False Positive
🎞️ S6 E12 🚫 Too much

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S6 E12 OK for kids?

False Positive

📺 Where to watch

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

Heavy — skip for under 16

How I Met Your Mother S6 E12, “False Positive”, scores 1/5 for violence, 5/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 5/5 — Heavy — skip for under 16.

Across the episode we counted 12 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (3); Porn / strippers / sex work (5); Violence & injury (1); Alcohol & drugs (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, nudity, sex talk in live-action sitcom.

Parents need to know that How I Met Your Mother S6 E12, "False Positive", 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 nudity & bodies alongside it. Violence is mild but includes And I just don't think you have what it takes to get that get that soldier to pick up…. Sexual content is explicit — for example, I frequently sleep with sixes, chubsters, over-thirties I am the bill and Melinda gates…; Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue. Some mild language appears in the dialogue. Characters drink or talk about alcohol and drugs — I want to be cool aunt Robin, the respected journalist Who gives her beer. 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 S6 E12:

  • Caution
    I frequently sleep with sixes, chubsters, over-thirties I am the bill and Melinda gates of the sympathy bang.
  • Mild
    Okay, I also said I would never make out with a garbage man.

Nudity & bodies 3 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E12:

  • Too much
    Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Too much
    And I'm freaking out, too! There's an alien growing in my stomach that's gonna explode out of my vagina!
  • Mild
    Unacceptable! You're gonna turn around, you're gonna go home, get naked, lie together as man and wife until Lily is great with child.

Porn / strippers / sex work 5 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E12:

  • Too much
    Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
  • Too much
    Remote control helicopters! Condoms! And last but not least There is a fleet of limos outside waiting to take us to A strip club!
  • Too much
    No! I cannot go back to that strip club.
  • Too much
    Is that the name of the stripper you've been e-mailing me about? You got to take me off that list, Barney.
  • Too much
    And I don't mean that stripper you keep e-mailing us about, even though we beg you to take us off that list.

Violence & injury 1 moment

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E12:

  • Caution
    And I just don't think you have what it takes to get that get that soldier to pick up his rifle and charge up the hill.

Alcohol & drugs 1 moment

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E12:

  • Mild
    I want to be cool aunt Robin, the respected journalist Who gives her beer.

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