How I Met Your Mother tribute: Mother Death Foreshadowing and clues scenes 

Wow, nearly 1.5 millions views! And for those who were wondering why I decided to not speak in the video and I did this "lazy writing", that's because I think speeking during the scenes destroy all the feeling. I am glad you liked it!

Josh Radnor killed it when the Mother says "What mother is gonna miss her daughter's wedding ?" His acting is amazing

That “what mother is gonna miss her own daughter’s wedding” sucker punched me in the guts and I still haven’t recovered

top 4 saddest moments in himym history - ted running to the mother's apartment to confess his love - ted and the mother talking about their daughter's wedding she won't be attending - barney coming into the bar just to see robin with kevin - marshall getting the news about his dad's death

Another hint : when Ted talks to Tracy about the 45 days, it's the same song playing in the background as when Tracy talks to her dead boyfriend Max.

The first scene was one of the most depressing scenes in sitcom history

"What mother would miss her own daughter's wedding?" Josh's silent acting was beyond superb in that scene. A subtly and power he's never shown before.

Can't believe we watched the entire last season for Barney's wedding to see him get divorced on very next episode. What a waste.

“Look around Ted. You’re all alone” God... that & the 45 days speech will forever break me down...

the scene where he runs to the Mother's apartment and talks about how much he just wants more time with her...always kills me. instant floodgates.

I know Ted is talking to himself when he says look around Ted you're all alone. But that shit hurted. This first scene hurted a lot.

One of the earliest foreshadowing moments for me is the episode where Lily and Marshall run a competition to see who will be Marvin's godparents. One of the questions they ask is how will the godparent tell Marvin about lily and Marshall's death. Ted says that he will use professor infosaurus, a dinosaur hand puppet, which will be a big hit with kids. The scene then cuts to "present day" where professor infosaurus pops up saying "isn't that right kids." For me, that's basically saying Ted used the professor to tell the kids about Tracy dying.

so nobody remembers the episode when Lily bets Marshall that Ted and Robin won't end up together and Lily prompted Marshall to pay up to which he replied "Not yet."

I never fully understood why Ted and Tracy both started to cry after Tracy said, 'What mother should miss her own daughter's wedding?', now I know, that is some incredible foreshadowing

I would've loved the ending if the mother still died, but Robin and Barney stayed married. It didnt feel right for Ted to go back to Robin after all of that time, and Barney and Robin separating makes the entire 9th season feel like a waste of time to watch.

Honestly Tracy's ending wasn't horrible it was tragic but that can be a good thing. It's just the fact that he ended up with Robin that killed it for me.

I always thought that "What kind of mother misses her daugther's wedding" was in reference to the fact that Ted's mother never made it to their wedding??

Ted never refers to the mother in the present tense.

“What mother is gonna miss her daughters wedding” HOW DID I NOT SEE THAT WHY AM I SO DUMB

Should have 1 dedicated season for the mother. We've waited many years and she was only shown for 1 season with limited screen time.

I must have watched this show with my late wife at least 10 times. It was one of our favorites. I turned her on to it and she ended up loving it more than me. The first time through was when we were planning our wedding and over the last 5 years, we would always come back to it. I never knew I would end up actually being in Ted’s shoes.

Things I wanted to see in this series -How Ted asks Tracy to go out on a date -how their all interests are similar -how they moved together -how Ted proposed her and give the new to others -how they give news that she's pregnant 1st and 2nd time -how the babies taken care of -how she was sick and taken care of -how they comfort Ted after she dies -and finally even after Ted goes to ask Robin for a date , he asks Tracy on his balcony that should he move on, and she gives a signal by a wave of wind

The 3 scenes of himym that make me depressed 3. When Marshall's dad dies 2. In the episode where James meets his dad and barney realises how much his mom does for him 1. The scene where Ted imagines talking to tracy abt the 45 days

i love HIMYM, but i do actively chose to pretend that the last two episodes didn't happen

The sad thing about HIMYM isn't watching it all enfold. The sad thing is watching it a second time when the puzzle pieces finally fall into place.

Wow the song she got introduced to is called “the funeral” and yet no one saw it coming

The rest of the hints: subtle and symbolic The last one: MoThEr ToMbStOne

The biggest foreshadowing to me is the fact that ted tells the story alone, even when he tells from the mother prospective, why couldn't she tell the story herself?

I think that the writers are eating a sandwich when they are writing that ending...

