3. Third Wheel
🎞️ S3 E3 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S3 E3 OK for kids?

3. Third Wheel

When two beautiful women show that they are both very attracted to Ted, they take the party to his place, where the gang helps Ted realize that bad luck doesn't always come in threes.

📺 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 E3, “3. Third Wheel”, scores 1/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. When two beautiful women show that they are both very attracted to Ted, they take the party to his place, where the gang helps Ted realize that bad luck doesn't always come in threes.

Across the episode we counted 19 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Nudity & bodies (4); Swearing (5); Alcohol & drugs (5); Slut-shaming (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.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Sex & hookups 3 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E3:

  • Sleep with your nurses.
  • That would be like Jimmy Olsen capturing Lex Luthor while Superman watches impotently from the bedroom.
  • Two sexy nurses, with a six-pack of wine coolers, sneak into my room late at night.

Nudity & bodies 4 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E3:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • If I died, I would just come back and haunt your penis.
  • I need the freedom and mobility that only underwear can provide.
  • You were embarrassed? I was like, "I really like this guy, and now I'm climbing out his window," and I forgot my underwear Those were yours? God, I thought they felt kind of tight.

Swearing 5 moments

How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E3:

  • I saw it first! You just made the list, bitch! So many questions.
  • I saw it first! You just made the list, bitch.
  • The other day I saw a pigeon take a crap on it and the whole thing.
  • Damn, this should be me.
  • Okay, what the hell? Wait for it.

Alcohol & drugs 5 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E3:

  • I'm ordering three beers.
  • Three beers, five minutes.
  • I'm talking to beer.
  • I was super-wasted That night These are not all for me.
  • I couldn't find your coats, but I did find tequila.

Slut-shaming 2 moments

How Slut-shaming shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E3:

  • Are they Betas? Because they're all sluts, and you can tell them right now I didn't want to be in their sorority anyway.
  • All sorority girls are sluts.

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