Why Zoey isn't the mother.

A girl I went to high school with posted on Facebook the other night that if it turned out Zoey was the mother (on the show How I Met Your Mother), that she would feel like she wasted these years she's spent watching the show.

I agree. I hate that character, and I'm not terribly fond of the actress that plays her.

But here's why Zoey isn't the mother that we've all waited six seasons, and counting, for. Remember when Ted went out with Cindy (Rachel Bilson)? And it was revealed that the mother was Cindy's roommate, and that all of the guys Cindy dated fell in love with the mother? Well...Zoey can't be the mother because: 1) Zoey is not the kind of woman that guys would fall in love with that easily. 2) Zoey's married, and has been since the age of 22, which we learned a couple episodes ago. Therefore, unless producers want to cheapen Ted's relationship with the mother by beginning it while she is married to someone else, or unless they can come up with a really believable reason why a long-married woman would be living apart from her husband in an apartment with a girlfriend of hers, then there's no way that Zoey is the mother.

And that is my theory for the day.