The Over-Correction
🎞️ S8 E10 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S8 E10 OK for kids?

The Over-Correction

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.

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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 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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