8. Atlantic City
🎞️ S2 E8 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S2 E8 OK for kids?

8. Atlantic City

It's no day at the beach for Lily and Marshall when complications alter their Atlantic City wedding plans.

📺 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 S2 E8, “8. Atlantic City”, 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. It's no day at the beach for Lily and Marshall when complications alter their Atlantic City wedding plans.

Across the episode we counted 9 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (6); Alcohol & drugs (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 S2 E8:

  • Lily totally ran off to San Francisco and these two just had sex in the closet.

Nudity & bodies 1 moment

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S2 E8:

  • You were just staring at my shirt boobs.

Porn / strippers / sex work 6 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S2 E8:

  • Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
  • Are we thinking full-on strip club, or should we rent a room and have a private toy show-- whew.
  • We went to a strip club.
  • It's not like I had time to have a lap dance or anything.
  • I got a lap dance.
  • Does it smell like strippers in here? That's weird, right? Marshall and Lily are getting married! Hell, yeah, look at this.

Alcohol & drugs 1 moment

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S2 E8:

  • You throwing a big, free party with lots of booze and food and all your single, desperate girlfriends from college? Yeah, glad we dodged that bullet.

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