of is that Ted is terminally ill and that's why his kids are so willing to sit through such a long story and why he wants that extra time with the mother. Don't think they'll go there, but interesting none the less.

I don't think the mom is dead just because of how the kids reacted during the first season. They didn't want to listen at all, and if they were hearing stories about their dead mom, they would be more interested.

Same thing with Ted being terminally ill. The kids would be much more willing to listen if they knew their dad wasn't going to be around much longer.

I thought she might be dead too. And the story takes place after 2020.

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He wanted the extra 45 days or even an extra 45 seconds before her boyfriend punched him in the face because he loved her and always would until the end of his days and beyond.

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This should solidify that she has, in fact, died. ANYONE who is in the middle of a 15+ year marriage with multiple kids constantly running around KNOWS that the only real thing that he would want is "45 days or even 45 extra seconds" TO HIMSELF without his wife or kids around!

Now, if his wife has died, that perspective would be quite different...

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Another idea I've heard of is that Ted is terminally ill...

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I think the fact that they have had episodes of Ted old and gray with Lily and Marshall in them would mean Ted isn't dying at the time of his telling the story. Has the mom ever been in one of those scenes? Not visually of course, but calling him on the phone or him saying he's waiting on her in the restroom or something?

Guys, he is saying his life is so ****astic without her, he would give anything just to add a little more time with her for them to enjoy that life together. No one is dying.

Guys, he is saying his life is so ****astic without her, he would give anything just to add a little more time with her for them to enjoy that life together. No one is dying.

The people saying there is going to be some horrible death-related ending for Ted or the wife-- do you think they'd have a finale of the Big Bang Theory where it turns out Sheldon had a brain tumor all along?

This is CBS we're talking about here.......

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Guys, he is saying his life is so ****astic without her, he would give anything just to add a little more time with her for them to enjoy that life together. No one is dying

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Agreed


The end of this week's episode felt like old school HIMYM for the first time in awhile.

i will agree that it is almost embarrassing how meh robin has become but they keep acting like she is hot

My wife said it best....

"Neither one is dying/dead. Ted is so sappy that he would talk about her like that."

Don't think she is dead but it would be awesome and ballsy if she was

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Agreed...or if Ted is dead, it is someone else reading this story to the kids.

That would explain the Bob Saget voice-overs!

Inspector. Mind. Blown.

I have changed my opinion to: totally hoping Ted is dead.

And Saget's voice in the end is like, "what, did you think people's voices just change from when they're 30 to their late 40s? Plus, Ted was a dewsh"

I dont think either are dead. I think y'all are reading too much into this episode.

I thought it was a quality episode. I really enjoyed it.

I was thinking about this some more....

Is there any chance this has all just been a loooong prequel to Full House?!?!? Wasn't Danny Tanner's wife dead in Full House? And have we ever seen anything on HIMYM that "officially" showed Ted as Ted Mosby and that that couldn't just have been a nickname of his all along?

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Is there any chance this has all just been a loooong prequel to Full House?!?!? Wasn't Danny Tanner's wife dead in Full House? And have we ever seen anything on HIMYM that "officially" showed Ted as Ted Mosby and that that couldn't just have been a nickname of his all along?

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Is the son actually a cross dresser? Since Danny Tanner didn't have a son.

Here's to hoping sarcasm meter is on the fritz.

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they didn't have any son's on full house.... so they'll have to kill off the boy too

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they didn't have any son's on full house.... so they'll have to kill off the boy too

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HOW RUDE!

I re-watched the episode, I think he went to Robots vs Wrestlers at the end of the episode.

Not sure how relevant, just saw it was an indication on how alone Ted is.

Bump. Another lily dream job storyline....

I'm pretty over Lilly's story line. I think it's dumb to suggest he has some eye for art after taking undergrad courses and teaching kindergarten for 10 years.

The exchange between Barney and Ted about Robin was interesting though.

I liked that exchange at the end.

I'm ready for Lily to go the hell away. So, we are to believe that Marshall becomes some super successful judge advocate for the environment after they move to Rome for him to do nothing for however many years?

Ag,

she turned down the job at the very end for the 2nd time.

She doesn't want to leave NY. Marshall is going to get a big case in the next two episodes that will be part of the show; like the case when he first started against the bank that barney works for.

He'll make his name out of that case.

I thought the whole sitting on the front steps of the building discussion was so she WOULD take the job?

Did anyone notice the picture on Marshall's desk behind him in his cubicle while talking to Lily? It wasn't Lily and maybe. I am reading too much init

It's so hard to care about lily

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It wasn't Lily and maybe. I am reading too much init

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She and the mother were probably killed at the same time in a head on collision with each other. The ending is starting to come together now.