Who Is The Mother In How I Met Your Mother? Exposed!
I am sure the question everybody is asking when watching How I Met Your Mother is “Who is the mother?” Well I have been doing some research, and this is what I have found.
What We Know So Far
- The Yellow Umbrella symbolises the mother
- Ted has met her roommate (and has seen her foot)
- Ted met her at a Wedding – (not sure who’s wedding, but one of them)
- She does Economics 305 as Ted was in her lecture
- It’s definitely not Stella
Myth #1
The mother’s name is Tracy
In Season 1, Episode 9, Belly Fully of Turkey, a burlesque entertainment artist approaches Ted and says what he did was sweet and introduces her as Amber and later adds “Actually, I’m Tracy”. At the end of the episode, Ted says “And that kids is the true story of how i met your mother.”
The kids believed him, and Ted then says “I’m just kidding.” If Tracy wasn’t the mothers name, the kids wouldn’t believe Ted when he said, “that’s how I met your mother” (referring to Tracy).
Myth #2
That girl Ted bumps into in Episode “No Tomorrow”
In the episode around 13min 49seconds, Ted bumps into a girl on St Patricks day. Ted does mention that the mother was in that bar and that they never met, but bumping into to each other is not meeting someone. The image on the left is the girl Ted bumps into, and the image on the right is the girl refers to as “the mother being there.” However, looking at these two images, the jeans look a little different. So are these two people the same?
Myth #3
The Love Solution match that Ted never meets
Remember when Ted goes to Love Solutions to find his soul mate, and a match wasn’t found? Months later, they call Ted and tell him that they found him a match. Ted organises a date with her to meet her, but he never goes to it because he is still in love with Robin. This unknown person may also be the mother.
Myth #4
It’s Robin’s Sister
How else do you your kids call someone Aunt? If Ted marries Robin’s sister, then Ted’s kids will call Robin Aunt Robin. We have met Robin’s younger sister once in Season 2 Episode 12 “First Time in New York”. But does Robin have an older sister?
Myth #5 (Most probable)
Barney’s (Half?) Sister
One other possibility is that the mother is Barney’s half sister. Since Barney doesn’t know who his dad is yet, he will later find him, who will have a daughter. And as Dash said in the comments, when Barney’s Brother, James Stinson adopted a baby, this was how Barney became uncle Barney. So Barney is Uncle to his brother James’s kid, and will become Uncle again when his sister has a child with Ted.
Update: In the episode Legendaddy, Barney meets his real father and it is revealed that he has a daughter called Karly who is in collage, and that his father lives near by. It has been mentioned that the mother was in an economics class that Ted mistakenly lectured at. Also, because we didn’t meet her when Barney was at there house, it can mean that she lives elsewhere – I.e Cindie’s house. As per meeting the mother at the wedding, this will be Barney’s wedding, possibly with Nora (in which Barney’s sister is introduced into the show) and that’s how Ted and the future mother meets)
Myth #6
Zoey’s Step Daugter
As Sarah points out in the comments, the mother may be Zoey’s step daughter. Ted mentions in one of the episodes that Zoey is not the mother and the relationship “did not end well”. In the show, Zoey’s step daughter is perceived as a little girl, but going on “The Captains” age, she could be around Ted’s age. Since we know Ted meets his wife at a wedding, the wedding could be between Zoey and The Captain, thus Ted being introduced to Zoey’s Step Daughter. The reason Ted could be at the wedding is because Ted and the captain remain best friends.
Your Thoughts?
So that’s my thoughts on who is the mother in HIMYM. Who do you think is the mother? Do you even think the kids have met their mother? It’s open to you for discussion, I would love to hear what you think.
😀 I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO THE MOTHER IS!
What about Victoria ?
Could Ted have married Robin and be speaking to Robin’s sister’s kids? I could be mistaken, but I don’t think they ever actually called the narrator “dad”
Spoiler ALERT!! It’s Robin Shebatsky. NPH is my sister’s neighbor’s cousin and he told them its her!!
Remember Ted is married and has had his first child by 2015 (I think) as it shows in flash forwards, so if this is the case and Ted waits before marrying her, the show may only have one or two seasons left before we find out who the mother is, if you look through the story line they are very consistent and rarely break away from what they have already said, meaning they cannot ignore the flash forwards, so yeah in my opinion Ted will meet the mother in the next year or so, as there is little room for time. No opinions on who the mother may be though, since if it was someone who he already knew or had knowledge of, then he would have recognized her whenever she walked past with the umbrella, like the last scene of season 8 episode 1 on the train platform.
Juss to let u all no, this show is kinda whacky, anything can happpen!!, who knows lily might be the mother, who knows?
