8. The Lighthouse
🎞️ S9 E8 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S9 E8 OK for kids?

8. The Lighthouse

When Robin and Loretta's conflict escalates, Barney is caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Marshall and Daphne deal with a stowaway on their road trip, and Ted and Cassie try to enjoy a trip to a lighthouse.

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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 S9 E8, “8. The Lighthouse”, scores 3/5 for violence, 1/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. When Robin and Loretta's conflict escalates, Barney is caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Marshall and Daphne deal with a stowaway on their road trip, and Ted and Cassie try to enjoy a trip to a lighthouse.

Across the episode we counted 12 flagged moments in 3 themes: Violence & injury (2); Swearing (8); Alcohol & drugs (2). 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

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E8:

  • (whistles, blows raspberry) I don't want your blood on my hands, and I mean that literally, because it would be my job to to hose down the rocks.
  • Oh, I can hear my blood right now.

Swearing 8 moments

How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E8:

  • Game on, bitch.
  • Morning, bitches.
  • (inhales deeply) (exhales) Son of a bitch!
  • Like my new blouse? Oh, hell, no! No, Mom.
  • I guess Daphne gets to pick the music and crap all over my fun road-trip games.
  • So just do the damn trust falls.
  • No! (sucks air through teeth) You threw a live grenade into my marriage.
  • But you know what sucks? When I was at the top of that lighthouse, despite everything else Wow.

Alcohol & drugs 2 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E8:

  • Yes, this has booze in it.
  • And I wasted it.

Watch With The Kids · You kids — your rules! · Informal parent guidance, not an official rating.