By Shivani Burra
Emerging Media Manager

Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) sits his son and daughter down to tell them how he met their mother.

That is the way “How I Met Your Mother” began, on September 19, 2005. Nine seasons and almost nine years later, Ted finally ends that epic story.

The sitcom lasted 208 episodes with one idea and the fact a parent could keep his kids listening to him talk about anything for nine years.

However, Mosby’s kids did not have much of a choice. Viewers did not even meet Mom until the end of season eight, when they finally saw Cristin Milioti, the girl with the yellow umbrella, heading for New York.

The end of the story takes place Monday when “How I Met Your Mother” wrapped up its successful run on CBS with an hour-long finale.

Well, kids…he finally meets his mother. But it is not a happily ever after, and not everyone is happy about that.

“I like the way they wrapped up all the storylines and how they left the show without any unanswered questions,” senior Luke Farrell said. “ I did not enjoy how everyone did not have a happy ending, and that was something I desperately wanted from this show.”

Ted gives a sweet speech about how being with ‘the mother’ taught him to cherish every single second of their lives together. He even loved her through the “in sickness and in health” part of their vows, and this is how we learned that the mother becomes ill and dies.

However, it turns out that this was not a love story about the mother, but an unconscious confession of love for Aunt Robin.

With his kids’ blessing and full encouragement, Ted races over to Robin’s apartment and calls to her from the window and, once again, presented her with the blue french horn.

“It is a reflection of nine years of my life because the characters in show the are similar in age to myself going through that time period,” English teacher Bill Visco said. “I remember being single and having friends that are crazy womanizers and others that completely did not want to be with anyone while I was just trying to find someone I wanted to be with.”

This is it. This is the moment. After nine years of slap bets, drunken hook-ups, hilarious shenanigans, failed relationships and legendary moments, the journey is over.