6. Bagpipes
🎞️ S5 E6 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S5 E6 OK for kids?

6. Bagpipes

To prove that he and Robin are the perfect couple, Barney arrogantly gives relationship advice to Marshall, which results in a huge fight between Marshall and Lily.

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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 S5 E6, “6. Bagpipes”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. To prove that he and Robin are the perfect couple, Barney arrogantly gives relationship advice to Marshall, which results in a huge fight between Marshall and Lily.

Across the episode we counted 12 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Nudity & bodies (6); Violence & injury (2); Racism & slurs (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 3 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E6:

  • Then I don't care if you have an orgasm.
  • We just called it a tie and had sex.
  • What the hell has gotten into you two? When did you become so nauseating? Isn't it great to finally see her fulfilled emotionally, spiritually and sexually? - Um, I dated her for a year.

Nudity & bodies 6 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E6:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Every time it looks like we're about to get into a fight Why is there a bag of panties labeled "April 2008" in your closet?
  • Why? What is in your hand? Oh, my God, what is in your hand? Okay, so you walk away, Robin gets naked.
  • Actually, the naked thing ain't bad.
  • How could you not? I mean, the girl's all eyes and boobs.
  • The bag of panties.

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E6:

  • The tie Robin murdered.
  • Once I have her attention, it's time to bring out the big guns.

Racism & slurs 1 moment

How Racism & slurs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E6:

  • So I just welcomed them to the building, had a hard candy, nodded politely at some racist comments and then left.

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