Fans of late-stage “How I Met Your Mother” will remember that, by the time that Season 7 of the show rolled around, Ted Mosby and Victoria were not on solid terms. Ted had been unfaithful a little over half a decade prior, and Victoria, understandably, had not been interested in patching things up. In the time since they’d last spoken, Victoria had become engaged to Klaus (Thomas Lennon) and pretty well moved on with her life. So why would she purposely set herself up to be in the same room as the guy who treated her so badly?
For answers, we turn to back to Reddit, where the original poster speculates that Victoria got exactly what she wanted out of the interaction. She arranged for their paths to cross “to do what she did. [She was] nervous about being proposed to and maybe looking for a way out.”
Does it pass the smell test? Sort of. By the end of the season, Victoria would abandon her fiance on her wedding day in favor of riding off into the sunset with Ted, albeit for a short time. Maybe that’s what she wanted all along.
Or maybe, as u/ph34r807 points out, “It had nothing to do with Ted and everything to do with a Mister Kravitz” being at the party. That guy is, after all, a rock star.