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HIMYM: Is the mother dead?

"How I Met Your Mother": Mother Dead?

Right now the stars of "How I Met Your Mother" are tweeting their goodbyes to the last day of shooting, now the HIMYM fans are shaking a terrible guess: Could it ... no, that can not ... but it sounds like ... oh, that's it, must be just a wrong track ... Can it really be that the long time of mysteries wrapped and now finally revealed in their identity mother is already dead?

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  1. HIMYM: Close your mouth, mother dead? We are against it!
  2. HIMYM: Indications that the mother is dead
  3. HIMYM: Does Ted tell his children about their dead mother?
  4. HIMYM: Arguments why the mother is not dead
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It takes a while on German television, but in the original the series is nearing its end. The end not only of "How I Met Your Mother", but also of the mother herself? When the episode aired on March 3, 2014, there was a worrying build-up of clues that the story between Ted and his wife's wife could not end happily. "Vesuvius", as the title of the HIMYM series, actually triggered a true eruption.

HIMYM: Close your mouth, mother dead? We are against it!

What have we laughed, suffered, trembled - that Ted may find his dream wife, but that dream woman should also be the lady of our own heart (not Stella, not Victoria, just not Zoey, please!). And what were we relieved, as the fabled mother still does not have a name, but with Cristin Milioti a sympathetic face and a sympathetic story. Should all these emotions have been in vain - because Ted will not have a wife by his side after all, because the mother will be dead before her children are even grown up? No no no. We do not want to hear or see this ending of "How I Met Your Mother". Unfortunately, yes, yes, yes. The signs of said HIMYM episode seem to speak for themselves.

HIMYM: Indications that the mother is dead

There is a scene in the HIMYM episode "Vesuvius" that admittedly (and even though everything in us is shouting "No, no, no!") Is extremely worrying: in 2024, ten years after they met, Ted talks and the mother about the past, about the future. At some point she says: "Let's stop talking, let's just enjoy the time together!"

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In another HIMYM sequence, Ted indulges in reminiscences of the wedding and tells his wife how Robin's mother (contrary to her original refusal) finally turned up. "That's no surprise, " says the mother. "I mean, honestly, of course she has turned up. Which mother would miss her daughter's wedding? "Whereupon both start to cry. Because they know at this time that the mother will be dead at the wedding of her own daughter? Or just because the mother is as hopelessly romantic as Ted herself, that the mere mention of a wedding touches her to tears? Hm.

HIMYM: Does Ted tell his children about their dead mother?

Craig Thomas, inventor and producer of "How I Met Your Mother", further fueled our fears. In an interview with Tvline.com, he said that there is a very specific reason why Ted tells his children exactly how he met their mother. Is this why the mother is dead and Ted wants to bring them memories of her? The HIMYM-makers are not afraid of topics that could be considered taboo in sitcoms, as they have often proven: for example, with the death of Marshall's father or the tragic loss of Max, the mother's first great love.

HIMYM: Arguments why the mother is not dead

Two arguments - quite objective! - but speak against it, we find: On the one hand, the children are constantly rather annoyed by the HIMYM fairy tale hour, the Ted da organized with them. On the other hand, he does not even talk about the mother until the very last episode. Before, he wages for hours mainly of one person: himself. Would that be a loving and grieving widower? We have hope - and we are waiting all the more excited ...

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