Even in the era of Too Much TV, there are multiple valid justifications to pass over the new and rewatch a TV show you’ve seen often previously. Here and there it’s important to return to something you watched when you were more youthful, offering you a chance to see the value in it from a more grown-up point of view. There’s additionally the solace that comes from reconnecting with a natural cadence of storytelling, also being brought together with the entirety of your old companions once more. Furthermore, there’s the delight of finding a detail that you may have missed in past rewatchings — a mysterious shock that has been trusting that years for you will discover it.

How I Met Your Mother is a fantastic example of the last motivation to rewatch, as throughout nine seasons, the CBS sitcom’s sharp jokes and gags increasingly an inexorably thick folklore of in-jokes and references that lone periodically returned again to that focal inquiry: Who is the concealed mother that Ted (Josh Radnor) is taking as much time as necessary to meet?

The titular question, however, loomed over the whole show’s run, with signs concerning the identity dropped en route a long time before Cristin Milioti at last showed up toward the finish of Season 8. Also, it wasn’t until almost the incredibly end of the series finale that we really educated the person’s first name: Tracy.

Except, all things considered, in fact the journalists mentioned to us what her name was before then, at that point. Way before then, at that point. In Season 1, really.

Season 1 Episode 9, “Tummy Full of Turkey,” is the show’s first Thanksgiving story, however rather than Lily (Alyson Hannigan) facilitating the huge feast as she’d do in later seasons, the two plotlines highlight her and Marshall (Jason Segel) commending the day in Minnesota, while Ted, Robin (Cobie Smulders), and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) stay in New York. After trickeries at a neighborhood soup kitchen lead to the last three getting kicked out, they choose to partake in the Thanksgiving buffet at the Lusty Leopard, where Ted meets a beautiful stripper (Katie A. Keane).

The final bit of the episode plays out like this:

Stripper: I’m Amber.

Ted: Oh, I’m Ted.

They shake hands.

Stripper: Actually, I’m Tracy.

Ted: Still Ted.

Narrator (v.o.): And that, kids, is the true story of how I met your mother.

Cut to the year 2030 and Ted’s child and girl shouting “What?!” and Future Ted (Bob Sagat) quickly following that up with “I’m kidding.” (Just one of many rankling fakeouts conveyed by this show throughout the span of 208 scenes.)

With hindsight, of course, it’s a good idea for Future Ted to have used his future spouse’s genuine name as a component of this gag — children probably won’t call their folks by their first names generally speaking, however they basically know what those first names are by a particular age. However, it’s the kind of thing that you probably won’t see the show doing until after many, numerous rewatches.

How I Met Your Mother remained imperfect even while it was broadcasting live, and certain components have not matured well — there are the transphobic jokes, the excruciating shortfall of minorities, also a strong level of most Barney stories, and we should not get into the closure at the present time. In spite of those issues, however, as a self-admitted defender for this series I have rewatched each scene a mysterious number of times since its debut in 2005, including “Midsection Full of Turkey.”

Be that as it may, I not even once saw this early notice of Tracy’s name until as of late, while again rewatching the show all along (rather than the many, numerous screeners I ought to watch all things being equal).Because not exclusively is the best solace TV the TV you’ve effectively seen previously, however now and again, even a long time later, it can in any case figure out how to surprise you.