How Lily Stole Christmas
🎞️ S2 E11 ✅ All clear

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S2 E11 OK for kids?

How Lily Stole Christmas

Nobody likes a "grinch," so the Christmas-stealing Lily must be stopped after she threatens to ruin the gang's plans of a joyous holiday together due to a brawl with Ted.

📺 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

Mild — okay from about 12+

How I Met Your Mother S2 E11, “How Lily Stole Christmas”, scores 1/5 for violence, 1/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 2/5 — Mild — okay from about 12+. Nobody likes a "grinch," so the Christmas-stealing Lily must be stopped after she threatens to ruin the gang's plans of a joyous holiday together due to a brawl with Ted.

Across the episode we counted 6 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Violence & injury (1); Alcohol & drugs (3); Slut-shaming (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 E11:

  • Are you sick? Is it sick to find maturity and experience sexy? No, I meant do you have a cold? I'm fine.

Violence & injury 1 moment

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S2 E11:

  • When you walk through the door, does it feel like you've been slapped in the face by Christmas? Sure does.

Alcohol & drugs 3 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S2 E11:

  • Yeah, and after all that weed.
  • In college, whenever I wanted to make up with her, I'd buy her a beer.
  • Actually the beer helped a little.

Slut-shaming 1 moment

How Slut-shaming shows up in How I Met Your Mother S2 E11:

  • I'm telling you, she's a laugh slut.

Watch With The Kids · You kids — your rules! · Informal parent guidance, not an official rating.