20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About How I Met Your Mother

2. The Pineapple Incident Has A Solution

While we were obviously going to find out how Ted met the mother by the series' end, one mystery fans were resigned to never solving was the Pineapple Incident. Back in Season 1 Ted gets horrendously drunk and wakes up with a girl in his bed and pineapple on his nightstand. He eventually pieces together the night, but the origin of the fruit remains a mystery.

That was until The Complete Series DVD, which boasts a deleted scene that finally gives us an answer. It turns out The Captain follows an old naval tradition of leaving a pineapple outside his house as a symbol of hospitality, something that drunk Ted found utterly hilarious. You can check out the whole scene below. It was probably cut because it kinda invalidates the original episode; at the end Future Ted states that they never found out where the pineapple came from.