What We Know About The Mother
Well first off, as you can tell from the picture above, shes pretty. I'd go as far as saying shes the embodiment of what I feel we all expected the mother to look like. But seeing her face is only the first in a long line of information on her. Facts on the mother were thin on the ground for the first couple of seasons. We did get to know Ted's impossibly high standards, but that was it in the first two years. The first proper piece of information we learnt was that she attended the St Patricks Day party where Ted got beaten up for his Barney-esque ways (incidentally my favourite episode of the series, No Tomorrow), but aside from the yellow umbrella, little was gained. It wasn't until Season 5 we got some concrete facts. We learn she was studying economics at college in the season opener. Following on from the ending of the previous season finale, Ted ends up lecturing to the wrong class; economics third year over architecture first year. Embarrassing, but not only did it give the mother the first glimpse of him, it led into one of the most informative episodes of all. In the 100th episode, Girls Vs Suits, we finally got some big development on her character. Ted dates college girl Cindy, an endeavour that fails because he clearly has more in common with her roommate, the mother. Her and Ted share similar interests and most importantly (for later on) she plays bass; its clear from then on that his soul mate fits the overly specific description hes been trumpeting for years. Once Barney and Robins wedding became the focus (more on that on the next page), information on the mother was scarce, but a few weeks ago we got a glimpse of her life immediately before Ted. In oh-so depressing episode The Time Travellers, set just 45 days before they meet, Future Ted tells us she was dating finance guy Louis. From his violent reaction to Teds imaginary profession of love, it looks like the mothers had as lucky escape as Ted had from Jeanette.