Last Forever (1)
🎞️ S9 E23 🚫 Hard pass

How I Met Your Mother

Is How I Met Your Mother S9 E23 OK for kids?

Last Forever (1)

Ted finally finishes telling his kids the story of how he met their mother.

📺 Where to watch

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 E23, “Last Forever (1)”, 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. Ted finally finishes telling his kids the story of how he met their mother.

Across the episode we counted 16 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (4); Nudity & bodies (5); Violence & injury (1); Swearing (5); Alcohol & drugs (1). 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 E23:

  • There's only one way I'd let either of you have sex with her.
  • So the only way you're allowed to hook up with her is if you marry her.
  • …three-year mark-- would you take it? Before I answer that, real quick: you want to get super drunk and have sex right now?
  • Think of all the sex you're gonna ha.

Nudity & bodies 5 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E23:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • How was work? My-my boss only called me three words that meant "vagina" today.
  • What if I see a pack of lions fighting a tyrannosaurus? Or, better yet, what if I see boobs? Who am I who am I gonna high five then? You can high five Marshall.
  • But Marshall only likes to high five about Lily boobs.
  • (laughing) What's going on? She's getting a boob job.

Violence & injury 1 moment

How Violence & injury shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E23:

  • Too rich for my blood.

Swearing 5 moments

How Swearing shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E23:

  • And we need some estrogen up in this bitch.
  • TED That son of a bitch did it.
  • How do you say good-bye to so many special memories? Cock-a-mouse! We have to move! (dance music playing) (laughs) Hey, Marshall.
  • Damn it, Barney.
  • But I'm glad it was long and difficult, because if I hadn't gone through hell to get there, the lesson might not have been as clear.

Alcohol & drugs 1 moment

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in How I Met Your Mother S9 E23:

  • Barney, if you start brewing your own beer now and nail my prom date, so help me Years too late on one of those, Teddy.

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