Content guide
Skip for under 13
Bob's Burgers S1 E3, “Sacred Cow”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. When a controversial documentary filmmaker places a live cow outside of the family restaurant to make a statement, Bob is livid when it starts to scare away customers. However, to everyone's surprise, Bob treats the cow like a member of the family.
Across the episode we counted 11 flagged moments in 3 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (3); Violence & injury (7). 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.
Parents need to know
Age 13+Violence, nudity, sex talk in animation.
Parents need to know that Bob's Burgers S1 E3, "Sacred Cow", is a animation episode. Driven by violence & injury (explicit, in dialogue), with nudity & bodies alongside it. Violence includes There's no blood on our hands! What's all the yelling about? Turns out dad's been…. Sexual content is explicit — for example, Like a sex tape; Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue. Some mild language appears in the dialogue. Every flagged moment below is a direct quote from the transcript or a short description of what happens on screen.
Watch for — every moment, theme by theme
Sex & hookups 1 moment
How Sex & hookups shows up in Bob's Burgers S1 E3:
Like a sex tape.
Nudity & bodies 3 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Bob's Burgers S1 E3:
- Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
Don't forget about that penis.
My bra is chafing me.
Violence & injury 7 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Bob's Burgers S1 E3:
There's no blood on our hands! What's all the yelling about? Turns out dad's been putting murdered cows in our hamburgers.
Murderer! Oh.
Murderer! Oh, come on, Bob.
Louise, you're defending me? This so-called "Man" stands accused Of murdering nearly 100,000 hamburgers worth of cows.
There! I said it! And I'm going to get my gun license, Finally.
Um Because you, sir, have blood on your hands.
Is this ketchup? It's the blood of 100,000 slaughtered cows.
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