Ted Mosby

Ted Mosby is a fictional character created by Carter Bays & Craig Thomas for the television series How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Josh Radnor.

The central character of the show, Ted is a Wesleyan University graduate and an architect who, according to Barney, thinks too much. After his best friend Marshall becomes engaged, Ted decides to try and find his soulmate.

Prone to socially-questionable romantic gestures, he steals a blue French horn that was a topic of conversation in his first date with Robin. In a similar vein, he also dresses up as a "hanging chad" every year for Halloween, in the hopes of meeting the "slutty pumpkin", a woman dressed as a jack-o'-lantern (complete with strategically-placed holes) whom he once met at a Halloween party.

For a time, he dates a baker named Victoria, whom he meets at a friend's wedding. She accepts a culinary fellowship in Germany, prompting a long-distance relationship, which does not last, due in large part to his persistent feelings for Robin. His friendship with Robin is threatened when he implies that Victoria broke up with him before he actually did, leading to their making out.

They ultimately reconcile, and shortly after that, Ted makes one last attempt to win her, hiring a chamber orchestra with blue instruments to play in her apartment while he makes his appeal. She cannot give him a definite answer, but, after she is stuck at her apartment due to an unpredicted storm (that Ted had wished for), she decides to pursue her feelings for him upon his return to her. After nearly a year together, they break up, and Ted no longer sees Robin as "The One," but doesn't reveal the identity of his future wife.

Ted probably comes from Cleveland (or somewhere in Ohio (in real life, Josh Radnor grew up in the Columbus, OH area)), as he was seen cheering for the Cleveland Indians when they were playing the Yankees at a baseball game (season 2 eps 1) and he alluded to once being trapped under a fake rock at a mall in Ohio when he was 9 ("Slap Bet", Season 2 Episode 9). He and Marshall were randomly assigned as freshman year roommates at Wesleyan but became friends on a long road trip that was deemed both "Fieroasco" (by Marshall) and the "100k Fiasco" (by Ted). This story was told in Arrivederci, Fiero.

For a while Ted claimed to be "vomit-free since '93," meaning he had not puked for any reason since 1993. However, in the episode Game Night, he reveals that this is not true, and that he vomited on Robin's door mat.