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How I Met Your Mother S1 E20, “Best Prom Ever”, scores 1/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. When Lily's wedding date is pushed up, she crashes a high school prom with Barney and Robin in order to hear a potential band for the big day.
Across the episode we counted 11 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Porn / strippers / sex work (3); Alcohol & drugs (3); Slut-shaming (3). 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 2 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E20:
At the wedding, do not sleep with anyone even remotely related to me.
What'd she say? What'd she say? He lied and told me he broke up with his girlfriend to try to hook up with me.
Porn / strippers / sex work 3 moments
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E20:
- Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
Have you seen how the kids are dressing these days, with the Ashlee and the Lindsay and the Paris? They all dress like strippers.
And that, my friends, is why you don't get your money's worth when you wear jeans to a strip club.
Alcohol & drugs 3 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E20:
Once you're married, if we go out, and you get so drunk you throw up, it'll be sad, but if we do it tonight, it'll be less sad.
…and what kind of wedding band would you be if you couldn't play our song, right? Right? Look, I'm kind of wasted right now, so I didn't understand any of that.
I hated my dress, my date got wasted and puked on me, there was a huge fight, and I kissed a girl.
Slut-shaming 3 moments
How Slut-shaming shows up in How I Met Your Mother S1 E20:
…(SHUSHING) Sweetie, just focus on one thing at a time, okay? Right now, you just have to dress like a whore and that's it.
Now, ladies, slut up.
They grow up into skanks so fast, don't they, Ted? - So, what, we ready for tonight? - Yeah.
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