2. The Pre-Nup
🎞️ S8 E2 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S8 E2 OK for kids?

2. The Pre-Nup

When Barney designs an extensive pre-nup, the guys take note and propose their own relationship amendments to their significant others. Meanwhile, Quinn is outraged and draws up a pre-nup of her own, which causes friction between the sexes.

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Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 13

How I Met Your Mother S8 E2, “2. The Pre-Nup”, scores 1/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. When Barney designs an extensive pre-nup, the guys take note and propose their own relationship amendments to their significant others. Meanwhile, Quinn is outraged and draws up a pre-nup of her own, which causes friction between the sexes.

Across the episode we counted 16 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (4); Nudity & bodies (4); Porn / strippers / sex work (2); Violence & injury (1); Swearing (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 4 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E2:

  • "Miss Garvey must invent 12 new sexual positions per year, "at least ten of which involve her doing all or most of the work.
  • ROBIN I get turned on watching myself do the news during sex.
  • Look, seeing myself on TV makes me feel confident and sexy.
  • I find you so sexy, it just hurt that you don't feel the same about me.

Nudity & bodies 4 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E2:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • I seriously think one was coming from my vagina.
  • "Miss Garvey's breasts must be enhanced every five years or 50,000 honka-honkas, whichever comes first.
  • And, sidebar: why do men think women like to be honka-honka'd? What woman wants her breasts squeezed like a seal horn? Um totally.

Porn / strippers / sex work 2 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E2:

  • Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
  • Ready for your wake-up lap dance, Master? Aren't you forgetting something? (gasps) Oh, my God, it's 9:00 a.

Violence & injury 1 moment

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E2:

  • How about a provision barring any nudist German ex-fiancés from slapping his strudel up and down your sofa?

Swearing 4 moments

How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E2:

  • What are you bitches doing here? Lily.
  • My God! What the hell does Barney think marriage is going to be like, anyway? Just a healthy, modern-day marriage, based on mutual respect between two equals.
  • Hey, hey Hey, guys, what's up? Oh, Quinn's pissed because Barney wants her to sign a crazy prenup.
  • Hell, I don't care if it's crazy, I-I'm doing it.

Slut-shaming 1 moment

How Slut-shaming shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E2:

  • If I could just take a quick whore's bath in your kitchen sink, then I will skedaddle.

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