The Love Car Displacement
🎞️ S4 E13 🚫 Hard pass

The Big Bang Theory

Is The Big Bang Theory S4 E13 OK for kids?

The Love Car Displacement

Tension runs high when everyone is staying at the same hotel for a science event and Bernadette runs into her ex-boyfriend.

📺 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

The Big Bang Theory S4 E13, “The Love Car Displacement”, scores 1/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. Tension runs high when everyone is staying at the same hotel for a science event and Bernadette runs into her ex-boyfriend.

Across the episode we counted 7 flagged moments in 2 themes: Sex & hookups (4); Nudity & bodies (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 The Big Bang Theory S4 E13:

  • Penny Oh, don’t feel bad. I never read Leonard’s, and I used to sleep with him.
  • Howard I’m just thinking. If you had sex with that guy, I mean, there’s nothing I can do here that will make any kind of impact.
  • Leonard (voice): Yeah, hi. Listen, I just got a text from Raj. He wanted me to tell you that when Howard says nap, he means sex.
  • Amy Not for sex, for convenience. You can’t deny that, by comparison, our internal plumbing is extremely high maintenance.

Nudity & bodies 3 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in The Big Bang Theory S4 E13:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Amy Do you subscribe to the Freudian theory of penis envy?
  • Amy Please don’t touch my breasts.

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