Hooked
🎞️ S5 E16 ✅ All clear

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S5 E16 OK for kids?

Hooked

When the gang tries to convince Ted that he is being strung along by Tiffany, they reflect about relationships where each of them has been in the same situation.

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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

Mild — okay from about 12+

How I Met Your Mother S5 E16, “Hooked”, scores 1/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 2/5 — Mild — okay from about 12+. When the gang tries to convince Ted that he is being strung along by Tiffany, they reflect about relationships where each of them has been in the same situation.

Across the episode we counted 7 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Alcohol & drugs (1); Homophobic jokes (1); Slut-shaming (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 E16:

  • (BARNEY LAUGHS) Ain't no party like a pharma girl party 'Cause a pharma girl party don't stop Dude, I've already hooked up with three of them.
  • " And so, hot girls rolled into doctors' offices, looking sexy enough to render the very erection pills they peddled ironically redundant.
  • Ever! - Finish him! We will never be together in any sort of sexual way ever again! Nice.

Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E16:

  • I've been a hookee and a hooker.

Alcohol & drugs 1 moment

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E16:

  • Champagne? - Ted! Oh, my gosh.

Homophobic jokes 1 moment

How Homophobic jokes shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E16:

  • Homo erectus, indeed.

Slut-shaming 1 moment

How Slut-shaming shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E16:

  • You want to see my rap poster? Poster whore! Anyway, Lisa Walker strung me along for months until, one night, I went to go tell her how much I loved her, (ALL EX CLAIMING IN ADMIRATION) In song.

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