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11. How I Met Your Mother - The Mother Revealed A Season Early

Through virtually no doing of their own but rather the politics of television that granted them a last minute stay of cancellation, the writers of this long running sitcom decided to reveal the titular mother a season earlier than intended. The trade off for that, however, was and still is one of the most long-winded and convoluted seasons of television we've ever seen. There's no doubt about it; How I Met Your Mother has officially jumped the shark. For every great episode this season, there are maybe three bad ones, but there has yet to be a single bad episode that features the mother, played by Broadway starlet Cristin Milioti. When we first saw her purchase her ticket to Farhampton in the closing moment of season 8, she was a tough one to decipher and fans were worried about the casting choice. Then the season premiere came and we got a more in depth look at her character, and to put it simply she is absolutely perfect for Ted. She's funny, nerdy and more than slightly awkward especially in her sense of humour. Although she's billed as a series regular, we've only seen her in a handful of episodes. However, those episodes include how she inspired The Robin and therefore is the reason Barney and Robin are together in the first place, how she met Lily, Barney and Marshall and... wait for it... how Ted proposed to her on top of a nearby lighthouse years later. Season nine has been rough, to say the very least, but we've waited 8 long years to see this woman's face and she has so far been the only element of the show that makes it worth watching this season. To put it outright, despite the show's shortcomings she was absolutely worth the wait and her inevitable meeting with Ted Mosby can't possibly come soon enough.