Content guide
Mild — okay from about 14+
Family Guy S3 E4, “4. One If By Clam, Two If By Sea”, scores 2/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 2/5 — Mild — okay from about 14+. Peter and his pals catch a beer-besotted version of the "Spirit of '76" when a Brit buys the Drunken Clam and turns it into an English pub. As it happens, pub owner Nigel Pinchley (voice of series creator Seth MacFarlane) and his family move in next door to the Griffins, and Stewie (also voiced by MacFarlane) plays 'Enry 'Iggins to Nigel's Cockney-accented 3-year-old daughter.
Across the episode we counted 16 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Violence & injury (5); Alcohol & drugs (5); Homophobic jokes (1); Fat-shaming (2). 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 S3 E4:
"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?
|One time during sex, I called Lois "Frank".
|It's that big sexy brain of yours.
Violence & injury 5 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Family Guy S3 E4:
|- You think this is horrible? Try losin' a testicle|in a knife fight with your mother.
Bloody hell! My lunch was in that hat!|Egg and chips with jam butties.
"The life|of the wife is ended by the knife.
I think she's got it! "The life of the wife is ended by the knife By George, she's got it!|By George, she's got it! Now, what ends her wretched life? "The knife, the knife And where's that bloody knife?
John the Biter, the Berserk|Hobo, the Golden Autumn Day Strangler Maybe Steve won't remember you.
Alcohol & drugs 5 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Family Guy S3 E4:
(all laugh) Here's to The Drunken Clam, where they|don't ask for proof of age and neither do I.
Holy crap! It's a gay bar! They turned The Drunken Clam|into a British pub? Well, at least they still got sports on TV.
Welcome to the Quahog beer party.
|- Peter, what are you doin'? It may taste like a warm cup of|tobacco-chewer's spit, but it's still beer.
You know|there's a fat drunk guy in there.
Homophobic jokes 1 moment
How Homophobic jokes shows up in Family Guy S3 E4:
Anybody get that?|- The only British idiom I know is that "fag" means "cigarette".
Fat-shaming 2 moments
How Fat-shaming shows up in Family Guy S3 E4:
Is that some kind of crack?|- Crack? You sayin' I got a fat ass? Fellas, fellas.
Hands up!|- Oh, Peter, you didn't! - Hey, fatty's wife is a babe.
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