Ed. note: Spoilers ahead.
With only three new episodes of “How I Met Your Mother” left, you’ve probably seen Barney drunkenly hit on someone for the last time. The odds of you seeing Ted go on a bad date again are slim. You’re probably not going to see one of Barney’s hookups curse him out again.
We’ll get to see Barney and Robin’s wedding, Ted and The Mother’s first conversation and a final scene creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas wrote and filmed in 2006.
And aside from finding out if the rumors surrounding the possible death of Ted’s wife are true, there are so many oh-so-glorious, downright adorable things to look forward to in the final three episodes.
Ring bear vs. ring bearer:
We can look forward to the “ring bear,” as Barney calls him. No, not the ring bearer. The ring bear, which is very possibly a giant, growling, brown bear.
Barney tells Robin he’s not, and yet, we’ve already seen a bear being pulled on chain by a big, hulking dude.
What’s the fake-out?
It might be Barney telling Robin the “ring bear” is an adorable little boy.
Here’s why: Right before Ted meets The Mother at the train station, a woman tells him he looks like he’s coming from a wedding.
Ted says he doesn’t want to talk about it and then launches into a story. The story immediately gets cut off, but we know something happened, and it could be a literal giant bear showing up.
Puking and proposals:
Another thing to look forward to? A possibly hilarious/kind of gross scene in which Ted throws up, and then The Mother does.
Stay with me.
Right before Ted proposes in the episode “The Lighthouse,” he asks, “Why couldn’t it have been you here with me two years ago?”
The Mother responds, “That’s probably for the best. When you vomit, I vomit. You know that.”
I’m weirdly hoping we get a scene explaining this. And although it was just a brief conversation, nothing in “How I Met Your Mother” is ever unintentional. So maybe we will.
Baby Barney:
Next thing to look forward to: Barney and Robin having a child? We already know Robin can’t conceive, but they could adopt.
In fact, a recent episode made fans think they did have a baby for a quick second.
Robin and Barney were in Buenos Aires in 2016, passed out drunk on the floor when they hear a baby cry. Robin picks up the baby and soothes her until she asks, “Whose baby is this?” A woman walks in and tells them their room is across the hall. What does it mean? I say they don’t have their own child at this time, but this is the moment that makes them want to.
For all the super fans, the last three episodes of the series should hopefully tie up the rest of the loose ends and leave us satisfied.
[A version of this story ran on page 11 on 3/20/2014 under the headline "Waiting for it: ‘How I Met Your Mother’ full of unanswered questions"]
