Bad News
🎞️ S6 E13 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S6 E13 OK for kids?

Bad News

When Marshall and Lily fear they will never get pregnant, they see a specialist who can hopefully help move the process along. Meanwhile, Robin starts her new job.

📺 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 E13, “Bad News”, scores 3/5 for violence, 5/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 5/5 — Heavy — skip for under 16. When Marshall and Lily fear they will never get pregnant, they see a specialist who can hopefully help move the process along. Meanwhile, Robin starts her new job.

Across the episode we counted 17 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (11); Nudity & bodies (3); Violence & injury (1); Slut-shaming (2). 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 11 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E13:

  • He's going to masturbate.
  • We should have sex.
  • You two know each other? - Know each other? We've had sex.
  • TED You had sex with Sandy Rivers? No! Ugh! And I can't believe it's my first day, and already I'm the girl who slept with the host of the show.
  • Already? Were you planning on eventually sleeping with the host? Well, now that I know it's Sandy, I'm not.
  • We did not have sex.
  • Barney, I've already told - "Oh, and my sperm don't work.
  • We'll need a sample of your sperm.
  • John Stangel? I don't know, baby, do we really need a specialist? Well, what's your plan, Marshall, just have unprotected sex day after day after day in every position imaginable until? Wait, it sounded worse in my head.
  • Between the sexual harassment seminar all morning and the secretary beauty pageant all afternoon, he hasn't left my sight.
  • Okay, think about it: we've had unprotected sex past four months.

Nudity & bodies 3 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E13:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Leave the model of the vagina.
  • If people found out Sandy wears a toupee Really? That's your take-away? Nothing on the bear in the bra? Oh, no.

Violence & injury 1 moment

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E13:

  • You just strap on the vinyl holster and race into that abandoned JCPenney guns a-blazin'.

Slut-shaming 2 moments

How Slut-shaming shows up in How I Met Your Mother S6 E13:

  • So, second day of work? (blows raspberry) What's wrong? Oh, you didn't hear? She's the office slut.
  • I wish I was the office slut.

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