History HIMYM / TropesSeasonNine

-->I'm allergic to a lot of stuff. Bacon, donuts...Halloween candy...[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers not saying, "Thank you"]]...Oh my God! That bitch lied to me!

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: "Kids, it takes more than 2 months to learn how to [[spoiler: figure skate]]."
** In the final episode, despite Lily asking the rest of the gang to always be there for the big moments, the inevitable truth is that they drifted apart over the years and have a hard time getting everyone together due to work, children and other personal matters.
** Also in the ending, [[spoiler:Barney gets divorced from Robin and resumes his womanizing ways. Which leads to him knocking someone up. Which, statistically, was likely to happen sooner or later, given how much sex he has.]]

** After 9 years of Lily making all sorts of AmbiguouslyBi LesYay at Robin, [[TheyDO they finally kiss]] (to wake up Barney) only for [[spoiler: Lily to decide the kiss was "weird" and she's now completely over Robin. But Robin ''loved'' that kiss, and manages to make almost as much AmbiguouslyBi LesYay at Lily in [[TheStinger the 30-second Stinger]] as Lily had to Robin in the past 9 seasons.]]

* TakeThatUs: While the group, sans Robin, is making Canada jokes, Marshall makes one that actually sounds more like a burn on America than Canada.
--> What, you're gonna have universal health-care so people don't have to decide between going bankrupt and treating a life-threatening illness?

* [[spoiler:TalkingToTheDead: When Louis proposes, The Mother goes to the porch to ask Max if it was alright for her to move on with her life. She says she doesn't expect an answer, but then a wind kicks up she takes "as a yes."]]

* TheyDo: We knew it was coming, but "The Lighthouse" shows us [[spoiler: Ted proposing to the Mother in a flashforward two years from now.]]

** After 9 years of Lily making all sorts of AmbiguouslyBi LesYay at Robin, [[TheyDO they finally kiss]] (to wake up Barney) only for [[spoiler: Lily to decide the kiss was "weird" and she's now completely over Robin. But Robin ''loved'' that kiss, and manages to make [[UpToEleven almost as much]] AmbiguouslyBi LesYay at Lily in [[TheStinger the 30-second Stinger]] [[UpToEleven as Lily had to Robin in the past 9 seasons.]]]]

** "Vesuvius" has a reference to the sequel to ''Film/TheWeddingBride'', as well as a stage adaptation.

* BittersweetEnding: The series finale itself [[spoiler:where Barney and Robin divorced after three years of marriage. Tracy (the titular Mother) died six years before the "present" when Ted is telling his kids the story. But the kids help Ted realize that the story has a deeper meaning that he still has feelings for "Aunt Robin" who they permit him to date, telling him that "it's time". And the story ends with Ted, holding the blue French horn and standing outside Robin's apartment, implying that they do end up]].

* {{Mondegreen}}: When Lily and Robin swordfight, Lily believed the line from Inigo Montoya was something else entirely.

* NotSoDifferent: In this season we learn that Ted and the Mother have one big thing in common: both of them have spent years trying to get over somebody whom they, while still loved, thought was the only person for them. For Ted it was Robin, whom he's been in love with since the first season. For the Mother it was her boyfriend Max, who died on her 21st birthday and whom she's spent nearly a decade mourning.

* AndYouWereThere: In Marshall's story of how he learned the Slap of a Million Exploding Suns, the three masters who teach him are played by Robin (Red Bird), Lily (White Flower) and Ted (The Calligrapher).

* MilestoneCelebration: "How Your Mother Met Me", dedicated entirely to the mother, is the 200th episode.

** Barney and James [[ShipToShipCombat try to reunite their mother with their respective father]]. Barney even [[DieForOurShip sends away his step-mother]]. [[spoiler: In fact Loretta already went back with James' dad.]]

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Barney]] and [[spoiler: Robin]] thought they were related. [[spoiler: [[They're not.]]]]

* RealityEnsues: "Kids, it takes more than 2 months to learn how to [[spoiler: figure skate]]."
** In the final episode, despite Lily asking the rest of the gang to always be there for the big moments, the inevitable truth is that they drifted apart over the years and have a hard time getting everyone together due to work, children and other personal matters.
** Also in the ending, [[spoiler:Barney gets divorced from Robin and resumes his womanizing ways. Which leads to him knocking someone up. Which, statistically, was likely to happen sooner or later, given how much sex he has.]]

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Barney]] and [[spoiler: Robin]] thought they were related. [[spoiler: [[ They're not.]]]]

* AirVentPassageway: Barney gets to Lily's hotel room through air ducts like how the "[[CompletelyMissingThePoint bad guy]]" did it in ''Film/DieHard''.

