45 Facts About Ted Mosby

Theodore Evelyn Mosby is a fictional character and the protagonist in the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Josh Radnor.

Ted Mosby serves as the show's narrator from the future, voiced by Bob Saget, as he tells his children the "long version" of how he met their mother.

Ted Mosby is the central character of How I Met Your Mother.

Ted Mosby continues his profession as an architect in New York City, possibly at Columbia University.

Ted Mosby is prone to questionable romantic gestures; in the pilot episode, for example, he steals a blue French horn that was a topic of conversation in his first date with Robin, and then scares Robin off by telling her he is in love with her.

Ted Mosby is seen cheering for the Cleveland Indians when they play the New York Yankees at a baseball game.

Ted Mosby knows French and sign language, and has an annoying habit of correcting everything that people around him say.

Ted Mosby has a fondness for high culture such as classical literature and philosophy, and has a tendency to become boring and pretentious when discussing it.

Ted Mosby later gets over it and eventually becomes supportive of Robin's relationship with Barney.

Ted Mosby is particularly conflicted when she and Barney get engaged; he wants her to be happy, but cannot shake the feeling that he and Robin are meant to be together.

That night, Ted Mosby meets Tracy McConnell, and they fall in love, eventually getting married.

Ted Mosby's children encourage him to date Robin, and he brings the blue French horn he stole for her on their first date to her apartment.

However, in the DVD-exclusive alternate ending of the show, it is revealed that Tracy is still alive and that she and Ted Mosby are happily married.

Ted Mosby ultimately meets Tracy while Ted Mosby is waiting for the train to the airport to take him to Chicago; however, he falls in love with her instantly, and changes his mind about moving.

Ted Mosby is very close friends with Marshall's wife, Lily, and the three have shared a longtime bond with one another since college.

When Lily breaks up with Marshall at the end of the first season, Ted Mosby helps Marshall through the aftermath.

Ted Mosby even has a running bet with Lily that Ted and Robin will end up together.

Barney is Ted Mosby's self-appointed "wingman", and they spend time together meeting girls.

Ted Mosby even tries to teach Barney how to be a good boyfriend to Robin, serves as his best man at his and Robin's wedding, and convinces Robin not to run out on him on their wedding day.

Ted Mosby is there for the birth of Barney's daughter in 2020.

Ted Mosby is fiercely protective of Ted, and even goes so far as to break him up with women she does not believe are right for him - including Robin.

Ted Mosby rejects his advances at first, but he wins her over after taking her on a two-minute date, complete with dinner, a movie and a goodnight kiss.

Ted Mosby proposes to her in an arcade to which she says yes, although they have a few struggles in the process.

Ted Mosby refers to his son as Luke, years before meeting Tracy.

Ted Mosby decides to meet his soulmate and settle down after Marshall and Lily get engaged.

Ted Mosby meets and falls for Robin, but their mutual attraction is hampered by Robin's insistence that she does not want to get married or have children, so they agree to just be friends.

Ted Mosby accepts a culinary fellowship in Germany, prompting a long-distance relationship, which does not last, due in large part to his persistent feelings for Robin.

Ted Mosby finally falls for him some time later when Ted apparently summons a storm with a complicated rain dance.

At the beginning of the third season, an inebriated Ted Mosby gets a tattoo on his lower back.

Ted Mosby says yes at the beginning of the fourth season.

In "Shelter Island", Ted Mosby invites Stella's ex-boyfriend, Tony, to his wedding; Stella and Tony rekindle their relationship, and Stella leaves a devastated Ted Mosby at the altar.

Ted Mosby's life continues its downward slide during the fourth season.

Ted Mosby reaches a low point in his personal life in Season 7 and confides in Robin that he is beginning to believe he will never find "The One".

When Ted Mosby calls Victoria, she shows up in a wedding dress and is ready to run away with him.

Ted Mosby tells Victoria that although he is no longer in love with Robin, she is like family and an irreplaceable part of his life.

In "Weekend at Barney's", Jeanette breaks up with Ted Mosby; she takes virtually everything he says and does as proof that he is cheating on her.

At this moment, Ted Mosby decides he is done with the single life and ready to settle down.

In "The Time Travelers", future Ted Mosby fantasizes about seeking out The Mother weeks before they actually meet, so that he can tell her how desperate he is to meet her.

Ted Mosby is supportive of his friends' engagement, but ultimately realizes his lingering feelings for Robin would make it difficult to be around them once they are married, and so plans to move to Chicago the day after the wedding.

The series' final season revolves around the weekend of Barney and Robin's wedding, during which Ted Mosby wrestles with his feelings for Robin.

Ted Mosby goes to extreme lengths to find a locket that Robin had buried in Central Park years before, which she wants as a "sign from the universe" that she should marry Barney.

Ted Mosby then stands by as Robin marries Barney, and bids an affectionate goodbye to his friends.

Future Ted Mosby, voiced by Bob Saget, narrates every episode to his children in 2030, framed as the story of how he met their mother.

Some clues given are that Ted Mosby's future wife is a college student studying economics, as she was in the classroom on Ted Mosby's first day as a professor, where he initially went to the wrong room and started teaching Architecture 101 to what, actually, was Economics 305.

Future Ted Mosby told his kids that he met their mother "on the day of the wedding" which is later revealed to be the day of Barney and Robin's wedding, in which Ted Mosby is the best man.