Barney marry’s Robin not Nora!!!
Well I have something to say about myth 4, Even though he calls Robin Aunt Robin he also calls the others like Uncle Barney, Aunt Lily, and Uncle Marshall
I think Barney marries Robin so she isn’t the mother, I’d like it to be robin but its not 🙁
How can it be robins sister because you can call you parents friends aunt even though they are not, like my mums friend is an aunt to me but is not actually related to me in any way. So the mother could be anyone.
It’s Victoria.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:p
A guy named Ted was looking up who the mother was in his favourite show ‘how i met your mother’ and got into an argument over who it was with another person on the forum. Then a lady about Ted’s age came in to the argument and stood up for Ted. They ended up winning the argument and Ted thanked the girl who helped, they then decided to meet up later and in the distant future Ted told his kids…
“That, kids. Is how I met your mother.”
Whoever made How i met your mother is a genius. They probably knew it would lead to arguments like these.
In [i]No Pressure[/i], at the middle of season 7, Ted mentions that the last person whom he said I love you to was Robin, then we see the moment when I says it to his wife and they were trying to see “The Wedding Bride” a the movie theater. Does anybody has an idea about it ?
Here is a few minor research points:
The mother is “Robin”
Now in your head you are probably saying “No its not because in the commentary he calls her aunt robin” but luckily i got some tickets to see the last episode of season 11 (the final season) and at the end Ted said “Well at least she was your aunt robin until she became YOUR MOTHER” and right then the show ended. I guess it ended there just to give it some suspense.
Now I know all of you probably heard that it is the roommate but the funny thing is, is that robin was the one staying there for the night from a few previous episodes where her and her ex boyfriend “Rob” broke up with her and she had to stay at Stella’s for the night because she was living at her boyfriend’s house ever since Ted kicked her out of the apartment.
what if its the slutty pumpkin?
in one episode ted dates some one from a game..
he never tell her real name instead call her blaablaa..
i think its her
ted dates a girl he meet online(from a game)
he never tells her name instead call her blabla..
maybe that teds wife so her name was not told.
i thinks its her
its cupcake gurl
There is the possiblity that Robin does end up being Ted’s wife but that doesn’t necessarily mean that she is the birth mother of the kids. With that being said it’s conceivable that they might call their stepmother Aunt Robin. The show is called How I Met Your “Mother” you know and doesn’t necessarily mean that Ted marries the kids birth mother.
i light of latest episodes… i feel tht the mother is indeed barney’s sister.. i mean.. ted clearly meets her at the station after barney’s wedding and maybe before that even at barney’s wedding.. and she may even turn out be that mystery love solutions girl…thats wat i think !! n well.. i do think that the kids have met their mother…but maybe she is no longer alive.. cus then future ted and her shud have been narratin the story together… but maybe she is busy elsewhere.. anyways these are just my assumptions..
but he aslo calls Lily ‘aunt lily’ he only does it because they are close like family
At the end of Something Blue, Future Ted closes the episode talking about his and Robinƒ??s futures:
ƒ??And as hard as it was at the time, in the end we both got what we wanted. She did eventually go on to live in Argentina, and Morocco, Greece, Russia, even Japan for a little while. And I? Well, I met your mom
At the end of Something Blue, Future Ted closes the episode talking about his and Robinƒ??s futures:
ƒ??And as hard as it was at the time, in the end we both got what we wanted. She did eventually go on to live in Argentina, and Morocco, Greece, Russia, even Japan for a little while. And I? Well, I met your mom.ƒ?
This implies that, at the time of Something Blue, Ted had yet to meet the mother
At the end of Something Blue, Future Ted closes the episode talking about his and Robinƒ??s futures:
ƒ??And as hard as it was at the time, in the end we both got what we wanted. She did eventually go on to live in Argentina, and Morocco, Greece, Russia, even Japan for a little while. And I? Well, I met your mom.ƒ?
This implies that, at the time of Something Blue, Ted had yet to meet the mother
In The Three Days Rule, Future Ted tells his children that when he got their mother’s phone number, he called her right away. This too implies that, as of The Three Days Rule, Ted had not yet met their mother.
In No Pressure, it is stated that the last person he said ‘I love you’ to before the mother was Robin. This implies that Ted won’t have anymore serious relationships between then and the day he meets the mother.
In Trilogy Time, it is shown that by 2015, Ted is watching the Star Wars trilogy with Barney, Marshall, and his baby daughter – implying Ted has met the mother and has had a child by that time. Ted is also seen to be wearing a wedding ring in the scene as well which means he has already married the mother by 2015.