The look on Ted Mosby's face at the end of last Monday's How I Met Your Mother all but confirmed many fans suspicions that the mother will bite the dust.
The episode starts off at the Farhampton Inn in 2024, where Ted tells the still-unnamed mother the story of how Robin broke a lamp on the day of her wedding, which results in her discovering that her mother (played by Tracy Ulman) decided to come to the wedding after all.
The mother doesn't see it as a big surprise since "what kind of a mother would miss their daughter's wedding?" But Ted's bursting into tears in response to that comment make it seem as if she herself will not live long enough to see her own daughter getting married.
However, after re-watching some of the early episodes, I am pretty certain that Ted's wife is still alive by the year 2030.
Penny and Like Mosby certainly don't act like kids whose mother has died or is on her deathbed. If she was, they would be more interested in finding out more about her, rather than acting like the typical bored teenagers that they are. Some fans have speculated that if the mother was dead it would explain why they sat for so long listening to their father's story, wanting to know more about the mother who was taken from them too soon. But what they have forgotten is that at one point Ted's kids get so bored that they almost leave their father's study go to watch TV.
Showrunners Carter Bays and Craig Thomas have also said that fans will get to see what happily ever after is like for Ted. Having the mother die would leave Ted open to finding someone else, which wouldn't make a whole lot of sense given that the series finale is supposed to coincide with the end of Ted's romantic journey.
There's no denying that the mother has some sort of health scare in 2024. But given the attitude of Ted's kids and the comment the creators said regarding Ted's future, I am almost certain that the mother is going to be just fine.
The episode starts off at the Farhampton Inn in 2024, where Ted tells the still-unnamed mother the story of how Robin broke a lamp on the day of her wedding, which results in her discovering that her mother (played by Tracy Ulman) decided to come to the wedding after all.
The mother doesn't see it as a big surprise since "what kind of a mother would miss their daughter's wedding?" But Ted's bursting into tears in response to that comment make it seem as if she herself will not live long enough to see her own daughter getting married.
However, after re-watching some of the early episodes, I am pretty certain that Ted's wife is still alive by the year 2030.
Penny and Like Mosby certainly don't act like kids whose mother has died or is on her deathbed. If she was, they would be more interested in finding out more about her, rather than acting like the typical bored teenagers that they are. Some fans have speculated that if the mother was dead it would explain why they sat for so long listening to their father's story, wanting to know more about the mother who was taken from them too soon. But what they have forgotten is that at one point Ted's kids get so bored that they almost leave their father's study go to watch TV.
Showrunners Carter Bays and Craig Thomas have also said that fans will get to see what happily ever after is like for Ted. Having the mother die would leave Ted open to finding someone else, which wouldn't make a whole lot of sense given that the series finale is supposed to coincide with the end of Ted's romantic journey.
There's no denying that the mother has some sort of health scare in 2024. But given the attitude of Ted's kids and the comment the creators said regarding Ted's future, I am almost certain that the mother is going to be just fine.
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