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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Cindy gets an understated example, when she goes on a rant about how guys are always falling in love with The Mother, only to start gushing over her in a way that gets the audience and Cindy herself to realize that she's actually in love with The Mother herself. She impulsively kisses The Mother, and then, shellshocked, admits, "I might have some stuff to figure out."
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* IncompatibleOrientation: Cindy was in love with The Mother, who was flattered but didn't reciprocate due to being straight.
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* AGlassAtHand: When Lily and The Mother were venting their problems together, Lily sees an ad that called the latter a 6. She promptly shatters the drink she was holding.
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* AGlassAtHand: AGlassInTheHand: When Lily and The Mother were venting their problems together, Lily sees an ad that called the latter a 6. She promptly shatters the drink she was holding.
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* AGlassAtHand: When Lily and The Mother were venting their problems together, Lily sees an ad that called the latter a 6. She promptly shatters the drink she was holding.
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* ArcSymbol: Continuing the color motif, The Mother typically wears violet, but has yellow objects prominent in her life: her umbrella, her sofa, a lot of her paintings, her amp...
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* HotForStudent: Mitch, her former camp counselor, tries The Naked Man on The Mother; it ''does not work'' (hence 1 in 3). However, he does end up giving her some heartwarming advice (with his balls on her couch) that leads her to getting her life back on track.
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** Cindy is also this to Lily. Close friends/roommates with The Mother/Ted who are prone to moments of envy. Both Lily and Cindy get to form a family before them.
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** Cindy is also this to Lily. Close friends/roommates with The Mother/Ted who are prone to moments of envy. Both Lily and Cindy get to form a family before them. Also, they both want to sleep with their best friend.
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* ClosetKey: This episode confirms that, much to her and The Mother's shock, she was this for Cindy.
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* ClosetKey: This episode confirms that, much to her and The Mother's Cindy's shock, she The Mother was this for Cindy.
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* OhCrap: The Mother freaks out when Lewis surprises her with a proposal and steps outside to beg her dead boyfriend for permission to move on.
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* OhCrap: The Mother freaks out when Lewis Louis surprises her with a proposal and steps outside to beg her dead boyfriend Max for permission to move on. Ted gets one at the end of the episode when he realizes the hideously drunk Barney has disappeared.
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* PerspectiveFlip: The show ends with Ted back as the central focus.
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* PerspectiveFlip: The show focuses on The Mother and how she's spent a decade getting over the sudden, tragic death of her boyfriend, and ends with Ted back as the central focus.
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* TragicKeepsake: The mother's ukulele is the last present her dead boyfriend gave her.
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* TragicKeepsake: The mother's ukulele is the last present her dead boyfriend gave her. Well, he bought it for her. He died before he could give it to her.
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* GrandRomanticGesture: Lewis surprises The Mother with a proposal at his beachouse in Farhampton . It doesn't work; The Mother realizes she's been stringing him along and dumps him.
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* TheMatchmaker: The concierge who has been annoying Ted by being too aggressively sympathetic learns that The Mother just broke up with her long-term boyfriend, Lewis, so he gives a sweet smile and puts her in the room right next to Ted's.
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* OhCrap: The Mother freaks out when Lewis surprises her with a proposal and steps outside to beg her dead boyfriend for permission to move on.
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* RunningGag: A conversation with Lily involves an angry woman shattering a glass, but this time it's The Mother, angry that Darren says her replacement has to be hotter than her, and that she's "a 6 at best".
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* ContinuityNod: Numerous elements from past seasons have appeared here and there. We get a lot of nods that are related to the OneDegreeOfSeparation between Ted and The Mother, of course, but we also get a lot that are unrelated, like the "Save the Arcadian" posters when The Mother leaves a show as we see how shitty Darren really is.
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* ContinuityNod: Numerous elements from past seasons have appeared here and there. We get a lot of nods that are related to the OneDegreeOfSeparation between Ted and The Mother, of course, but we also get a lot that are unrelated, like the "Save the Arcadian" posters when The Mother leaves a show as we see how shitty Darren really is.is and her friend falling for Barney's "My Penis Grants Wishes" play.
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* TheBusCameBack: Mitch returns, and it turns out The Mother was the first 1 in 3 The Naked Man didn't work on.
* ClosetKey: This episode confirms that, much to her and The Mother's shock, she was this for Cindy.
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* ContinuityNod: Numerous elements from past seasons have appeared here and there. We get a lot of nods that are related to the OneDegreeOfSeparation between Ted and The Mother, of course, but we also get a lot that are unrelated, like the "Save the Arcadian" posters when The Mother leaves a show as we see how shitty Darren really is.
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* HiddenDepths: Mitch, the creepy loser who invented The Naked Man, is a music teacher who works with underprivileged kids.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: When Ted walks into the Econ Class, The Mother tilts her head and is clearly intrigued by the cute idiot in the wrong room.
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* OneDegreeOfSeparation: We already know The Mother was roommates with a girl Ted dated once, was in the econ lecture he accidentally didn't actually give, and was in the club when Ted was a total douche on St. Patty's Day, but we also learn she was even more closely tied to his neighborhood as, for example, Mitch, inventor of [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E09TheNakedMan The Naked Man]] was her camp counselor at orchestra (and physics) camp, and also works at an underfunded music school.
