Insane Yet Plausible: This HIMYM Fan Theory Predicted the Finale Right From the Start

How I Met Your Mother is, of course, first and foremost a story about friendship and the time when you and your friends share an apartment and become a real family to each other. But let's not forget the main character's countless dates and his unwavering faith in his soul mates.

Tricky questions like "Are they right for each other?" and "Should Ted and Robin be together?" remain relevant throughout the whole How I Met Your Mother series. The complicated relationship between these characters made many viewers watch every episode without stopping, adding a touch of adventure to the show.

In fact, the entire plot revolves around this couple, as Ted's story begins from the moment he notices Robin. And then everything gets so twisted that the characters themselves cannot fully understand their attitudes towards each other: loving, parting, living independently, sorting out the relationship.

Robin eventually falls in love with Ted, and an incredibly touching love story unfolds before our eyes. But they were destined to part. Seeing each other for five years proved unbearable, and life set its own priorities for each of them. No formalities, like the Ted & Robin pact they made to secure their future, could control real feelings.

But you know what? The series used color to show the viewers that Robin was not the one for Ted from the very start.

Yellow Symbolizes Ted's Relationship with Tracy

Looking back, we can see that the most important color of the whole show was yellow. It was the color that was used the most when Tracy was introduced. After all, everyone knows HIMYM's main symbol — the yellow umbrella.

Besides the umbrella, there are other cases. Like the yellow school bus from Tracy's apartment, which later ends up on the shelf behind Ted's kids when he tells the story of how they met. Yellow also tends to appear in moments when Ted is in desperate need of hope, whether it's after a breakup or some other emotional event.

According to this color theory, yellow represents a happy future for Ted. In order to achieve this, however, he had to meet Tracy.

Purple Symbolizes Ted's Relationship with Robin

Ted was also spending a lot of time missing Robin. The opposite of yellow is purple, which became Robin's color. Ted and Robin were never destined to be together, and her affinity for the color purple served as further evidence of this.

Ted seeks an excuse to hang out with Robin more after spoiling their romance in Season 1, episode Purple Giraffe. Robin did a story about a kid who attempted to catch a purple giraffe but got stuck. Since then, Ted & Robin's relationship has been symbolized by this color.

Later in Season 7, episode No Pressure, the two decided that their romantic story was over, and each of them wore purple. And then, when Ted went outside, many people with yellow umbrellas passed him, as if the path to true happiness had opened up before the main character.

Finale Almost Ruined the Theory

The finale divided the audience and practically started a war on social media. Despite the fact that theories about the mother probably not being with them anymore (why else wouldn't she be telling stories with Ted?) appeared during the release of the first seasons, the finale seemed overly dramatic, and the return to former attachments, namely to Robin, was completely blatantly unfair.

The rebellion could not be quelled, so the creators had to give in to the fans — they made an alternate ending where Ted and Tracy live happily ever after, and the umbrella flies off into the distance to the melodious strumming of a guitar string. Once again confirming the yellow color theory.