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How I Met Your Mother S9 E15, “Unpause”, scores 2/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. When Barney drinks too much, Ted and Robin take advantage of him and get him to reveal secrets he's been hiding for years. Meanwhile, Marshall does everything he can to avoid fighting with Lily.
Across the episode we counted 14 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (4); Nudity & bodies (2); Porn / strippers / sex work (2); Violence & injury (1); Swearing (2); 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 4 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E15:
I've had sex in Ted's bed 14 times.
But as soon as we're done having sex, we are having that fight! Wait, so we're not gonna fight until after we're done having sex.
Um, so just, just to be clear, after we finish having sex, that's when we'll have our fight? That's right.
Think sexy thoughts.
Nudity & bodies 2 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E15:
Lily's boobs always work for me.
Think sexy thoughts! Bugs with boobs LILY: Marshall, are you all right? You don't seem to be, um Please, uh, excuse Medium-Sized Fudge.
Porn / strippers / sex work 2 moments
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E15:
Figuring, on average, two meals out a week plus 20% tip Do you know how much money you cost me? What am I? A prostitute? You are not a prostitute.
No, a prostitute would've been cheaper.
Violence & injury 1 moment
How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E15:
Sho-sho-shoes, baby-baby-baby You guys can't still see where Marshall slapped me, can you? Your face looks like a "don't walk" signal.
Swearing 2 moments
How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E15:
Barney Stinson, Barney Stinson You son of a bitch! That guy's awesome I will destroy you! Get your hands off of me.
(exhales) (exhales) Labor sucks, huh? Yeah.
Alcohol & drugs 3 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E15:
(deep voice): Oo yah maya stupa koon! Ho ho ho! NARRATOR: Over the years, we'd seen all sorts of levels of Barney's drunkenness.
How you doin'? NARRATOR: "Richard Dawson drunk" Ah, is this your sister?
" So drunk that his speech bore an uncanny resemblance to that of Jabba the Hutt from Return of the Jedi.
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