Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Brooklyn Nine-Nine S5 E14, “The Box”, scores 3/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 11+.
Across the episode we counted 21 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Violence & injury (12); Swearing (7); 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.
Parents need to know
Age 11+Violence, language, drinking in live-action sitcom.
Parents need to know that Brooklyn Nine-Nine S5 E14, "The Box", is a live-action sitcom episode. Sits in the gray area mainly on violence & injury (explicit, in dialogue). Violence includes Mm, the dentist who murdered someone. Sexual content is mild but includes Everyone who loves you will leave, and you will die alone! And at that time, it will be…. Language isn't constant, but you can expect swearing — for example, Poor son of a bitch. Characters drink or talk about alcohol and drugs — I didn't want to drive drunk, so I took a cab. 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 Brooklyn Nine-Nine S5 E14:
Everyone who loves you will leave, and you will die alone! And at that time, it will be your head that a bear has sex with! [snorts.]
Violence & injury 12 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Brooklyn Nine-Nine S5 E14:
Mm, the dentist who murdered someone.
But we have no murder weapon, no witnesses, and you really didn't find any usable forensic evidence? The body was discovered rotting in the Pine Barrens.
You're really just gonna blow past the bear semen detail? I imagine a bear mistook the rotting corpse for a female of its species and had intercourse with it.
So, shall we recap the night that Robert Tupper was murdered Friday the 22nd? I believe you were the last person to see him alive, correct? No.
So, the night of the murder, you met with Robert in the surgical suite.
I can tell you anything you want to know about "three-toed slow-ths" and I got you to say you knew where the body was found, which kinda seems like something only the murderer would've known.
Man, this guy is a good murderer! There's got to be some way to break him.
It had undergone industrial sterilization to remove all traces of blood and DNA.
There must have been blood everywhere, but you got lucky.
From "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.
I beat him every time.
You just punch him when he gets dizzy.
Swearing 7 moments
How Swearing shows up in Brooklyn Nine-Nine S5 E14:
Poor son of a bitch.
Let's break this son of a bitch! [tense music.]
Oh, no, Peralta, what are you doing? Guess what, you dick? I just got off the phone with Vernon PD.
Oh, damn! - Hello, Kevin.
Oh, damn! - It's under my name, H-O-L [upbeat music.]
Can I talk to you outside for a sec? What the hell are you doing in there? You totally undermined me.
No, it could've been a squatter or a hunter or a squatting hunter, not all hunters have homes Peralta's point is, legally, he can say whatever the hell he wants - in an interrogation.
Alcohol & drugs 1 moment
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Brooklyn Nine-Nine S5 E14:
I didn't want to drive drunk, so I took a cab.
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