Content guide
Preview first — about 12+
How I Met Your Mother S1 E6, “Slutty Pumpkin”, scores 1/5 for violence, 3/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 12+.
Across the episode we counted 18 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Nudity & bodies (3); Swearing (7); Alcohol & drugs (5). 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.
Parents need to know
Age 12+Nudity, language, drinking in live-action sitcom.
Parents need to know that How I Met Your Mother S1 E6, "Slutty Pumpkin", is a live-action sitcom episode. The series is known for built around casual sex and bar life more than any show on this shelf. Sits in the gray area mainly on nudity & bodies (explicit, in dialogue). Sexual content includes I'm also a horny devil; Tarzan nipple blue. Language isn't constant, but you can expect swearing — for example, This steak totally bitch-slapped my pork chops. Characters drink or talk about alcohol and drugs — You guys got some weed? A little to the left, Marshall. Every flagged moment below is a direct quote from the transcript or a short description of what happens on screen.
Watch for — every moment, theme by theme
Sex & hookups 3 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E6:
I'm also a horny devil.
I have sex with my parrot all the time.
Wait, how can a pumpkin costume be sexy? It was carved in strategic places.
Nudity & bodies 3 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E6:
Tarzan nipple blue.
How about we go on a Halloween double-date? I don't know, we were kind of thinking about staying at home and dressing up as naked people.
Victoria's Secret models prancing around in bras and panties, or Yale preppies reuniting their stupid a cappella group.
Swearing 7 moments
How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E6:
This steak totally bitch-slapped my pork chops.
But nobody remembers what the hell a hanging chad is.
Here's the plan, and I crap you not.
What's that, left hand? Right hand sucks? Word.
This party sucks.
Take the damn picture.
Oh, go to hell.
Alcohol & drugs 5 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E6:
You guys got some weed? A little to the left, Marshall.
A cocktail she invented herself.
Tonight, I'm going up to the roof, I'm gonna have a few beers, I'm gonna wait for the slutty pumpkin.
Could this penguin be the slutty pumpkin? Excuse me? This is gonna sound crazy, but I met someone up on this roof four years ago and they mixed that cocktail, and they loved penguins.
(IMITATES ECHO) How do you do this, Ted? How do you sit out here all night on the roof, in the cold, and still have faith your pumpkin's gonna show up? Well, I'm pretty drunk.
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