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🎞️ S4 E5 🚫 Hard pass

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Is brooklyn-nine-nine S4 E5 OK for kids?

5. Halloween IV

📺 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

brooklyn-nine-nine S4 E5, “5. Halloween IV”, 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.

Across the episode we counted 15 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Porn / strippers / sex work (2); Violence & injury (4); Swearing (6); Slut-shaming (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 2 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in brooklyn-nine-nine S4 E5:

  • You hear that, Bill? Nobody likes you! Ain't she a beaut? Sexy.
  • " Name of your sex tape.

Porn / strippers / sex work 2 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in brooklyn-nine-nine S4 E5:

  • This is your doing, you and your male prostitute.
  • Bill is not a male prostitute, I don't think.

Violence & injury 4 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in brooklyn-nine-nine S4 E5:

  • I removed the scrunchies, old report cards, and photos of young Al Gore.
  • We're talking a young Al Gore? [both laugh.]
  • Let's mop up this blood and get back at it.
  • The blood is dry.

Swearing 6 moments

How Swearing shows up in brooklyn-nine-nine S4 E5:

  • Look who I found hiding in the interrogation room: this guilty son of a bitch.
  • Yeah, Amy, what the hell are you doing? Exercising my right to announce the heist as the defending champion.
  • And I want to win, so for the next eight hours, I'm down with all your nerdy crap.
  • Show your face to the world! What the hell? Amy! [gasps.]
  • Damn it! You know what? Forget Terry.
  • You read the plans, addenda and all! Damn right, I did.

Slut-shaming 1 moment

How Slut-shaming shows up in brooklyn-nine-nine S4 E5:

  • Whore, I'm great on skates.

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