re: How I Met Your Mother

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Calling Robin "Aunt Robin" also doesn't fit because she is actually their mothre. It would really belittle Robin to call everyone by their titles in your scenario.

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Ted explains that all of their names have been changed as to not reveal who she is.

Why would he need to use different names for every character if he did not expect to reveal who she was until the end of the story?

The mother plays bass, makes show tunes of pancakes, and paints robots playing sports.

Robin does none of this. If it ends up being Robin then they will have lied, and I will feel cheated.

Look all of this could be wrong. I have already said I flip flop on this but...

The kids already know a lot of things about their mother, mainly those traits, the roommate thing is a possible already acquired knowledge. Ted has revealed distinct characteristics of the mother to the kids. Those are all pretty distinct qualities, any one of them would immediately reveal the mother to the children if any character on the show was revealed to have any one of those traits. So, Ted just left those distinctly descriptive traits out of the story so as to not reveal which character the mother is.

Also in Ted's ideal 2000 this week Robin showed up as the bass player in the band, that may have been a hint to a trait Robin possess that has not been revealed yet.

She also wasn't named Robin in that scenario. Robin was just playing a different character to have her in the scene.

Also, she was in Tokyo in a previous season, long before it is mentioned this season that she had a very full life despite not being able to have kids and that she traveled the world.

Its not Robin. Period. The producers have gone out of their way this season to end that possibility.

It would need to be a total copout and the most convoluted logic ever to make her the mother. Its not her.

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Did anyone get a look of Barneys left hand

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I just watched it and you could tell Barney was doing everything in his power to hide his left hand so people wouldnt know if he was married or not. It was really obvious if youre looking at it what he was doing, he was cramming his hand under his leg and never picked it up from the couch even when he was moving around

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The kids are also old enough to know what their mothers first name

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The kids are also apparently old enough to know about all of the sexual adventures of their father and his friends. I don't think I'll ever be old enough to want to hear those stories from my dad.

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Its someone we don't know. In fact, its almost certainly Barney's half-sister.

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This is my theory as well. I am only shaky on the wedding where they supposedly meet. We know it's Barney's wedding, but, who is he marrying? It looks like it will be Quinn, but, he talks to Ted because he has some doubts before the ceremony. Meaning, maybe he knows he really wants to be marrying Robin.

Id be kinda pissed if Barney marries Robin instead of Quinn. Quinn is smoking.

Robin and Barney eventually marrying doesn't bother me. I just hope the writers don't try some crazy plot twist about the mother. No surrogate, No Ted lying, No BS.