this isn't really such a surprise welcome to ms mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 times you missed foreshadowing details on how i met your mother ted hi i was just uh come on up what if the universe sent you a gigantic sign that this woman was your destiny then would you talk to her [Music] for this list we'll be looking at the most intriguing clues throughout this comedy series that hinted at things to come did you spot any other foreshadowing details it would be legend wait for it dary if
you shared them in the comments number 10 the ending at james's wedding in this episode barney is shocked to learn that his brother is monogamous but then he discovers that he's going to be an uncle oh my god i'm gonna be an uncle for the rest of your life [Music] fast forward a year and we see barney hanging out with his new nephew and chatting about their future uncle nephew broship however that isn't the only future prediction in this scene either we are gonna grow out uncle and nephew style stick with me kid i am
gonna teach you how to live the camera pans out to show barney lovingly playing with the baby while ted and robin dance together in the background this image seems to mirror the events of the series finale could it be that the writers were hinting at the ending and we simply missed all the signs number nine did barney predict the future with things getting serious between robin and dawn barney and ted are forced to confront some unresolved feelings as they drunkenly argue over who deserves to be with her barney offers up this rather crass compromise how
about this how about this we share her i'll take her until she's 40 and then you can have her after that now if we do the math barney and robin are in their 30s when they get married in 2014 but despite building up to the wedding for an entire season it doesn't last it was a twisting turning road that led to the end of the aisle and not everything along the way was perfect [Music] to be honest not everything to follow would be perfect either ted's telling his teenage kids this story in 2030 16 years
later meaning when he and robin ultimately get back together she must be over 40. this is a story about how you're totally in love with aunt robin so we guess barney called it back in season five number eight the headstone in hindsight there were lots of clues revealing the mom's fate since day one admittedly some were more subtle than others but more on that later [Music] in this season 7 episode marshall visits his father's grave a year after his passing to continue their old tailgating tradition kids tailgating at the vikings bears game was a tradition
for uncle marshall and his dad we'd recommend pausing to take a closer look at the headstone on marvin senior's left while most of the writing is unclear the word mother can be easily made out they were practically spelling it out for us and yet so many of us missed this huge foreshadowing detail that was hiding in plain sight number 7 where's the blue french horn any fan of the show knows the story of the blue french horn and how it became a symbol of ted and robin's relationship excuse me pardon me just enjoy your coffee
hey hey go go go after ted steals it it resides in robin's apartment however some eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that in this season 2 episode it's nowhere to be seen can we talk about this later absolutely tell people what two episodes later at marshall and lily's wedding ted and robin tell barney a long story revealing that they broke up they also explained that the restaurant forced them to return the iconic blue instrument actually my god it's you what what you're the son of a [ __ ] you stole a blue french horn but could
the horns absence just two episodes earlier also have been hinting at their breakup as well number six the mother's name if you cast your mind back to season one one of the very first details we learn about the titular mother is her name after getting kicked out of a soup kitchen on thanksgiving ted robin and barney end up at the lusty leopard much to ted's dismay surprisingly good right i told you but while they're there he starts chatting to a stripper who tells him her real name i'm amber i'm ted actually i'm tracy still ted
ted may have just been messing with his kids but their shocked response tells us all we need to know their moms called tracy and we just got the very first piece of the nine year long puzzle that uncovers her identity and that kids is the true story of how i met your mother what i'm kidding number five ted and robin get their single stamina back when barney's brother james comes to visit he successfully persuades the gang to break out of their couple's hibernation and go to a bar you owe it to them to rise up
and shimmy your lazy ass into something hot and you go out there and you live their dream can i get a hell yeah voice over ted then explains the signs that differentiate the couples from the singles on a night out there are many ways to tell whether someone has single stamina or couples coma cut to the following year when they're all at james's wedding newlyweds lily and marshall duck out early while ted and robin decide to stay a little longer it's nine o'clock we should be getting back um you guys want to split a cab
uh no i think i'm gonna stay a little bit longer yeah me too i'm not tired at all in fact they both seem to be exhibiting single stamina behavior and that can only mean one thing if like many of us you missed these clues you'd eventually learn about their breakup 12 episodes later number four love in the time of cholera if you've read gabrielle garcia marquez's novel then you might notice a few parallels between the book's plot and this series in the book florentino and firmina who parallel ted and robin fall in love but the
stars just don't align this woman was perfect she liked dogs she spent her summers in north carolina she played bass guitar she did the times crosswords she played tennis she liked old movies her favorite food was lasagna her favorite book was love in the time of cholera she eventually moves on and marries dr urbino instead mirroring tracy or arguably even barney after urbino passes away and several decades pass fermina and florentino finally get together you just never know when or where and he was right unfortunately the win of it was still a little ways down
the road [Music] but the wear of it not only is this ted's favorite book but also what he happens to be reading when he first meets tracy for those familiar with the novel the ending was a dead giveaway the whole time funny how sometimes you just find things number three marshall saved the last slap for a rainy day the slap bed is one of the best running gags throughout the entire series and has provided plenty of hilarity along the way still we can't quite understand why barney would choose to extend it rather than just wear
the ducky tie for a year and to be clear this would add three slaps to marshall's existing one giving him four slaps in total deal nevertheless marshall uses two of his four additional slaps immediately and vows to save the last one for a rainy day i think i'll save those bad boys you know for a rainy day okay the worst is over and would you believe it barney and robin's wedding day fit the bill perfectly marshall uses the final slap to knock the wedding jitters out of barney bringing the slap bet to its very satisfying
conclusion stall from valley back in the six hours that's all of them well wait i'm free number two lavion rose you're probably familiar with tracy's rendition of this idith piaf song from season 9. [Music] but did you know that it's not the only time it's featured on the show we first hear it in season one's the limo when ted and robin share a new year's midnight kiss [Music] the song is about seeing the world through rose tinted glasses which describes ted to a t it also connects him to his two greatest loves you start believing
again in what destiny chemistry if you have chemistry you only need one other thing what's that timing were they trying to tell us that this was ted and robin's song all along before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you'll have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one the mother's fate as we've already seen the show was full of hints pointing
at the tragic fate of the titular mother but this one from season 8 is especially heart-wrenching but none of those things is the thing i do first you know the thing i do first future ted imagines his past self racing to the mother's apartment to confess his love he tells her that he would do anything to have more time together but i'm here now [Music] i guess because i want this extra 45 days [Music] with you i want each one of them now we all know that ted's a hopeless romantic so we might have dismissed
it as classic schmosby however it was actually foreshadowing the gut-wrenching fact that their time together is limited as we later discover when ted is recounting his story tracy is no longer around come on dad mom's been gone for six years now it's time do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from ms mojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos you
