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How I Met Someone Who is Definitely Not Your Mother
Lots of debate going on about Monday’s episode of How I Met Your Mother, specifically about whether or not the show revealed the “mother” of the title. I’m here to say that it’s not true, they did not; on the contrary, the show executed a massive misdirection, a maneuver entirely in keeping with every other episode of this show, ever.
Cases in point:
The Pilot – How soon we forget. In the first episode of the show ostensibly all about how a guy named Ted pursued the mother of his future children, Ted meets a cool lady named Robin, takes her out, tells her he loves her on their first date, and steals a blue French horn from a restaurant to give to her as a gift. (Events did not necessarily occur in this order.) In the last few moments of the episode, Ted in voiceover reveals to his children the major twist of the show: “That’s how I met Aunt Robin.” Who is not the mother of the children. You’ll watch this episode again, and realize, like rewatching The Sixth Sense, that we were never explicitly told the information we were inferring. Of course Robin’s the mother—she’s a girl, she’s there, he’s pursuing her. Of course Bruce Willis is alive. People in movies are alive unless we are told otherwise.
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