Right now, we are in the middle of Season 8 of the popular T.V. show
How I Met Your Mother, which is setting up to have Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders) get hitched. The show's main theme is the future Ted Mosby (narrated by Bob Saget) telling his future kids in 2030 the story of how he ended up meeting their mother. In previous episodes, we've gotten clues as to who the mother is and it all comes around to when Ted meets her at Barney and Robin's wedding when she plays as part of the band at the reception. We know that she was at a club the same night Ted and Barney were on St. Patrick's Day and she left a yellow umbrella that she was holding, an umbrella he ends up finding at the club and takes with him. She was also the roommate of a girl that Ted dated a few seasons back, and we only catch a glimpse of the back of her feet as she goes from the shower into her room and closes the door. For a while, I had thought of the possibility of Ted ending up with Barney's step sister as his future wife, but the show decided to end that theory when Ted ended up hooking up with her in Season 8. Either way, we're getting closer to potentially finding out who the mother is, and maybe even, what the real truth behind the entire show is. Rewind back to the end of March in Season 8 in an episode called "The Time Travelers." In it, you see Ted having a night at the bar with the gang, but gets a visit from a future Barney, in which the whole night never happened, as Barney and Robin were at home choosing a caterer while Marshall (Jason Segal) and Lilly (Alyson Hannigan) were trying to put baby Marvin down to sleep. His future self then talks about how he would have done other things instead of going to see Robots vs Wrestlers, and the one thing he would want to do the most was go see his future wife,
and deliver a heart-stopping speech.
Hi. Im Ted Mosby, and exactly 45 days from now, you and I are going to meet, and were going to fall in love and were going to get married and were going to have two kids. Were going to love them and each other so much. All that is 45 days away. But Im here now, I guess, because I want those extra 45 days with you. I want each one of them. If I cant have them, Ill take the 45 seconds before your boyfriend shows up and punches me in the face. Because I love you. Im always going to love you. To the end of my days and beyond.
Now, he didn't actually go to her apartment, but it's the future Ted wishing he did and saying all of those things to his future wife, but why? Why the 45 days? Well, there's a few potential theories....