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Skip for under 14
Family Guy S2 E10, “Running Mates”, scores 2/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. Peter and school-board candidate Lois have divergent views on an education issue, so Peter decides to run against her. The issue: a wacky old science teacher of Peter's is fired after the school's annual "egg drop" experiment because he had the kids drop California-condor eggs. Meanwhile, Chris gets into trouble at school for peeking into the girls' locker room.
Across the episode we counted 14 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (5); Porn / strippers / sex work (3); Violence & injury (2); Alcohol & drugs (1); 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 Family Guy S2 E10:
|"It seems today that all you see "is violence in movies and sex on TV "But where are those good,|old-fashioned values "on which we used to rely?
For starters,|we're making sex education more fun.
Nudity & bodies 5 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Family Guy S2 E10:
- Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
"Vagina junction, what's your function? "Taking in sperm and spitting out babies" And our schools are the safest around PETER: Thanks to the hall monitor XL-K.
Now, son, as men, it's only natural for us|to look at naked girls.
Now you can look at naked girls|all you want and it's perfectly legal! Wow, check out the rack on Mom? Give me that! Just a little present your mom gave me|for our anniversary.
Blast! Hey, Chris! Hector found two rocks outside|that look like boobs! You in? Who needs rocks when you got these? - Check it out!|- Wow! PETER: Vote for Peter Griffin! Look at all of Lois' signs! Talk about seeing red.
Porn / strippers / sex work 3 moments
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Family Guy S2 E10:
All these kids are looking at pornography! TRISHA: What kind of pervert|gave you kids this filth? Chris Griffin.
Oh, jeez! Did somebody open|the Ark of the Covenant? Now see, Peter, what you gotta do is|you gotta declare war! War! Your only chance|of surviving this scandal is to claim that Lois|gave your boy the pornography.
- PETER
"A parent giving porno to their kid|is a terrible thing "but I'm here to tell you|that I'm innocent!" CROWD: Oh, yeah.
Violence & injury 2 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Family Guy S2 E10:
|That's why I brought in the big guns.
But I'm warning you, I'm not gonna|pull any punches on the issues.
Alcohol & drugs 1 moment
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Family Guy S2 E10:
What a great day! I just want to say I am so freaking wasted! [All gasping.]
Slut-shaming 1 moment
How Slut-shaming shows up in Family Guy S2 E10:
- PETER
Lois Griffin is a slut.
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