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How I Met Your Mother S9 E12, “The Rehearsal Dinner”, 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. Barney becomes fixated on having his rehearsal dinner at a laser tag arena, much to Robin's dismay. Meanwhile, Ted doesn't come through on a promise, which aggravates Lily.
Across the episode we counted 18 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (2); Porn / strippers / sex work (4); Violence & injury (1); Swearing (6); Alcohol & drugs (3). 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 2 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E12:
Inflatable sex toy life raft.
Damn it! Debbie's getting a divorce? Yeah, she walked in on her husband having sex.
Nudity & bodies 2 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E12:
Gluten-free edible panties.
The breast augmentation channel.
Porn / strippers / sex work 4 moments
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E12:
- Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
- Let me guess
there was a stripper.
The night of my bachelor party, my friends took me to a crappy hotel, hired my ex-fiancée to be the stripper, I lost thousands of dollars, and my best friend even had his hand cut off.
,included an appearance by my favorite actor-- non-porn category.
Violence & injury 1 moment
How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E12:
But seriously, Hmm? did you get everything set up over there? Do you have enough food, have enough guns?
Swearing 6 moments
How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E12:
And if you rearrange the letters and add some other ones, it says, "Get ready, Barney, for the biggest surprise ever, you handsome son of a" and then not quite enough letters for "bitch," but good try, Robin.
She put me through hell just to give me the best surprise of my lifewhich, p.
Damn it! Ooh! I should call Marshall.
That selfish bastard! (phone rings) Sorry, Lil.
A marriage has to be built on honesty and trust and all of that Lily- and-Marshall crap.
I though our marriage was built on honesty and trust and all that Lily- and-Marshal crap.
Alcohol & drugs 3 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E12:
Which brings us to earlier today, when Robin was setting up the decoy rehearsal dinner, complete with fake booze.
Yes, Barney, the booze is real.
We're gonna have a nice dinner, some drinks, and then, according to Robin, if her Aunt Edith gets drunk enough, she'll take off her wig and they'll play hockey with it.
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