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Re: How I Met Your Mother
Aside from what we have already learned this season about the mother, here is everything we know from before hand (source: HIMYM wiki):
Before we ever met The Mother, the following was revealed throughout the series:
1. At the end of Lucky Penny, Future Ted says:
"Kids, funny thing about destiny. I thought I was destined to get that job, but I was wrong. My destiny was to stay in New York. Because if I hadn't, I never would've met your mother."
This strongly suggested that Ted meets The Mother in New York.
2. At the end of Something Blue, Future Ted closes the episode talking about his and Robin's futures:
"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."
3. At the end of How I Met Everyone Else, Ted asks Marshall and Lily where his wife is, at his college reunion. As the reunion was held in 2020, it is revealed that, by 2020, Ted would have already gotten married.
4. In Wait For It, it is revealed by Future Ted that The Mother's yellow umbrella factors into the story of how she and Ted met.
5. In No Tomorrow, Future Ted states that his future wife was at the same St. Patrick's Day party he went to, but that they didn't meet each other. When going back to the party to find his phone, he picked up the yellow umbrella that belonged to her. However, Ted does bump into some seemingly arbitrary woman whom he seems to notice and who seems to notice him, now proven to be a red herring.
6. In The Three Days Rule, Future Ted told his children that when he got their mother's phone number, he called her right away.
7. In The Leap, Ted is shown teaching his first class at Columbia University. Future Ted narrates how this was the best job he's ever had, and that if it weren't for that job, he never would have met their Mother. However, in Definitions, it's revealed that Ted was in the wrong room for his first class, and all the students there were Economics students, and that The Mother was one of them.
8. In Double Date, Future Ted told his kids that when he first told their mother his "shellfish-selfish" joke, she laughed.
9. In Last Cigarette Ever, Future Ted reveals that he eventually quit smoking two weeks into dating The Mother.
10. In Girls Versus Suits, Ted dates a girl named Cindy. Cindy's roommate is The Mother, as revealed by Future Ted. Although they never meet, while in Cindy's apartment Ted looks around and discovers things about the roommate/mother that shows they have very similar likes and hobbies, such as making breakfast foods sing show tunes, painting pictures of robots playing sports, and playing bass guitar. Ted also sees what Future Ted states was probably The Mother's feet, as she leaves the bathroom to go into her room.
11. In Big Days, Future Ted reveals that Ted will meet The Mother on the day of a wedding and that "a little ways down the road" he will be the best man at a wedding, later revealed in Challenge Accepted and The Magician's Code - Part Two to be Barney and Robin's wedding.
12. In Garbage Island, in a scene that flashes forward to 2021, Ted meets Wendy the Waitress at an airport and tells her that he is now married to "a wonderful woman" and has two kids, revealing that he will have met and married The Mother by this time. This fits into the continuity of the series, given that Ted's kids are in their late teens by 2030.
13. Later in The Exploding Meatball Sub, a scene set in April 2021 (ten years into the future) shows Ted wearing a wedding ring, further implying he will have met and married The Mother by this time.
14. In No Pressure, it is stated that the last person he said 'I love you' to before The Mother was Robin.
15. 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.
16. In Farhampton, it is shown that while Ted is waiting for the train back to the city at the Farhampton train station, after Barney and Robin's wedding, The Mother also comes there, holding up her yellow umbrella in the rain. Craig Thomas confirmed in an interview that this is the place where Ted and The Mother finally meet. [1]
17. In Band or DJ?, it is revealed that The Mother is the bass guitar player in the band playing at Barney and Robin's wedding.
18. In Bad Crazy, Future Ted reveals that the last girl he dated before meeting The Mother was Jeanette.
19. In The Time Travelers, it is revealed that in April of 2013, 45 days before she met Ted, The Mother was dating a Finance guy named Louis, living at 317 West 115th Street in apartment 7A and still getting her Economics degree.
20. In Something New, The Mother's appearance is finally revealed: She's short, has mid-length brown hair, large brown eyes, and a wide smile. In this episode she is buying her ticket for Farhampton where eventually she'll meet Ted.
21. In How Your Mother Met Me, It has been told that she's older than 16 years old, and that she's in her 20's at 2008 (Some age between 42 to 51 at 2030). That means she's younger than Ted in 1 to 10 years.
And also, according to the bonus disc of one of the dvd sets, Ted gives her Lilacs when he meets her.
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