How I Met Your Mother - Season 9

miralize

Why cant the kids seem to give it a **** about the story then?! When they used those cutscenes with the kids, they always used to roll their eyes in boredom...

Bacchus

Total buzz kill... was there a buzz left in HIMYM? So, the mother is dead in the future and this must be what they're on about when they filmed the final scene with the kids years ago. Not only does this make for a depressing end but is a cheap move to squeeze some emotion out of the finale. Also, if this has been planned out for a long time now, it just makes Ted's stories even MORE inappropriate! "Sorry kids, Mom died but here's how I met her... and how Barney hooked up with random women for 7 years... oh and I got my fair share too, if you know what I mean... of course you do, I went in to great detail on all my sexual exploits."

The only bit that resonated with me was the line from the mother "not to live in your stories". It's probably the only true thing said in a long time on the show and could tie in to the reason WHY he's telling this story. That could play out nicely. The mother being dead though... cheap trick IMO.

Turquoise Lagoon

This episode really suggests that the mother is dying, but it seems too obvious and I think it might be a red herring. I'm starting to wonder if Ted is the one who is dying I know Ted is supposed to be the one telling the story but he isn't seen in 2030.
The fact Bob Saget has never been credited as the voice of Future Ted Mosby is unusual ..... If Ted passed away but left a detailed and lengthy goodbye for his kids, couldn’t Saget—as an entirely different character—be the one reading that story?

Oh well just my theory

kryogen

For either of them to be dying (Ted or the mother) would not make sense in terms of how the kids have been reacting to the stories all the way through, to name but one reason for why it would be a sucking big donkey dick way to end the show.

FreudianSlippers

Turquoise Lagoon wrote: »

This episode really suggests that the mother is dying, but it seems too obvious and I think it might be a red herring. I'm starting to wonder if Ted is the one who is dying I know Ted is supposed to be the one telling the story but he isn't seen in 2030.
The fact Bob Saget has never been credited as the voice of Future Ted Mosby is unusual ..... If Ted passed away but left a detailed and lengthy goodbye for his kids, couldn’t Saget—as an entirely different character—be the one reading that story?

Oh well just my theory

Don't get bogged down in your stories when you're dead Ted. Makes sense.

Turquoise Lagoon

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Don't get bogged down in your stories when you're dead Ted. Makes sense.

Or don't get bogged down in your stories when you still have months or possibly years to live :pac: she could just be encouraging him not to lose hope? Oh I dunno
Il be sad when HIMYM ends but I can't take the suspense anymore

phasers

Turquoise Lagoon wrote: »

The fact Bob Saget has never been credited as the voice of Future Ted Mosby is unusual ..... If Ted passed away but left a detailed and lengthy goodbye for his kids, couldn’t Saget—as an entirely different character—be the one reading that story?

Oh well just my theory

When the show's creators did an AMA on Reddit recently they always referred to Bob Saget's character as 'Narrator', never making reference to the fact that he's supposed to be Ted in the future...

:eek: :pac:

pickarooney

Are the kids not watching a recording of Ted on TV/DVD/Whatever they have in 2030?

Otacon

pickarooney wrote: »

Are the kids not watching a recording of Ted on TV/DVD/Whatever they have in 2030?

But they talk back to him?

Stoopid kids of the future!

pickarooney

Maybe the kids are dead?

phasers

Maybe they're all dead? Maybe this is all Hurley's dream and he's still on the island?

Tim Riggins

maybe they are dead

pickarooney

Maybe the scriptwriters are dead?

Killer_banana

pickarooney wrote: »

Maybe the scriptwriters are dead?

Would explain the quality.

carrig4life

maybe bruce willis will turn out to be dead at the end....
On a serious note I can't wait to see the ring bear

kollegeknight

I am a pretty tolerant guy, but after all the crap, if they don't have a ring bear, I will be slightly miffed.

Killer_banana

The ring bear was cleaned up, it's a ring bearer whose name we were even told. He does however have to be chained up so...

certifiedcrepe

Ahhh the new episode was so good.. Even though I have to be up in 4 hours, it was so worth it.

I'm going to be a mess when it finishes, I guess I'm gonna have to try to find a life then

Giggsy_

Anybody else think

That when robin was thinking of her Mr Dependable on the balcony with her mother it was Ted and not Barney !!! AGAIN

certifiedcrepe

Giggsy_ wrote: »

Anybody else think

That when robin was thinking of her Mr Dependable on the balcony with her mother it was Ted and not Barney !!! AGAIN

That's EXACTLY what I thought!!

Killer_banana

Giggsy_ wrote: »

Anybody else think

That when robin was thinking of her Mr Dependable on the balcony with her mother it was Ted and not Barney !!! AGAIN

Me too. If the fan theory that

the mother's dead and Ted is with Robin is true I will so be angry. Hell when I heard it first it seemed the most ridiculous idea ever, now it looks like it might come true. This show is gone to ****.

Zwillinge

Did Robin's mother annoy anyone else?

JohnK

Based on the last scene of this episode, is there any chance that rather than

the mother or Ted being dead in the future that its Lily since she would then be a mother who'd miss her daughter's wedding?

allym

JohnK wrote: »

Based on the last scene of this episode, is there any chance that rather than

the mother or Ted being dead in the future that its Lily since she would then be a mother who'd miss her daughter's wedding?

There's a theory doing the rounds on reddit that it's

Daisy who dies. Which may fit in with the recent episode where they drop Marvin off at college and talk about having an empty house. Which if they've a daughter about 18months/2 years younger than Marvin doesn't make sense?

But I really hope that's not the case cos Jesus my heart couldn't take that!

RobbingBandit

Great Episode, love Lilly and Marshal, great characters. Why considering that Ted did both his wife and his boats boats boats girl did the captain not whoop Ted?

phasers

Well to be fair Ted had Boats Boats Boats first...

A good episode, with a few great lines. Loved Ranjit asking Marshall to get him a driving license :pac:

If Robin and Ted have another will they won't they moment I'm gonna hurl.

zefer

I'd go with the theory the

mother is dead and that when Ted nearly cries when they are talking about a mother missing her daughters wedding, that its because she is dying

Dman001

I've an awful, awful feeling that the Mother will die and Ted will eventually "move on" (like the Mother had after her boyfriend died, with Ted) and get with Robin. How Barney's will fit into that equation, I don't know. Maybe Barney's and Robin won't get married after all? It's a ridiculous theory the more I think about it, but can't shake the feeling it will happen seeing as the writers refuse to shake the Ted/Robin storyline. It's an ending they could have planned from Season 1 too.

Wellyd

Dman001 wrote: »

Maybe Barney's and Robin won't get married after all?.

They definitely get married. It showed Robin dancing with her father at the reception in Band or DJ. And also it showed the mother playing bass on the stage at the reception. They hardly had a reception if they didn't get married?! But then again it's HIMYM so really anything could happen!

SureYWouldntYa

It's entirely possible that Ted could end up with Robin, isn't the scene from a few episodes of Barney and Robin married in the future from like 2014, leaving Ted lots of time to get back in there