I’m just happy mostly everyone agrees that Barney & Robin shouldve never gotten a divorce

Imagine being able to hype a character for so long, choosing an actress who fits perfectly for the part, introduce the super-hyped character and your audience actually loves her, something incredibly hard to do, and then... they threw it all away in 10 minutes.

when Tracy died I felt for Ted, I really did, man. I lost my wife 7 years ago...this show is great and made me laugh and cry... And they are right about that special someone, you just know without a shadow of a doubt when you find that perfect someone. It hits you like a tidal wave and overwhelms you, but in a definite good wave.

4:38 it really breaks my heart to see Ted like that, I mean he's been through hell and back just to meet his soul mate but she leaves him too

this show was so much more than just a funny sitcom :(

She literally said “What mother is gonna miss her own daughter’s wedding?” And Ted broke down in tears. How stupid am I? I didn’t see it coming!

STAR WARS SPOILER ALERT: I find it odd that no one thought about the star wars correlation here. Ted wanted to name his kids Luke and Leia, in Star Wars, the mother dies.

I have another one. When Ted wonders about how things would be if he had married Stella instead.... The kids and the house... It's all the same, except Stella walks into the scene and jokes with her kids and Ted. That's the difference. Because when Ted tells his story to his kids in the show, Tracy can't show up since she's already dead.

it weird to think how the mothers first boyfriend died and she was heartbroken and couldnt move on until she found ted then she died and ted went back to robin

Holy shit that was The Funeral playing when they introduced the mother. I got the chills

The music they chose for the show always fits SO well. Not only is the music timed and executed perfectly, they songs are so good even just by themselves.

4:37 to 4:52 might be the most heartwrenching moment in television the way his expression slowly changes without further context, just a hint of what's happening... he's a great actor

The problem with HIMYM is the ending was decided in season 2. Years more character development were thrown aside to force an ending that no longer fit. We have watched Ted grow over years into someone who can let Robin go and Barney into someone who can move past his daddy issues and be monogamous. Then in the last five minutes of the show the writers chuck that out and turn them back into the characters they were in season 2. It’s the Jamie Lannister of endings.

Not a clue to her death, but a neat little thing. In season 1, when Ted and barney go get dinner at the strip club, the stripper leans over and says her name is Tracy then Bob Sagat Ted says "and that's how I met your mother". That's hilarious in retrospect.

My "holy crap this is my wedding" moment was when my dad and i were walking up the stairs towards the sanctuary as my bridesmaids were walking down the isle. I stopped and said "my whole life is about to drastically change" and my dad squeezed my arm and said "for the better"

So, that second one where she says “what mother is going to miss her daughter’s wedding?” I originally took it as the MOTHER’S mom not showing up to her and Ted’s wedding, and Ted still feeling sad for her because of that. Not that the mother herself was going to die.

The fact that no one picked up on the fact that Ted was telling this story to his kids in the first place as a giant, blinking, neon, clue that she died still amazes me.

You missed _one_ clue, a very subtle one. Well, it's a clue towards a clue, actually. The episode in which Tracy says "what mother wouldn't be at her daughter's wedding?" is named Vesuvius. Earlier in the season, Ted randomly says "Vesuvius". It is passed as a joke, but it was actually a way for the author to say "focus on the Vesuvius episode, it's the most important one". It is subtle, but it is there. That's how I knew the events of Vesuvius were important. Also, Vesuvius is a volcano, that by itself implies that there's something huge in that episode. It implies that something will shake the story, as a volcano.

Sometimes I wish I never knew about this show so I could discover it, binge the whole thing in 2 months, and cry at the end all over again.

The ending just shows how right Victoria was even the mother couldn't get Ted over his obsession of Robin

Making Ted and Robin get together again is ruining ALL the progress and character development.

6:42 one of the coolest transitions of all time. The music kicks off , the scene shifts, the rain, the thunder !!!!! So well planned..

The music selection throughout this entire series is impeccable, the ‘Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz’ scene gives me goosebumps every time i watch it. Same goes for the scene where Ted gets upset when Tracy says “what mother is going to miss her daughters wedding” with Bob Dylan playing, absolutely perfect. This show has affected me more than i ever thought possible. (I hope I got the affected/effected right for teds sake)

I erased this ending from my memory. It didn't happen... sorry

This show is a masterpiece. How to make a sitcom a life teacher. Things doesn't always go right, life is life. Enjoy it as it comes, don't live in the past. Make every moment legendary and then let it go.

I am feeling so stupid for believing that the scene where Tracy said what kind of mother miss her daughter wedding was for Ted's mother for missing His and Tracy's wedding 😭

This video just makes me sad. Tracy is literally the perfect women and they just kill that character off.

When he says i want those extra 45 days with you.. You can only feel them after the series ends

I forgot how much this show put me through an emotional trip, it was so funny but when they had emotional scenes I would feel my heart get heavy. This show is the true beauty of a comedy.

