10 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching How I Met Your Mother

10. The Mother's Name Is In Season 1

Despite being the title character of the show, we never actually learn the Mother's real name until the final episode, Last Forever Part 2. (And no, her name isn't actually the Mother.) When she and Ted finally meet, she points out her initials on the iconic yellow umbrella, TM for Tracy McConnell, to prove that it was actually hers.

While this proves that Tracy's name is, in fact, Tracy, it's not the first time the show tells what she goes by.

In the Season 1 episode Belly Full of Turkey, Ted, Robin, and Barney spend Thanksgiving at a strip club when a stripper notices Ted buying a lap dance for a homeless man. She pulls him aside to thank him for his generosity, introducing herself as Amber. When there are fewer ears around, she says, "Actually, I'm Tracy," as Future Ted cuts in to say that this is how he met the mother, much to the kids' horror, before revealing he was joking.

Still, the kids believed Future Ted for a second, so it should have been a giveaway that the Mother's name was Tracy. The joke makes more sense the second time around, given what it foreshadows.