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- Ted (Josh Radnor) and Tracy, aka “the mother” (Cristin Milioti)
“That’s it. That’s the end of the show,” I said rather confidently to my friend. We had just finished watching “Sunrise,” the 17th episode of the ninth and final season of CBS’s How I Met Your Mother.
Now, I don’t think HIMYM creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas “ruined” the show for me with this ending, but I still felt a little cheated. Because I was right about “Sunrise”—it was basically the finale. Most of the episode’s flashbacks show Ted desperately trying to track down Robin’s locket in an attempt to win her back (even if he can’t quite admit that to himself). Robin isn’t included in the list of “Ted’s Top 5 Girlfriends” because, as he puts it, “there’s only one,” and it’s her. Bob Saget-as-Ted narrates, “If you love something, you can never let it go or it’s gone forever.” And even though Robin floats out of Ted’s reach at the end, she does so to The Bangles’ “Eternal Flame.” So, Ted loves Robin (the most)—the end.
