UPDATE: To anyone who doubted me… suck it bitches! 😉
Original Article:
If you follow How I Met Your Mother, you may have heard a rumor that the writers have given us at least part of the name of Ted Mosby’s future bride. I even mentioned it in a recent post detailing what we can conclude so far about “the mother”. The video clip below is from Season 1’s Belly Full of Turkey. In this clip, a “burlesque entertainment artist” (otherwise known as a stripper) approaches Ted and says that she thought 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.” He then says “Just kidding” however the kids are shocked. The fact they reacted like this lets you know there is some truth to the association of the name “Tracy” to their mother’s name. Otherwise the kids would not react that way because they would know the name makes no sense there. Watch for yourselves. Thoughts are welcome.
Also, on an end note…There is still a lot of mystery to who the mother is. I constantly read posts and comments trying to pry deeper into the mother character. The speculation of ideas like this are fun and it’s always great to hear what other think and read from different clues. The mystery surrounding the mother is a big reason people still love this show…That and the fact it is simply awesome and funny. Enjoy.
(if this is down let me know. A certain Studio keeps removing them, so this is one I found that’s been out for a year or so… I digress)
But the mother IS in the party, ted said so
plus he calls pot sandwich
I don’t know if the creator of HIMYM send clues away, on the episodes… I think he just write funny stories and don’t want to let anything hidden on it.
I mean, EVERYONE KNOW the mother is not Robin, since that episode with Barney and all that things… and everything we know is just she have a yellow umbrella and she lives with a friend. And that’s all.
The writer will choose any girl to be the mother. He will not hide something on episodes…
So I just happened upon your blog and theories on the mother and it has just recently been brought to my attention that every really IMPORTANT person throughout the whole show is usually associated with the color yellow. When we first meet Robin, she is wearing yellow(well actually gold)earrings. Then when Barney and Robin first discuss their feelings for each other in the hospital room Robin is wearing a bright yellow shirt. When we are first introduced to Marshall and Lily in the Pilot episode Lily is wearing yellow rain-boots, and Marshall’s shirt has yellow writing on it. Then again later on, during the hurricane story when Robin and Barney are about to kiss, Robin yet again is wearing a full blown bright yellow raincoat.
It’s not the girl he bumped into b/c for one the writers would have foreshadowed it in some way. Which the way they have been doing that is by making them wear the color yellow somewhere on their person. Go back through each episode and important person that Ted and Barney meet and then go back to the very first episode and check out what Marshall and Lily are wearing. You will notice that Lily when we first meet her, they very subtly show the yellow boots that she is wearing.
I disagree. The girl who Ted bumped into was just so random chick who doesn’t matter at all, but the writers make you think that she REALLY does matter. If she mattered she would have had the color yellow somewhere on her.
Also to reiterate the “yellow theory” the writers use the color yellow to foreshadow things. Like Ted and Zoey the pillow in the background in the Arcadian when they decide to stay there for a night, it’s yellow, but it’s NOT on Zoey which therefore foreshadows their breakup, but her importance in everything. Also when Ted finds Victoria in her bakery the flowers right next to him are bright yellow, showing the importance of Victoria and the bakery later on, which is very true since Victoria comes back later on in the show. If the color yellow is off of the person it means that they are somewhat important, but not a FULL blown important role. Like the yellow umbrella or the yellow bus of the mother’s. Important artifacts that belong to the mother.
So I don’t know if anyone has noticed but the kids havnt aged at all throughout the whole series.. I noticed cos the son is about 22 in real time.. Plays Justin Russo on wizards of Waverley place?? Ring any bells! Meaning every reaction is pre recorded.. It probably plays on a loop throught the eps. Soooooo when the children had recorded a few reactions when the show started the Tracey ep probably wasn’t written. This means that the children couldn’t react with moms name isn’t Tracey or a that wasn’t mom or mom wasn’t a stripper cos who would predict that an ep would be written with that joke referring to tracey. It’s just something that wasn’t thought through.
Although I love this yellow theory! I am planning to watch the ep where ted is lecturing the wrong class to see if there is any yellow in that crowd!
I HAVE noticed that the kids haven’t aged at all, up until starting around season 7. The boy’s(Luke’s)hair is different. They also did that this way because from the perspective that the writers were doing this from is Ted just telling a story that takes a REALLY long time. I believe, that Ted will meet the mother by the end of season 7, because from what I have read the kids who play Luke and Laia, were sworn to secrecy on certain things(like about the mother that the other cast members don’t even know yet and when they plan on bringing her out). The writers themselves don’t know who is going to play the mother yet, but I do believe that they know when they plan on introducing her. Also, from what I have read by the end of season 7, Barney and Ted pretty much switch personalities. Barney will be getting ready to settle down and Ted will be giving up on finding “The One”. Along with the yellow theory, there are more shots than just that one in the wrong class.When he dates the mother’s room mate it goes back to that class, but like I said they know very little about the mother so far, so don’t be surprised if you don’t see any yellow in the class. They yellow that pertains to the mother are the yellow umbrella, and the yellow bus.
