How I Met Your Mother: Ted's Relationships Ranked

7. Jeanette

Upon meeting Jeanette, The late Bob Saget's future Ted warns the audience that this is the final girl he dates before settling down and going out with the Mother. After Ted's experience with Jeanette though, it's surprising he'd ever consider dating ever again.

Jeanette and Ted first meet when they happen to be reading the same book on the subway, but Jeanette leaves before Ted can get to know her. Coincidentally, Jeanette then shows up at Ted's school as the fire alarm goes off, and they just happen to bump into each other. However, this meet cute isn't all that cute once we learn that Jeantette started a fire in order to meet Ted, and she had been stalking him for some time, which is how they had the same book.

This would not be the only fire Jeanette causes in her brief tenure on HIMYM. Throughout their relationship, she accuses Ted of being in love with Lily (then proceeds to describe a woman who is nothing like Lily), steals his dead grandmother's ring (with which she was buried), and trashes his apartment, culminating in the destruction of Barney's playbook by means of fireworks.

Both the fans and the characters in HIMYM weren't too upset to learn that Jeanette would not be the mother.