6. Baby Talk
🎞️ S6 E6 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S6 E6 OK for kids?

6. Baby Talk

Marshall and Lily research how to conceive a baby with the gender of their choice. Meanwhile, Robin is growing more and more irritated by her perky new co-anchor, Becky.

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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 S6 E6, “6. Baby Talk”, 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. Marshall and Lily research how to conceive a baby with the gender of their choice. Meanwhile, Robin is growing more and more irritated by her perky new co-anchor, Becky.

Across the episode we counted 11 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (4); Violence & injury (3); Alcohol & drugs (2); 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 1 moment

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E6:

  • Who's your daddy? You are, 'cause of all the sex we have.

Nudity & bodies 4 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E6:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Ten-pound? Eight-pound? I guess, but, dude, you're writing checks my vagina can't cash.
  • I don't need to see a lady get naked and dance.
  • Oh, Esther gets naked.

Violence & injury 3 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E6:

  • The Ted that I went out with was attracted to the kind of woman who could use a steak knife without supervision.
  • And weird survivalist uncle who lives in a cabin with a shotgun blaming stuff on the government.
  • In other news, later today, a Manhattan architect gets punched in the throat.

Alcohol & drugs 2 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E6:

  • Let's call her "Vodka.
  • " Then at least we know you'd hold her tight and never let her go! Don't knock the vodka.

Slut-shaming 1 moment

How Slut-shaming shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E6:

  • " And I don't want my daughter to have a whore's name.

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