5. Okay Awesome
🎞️ S1 E5 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S1 E5 OK for kids?

5. Okay Awesome

Ted and Barney hit the club scene with Robin, as Lily and Marshall try to partake in some more mature adult activities.

📺 Where to watch

Netflix, HBO or Disney+ — catalogs differ by country.

🛒 Where to buy

Digital seasons or a box set to keep.

Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 13

How I Met Your Mother S1 E5, “5. Okay Awesome”, 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 and Barney hit the club scene with Robin, as Lily and Marshall try to partake in some more mature adult activities.

Across the episode we counted 15 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (3); Swearing (8); Alcohol & drugs (2); Homophobic jokes (1). 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 1 moment

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E5:

  • Not exactly a VIP room virgin.

Nudity & bodies 3 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E5:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • All right, what does VIP stand for in your little universe? Well, I know that the P is Penis.
  • Those were the four greatest and only breasts I have ever seen.

Swearing 8 moments

How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E5:

  • It all began when Robin strolled into the bar and said - Say you're my bitch.
  • I'm your bitch.
  • My bitches! Check this out.
  • We're her bitches, too.
  • What the hell happened to these two? - Marshall and I are just growing up.
  • Isn't there a third Affleck brother? Keith Affleck or Brian Affleck or something? Holy crap! We just saw Brian Affleck.
  • Now damn it, we're gonna party.
  • These clubs are supposed to be fun, right? Why do I hate them so much? Because all of the stuff you're supposed to like, usually sucks.

Alcohol & drugs 2 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E5:

  • I like wine.
  • Please tell me we can drink the wine now.

Homophobic jokes 1 moment

How Homophobic jokes shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E5:

  • Wow! Who knew being in a committed heterosexual relationship could make a guy so gay.

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