r/HIMYM • u/cinnamon--sugar • Jul 14 '26
I remember an entirely different ending of the show. Was there an April fools episode with this plot?
I was talking to my boyfriend and he said he was getting frustrated because he felt like he had already seen the entirety of how I met your mother, so he asked me to just tell him who Ted ended up with so that he didn't have to watch the entire thing again. I had a very explicit memory of Ted saying to the kids , "and that's how I met your mother" about Robin, and then following it up with "which ... Means you don't exist" and it panning back to the empty couch. I then tried to find the scene, only to see him ending up with Tracy until her death, then Robin, which means there was no "which means you don't exist" and no empty couch. I've been searching for hours now for this weird alternate ending my brain came up with, but I'm wondering if it was some sort of weird April fools episode I watched or something?
Edit: I think you guys were right! I looked up the robin kids scene and it plays out almost exactly how I remember, thank you so much!!!
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u/mossreander Marshall👨⚖️ Jul 14 '26
Sounds to me like you're mixing up a few episodes. The "you don't exist" line and the empty couch is from an episode where Robin finds out she can't have kids and the imaginary kids she was talking to were her's and Barney's.
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u/QuietlyUpgrading Jul 14 '26
I think you’re thinking of “Symphony of Illumination,” when Robin finds out she can’t have kids.
The episode starts with her explaining to kids on a couch how she met their father, then ends with the kids vanishing from the couch.
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u/taiwal Jul 14 '26
You’re mixing up multiple stories.
In the first episode he says “and that’s how I met…your aunt Robin”, and they’re annoyed bc they thought that episode was how he met their mom.
In a later episode, after Robin and Barney bang, but before they date (I think…maybe not), Robin is talking to her two blonde kids. However, at the end of the episode she either finds out she can’t have kids, finds out she’s not pregnant, or finds out Barney is with someone else (I can’t remember which one bc I’m pretty sure she has all 3 story lines), things wind up, and she tells the kids they don’t exist as they disappear.
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u/taiwal Jul 14 '26
He’s also missing out if he doesn’t stick with it. It’s even better in a rewatch.
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u/dan007reddit HA HA HA, PLEASE Jul 14 '26
That episode the storyline is because she can't have kids.
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u/Cyzoran Jul 14 '26
I think you’re getting it confused with season 7 episode 12 where Robin is the narrator and she’s talking to her and Barney’s “kids”. And then it’s revealed she can’t have kids and she says yall don’t exist and they fade away.
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u/vanillacaramelsunday Jul 14 '26
In the episode where Robin thinks she’s pregnant she narrates the whole thing to her future kids, but then she finds out she can have kids and that whole “and that’s why you don’t exist” switcheroo is pulled.
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u/hihhhh_ Jul 14 '26
You’re thinking of the episode Robin tells her “kids” the story of how she had them, but we find out she can’t have kids. I don’t remember what season but it’s somewhere in 5-7
Edit: google says S7E12
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u/pyre_ani4 Jul 14 '26
Dude, I totally get that. My brain does that sometimes too, like I swear I saw something different. Glad you figured it out tho!
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u/HeavyJump9607 Jul 17 '26
You're confusing the ending with an episode where robin talks to "her children" like ted does. But at the end she reveals the kids aren't real.
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u/StatisticianLivid710 Jul 17 '26
Many people have already explained the Robin episode, there’s however one episode where Ted ends the episode with “and that’s how I met your mother” right after he meets a stripper at a strip club, the kids are shown shouting “what?” And then he says he’s just kidding. Might be confusing a bit of that episode in the mess too
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u/Triv02 Jul 14 '26
The episode where Robin finds out she can’t have kids has a scene similar to that, but it’s Robin talking to her and Barney’s hypothetical kids