How I Got It Wrong

Last night's season finale of "How I Met Your Mother" was a surprise. Not just because Lily's "food poisoning" turned out to be morning sickness - she's pregnant!!! - not just because Ted briefly pondered reconciliation with Zoey, and not because he finally met his future wife when a farewell gift to Zoey was inadvertently given to another woman (actually, the joke was that the other woman was not his future wife, future Ted was just teasing in his narration), but . . . it turns out that Barney is preparing to to reconcile with his British girlfriend Nora after all.

And the wedding at which Ted does meet his future wife is not a minor character's wedding, as hinted before, but . . . Barney's!

Well, you have to figure that a libidinous letch like Barney would have to settle down eventually. And it looks like I was wrong. Nora is back in the ongoing storyline again, and Barney is going to marry her.

Or is he? You never can tell with the plot twists in this sitcom. I'm still trying to figure out whether Marshall got that environmental law firm job he tried out for.

And was that George Harrison's "The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)" I heard as the finale of season six faded out?

This all should make the next two years for the series very interesting.