The Drunk Train
🎞️ S7 E16 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S7 E16 OK for kids?

The Drunk Train

For Valentine's Day, Lily and Marshall invite Robin and Kevin on a weekend getaway to Vermont, where Kevin and Robin discussing taking their relationship to the next level. Meanwhile, Barney realizes he has finally met his match.

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Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 13

How I Met Your Mother S7 E16, “The Drunk Train”, scores 1/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. For Valentine's Day, Lily and Marshall invite Robin and Kevin on a weekend getaway to Vermont, where Kevin and Robin discussing taking their relationship to the next level. Meanwhile, Barney realizes he has finally met his match.

Across the episode we counted 18 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Nudity & bodies (8); Porn / strippers / sex work (2); Alcohol & drugs (4); 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 S7 E16:

  • LILY Just a bunch of drunk, sloppy idiots, fresh off a night of partying in the city, just desperate to hook up with anything that moves.
  • We don't need a play! All we have to do is sit back, play it cool, scope out the hotties, and by the end of the line, we will totally be sleeping with someone.
  • I'd hate to ruin this friendship with sex.

Nudity & bodies 8 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S7 E16:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Wow! You have Enormous Penis Syndrome? I've never heard of that.
  • Are you really okay with that? Enormous Penis Syndrome? E.
  • Most people just stare at me like I'm some kind of freak in reinforced underwear.
  • I can't imagine what you're going through because I never wear underwear.
  • What are you doing? The top speed of the Drunk Train is 73 miles per hour, and you factor in an aggregate of 32 boobs per car, and you divide that No, no, no!
  • You're on my bra.
  • See, I feel like I would remember you two being naked on your couch in the middle of the club.

Porn / strippers / sex work 2 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S7 E16:

  • Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
  • But you end most nights alone at a strip club, feeling empty inside, telling yourself your life is somehow epic or classic or legendary.

Alcohol & drugs 4 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S7 E16:

  • Any later, and we'll be riding the Drunk Train.
  • The Drunk Train? It's the last train of the night back to Long Island.
  • How do I usually say it? I hate this Quinn girl! Well, I propose we order a bottle of wine.
  • "Get drunk"" Yeah.

Slut-shaming 1 moment

How Slut-shaming shows up in How I Met Your Mother S7 E16:

  • It's-it's The Little Engine with Wood, The Whore-ient Express.

What to watch in How I Met Your Mother · Season 7 guide

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