Alrighty so I did get to catch tonight's episode so here is a second post for today! I was really excited about the idea of us getting to see the mother and I didn't think it was a bad episode... I just thought that there were some things I would have liked to see done differently. I feel like there were far too many callbacks. I realize its showing how the mother and ted were so close to meeting each other several times and just barely missed... but it felt like we were just watching episodes we had seen before with a different character. I am usually a HUGE fan of callbacks, but I feel like they just did wayyy too many in this episode. I'm glad they showed the mother's quirky robot artwork and her singing breakfast food habit... but I don't think they needed to have the Naked Man, the St. Patrick's day thing was okay but I thought there would be more, they didn't need to show her talking to Lilly about Darren and picking up Marshall because we literall...