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Skip for under 13
How I Met Your Mother S1 E1, “1. Pilot”, scores 1/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. Ted meets Robin in a neighborhood bar, immediately becomes smitten and even scores a first date. But, when Robin must leave in the middle of the date, Ted can hardly wait to see her again, and his eagerness threatens to scare her away. Ted realizes Robin may not be as easy to catch as he had hoped, and it becomes apparent that he may have to meet a few more women before he finds his true love.
Across the episode we counted 18 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Nudity & bodies (3); Swearing (8); Alcohol & drugs (4). Every moment below is either a direct quote from the episode transcript or a short description of what happens on screen, so you can decide before you press play.
Watch for — every moment, theme by theme
Sex & hookups 3 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E1:
And then you're engaged, you pop the champagne, you drink a toast, you have sex on the kitchen floor.
Don't have sex on our kitchen floor.
Well, I was 18, okay? I was a virgin.
Nudity & bodies 3 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E1:
- Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
Sort of looks like a Smurf penis.
When you go on a first date, you really don't want to say Smurf penis.
Swearing 8 moments
How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E1:
So, you chickened out like a little bitch.
Damn it, why did Marshall have to get engaged? Yeah, nothing hotter than a guy planning out his own imaginary wedding, huh? - Actually, I think it's cute.
What the hell.
Look at you, you beautiful bastard, you suited up.
Kiss the crap out of that girl.
Look, obviously, you can't tell a woman you just met you love her, but it sucks that you can't.
If a woman, not you, just some hypothetical woman, were to bear with me through all this, I think I'd make a damn good husband because that's the stuff I'd be good at.
To one hell of a night.
Alcohol & drugs 4 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E1:
Well, you're clearly drunk.
Oh, honey, champagne.
No, you are too old to be scared to open a bottle of champagne.
One you plan out for months, the other just slips out when you're half-drunk at some bar.
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