I dont think the mother is Barney’s half-sister. This is the way i think it will play out:
-the wife’s name is Tracey. Although the kids dont hear everything we hear in the present, i think they probably did hear this, with future Ted taking the opportunity to pull the joke on the kids when he noticed that the stripper had the same name as his wife. Add to this the blurred out face girl from love connections being credited as Tracey and i think we have a name. These clues are subtle enough and dont give away too much.
-ted meets his wife at barney’s wedding BUT it is not barney’s half sister. This would be inconsistent with the grand romantic story that Ted Moseby is all about. Having the wife be Barney’s half sister is just too convenient and lacks the element of the universe or some unlikely twist of fate bringing ted and his wife together.
I think the wife will not be an invited guest, but through some mix up or other event will find herself at the wedding, thus supplying the romantic element.
But there is another reason i think this will happen and it is to do with a question few people have raised: why, in telling the story of how he met the kid’s mother, is ted plowing through story after story of ex-girlfriends? (ok perhaps the writers just needed a girl for ted to marry in case the show was cancelled, but it would still be nice to answer this question if the writers can). The reason i think is that ted’s wife will be the perfect combination of all his ex gfs, thus why he is telling the kids about them. Therefore, perhaps:
1 Ted will meet his wife just like he met Victoria
2 Ted will woo his wife just like he wooed robin
3 Ted will make a sacrifice for her just like he was going to move to NJ for stella
My
theory … Please read! We do find out who the mother is of course, but
there’s an even bigger twist … It’s revealed that the mother dies a
few years prior to 2030, & the reason he’s telling his kids this
long-ass story about how he met the mother – starting with how he met
ROBIN – is bc he’s going to end back up with Robin (after Ted and the
kids hsve had a couple years to grieve). Remember the episode this
season where Barney discovers the long term bet box of Marshall and
Lily’s? Lily had bet Marshall that Ted and Robin wouldn’t end up
together … at the end of episode, the say that it’s still tbd if they
end up together … Kind of a foreshadow of the final twist that with
the mother dead, Robin having gotten to travel the world, Ted and Robin
end up together in 2030.
This is a very interesting theory which of course, could be true since there shows no evidence of her actually being alive at that time. But if that is the case then they wouldn’t have been married for very long at all, since he hasn’t met her yet and it’s 2012 already, he meets her at Barney’s “supposed” wedding, which brings up my theory that he will ask Quinn to marry him, but then he won’t go through with it when the wedding day actually comes. Hence Barney worrying about wearing the right tie and everything realizing that “this” tie is permanent and once he realizes that he freaks out shortly after Lily makes him change his tie. I have a feeling that he will spill out his guts about him and Robin and it’ll make his decision for him causing him to leave Quinn, OR Quinn will end up leaving him at the wedding realizing that she doesn’t want to settle down b/c she is a stripper and that things are moving way too fast. Either way, I still believe Barney ends up with Robin. If you read my yellow theory, further down you would understand that.
The whoe first episode Ted calls Robin, ROBIN. And the kids thought she was the mum. Invalid Argument. LAWYERED
Maybe Ted meets their mother, who agrees to donate her eggs and Carey’s two baby’s for Ted and robin because robin cannot have kids
She is still technically “their mother”
Strange thing about this I noticed while doing a marathon, did anyone else notice in episode 21 a character named tracy was listed, but I dont remember a character there…
He met his half sister waay before the wedding and the mother is a bass player which he doesn’t even see till the wedding. She is the roommate of cindy aka teds ex.
lol as we know now the mother is blonde.
The mother is blonde and ted meets her at robin and barneys wedding so theory disproved
Barney and Robin are getting married LAWYERED
I doubt the kids would worry about the name she said as it’s possible for her to give out a fake name.
Nailed it.
6 years later. You are correct
My crowning achievement in life right there.
Well, the finale just happened and her name WAS actually Tracy! Good job man!
Yep, it was Tracy
omg this was completely correct
all this happened
Holy socks. How did I not catch this?! (Especially considering the fake reveal is one of my favorite recurring gags from the series!)
Lol this theory was correct, fuck the haters.
Well we now know the theory was right.