5. How I Met Everyone Else
🎞️ S3 E5 ✅ All clear

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S3 E5 OK for kids?

5. How I Met Everyone Else

When Ted's new girl becomes jealous that the story of how he and his pals met is better than the story of how she and Ted met, her ranking on Barney's "crazy scale" skyrockets.

📺 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 S3 E5, “5. How I Met Everyone Else”, scores 2/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 1/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 2/5 — Mild — okay from about 12+. When Ted's new girl becomes jealous that the story of how he and his pals met is better than the story of how she and Ted met, her ranking on Barney's "crazy scale" skyrockets.

Across the episode we counted 8 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Affairs / cheating (1); Violence & injury (1); Alcohol & drugs (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 1 moment

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E5:

  • By the end, it was mostly about sex.

Nudity & bodies 1 moment

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E5:

  • Now, if you had said fake breasts She's not crazy.

Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E5:

  • She's not a hooker.

Affairs / cheating 1 moment

How Affairs / cheating shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E5:

  • That's what you're saying? I'm not going to cheat on my girlfriend.

Violence & injury 1 moment

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E5:

  • She'd stab me with a fork, then get a boob job.

Alcohol & drugs 3 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E5:

  • Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Look at these drunk idiots.
  • Hey, don't drink their two dollar beer.
  • " You know? But as drunk as she was, when she woke up the next morning, she still remembered room 110.

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