7. Swarley
🎞️ S2 E7 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S2 E7 OK for kids?

7. Swarley

When Marshall goes on his first real date post-Lily, Ted and Barney try to convince him the girl is crazy.

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Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 13

How I Met Your Mother S2 E7, “7. Swarley”, 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 Marshall goes on his first real date post-Lily, Ted and Barney try to convince him the girl is crazy.

Across the episode we counted 9 flagged moments in 3 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Nudity & bodies (1); 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.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Sex & hookups 3 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S2 E7:

  • Would you like to have a threesome? Of course.
  • Plan A-- remember that time Marshall and I had sex in the bathroom? Oops, I got knocked up.
  • Thanks! He'll just have wild monkey sex with her five times, max, and be done with her.

Nudity & bodies 1 moment

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S2 E7:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.

Alcohol & drugs 5 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S2 E7:

  • Are you free tomorrow night? I was thinking of having a wine tasting slash "help me catch the rat in my apartment" party.
  • Two pumpkin beers.
  • They're regular beers.
  • " Can I, uh, can I get you a drink? I'd love a beer.
  • Oh, pumpkin beer-- that was a good one.

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