The Magician's Code (2)
🎞️ S7 E24 🚫 Too much

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S7 E24 OK for kids?

The Magician's Code (2)

📺 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

Skip for under 13

How I Met Your Mother S7 E24, “The Magician's Code (2)”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13.

Across the episode we counted 19 flagged moments in 5 themes: Nudity & bodies (3); Porn / strippers / sex work (4); Violence & injury (2); Swearing (7); Alcohol & drugs (3). 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 13+

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

Parents need to know that How I Met Your Mother S7 E24, "The Magician's Code (2)", 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 includes Flanagan's wife shot him before he could ever tell me what the trick was. Sexual content is explicit — for example, Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue; Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot. Language isn't constant, but you can expect swearing — for example, Gun it, bitches! (engine revs) NARRATOR: That girl's a mom! (engine revving) (phone…. Characters drink or talk about alcohol and drugs — 1 NARRATOR: Kids, when Aunt Lily went into labor, Marshall was somewhere slightly…. 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

Nudity & bodies 3 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S7 E24:

  • Too much
    Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Too much
    I decided the place was a bit too "American Psycho" for me, so while you were gone, I hired a decorator and I asked him, "What would the inside of Tinkerbell's vagina look like?" And the kid just ran with it!
  • Mild
    Sir! May I please have the silk handkerchief in your top left breast pocket? Well I don't have (chuckles) (clears throat) Sim salabi ma sim salabi ma (gasps) Relax, relax, it's part of the trick.

Porn / strippers / sex work 4 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S7 E24:

  • Too much
    Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
  • Too much
    SON Was it a cheerleading convention? NARRATOR: No, it was a porn convention.
  • Too much
    What the hell am I coming home to? Let's have an eight-way with my six hottest stripper friends.
  • Too much
    Sir, I'll tell you her occupation: stripper.

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S7 E24:

  • Too much
    Flanagan's wife shot him before he could ever tell me what the trick was.
  • Caution
    Always good to tell a long story while people are aiming guns at you.

Swearing 7 moments

How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S7 E24:

  • Caution
    Gun it, bitches! (engine revs) NARRATOR: That girl's a mom! (engine revving) (phone chimes) Okay, so I met this girl on the train, and I texted her, "What's up"" She texted, "Hey," exclamation point.
  • Mild
    Dad, wait, no, not Damn it, Ted.
  • Mild
    Lily! If you don't push, I will shove that baby up your throat and pull it out of your mouth! (screaming) Where the hell is Marshall?!
  • Mild
    You scared the crap out of me.
  • Mild
    How the hell did we get there? I love the name Marvin.
  • Mild
    Because as your friend, I have to tell you: You're full of crap! You say you want a family, you say you want to meet "The One," but you are always chasing the wrong women.
  • Mild
    Canada sucks.

Alcohol & drugs 3 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S7 E24:

  • Mild
    1 NARRATOR: Kids, when Aunt Lily went into labor, Marshall was somewhere slightly inconvenient, in Atlantic City with Uncle Barney, and drunk to the point of talking like Yoda.
  • Mild
    But he still considers getting up these two steps when he was this drunk to be the hardest one of all.
  • Mild
    Four shots of tequila.

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