Well, i simply thought that Ted cried in the second clip because his mother already passed away and didn't attend his wedding.. But... there's also clue in that scene, pay attention to all that glass of water.. What Tracy sip in that cup was water, and yet her expression was weird.. Hint: Taste changes is one of side effect of chemotherapy..

Tracy's death is actually the definition of "Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened"

13 year old girls: 😭😭😭😭 Me, an 18 year old guy: 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Another one: when Ted imagines what his life would be like if he had married stella you see 2 blonde kids sitting on the couch and stella coming up behind them interrupting the story. This implies that if the mother was still alive, she would be there to hear/interrupt the story too.

After the 1:40 scene aired, i remember going on a forum and saying i believe the mother will die because of how Ted reacted. I was then downvoted into hell and everyone responded with "No way would the writers do something like that to us". * sigh *

In the second scene I thought Ted cried because his mother died when he got married to Tracy, but damn I didn't anticipate this

The part where it said "What mother will miss her daughter's wedding" really had me balling my eyes out bc my mom died when i was three.

it´s been 4 years now since the last episode and I still rewatch it, feel the chills and shed a tear, BEST SERIES EVER, it´s LEGEN-----DARY!!!

Ending sucked balls. Tracy shouldn't have died. But even if she did, Ted and Robin shouldn't have been together and Barney and Robin should've never broken up.

as someone who can literally not physically tear up for any reason, this ending always tears me up. HIMYM is deep

2:29 "I want those 40 extra days" this would have been the best line in the best scene that has ever been written it the writes would have deiced that ted stays alone after traceys death. With barney and Robin stayed together instead of that crappy ending that they gave us. He would have been a tragic character that was much more grounded and relatable

One more thing i noticed is that in the same episode as the "what mother misses her daughters wedding" quote Tracy also said to Ted that she doesnt want him to be the guy who lives in memories and that life moves on. Idk if thats just me but that seems like 100% foreshadowing.

In one of the earlier seasons Ted, Barney, and Robin spend Thanksgiving at a strip club (Can't remember what the episodes called), and the end Ted meets a stripper named Tracy and jokingly says "And that is how I met your mother" causing his kids to go "WHAT?!" (like they do all the time), of course the only way they'd believe this is if their mothers name was Tracy. Not related to her death, just a hint that gave us her name before the finale

The second time watching this show, when Tracy said “what mother would miss her daughters wedding”, that broke me

lol everyone's analysing this like it's an English essay

I want to see this serie for the first time again.

How did I not notice the “what mother will miss her daughters wedding” one!

I think that the ending made perfect sense and I called it a full year before the finale aired. It's not exactly difficult to infer if you think rationally and understand narrative structure. Ted is telling his kids about the story of how he met his mother, but why only Ted? Why when they're teens? Further, the first episode of the series introduces Ted to Robin, who's clearly the focal point of where his story begins. Why would it begin with him meeting her? Why not when he met Marshall in college? Or Barney? And why did he want his kids to know so much about Robin, and his relationship with her, if he was married to Tracy? Why wouldn't the kids ever yell for her to give them her version of the story? Why wouldn't they call their dad out on being fixated on a past flame that's still a major part of their lives? And why would he narrate the story with such melancholy in his voice? Putting all these pieces together, the only logical conclusion one can draw is that their mother is dead and Ted is telling them this story as a way of getting their permission to finally move on, and with Robin, and exactly why he feels that way. Personally, I think the story is beautiful. Tragic, sure, and the final season could have been executed better. But the overall narrative of love and loss and yet not giving up on the power to love again is beautiful.

In that first clip, that's a slow piano rendition of Band of Horses' "The Funeral", which also plays over a scene with the yellow umbrella at the Farhampton train platform. And you know they love their musical foreshadowing - 'La Vie en Rose' plays at the end of the first season's NYE episode, a full 8 seasons before Ted hears Tracy singing it.

So many others: 1. In one episode in the earlier seasons, Ted & Lily & Marshall are at their college reunion & they're getting high & Ted laughs asking "where's my wife?" 2. In the same episode where they're discussing "What mother would miss her daughter's wedding?" Tracy also tells Ted that she's worried about him, that she doesn't want him to live in his stories, "life only moves forward". 3. And also in that episode, Ted says, talking about his move to Chicago & how the group reacted to the news: "In a moment like that, when what's really happening is too intense to deal with, sometimes it's best", to which Tracy says "To leave it unspoken and just enjoy each others company instead." and they look at each other & hold hands. 4. This one is slightly weaker, but still. When Ted gets left at the alter by Stela, he talks about what would have happened if he went & talked to Tony instead of Stella. And there's a 'simulation' of what his life would have been, and he's talking to his (now blonde) kids and Stella appears immediately in the scene, something that never happens in 9 full seasons with Tracy.

