4. Little Boys
🎞️ S3 E4 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S3 E4 OK for kids?

4. Little Boys

When "kid unfriendly" Robin surprisingly forms a bond with the young son of the guy she is dating, she decides it is too serious and must figure out a way to let the little guy down.

📺 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 E4, “4. Little Boys”, scores 2/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. When "kid unfriendly" Robin surprisingly forms a bond with the young son of the guy she is dating, she decides it is too serious and must figure out a way to let the little guy down.

Across the episode we counted 16 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (5); Nudity & bodies (4); Violence & injury (4); Swearing (3). 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 5 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E4:

  • But I can't sleep with her again.
  • If Lily and I have sex twice a week, which let's be honest, we all know is being conservative, and we've been together for ten…
  • But that's more times than Barney has ever had sex, and to your point, Ted, Lily is a quality girl.
  • You've had sex once.
  • A beautiful, sexy girl and all I could think about was you being there first.

Nudity & bodies 4 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E4:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • I like sports cars, but it doesn't mean I want to push a Ferrari through my vagina.
  • Rule #1: no eye patches or props of any One time, I was with this girl, and I tried that model line, and I totally got some over-the-shirt boob action in the "Just Say No" assembly.
  • Hey, now that you're a mom, are you going to start wearing those totally awesome jeans that go right up to your boobs? Do you guys really think this is me? Honey, it's you.

Violence & injury 4 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E4:

  • But she's a gun nut.
  • You grab the kid, I strangle six cobras with my bare hands.
  • Your idea of good game is slapping on a Dr.
  • You tried and you got slapped.

Swearing 3 moments

How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E4:

  • Translation "'Cause I got game, bitches.
  • Suddenly, we see these snake bastards sneaking towards a little baby.
  • What the hell was that? That was my new mom.

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