Wait for It
🎞️ S3 E1 🚫 Too much

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S3 E1 OK for kids?

Wait for It

📺 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 S3 E1, “Wait for It”, 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.

Across the episode we counted 11 flagged moments in 3 themes: Sex & hookups (5); Nudity & bodies (4); Sexual insults (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.

Parents need to know

Age 13+

Nudity, sex talk, sexual insults in live-action sitcom.

Parents need to know that How I Met Your Mother S3 E1, "Wait for It", is a live-action sitcom episode. The series is known for built around casual sex and bar life more than any show on this shelf. Driven by nudity & bodies (explicit, in dialogue), with sex & hookups alongside it. Sexual content is explicit — for example, You cannot have sex on a windsurfing board; Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue. Some mild language appears in the dialogue. This episode includes sexual insults — for example, That, dear boy, is a tramp stamp. Every flagged moment below is a direct quote from the transcript or a short description of what happens on screen.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Sex & hookups 5 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E1:

  • Caution
    You cannot have sex on a windsurfing board.
  • Caution
    I have crafted a list of every vehicle land-based, aquatic and airborne in which/on which it's possible to have sex.
  • Caution
    And of those 33 vehicles, I have had sex in/on 31.
  • Mild
    I don't go to your stupid country and try to seduce women with my sexy accent.
  • Mild
    Robin and I are about to make fantastic aquatic sex on this windsurfing board.

Nudity & bodies 4 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E1:

  • Too much
    Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Too much
    Do you ask your tailor to leave extra room in the crotch for your huge vagina? You your vagina Ted, this chick is crazy.
  • Mild
    Right boob bigger than the left boob, which some choose to look at as bra half empty, I choose to look at as bra half full.
  • Mild
    Weren't you wearing a bra? The night was going great.

Sexual insults 2 moments

How Sexual insults shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E1:

  • Caution
    That, dear boy, is a tramp stamp.
  • Caution
    A tramp stamp.

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