How I Met Your Mother - Part 4

[Sawyer]

Why'd he name his daughter Penny?

While still going with Luke... I thought Marshall bet Ted to name his kids Leia/Luke?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Penny

 

[Prison Mike]

I kind of want to see Saget as old Ted but I know they will just age Radnor for the 2030 scenes if they do show him.

 

[Dark Raven]

Bob Saget doesn't look anything like Radnor. Also, didn't they show an older Ted once at the airport? I forget which year it was meant to be, but it was at least something like 2020.

 

[Teelie]

They did an older Ted but it wasn't like he had changed all that much. Maybe put some wrinkles on him.

 

[Sawyer]

I highly doubt Saget appears on screen.

 

[Dark Raven]

They did an older Ted but it wasn't like he had changed all that much. Maybe put some wrinkles on him.

If a person is in good health, hasn't put on or lost weight, and has relatively good genes, then 17 years isn't going to age them that massively. I know Radnor is 39 in real life. In the show, Ted is 35. 17 years from that is 52.

There are a lot of actors in Hollywood who are 52 and don't look old and decrepit. Same with many actresses as well.

RDJ is 4 years shy of 52. He doesn't look ridiculously old. So Ted shouldn't look vastly different to how he looks now.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I highly doubt Saget appears on screen.

He shouldn't. Or else might as well have Dave Coulier as Marshall and Jon Stamos as Barney.

 

[Prison Mike]

Saget is old Ted
Coulier is old Marshall
Stamos is old Barney
Loughlin is The Mother
The Olsen twins are Lilly and Robin and they all live in a big house that is full...

 

[Darkness Falls]

Saget is old Ted
Coulier is old Marshall
Stamos is old Barney
Loughlin is The Mother
The Olsen twins are Lilly and Robin and they all live in a big house that is full...

heh t:

 

[John Locke]

They did show old Ted at the College reunion which I think was 2020. He had wrinkles and grey year.

 

[Prison Mike]

How old is Ted now exactly? I think The Mother is around 28 years old.

 

[Sawyer]

I recall seeing that Ted was born in 1978, so at the current point in time (May 2013), he's 35.

 

[Dark Raven]

How old is Ted now exactly? I think The Mother is around 28 years old.

The Mother was 21 in 2005, so in September 2013 she was 29.

Unless of course, the 9th season is set still in May 2013, in which case she would be 28 and 8 months.

 

[Prison Mike]

All of season 9 is set during that wedding weekend so it's still May 2013 in the show.

 

[LostSon88]

I like this possibility.

And on a side note, I thought that that was kind of a weird thing for her to choose. I mean, I can see how it lead to her studying economics, but fighting poverty is one of those life goals, at least in my opinion, that you would never be able to achieve, so I wonder how that dreams would affect her decisions from here on in.

I think it was honestly the point for it. I think it was intended to give the audience a subtle hint as to what she's doing in the future.

It's not everyday someone makes "end poverty" their ambition.

I truly believe that that is what she's doing in the future, which would perfectly explain why she doesn't seem to be around…she could be overseas or on some kind of hunger mission (peace corps?). Perhaps she's finally coming home and that's what prompts Future Ted to tell the story to their kids.

And frankly, i'd much prefer something like that over everyones "The mother is dead" theory.

 

[Dark Raven]

I think it was honestly the point for it. I think it was intended to give the audience a subtle hint as to what she's doing in the future.

It's not everyday someone makes "end poverty" their ambition.

I truly believe that that is what she's doing in the future, which would perfectly explain why she doesn't seem to be around…she could be overseas or on some kind of hunger mission (peace corps?). Perhaps she's finally coming home and that's what prompts Future Ted to tell the story to their kids.

And frankly, i'd much prefer something like that over everyones "The mother is dead" theory.

Definitely. Plus Ted would tell the story differently if she were dead. He might say something about how La vie en rose breaks his heart now every time he hears the song because it reminds him so much of her and how he misses her. Saget's voice would probably crack and get emotional when he spoke about how he first heard that on the balcony and he might not even be able to get through telling the whole story because of how much he loved his wife.

So it seems highly unlikely she dead. It just doesn't fit with his tone.

 

[Teelie]

Her solving world hunger seems to be equally a stretch. Although I can see she's not there on account that she is working on it.

 

[Infinity9999x]

A question about that. Remember back when Martin Short was Marshall's boss? At one point narrator Ted had a line about how they "saved the world." I'm wondering if they'll address this again at some point.

Anyone? I was actually kind of bummed that Short disappeared from the show. I liked his character.

 

[Teelie]

Now that you mention it again, I wonder if Marshal, his boss and Ted's wife team up and try to end world hunger and save the world in one go. Like they create a new organization that is successfully countering those problems.

 

[Dark Raven]

So I guess the Mother isn't just a musician as her full-time job. That's just what she does in her spare time.

 

[Dr. Evil]

So I guess the Mother isn't just a musician as her full-time job. That's just what she does in her spare time.

Yeah. Didn't she mention ending world hunger in the last episode?

It could explain her absence. I have doubts that she's dead based on the demeanors of Future Ted and the kids, Luke and Penny.

 

[Infinity9999x]

Now that you mention it again, I wonder if Marshal, his boss and Ted's wife team up and try to end world hunger and save the world in one go. Like they create a new organization that is successfully countering those problems.

That could be interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing Short make a brief reappearance either.

 

[Prison Mike]

It's only been 3 days but I still can't help thinking about Monday's episode. I know the series finale is going to be awesome. We still have The Mother meeting Robin to look forward to in the next 7 or 8 episodes.

 

[Dark Raven]

I hope the Mother plays a big part in the remaining episodes and not these cameo appearances like she was before. They need to tell her story from this point as well and show what she's doing. The thing they've made clear is that the whole series is very much her story as well as Ted's and the journey they both have to go through to be ready for each other.

And maybe she has already met Robin before the weekend. After all, she met Barney prior to it, and Lily on the way to it.

 

[runawayboulder]

It's only been 3 days but I still can't help thinking about Monday's episode. I know the series finale is going to be awesome. We still have The Mother meeting Robin to look forward to in the next 7 or 8 episodes.

That's what I've been thinking as well. I expect the finale to be one of the all time greats after seeing what they just produced the other day.