The Yips
🎞️ S3 E10 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S3 E10 OK for kids?

The Yips

When Barney loses his "mojo," he attends the Victoria's Secret Fall Fashion Show after-party to get himself back on track, but his smooth operating skills are put to the test when he meets supermodel Heidi Klum.

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Netflix, HBO or Disney+ — catalogs differ by country.

🛒 Where to buy

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Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Heavy — skip for under 16

How I Met Your Mother S3 E10, “The Yips”, scores 2/5 for violence, 5/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 5/5 — Heavy — skip for under 16. When Barney loses his "mojo," he attends the Victoria's Secret Fall Fashion Show after-party to get himself back on track, but his smooth operating skills are put to the test when he meets supermodel Heidi Klum.

Across the episode we counted 25 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (11); Nudity & bodies (4); Violence & injury (2); Swearing (7); Alcohol & drugs (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 11 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E10:

  • I lost my virginity to her.
  • Barney Barney, you need to find a girl and have sex with her ASAP.
  • But, James what woman's going to have sex with me? It's not like I'm a Backstreet Boy.
  • You know that Chinese food delivery boy? I had sex with him.
  • I guess your brother's going to stay a virgin.
  • Maybe you have to open up to some He just found out that the woman he lost his virginity to only did it because his brother bribed her.
  • Sleeping with me again isn't gonna solve anything.
  • That was the best sex I ever had.
  • So, hey, uh, maybe how about sex? Let's sex.
  • My entire sexual history was built on a rotting foundation of lies.
  • Thank me for what? Well, you know how it's hard for exes to be friends because there's this lingering sexual tension between them? Gone.

Nudity & bodies 4 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E10:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Yeah, yeah, yeah, hers is the only vagina for me.
  • Did you change your mind about having love, making sex, penis vagina? What is the matter with me? - Oh, honey - I just, I don't get it.
  • Do you guys work for the company? Yeah, it's called "I'm Gonna Get In Your Panties, Incorporated.

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E10:

  • So I can get super strong and punch you really hard in the face.
  • Yeah, let's all punch Barney in the face.

Swearing 7 moments

How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E10:

  • It smells like there's a little bitch in my gym.
  • Are you being a little bitch in my gym? No.
  • I don't know who the hell you think you are, but from now on, you don't tell Marshall what to do.
  • She's pretty pissed.
  • You know, for all the crap you've given me, I haven't seen you work up a sweat there once.
  • Do it! Come on! Do it, you worthless piece of crap! Please! Please, I just want to go home.
  • Yeah, kinda sucks, doesn't it? Oh, my God, Barney, you really did just rock my world.

Alcohol & drugs 1 moment

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S3 E10:

  • Or we could just stop drinking beer.

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