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I feel that a big question for How I Met Your Mother fans has always been “Who is the mother?” And while we don’t have a definite answer, we can take what we do know so far and begin to formulate some ideas. This is a long one so go grab a drink and pull up a chair. By the way, HIMYM returns to us on March 17th! So hopefully soon there will be more to add to this list! Disclaimer: I love theories, but I have not posted anything here that cannot be backed up. Enjoy!
Who we know is NOT:
1. Robin is not the Mother. We learn this in the first episode and and it is reconfirmed countless times in all 3 seasons. No matter how much people “want it to happen, ” it just won’t. Get used to disappointment. In fact, for those still
letting the thought wonder in the empty space in your head let me share the best explanation / recap on the subject from tv.com forum user RUdaPs:
To explain the surprise of the “…and that’s how I met your Aunt Robin.” line in the pilot…
If you pay attention throughout the pilot, Future Ted always says things like “…and then I went to her apartment.” The assumption is that the kids are thinking the whole time that “she” and “her” are their mother because Future Ted says that he’s telling the story of how he met their mother. The only thing is, he doesn’t say a name. So at the end when he says “…and that’s how I met your Aunt Robin.” the kids are surprised.
It’s like watching “The Sixth Sense” for the first time. (If you haven’t seen it and would like to you should stop reading this and skip to the next paragraph.) You always assume that Bruce Willis is alive but it is never clearly stated. Then if you go back and watch it again, you realize that only the kid talks to him throughout the movie. Even though you thought it was obvious the story was about one thing it was clearly about another and you can go back and see what it was really about
2. The string of possible girls throughout Season 1. There was Natalie (Return of the Shirt), Ted’s old girlfriend, who knew Krav Maga. Coat Check Girl (OK Awesome), that Carter Bays even joked that if the writers strike ruined the show for good, she was the mother. Even though we never meet her (which would be a great idea for this season…hint, hint), the Slutty Pumpkin (from oddly enough the episode called the Slutty Pumpkin). Dr. Sara O’Brien (Matchmaker), the engaged 9.6 match found by love solutions. Trudy (the Pineapple Incident), who came back in the Third Wheel…let me side track here for a moment. Ted only says “I left Trudy a message, but she never called me back”…to me this implies he never saw her again, but I suppose that was the way around things for that episode (that and “Some stories you tell, some stories you don’t”…seriously, would would ever tell their kids they rode the tricycle)…anyhow moving on. There was Victoria from episodes 12-18, she was great, would have been nice, but she won’t be back (at least not as marriage material). Let’s not leave off Mary the Paralegal (and that is a shame…but when you don’t laugh it just seems mean). And I can sum all these up as “not the mama” because in the episode Lucky Penny from Season 2, Ted says:
“My destiny was to stay in New York. Because if I hadn’t, I never would have met your mother.”
Thus saying that up to this point, he has not met the mother yet, so we have not seen her. Take a moment and let that sink in if you need to.
3. Ted’s soul mate. Let’s camp on this one for a moment. Season 1 episode 21, Milk, the dating company finally comes through and finds Ted’s soul mate. Now if #2 is true then she could be included in that group. However, Ted never actually met her in person. Will this be a loophole? Will she ever play back in? I leave it to you…personally I feel, the “Soul Mate” is out of the picture or at very least not the mother…I just felt she needed to be mentioned.
4. The girls form Season 3 (so far). Well Season 2 was a wash as far as “the mother” because Ted was with Robin the whole time. And in Season 3 so far I don’t think we have seen any potential for a “mother character”. In some of the recent interviews with the creators of HIMYM they confirm this thought (more or less). In the Platinum Rule, Ted say something about that being all with Dr. Stella for now…but I seriously doubt she is the mom…and here is why….
WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW SO FAR:
1. Her name. Now this is just a theory but it seems to be a pretty strong one. The mother’s name is Tracy…don’t believe me? Season 1 Episode 9, Belly Full of Turkey, at the end of the episode a “burlesque entertainment artist” approaches Ted and says what he did was sweet… She says “I’m Amber”…then says “Actually, I’m Tracy”… then future Ted’s (Bob Saget) voice pops in and says “And that kids is the true story of how I met your mother.”