* FiveManBand: In "How Your Mother Met Me", we get this alignment.
** TheHero: The Mother
** TheLancer: Cindy
** TheBigGuy: Louis
** TheSmartGuy: Darren (who also doubles as TokenEvilTeammate)
** TheChick: Kelly
** TheMentor: [[spoiler:Mitch]].

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Barney]] and [[spoiler: Robin]] thought they were related. [[spoiler: [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt They're not.]]]]

* YourCheatingHeart: James cheated on his husband Tom [[spoiler:with Gary Blauman, though they did get back together]].

* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:The series ends with Ted deciding to ask Robin on a date. Do they go on a date? Does it work out? Do they eventually get married? Or is it doomed like it was the last time they tried it? We don't know the answers to any of these questions.]][[note]] Of course, when they broke up back in "Something Blue" it was because Robin didn't want to be tied down and travel the world as part of her job, and also did not want (and later, could not have) kids. As of that time future, both of those roadblocks have been overcome; also, despite Robin telling him two seasons ago she wasn't in love him, as seen with the olives, people can change their minds. So, unless one is pissed due to how things ended, there's no reason to believe they can't work this time. Besides, Marshall always wins his bets. [[/note]]

--> '''Lily''': Why would a locked door keep a ghost out? Can't he just walk throught the walls?

** Years later, she hugs a pilar on a patio when she tries to connect with him and sort of asks him if she is ready to let go.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Ted gives Jeannette a pasionate speech about what love is: Trying to do anything in his power to make Robin happy even if AllLoveIsUnrequited, even if it's not to get the girl back. She still calls Ted "crazy" and throws the locket down the lake.
* ExactWords: While under the truth-serum drunk, Barney tells Robin [[spoiler:there will be a ring bearer, Trevor Hudson, who's adorable. He doesn't mention that Trevor ''is'' a bear (with the rings tied to his collar). He cancels the flower girrilla.]]

* HypocriticalHumor: Jeannette accuses Ted of being crazy because he is going throught so much trouble for nothing. Says the same person who trashed his apartment, broke federal law several times and plans to send to another ex-boyfriend a dead squirrel.

* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:The series ends with Ted deciding to ask Robin on a date. Do they go on a date? Does it work out? Do they eventually get married? Or is it doomed like it was the last time they tried it? We don't know the answers to any of these questions.]]

* ToBeContinued: "Bass Player Wanted" ends on one when Barney realises that Marshall is about to slap him. (There wouldn't be another episode until four weeks later.)

* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: The Mother's yellow umbrella is an arc symbol signifying the love of Ted's life and narrator Ted made it clear that had it played a major role in their first encouter, and even before because the umrella had got lost. [[spoiler:Ted meets Tracy the Mother at the train station when it's raining. He comes to talk to her and she encourages him to cover under her umbrella as well.]]

** Jeannette [[spoiler:was arrested for sending jars of urine to Val Kilmer (no, not that Creator/ValKilmer), but manages to avoid prison by getting psychological help with Kevin...whom she then romantically hooks up with and they're now in Poughkeepsie.]]

** In the same episode, Robin mentions the TropeMaker from ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'' (or ''Dum-bro'' as Barney puts it).

--> '''Marshall''': {{Hello}} MyNameIsInigoMontoya!

** "Last Time in New York" drops two references of ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' such as MandyPatinkin, who played Inigo Montoya, in which mentioning his name attracts old people and the TropeNamers in Ted and Marshall's sword fight:

** In the "The Broken Code", Ted and Barney, together with Marshpillow reenact the scenes from ''WeekendAtBernies'' which is one of Barney's old plays from the Season 8 episode, "Weekend at Barney's". Later, in "Knight Vision", Barney wants to use his "Weekend at Barney's" play after the wedding minister died but Robin rejected it.

* BaconAddiction: Ted had never eaten bacon because his mother told him he was allergic. When he figures out she was lying, he eats some and is so enraptured by it that he goes on an eating binge, planning to make up for a lifetime of not eating bacon. Ted even ''hisses'' at Marshall when he tries to make Ted "take it easy with the bacon". Afterwards he gets so sick he never eats bacon again.
--> '''Ted''': I finally found ''The One''. Her name is "Bacon"!!

** Jeannette [[spoiler:was arrested for sending jars of urine to Val Kilmer (no, not that ValKilmer), but manages to avoid prison by getting psychological help with Kevin...whom she then romantically hooks up with and they're now in Poughkeepsie.]]

** The beginning of the series finale where just before attempting the "High Infinity" high five, Barney and Ted quote from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''.

* ActingForTwo: In "Bedtime Stories", Barney tells the story of how he once met all the "players" of New York City, all also played by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris.