As every How I Met Your Mother fan worth their salt will know, Season 8 of the immensely popular sitcom ended last night. If youve not had chance to see it, go watch it quick. This article will contain
MASSIVE SPOILERS for that episode and the season that came before. If you've never watched the show, why not read on and discover just how deep a mythology there is. For the past few seasons, each finale has ended with a massive reveal, slowly telling us more about the day of the meeting. But when the 8th season ended last night, Ill bet many fans weren't sure what to expect. We learnt from an eager Ted midway through the year that the day the entire show has been leading up to is May 25th 2013. Unfortunately, the Season 8 finale came two weeks before that, leaving most of the audience unsure what wed get to see. Well now the dust has settled, its fair to say we shouldn't have been worried. For the ending of what was going to be the last season (until the show was unexpectedly picked up for a ninth year), we got the answer to one of the biggest questions in the shows history; the identity of the mother. Throwing my opinion in the ring, I think its a perfect choice. Cristin Milioti is an absolute unknown and is a perfect fit for the woman Ted Mosby has been waiting eight years for. But while whetting out appetite for a final series that according the producers promises to be completely different to what came before, its just one more piece of information in the growing mosaic of Teds other half. We've already learnt a lot about the now less-illusive mother; heck, we even know the major beats of the meeting between her and Ted. So to get you prepared for Season 9 in September and give you an opportunity to go over what has been a brilliant US sitcom, heres all the major information we know about the mother. Ill do it in three sections; what we know about the mother, how her and Ted meet and their relationship into the future.