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How I Met Your Mother S4 E21, “The Three Days Rule”, 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 Ted breaks Barney and Marshall's "three days rule" by having a "text" relationship with a girl he just met, they play a cruel joke on him by pretending to be her.
Across the episode we counted 13 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (4); Nudity & bodies (4); Swearing (4); 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 4 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S4 E21:
Now he's only wearing the cowboy boots! - It is on! - It is so on! Tell him that we're we're slowing slipping out of our What are we doing? I think that we're about to have sex with Ted.
There are things I could do to him that would blow his mind - Why do we want to have sex with Ted? - I don't know.
Or we tell him our favorite color is red, and we think the cowboy look is very sexy.
I'm wearing them right now, and they do look sexy.
Nudity & bodies 4 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S4 E21:
You made your naked lady noise.
What?! - Whenever you see a naked lady, you make the noise.
That's totally a boob.
You think maybe we're wearing a black lace bra underneath? I don't think we're wearing anything underneath.
Swearing 4 moments
How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S4 E21:
You sons of bitches.
I'm cuddly, bitch.
"But what the hell, I'll just say it.
And then I proceed to waste a half hour of those bastards' lives, telling them about this dream I had where I ate dinner with my top 5 favorite architects throughout history.
Alcohol & drugs 1 moment
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S4 E21:
"I like beer, too.
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