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How I Met Your Mother S5 E13, “Jenkins”, 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 Lily refuses to believe that Jenkins, Marshall's attractive female colleague, kissed him, Marshall insists Jenkins tell Lily what really happened. Meanwhile, Robin finds out that a drinking game has been made up about her.
Across the episode we counted 14 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (4); Nudity & bodies (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (2); Violence & injury (3); Alcohol & drugs (4). 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 S5 E13:
You want to have sex with Jenkins? With Jenkins, on Jenkins, near Jenkins.
Step one, sleep with Jenkins.
Step two, I sleep with Jenkins first.
And I'm sorry I had sex with you in the mailroom.
Nudity & bodies 1 moment
How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E13:
Second of all, no, I think of her like a big brother, who, I guess, has boobs.
Porn / strippers / sex work 2 moments
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E13:
- Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
Jenkins gets up on the table and starts gyrating like some sort of deranged stripper.
Violence & injury 3 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E13:
Well, say, gun to your head, you had to say one of us was the reacher.
Okay, now, there's a gun to my head, and our future children, and our future cat or monkey, depending on who wins the game of Risk we've been playing for three years.
It was thick and rough, like a starfish arm! I'm so jealous! I'm just gonna go over there and punch her right in the nose.
Alcohol & drugs 4 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E13:
" Jenkins! So we all go out for beers after work.
" Well, then I guess it's not a very good drinking game, which would mean last night, when Barney and I played it, I didn't get super wasted and throw up all over myself.
I was really drunk.
You were drunk at 8:00 in the morning? - Yeah, I don't know how that happened.
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