9. Belly Full of Turkey
🎞️ S1 E9 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S1 E9 OK for kids?

9. Belly Full of Turkey

When Ted and Robin give thanks by volunteering at a homeless shelter on Thanksgiving Day, they are shocked when they see the last person they would ever expect doing good for others.

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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 E9, “9. Belly Full of Turkey”, scores 1/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 1/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. When Ted and Robin give thanks by volunteering at a homeless shelter on Thanksgiving Day, they are shocked when they see the last person they would ever expect doing good for others.

Across the episode we counted 7 flagged moments in 3 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (4); Alcohol & drugs (2). 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 E9:

  • I used to be, but I just wasn't enough woman for Ted, emotionally, or sexually.

Porn / strippers / sex work 4 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E9:

  • Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
  • Thanksgiving in a strip club.
  • And Walter would like a lap dance.
  • Just the lap dance would be fine.

Alcohol & drugs 2 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E9:

  • Cranberry juice, potato vodka, and a bouillon cube.
  • You peed on a church? I peed in an alley, which happened to have a church, which I did not see, because I was drunk.

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