How I Killed Your Mother

I stopped watching How I Met Your Mother some time ago, and the apparently disappointing finale aired a couple of weeks ago, but I still wanted to discuss one of the more entertaining theories I saw in relation to it: that Ted Moseby killed the mother so he could wind up with Robin.

It seems unlikely - Ted doesn't exactly seem like the murdering type - but we know nothing about his life between his meeting the mother and his 2030. Years of being stuck with the "wrong" woman and seeing how the "right" woman was in a doomed marriage may have spurred him to action.

Also, we got very little information about the mother, which you could take as Ted trying to avoid uncomfortable questions about the mother's passing. He would obviously talk up Robin given his plan to win her back, but it conveniently gives the kids something else to think about.

Also, given the job prospects for architects, it may be that Ted needed to bump off the mother for insurance money. Not sure how much insurance a bass player carries, but every little bit helps.

Of course, this theory ignores one obvious fact: Ted would probably kill himself by accident if he tried to take out the mother. He'd spend all sorts of time being wishy washy about it and forget that he poisoned the food he just ate.

Still, I'd like to think this theory has legs, if only to make Ted more interesting in the aftermath of the show than he ever was during it.