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Skip for under 13
How I Met Your Mother S8 E10, “The Over-Correction”, 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. Robin becomes increasingly suspicious of Barney's relationship with Patrice. Meanwhile, Marshall discovers his mother is moving on in her romantic life... with a very disturbing partner.
Across the episode we counted 12 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (5); Porn / strippers / sex work (2); Affairs / cheating (1); Swearing (4). 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 5 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E10:
Um, Robin, after you rejected Barney, didn't he reject you? And didn't you go over to his place and try to sleep with him in your purple-and- black underwear?
What do you mean? Well, he has a book of plays he uses to trick women into sleeping with him.
These are all the tricks I used to get women to sleep with me.
You helped?! Why? I know it's hard to think of your mom as a woman with needs, but you have to let her get out there and rediscover her sexuality with someone special.
Who said anything about dating? This is just about sex.
Porn / strippers / sex work 2 moments
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E10:
- Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
How dare you?! What is that?! Barney was engaged to Quinn, a stripper he never really trusted.
Affairs / cheating 1 moment
How Affairs / cheating shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E10:
" Can I help you? I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but my wife is having an affair with your husband.
Swearing 4 moments
How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S8 E10:
Hang up, you little bitch! Over-correction.
- NARRATOR
Meanwhile, Robin was about to give up on ever finding The Playbook until (beeps, hisses) (choir singing) Ugh, the Bro Code, damn it.
(beeps, hisses) (sighs) (hissing) (choir singing) David Lee Roth's autobiography? Crap.
(cell phone buzzes) (knocking at door) Damn it, Ted! You get those ornaments all year.
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