Who Wants to Be a Godparent?
🎞️ S8 E4 🚫 Too much

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S8 E4 OK for kids?

Who Wants to Be a Godparent?

📺 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 S8 E4, “Who Wants to Be a Godparent?”, 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.

Across the episode we counted 10 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (4); Swearing (3); Sexual insults (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 13+

Nudity, language, sex talk in live-action sitcom.

Parents need to know that How I Met Your Mother S8 E4, "Who Wants to Be a Godparent?", 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 nudity & bodies (explicit, in dialogue), with swearing alongside it. Sexual content is explicit — for example, …themselves in the ladies' ova! Break it down! (beatboxing) I'm sorry, don't you need to…; Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue. Some mild language appears — for example, But not that bitch's window. This episode includes sexual insults — for example, …With a hot chick here and a dumb chick there Huh? Huh? Bro, bro, bro your broat Gently…. 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 S8 E4:

  • Caution
    …themselves in the ladies' ova! Break it down! (beatboxing) I'm sorry, don't you need to actually have had sex in order to explain it?
  • Caution
    Oh, come on, if Ted raises him, the poor kid's still gonna be a virgin when he's 13.

Nudity & bodies 4 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E4:

  • Too much
    Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Too much
    How may I direct my penis? TED: Oh, geez.
  • Mild
    If you want him to be raised by his underwear on a flagpole, Ted's your guy.
  • Mild
    If you want him pulling the chord on some other nerd's panties, (clicks tongue) I'm your guy.

Swearing 3 moments

How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E4:

  • Caution
    But not that bitch's window.
  • Mild
    I packed up all my crap; I said, "See ya" to Sarah and the kids; and I finally got my dream job as a mixologist down here at Carnalism 2.
  • Mild
    Hey, look, as the only one of us packing a vag, I got a natural instinct for nurturing and crap like that.

Sexual insults 1 moment

How Sexual insults shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E4:

  • Caution
    …With a hot chick here and a dumb chick there Huh? Huh? Bro, bro, bro your broat Gently to the bar Hit on sluts, then do ten shots and Huh?

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