How Ted And The Mother Meet
It was only in the Season 3 premier that we actually made some progress on how Ted would actually meet the mother. The "short story" of their meeting, involving the now iconic the yellow umbrella, we've almost entirely pieced together from seasons 3-5. In No Tomorrow, the significance of the mothers presence at the party becomes clear in the final moments; Ted picks up her yellow umbrella and continues to use it for a year or so. Its used for a couple of key, but red herring, moments and finally gets returned to its rightful owner in Girls Vs Suits when Cindy kicks Ted out. From the framing of the show, were to assume this is the basis of the short version, but the bigger story is more complicated. Once the yellow umbrella saga was finished, the show began to move towards the end game, slowly teasing at the wedding a little ways down the road where Ted meets his future wife. It took two seasons, but we eventually learnt it was the wedding of Teds best bro Barney and former love of his life Robin. Once the Season 6 mystery of the groom and Season 7s multiple romances of Barney were resolved and the wedding drew nearer, the story once again went back to the mother. At the start of the latest series we saw where Ted would meet the mother Farhampton train station on the way back from the wedding and halfway through we found out why she was there in the first place; she was bass player in the wedding band Ted himself helped pick. From that point on, it was a simple case of waiting and watching Ted make the last few steps to becoming the man he needed to be. We havent reached the date of the wedding yet, and its uncertain when in Season 9 itll appear, but knowing the broader strokes only builds anticipation.