Despite being profoundly controversial, Ted and Robin getting back together in the How I Met Your Mother ending was heavily hinted at offhandedly in a season 3 filler episode. Back when the How I Met Your Mother series finale first aired in March 2014, many complained because of the sad twist of the titular mother’s death, but also because the sitcom unexpectedly revived Ted and Robin as a romantic couple. However, while both twists might have felt as shocking as they could be perceived as unforeseen, Ted and Robin were hinted at multiple times as Ted’s endgame by How I Met Your Mother, even if Tracey was who Ted married.
Indeed, How I Met Your Mother foreshadowed parts of the controversial ending throughout its nine seasons. From How I Met Your Mother’s weirdest episode foreshadowing how many might have felt about the sitcom’s end to Barney’s change happening because of his daughter’s birth being hinted at in How I Met Your Mother season 2, the sitcom dropped hints about HIMYM’s ending liberally, often in a joke form so they couldn’t really be taken seriously unless retrospectively. Likewise, Ted and Robin getting back together was too hinted at way before the reunification actually happened when the two were happily broken up, and reconciliation wouldn’t have seemed likely.
Blahblah's Absurd Theory In How I Met Your Mother S3 Proved Weirdly True
How I Met Your Mother season 3, episode 5, “How I Met Everyone Else,” had Ted teach his kids about the power of stories and how some are ed changes things, doing so by telling the story of his girlfriend from 2007 that didn’t want to let people know they met online. The character in question only made an impression for her behavior rather than her story with Ted, insofar as Ted referred to her as Blahblah throughout his story. However, Blahblah’s jealousy-filled rant against Robin proved too close for comfort to the How I Met Your Mother ending, as it weirdly predicted Ted and Robin ending up together.
Blahblah’s unprovoked "I'm just some random girl to make Robin jealous, and after she takes you back, you probably won't even my name," proved true in an unusual way, as Ted’s story to his children in How I Met Your Mother did the same, promising to be about him meeting the mother while instead being about him asking his kids for permission to date Robin. Not only was Robin and Ted ending back together underlined by Blahblah’s remarks, but also her assumptions about Ted not ing her name were true, as in Ted’s story, she’s ed as “Blahblah.” While How I Met Your Mother didn’t reunite Ted and Robin for good until the series finale, Blahblah’s suspicions proved peculiarly true, even if they were solely motivated by her fears.
How I Met Your Mother's Blahblah Theory Was An Ending Hint
Albeit entirely farfetched for when it was revealed, given Ted and Robin had finalized their breakup only five episodes earlier in the How I Met Your Mother season 2 finale, Blahblah’s theory could have easily been a hint about HIMYM’s ending. Blahblah might have just been a playful way to further frame HIMYM being a story Ted was actively telling while simultaneously linking to the overall story of the show. Nevertheless, the How I Met Your Mother ending had already been decided and shot by season 2, making Blahblah’s assumption a likely hint about the sitcom’s ending.