How I Met Your Father: Future Sophie Reveals A Secret About The Son

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Warning: Contains spoilers for How I Met Your Father season 1.

In the How I Met Your Father season 1 finale, the TV show highlighted a strange detail about Sophie’s son and the story being told. How I Met Your Father borrows much of its framing device from its predecessor, How I Met Your Mother. However, the spinoff makes the device its own, most notably by showing the 2050 Sophie and keeping her son a mystery.

In How I Met Your Father season 1, episode 10, “Timing Is Everything,” Sophie (Hilary Duff) gets freaked out when Jesse (Christopher Lowell) tells Sophie that he loves her in his sleep. After first avoiding Jesse, she eventually goes over to his apartment to straighten it out, rather than letting her fear of the relationship ruin things. Sophie in 2050 (Kim Cattrall) narrates the moment by saying “I showed up at the guys’ apartment before my gallery show.”

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While it is a small detail, the fact that Sophie in 2050 says “the guys’ apartment” and not, for example, “Jesse’s apartment” or “Sid and Jesse’s apartment” is a crucial giveaway about how the story is being told in How I Met Your Father. While it might seem unlikely, the Sophie narrating the story in 2050 at no point says the name of any of the four candidates for the identity of the father (Jesse, Sid, Charlie, and Ian). In fact, the only character that Future Sophie names is Drew (Josh Peck) who was not included among the people she met in the first episode when Sophie stated that she met the father. All of this suggests that Sophie’s son does not know which of the men in the story is his father.

This is not to say that Sophie’s son does not know who his father is. Her son is clearly