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Alternate ending to How I Met Your Mother

  The final chapter begins with Barney taking a new born baby out of her crib and looking at her with love. “Welcome to the world, darling child. There are lots of people who are here to make sure you have the best life possible. You are going to hear many stories in your life, but the first one will come from me. It’s how you came to be part of our lives. “ Barney begins telling the story while the camera shifts to the apartment of an unknown person. Barney’s voice, “The story begins in the mind of a very disturbed person.” In the apartment we see pictures of Robin all over one of the walls. The apartment obviously belongs to someone obsessed with her. A voice says, “I loved you since the first time I saw you on TV. I even had you in my cab once. You seemed so nice. But I wrote you many letters and they’ve all gone unanswered. That is NOT nice. I know you aren’t with anyone else, and if I can’t have you, I’ll make sure no one else does either.” The scene shifts to Ted and Robi

What really happened between Ted & Robin in Central Park?

I will begin by stating that the show "How I met Your Mother" is complex and can be enjoyed on a simple level or a more complex one. On a simple level, viewers accept at full face value anything and everything that the show is leading up to, chiefly that, because of its title, the show was about Ted meeting the one true love of his life, the "mother" of his children. In reality, however, the title was the only real basis for that assertion. Said Josh Radnor (Ted) in an interview:    "I thought the title of the show was always a bit of a fake-out. It was more of a hook to hang the thing on. Really it was more about these are the crazy adventures and these are the lessons I had to learn before I met your mother." Once the title's role in defining the direction of the show is dismissed, one might think that that the producers' intentions become open to a wide array of interpretation. We find out in the shows next-to-last scene that this is not the cas