The Wedding Bride
🎞️ S5 E23 🚫 Too much

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S5 E23 OK for kids?

The Wedding Bride

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Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Heavy — skip for under 16

How I Met Your Mother S5 E23, “The Wedding Bride”, scores 2/5 for violence, 5/5 for sex and 1/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 5/5 — Heavy — skip for under 16.

Across the episode we counted 7 flagged moments in 3 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Porn / strippers / sex work (4); Violence & injury (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.

Parents need to know

Age 16+

Strip-club and porn references, sex talk, violence in live-action sitcom.

Parents need to know that How I Met Your Mother S5 E23, "The Wedding Bride", is a live-action sitcom episode. The series is known for built around casual sex and bar life more than any show on this shelf. Driven by porn / strippers / sex work (explicit, in dialogue), with sex & hookups alongside it. Violence is mild but includes Oh! What about when he got beat up by the goat? - (ALL LAUGHING) - So funny. Sexual content is explicit — for example, Angry sex on the first date, and then as soon as you mention breakfast, she's gone; Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot. Every flagged moment below is a direct quote from the transcript or a short description of what happens on screen.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Sex & hookups 2 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E23:

  • Mild
    Angry sex on the first date, and then as soon as you mention breakfast, she's gone.
  • Mild
    and our sex life is terrible.

Porn / strippers / sex work 4 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E23:

  • Too much
    Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
  • Too much
    Actually, it's porn.
  • Too much
    Only women with major baggage go into porn.
  • Too much
    A barber, a stripper and a Jew lliard-trained violinist, walked into a bar.

Violence & injury 1 moment

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S5 E23:

  • Mild
    Oh! What about when he got beat up by the goat? - (ALL LAUGHING) - So funny.

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