Fifteen Minutes of Shame
🎞️ S2 E12 🚫 Hard pass

Family Guy

Is Family Guy S2 E12 OK for kids?

Fifteen Minutes of Shame

Everything Lois and Peter do seems to embarrass Meg, and now the Griffins are to be featured on a reality TV show. Not surprisingly, Meg is appalled. To make matters worse for her, the audience-research report comes in and she's the "least popular."

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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 14

Family Guy S2 E12, “Fifteen Minutes of Shame”, 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 14. Everything Lois and Peter do seems to embarrass Meg, and now the Griffins are to be featured on a reality TV show. Not surprisingly, Meg is appalled. To make matters worse for her, the audience-research report comes in and she's the "least popular."

Across the episode we counted 16 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Nudity & bodies (9); 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 3 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in Family Guy S2 E12:

  • 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?
  • You know, I always thought he was sexy.
  • Fire that sexy, interesting version of our daughter and make us a family again, or we walk.

Nudity & bodies 9 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in Family Guy S2 E12:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • So that's what Peter's penis looks like.
  • I'd take James Brolin's face, Mark Spitz's body, and Milton Berle's legendary genitals.
  • She means your nipples are stickin' out.
  • Mom! Nipples! Nipples! That's it! I want those cameras off! Fourth wall! You're breaking the fourth wall! Meg, you're the one that got us on TV in the first place.
  • Um you might have noticed my underwear has a hole in it.
  • Mom, you have to do something! Dad's on TV parading around in his underwear like some gross European guy! Oh, now, sweetie, your father is just a free spirit.
  • Uh, I don't know if Mom and Dad told you, but we usually have breakfast naked and I'm allowed to videotape it.
  • I'm going to write in my journal about how I'll never grow big, full breasts like these.

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in Family Guy S2 E12:

  • Whoa! Is that really the blood of Christ? - Yes.
  • What the hell is this? I said egg whites only! Are you trying to give me a bloody heart attack? Make it again! Ah, the breakfast thing.

Alcohol & drugs 1 moment

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Family Guy S2 E12:

  • Man! That guy must've been wasted 24 hours a day, huh? We have a caller on the line.

Slut-shaming 1 moment

How Slut-shaming shows up in Family Guy S2 E12:

  • But, Dad - Upstairs! You're a McDonald, not a whore.

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