Jeanette is one of the girls that Ted dated. She is a lieutenant for the police, most likely for the NYPD. She was Ted's last love interest before meeting The Mother.Storyline:Season 8:In the episode P.S I Love You Ted sees Jeanette on a train ride, but she exits the train before he can talk to her. However, the next day, he sees her outside t...
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Jeanette is one of the girls that Ted dated. She is a lieutenant for the police, most likely for the NYPD. She was Ted's last love interest before meeting The Mother.Storyline:Season 8:In the episode P.S I Love You Ted sees Jeanette on a train ride, but she exits the train before he can talk to her. However, the next day, he sees her outside the university where he teaches, where she tells him that she looked him up from the details ss he remembered about him, and fi the fire alarm hadn't of gone off, she would never have found him. The gang thinks that Jeanette is a stalker, but Ted disagrees. he later asks her if she was the one who pulled the fire alarm, and she says she was, but Marshall and Lily notice that there is no fire alarm at his university, which means that she stared a fire, just to sound alarm, and this turned out to be true... However, Ted is charmed by things like this. Later at his apartment, Ted tells Jeanette that if she hadn't been reading the same book as him, they never would have met, and that this was destiny. Ted then finds a receipt in her book, and realized that she bought her book at the same store as Ted, within ten minutes of when he bought his copy. Jeanette tells Ted that she followed him to the store and asks how long she has been following him. She says that she has been following him for a year and a half, ever since he got of the cover of Architecture Magazine. Ted ignores the obvious sign that she is a stalker, and the two start making out.In Weekend at Barney's Jeanette is signed on by Ted to be his +1 for Barney and Robin's wedding but the rest of the gang doesn't want her to come because she's insane and as Robin says Would probably be a +5 with all the voices in her head soon, Ted arrives back at Ted's apartment to find out Jeanette is breaking up with him and has destroyed everything in his apartment after seeing an Email sent to Ted about spam for pornography, Ted is surprised she broke up with him rather than the other way around and after convincing himself post break up, that he'll fight to win her back. Barney, however shows Ted that he hadn't actually burned The Playbook (book) as he told Robin he did in The Final Page - Part Two and he sets Ted up in various scenarios to land him a new girl, Jeanette walks into the bar during one of his plays and starts kissing him aggressively when she sees him. Later, she finds the playbook and as Ted walks back into his apartment Jeanette gets furious at him, Ted is later seen outside his apartment distraught, Barney and Robin with Marshall and Lily all arrive at the same time and sit by Ted as he confirms he's done with the single life. Jeanette duct tapes fireworks around the playbook and lights it, throwing it out the window while screaming at Ted, the Playbook is destroyed after exploding in mid air. Ashes and rubble lay all around them as seen in the flash-forward in Bad Crazy, and the last thing seen being thrown out the window is Ted's Red Cowboy Boots lit on fire. This is the incident confirming that Ted and Jeanette are broken up.Season 9:In Sunrise, Jeanette gets hold of Robin's locket that Victoria had sent to Ted from Germany. Ted calls Jeanette and asks to meet up with her to get the locket back. Jeanette drops the locket into the river after pointing out how irrational he is for being unwilling to let go of Robin. She then says to Ted I think we should get back together , to which Ted immediately dismisses. In Gary Blauman she is shown in the future to be dating Kevin Venkataraghavan.Episode Appearances1.P.S. I Love You 2.Bad Crazy 3.Weekend at Barney's 4.Sunrise 5.Gary Blauman 6. The End of the Aisle (cameo) Notes and TriviaIn Bad Crazy, Ted mentions that she was a big fan of Marilyn Monroe and says that she invited him to a seance session to see her.Abby Elliott, who portrays Jeanette, is the daughter of Chris Elliott who portrays Mickey Aldrin, Lily's father.Future Ted said, Before a man meets the woman he will marry, he'll make one final horrible mistake. For me, that was Jeanette .It's possible that she has the mix of Crazy Eyes and Hot crazy scale, due to her personality towards Ted. Whether or not, it's still unconfirmed.It is revealed in Bad Crazy that Jeanette is a police officer and has previous incidents where she's known to have acted irrationally.In being the last person Ted dated before meeting the mother, and throwing away the locket Ted wanted to give Robin, Jeanette is the one person who pushed him into letting go of Robin after eight years.
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