Honestly it felt like ...Tracy was just a vessel so Ted could get married and have kids like he wanted, and Robin could get the kids experience without the responsibility like she wanted, then killed off the mother so they could be together. The whole show it was like "oh we're so different with different goals we'd never work" and then they gave them everything they both wanted just to end up together after all was said and done. A complex solution for a problem that should've just meant they never ended up together. Tracy was perfect.

THE "which mother is gonna miss her daughter wedding" WILL ALWAYS HURT ME IN THE FEELS AAH

This show had the best way of portraying the feeling of emptiness and that 'hole' in the chest you feel,the tightening of the throat which gets you when watching certain scenes. The scene with Klaus is so simple but so,so well done. And the first scene of this video..by far the most crushing scene of the show. They had the best music,and they hit home with some scenes. Best show ever.

More foreshadowing I found: - The fact that Max, Tracy's first love, died. Since Ted and Tracy are like soulmates they share a similar fate with this. - S09E19: Tracy says to Ted: "Your the love of my life but I just worry about you. I don't want you to be the guy who lives in his stories. Life only moves forward." As you've mentioned in your video, Tracy knows she is dying at that time and she tells Ted to move on after that. Also the song at the end of that episode "She might think I've forgotten her" - S09E21: On their first date, Ted suddenly stops. Tracy asks what he is doing, Ted looks kinda sad and says: "Remembering this"

This show holds a special place in my heart. This show made me cry, laugh, and cry laughing. This is definitely one of the best shows out there. Also, I loved the ending so that's a plus for me.

The “You’re All Alone” is my favorite in the entire series. I well up every single time. And the music that goes with it is my favorite instrumental accompaniment I’ve heard. It’s such a good scene.

0:09 what on earth are those people in the background doing?

RU-vid putting this in my recommendations: you wanna cry tonight? Me: sure, why not

"You're all alone." Gets you right in the heart everytime.

The ending of Farhampton was the first thing I saw after I found out my grandad had died, nearly 10 years later I still bawl whenever I see it or hear The Funeral

Josh is such a amazing actor. Those scences are surprisingly well played. He's an inspiration to me :)

We never see the mother in any of the flash forwards.

I remembered when I watch that "what mother would miss his daughter's wedding" scene, I cried so much even though I had no idea beforehand that's the mother would actually die. The way Ted looks at her just give it away.

The part when Ted and Tracy both start tearing up at the table is actually the only part I did not manage to understand when watching the show. I feel very dumb right now.

I'm currently rewatching HIMYM for the third time and I never understood the first "foreshadowning-moment" in this video before. Now I understand, thank you. (especially now that I understand it) It's one of the best and most beautiful moments in the whole show.

The "Pardon my French" guy in the wedding suit is actually Joey's Hand Twin from FRIENDS.✋😉

I think the ending would have been terrible if they hadn't found someone as perfect as Christine Milioti to play the mother. Some have said she was too good and made it difficult to accept the ending. I say her having that ability to make you love the character in such a short time really put the mother on equal footing with Robin. It made me feel like she wasn't just some plot device to pop out some kids for Ted so Robin didn't have to, and then go away. Tracy being so 3 dimensional made me feel like she and Ted had a real life together and deep love. They didn't get much time together, but we're never promised that. Later on, it ended up that the timing was finally right for Ted and Robin. Ted had never stopped loving her, but that didn't mean he loved the mother any less. It's just that life only moves forward, as Tracy herself said. And often we fall in love with more than one person over the course of it.

HERES A STORY: *i binged all 9 seasons in around a month and a half and my mother did of good job of denying everytime I asked her if he hasn't met the mother yet then why does he start from when he met robin cause I kept asking telling her he doesn't go 9 seasons running around robin and then quits cause he definitely ends up with Robin right and my mom was like "BITCH NO"*

The thing you wrote about the second scene really gave me goosebumps and made my jaw drop. I've seen HIMYM several times and it is my absolutely favourite show, but i've never noticed stuff like this And i somehow started crying at scene 4

There is also an episode, i don’t remember which one but Ted is talking about how Zoey ruined crossword day and there’s an image of a newspaper and in the corner it says something like “no one is safe; not even the mother”

Is it only me who can watch all seasons and all episodes million times, but is really really afraid to click the play sign for the last and final two episodes? :( :( I don´t even have the word how I feel when I´m near the last episodes....

That gravestone and song just hits different