The kids are blown away surprised. He does say he is kidding…however ponder this if you will…why would the kids even believe it for a moment if their mother’s name was not Tracy?
*Update: Here is some more info on the Tracy Theory.
2. They meet in New York. This is a slight assumption too, however in Lucky Penny he says if he wouldn’t have stayed in New York he would have never met her.
3. The Yellow Umbrella. Season 3 episode 1, Wait for It, Ted says, “Kids, there is more than one story of how I met your mother. You know the short version, the thing with your mom’s yellow umbrella…” So we don’t know much, but we do know there is a yellow umbrella involved (You can thank Captain Obvious for that one).
Also if this is your first time here be sure to check out the How I Met Your Mother Show Reviews for the latest info on “the mother”.
I dont Think they are first year students , im pretty sure , when he meets the girl at college , she says she is a PHD student. so im assuming that this is the case for her roomate aswell, i mean they are in the same class.
im not sure if anyone has said this yet coz the page is to long to read but i think its the slutty pumpkin, i know its stupid but he said in that ep that she studied in antarctica on penguins which means she did go to college which also leaves a possiblilty to go back
so.. robin isnt the mother lilly no, stella no .
remember that future ted told hgis kidds that he was with barney at saint patrick holiday and theier mother was there and its show one women with a yellow and her jeans were blue umbrela that is theier mother i am 100%sure and i study very carefully that video and i was looking at her hands and i saw they have a dark color maybe not so dark a and one moment ted knock by a chick in the club thats the mother she was a little brown (her skin) and her blue jeans and the regizors couldnt put a anyone girl in the movie to knock i am 100% sure that is the kids mother . now i will show you why not stella is the mother : in one moment in the movie when old stella appears behind the kids and they werent ted kids and future ted told them concretly that stella isnt theier mother.now robin:so robin is ted roommates when he saw mother’s leg and mother when ted said concretly that theier mother is one of his stundes so robin cant be theier mother.and now lilly : lets put us in this situation if ted just told the kids how he met theier mother and… the kids adrees future ted with ”dad” thats means that they are lily and ted kids and as you know they cant be… why? because if they concept this kids about when ted had about 35 and lily is the same age he is.and some parts of the movie show marshall and ted and lily when ted had about 42 years old and lily is with marshall and when the smoke a ”sandwich” ted ask them ”where is my wife”.she cant be the mother . victoria ”no way” she was in germany.i make good arguments i think.the mother is that chick who ted knock in season 3 episode 12 .that brown chick.and her name is tracey 100% sure if you come with argumenst that chick isnt mother i will demonstrade you ….. waddup…..cya
mate above me he says at the end of the episode that he didnt meet her tht night coz if he did she wouldnt hav liked him
I’m 99.9% sure the mum it the girl Ted gets paired up with in the epp ‘matchmaker’ cause we never see her face and we don’t know her name, but we know they are perfect for each other .. Thoughts?
Thanks for all the word. Just a note, they have this new thing now called punctuation. =)
Thanks for all the comments, but I’m closing down commenting on this article. IT’s at over 650 comments and that’s a ton to read. People are saying the same things over and over. But never fear. I’ve summed up the bulk of the post and what people are saying here and have started a new thread called More on Who is the mother from HIMYM.
Like most posts tat I really enjoy it’s overly in depth, check it out and let me know what you think!
Punctuation’s an old thing, dear preacher of the petty and misuser of the comma. “All” is an indefinite pronoun requiring a plural verb form. So great to find someone else who focuses on what’s really important.
This is what I think: I think that the mother has to be kind of a latina-like woman… because teds children a little like Latinos and because Ted is not one, I think the mother has to be… so I would not think she is blonde or red-haired… sorry for my bad English! Correct me if i’m wrong 🙂
You should go through the rest of the seasons and try to conclude something from them. They might add more onto what you have and maybe you will find out who she is.
Who is the mother? Just give it to me… I have to know
Lilly