Top 10 Shocking How I Met Your Mother Moments

"How I Met Your Mother" knew how to keep its audience guessing. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the biggest jaw-dropping bombshells from the “How I Met Your Mother” gang and company. Our countdown includes Robin's secret past, Barney meets his dad, the Mother's fate, and more! Which “How I Met Your Mother” moment still has YOU shook? Don’t “wait for it,” tell us in the comments!

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[trinaq]

Lily dropping the news to Marshall that his dad didn't make it was so heartbreaking. The fact that Jason had no idea of what Alyson would tell him makes it a double gut punch.

[adruan]

For a sitcom HIMYM really has LOTS of sad moments that make you cry, and that’s why I love it. My favorite sitcom ever because it feels so real.

[marleylaskaris]

The scene where Ted realizes hes all alone, that one hits deep.

[palemich]

Marshall’s dad dying was done so brilliantly. It didn’t hit me quite as hard until I rewatched it for some reason.
I think it was just so brilliant because the countdown was such an exciting feature, and it sort of built up a sense of whimsy and made you feel safe and comfortable and then it just hit you right in the gut out of nowhere with something so genuinely agonising. It was brilliantly pulled off. I have so much admiration for whoever’s idea the countdown was.
It will always stick with me. And Jason’s choice to be oblivious to the reveal and improv his genuine reaction to hearing the news was just an amazing piece of acting👏🏼

[emmetthesubwaybosswhorunso]

Fun fact. The baby who played barnie's baby in the finale was actually Neil Patrick Harris's actually baby girl

[themayhemofmadness]

As far as I’m concerned, Tracy never died and Barney and Robin stayed married. That is how the show ended for me. I hate that they went through all that to say that Ted and Robin weren’t good together, but Robin and Barney were, only to throw all of it out the window on the last episode.

And yes, I am aware of the guest appearances on HIMYF. And while I did like them, and they do go with that original ending to HIMYM, I still hate that original ending.

[raynor]

If you were surprised by Barney becoming a dedicated father, you didn’t pay attention to the series.

Barney consistently had a soft spot for children, with perhaps the best example being his brother’s marriage. Barney had been adamantly opposed to his brother’s wedding until he found out that he and his husband were adopting a baby. From that moment on, Barney was incredibly supportive and took great pride in being an uncle.

[trinaq]

I can't believe that the finale aired almost a full decade ago now. In my mind, the alternative ending of Ted recounting all the events that lead to him meeting Tracy is the true conclusion.

[VanessaSamuels-vx]

Himym was shock from beginning to end and that’s why I like it also because of its flash backs and flashforwards

[RobertJohnson-bjlk]

The running gag of the Robin Sparkles career that mirrored Allanis Morrisette’s career was the most Legend...
Dairy part of the series.

[mailiadan]

The scene where Barney was holding his baby girl made me cry emotionally.

[palemich]

I’m still so upset by the original ending because they actually pulled of something impossible. They spent eight years building the mother up to be this perfect woman who could never possibly live up to our expectations- and then somehow against all odds; she was perfect. She actually was, and we adored her. And then they decided to kill her off before we even really saw her with Ted; it was like they’d made it to the end of the race, but then they took away the finished line.
As a result- the last season just sits horribly and it’s so sad because it had everything going for it😢

[karenwinston]

I remember watching the scene for Barneys longest second. Broke my heart at the time.

[catsinthebag]

Whenever I rewatch it, I always stop it, the final scene of Ted and Tracy at the train station. I hated that twist ending.

[Iggybart]

dude leading up to the comment i kept wondering why barney was being such an ass meeting his dad. my first thoughts were that he was throwing a tantrum like a 5 year old. then he dropped that line "because if you were gonna be some lame suburban dad why couldn't you be that for me???" and suddenly, i was 100% with his behavior. that hit so hard.

[akshaya]

The 'Time Travellers' episode is also worth mentioning. It's one of those. heartbreaking episodes

[VileMisanthrope]

Other fact about the storyline with Robin unable to have kids....that partially mirrored Cobie Smulders real life. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007 when she was 25. So there was a chance she wouldn't be able to have kids. Thankfully, she had surgery, simultaneously beat cancer and has been cancer-free since 2015. Plus, her and her husband Taran (who played Gary Blauman on the show) have two children.

[GaryGeat]

The death of the mother, Tracy, was shocking and sad. I'm glad an alternate ending was included in the Season 9 DVD. But had the writers not killed Tracy, the show could have run a few more seasons. Ted's problem was that he was too fixated on Robin. But I still love the show.

[cazia]

I’m probably in the minority here but I never felt like Robin being unable to have kids was that big of a surprise - I was more shocked when she told Barney she was pregnant (or believed she was) bc she has made it so crystal clear from square one she doesn’t want to be a parent … there could have been a great opportunity show her exercising her right to choose and having that be the journey she goes throughout that particular arc

[AsianArgentina]

Barney and Robyn as a couple was the best of the seires