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Skip for under 14
Family Guy S4 E14, “Ptv”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. After a controversial mishap occurs during a live broadcast, the FCC begins to censor all of Peter's favorite television shows. Peter retaliates by creating his own TV station - PTV - which he operates out of the Griffin home. Peter and Brian create some edgy hits for the station, until the FCC shows up and starts to regulate their everyday life.
Across the episode we counted 21 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (5); Nudity & bodies (5); Suicide & self-harm (2); Swearing (9). 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 5 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in Family Guy S4 E14:
John Boy? - Can't a guy masturbate? Peter, look at these numbers.
What? Wait, we're not allowed to have sex? You can have sex, just no moaning, no tongue kissing, no thrusting, no movement whatsoever.
I haven't had sex in two weeks.
I'm Peter Griffin, and you're watching PTV, with your favourite shows as nature intended them - with all the sex, violence, swearing and farts intact, like in All in the Family, where Archie got the Jeffersons to move.
I want you to cancel that show with the animals having sex.
Nudity & bodies 5 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Family Guy S4 E14:
- Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
…yourself with some young, sexy thing You're gonna have to do her with your ding-a-ling Cos you can't say "penis" So they sent this little warning, they're prepared to do their worst And they stuck it in your mailbox…
Looks an awful lot like a penis, doesn't it? The Capitol Building - quite obviously a giant boob.
Hi, and welcome to The Peter Griffin Side Boob Hour, a wonderful look back on all the partial nudity network television used to offer.
Look at that side boob.
Suicide & self-harm 2 moments
How Suicide & self-harm shows up in Family Guy S4 E14:
Mr "I Can't Do A Suicide Bombing Because I'm Sick".
It's a suicide bombing.
Swearing 9 moments
How Swearing shows up in Family Guy S4 E14:
Son of a bitch! Took you this long to tell me.
What are you doing? What is all this stuff? Dad's starting his own TV station, but I'm not supposed to tell Mom because she'll just bitch him out.
Everyone will be, like, "What the hell?" Death to Americans.
Who the hell is that? Peter, it's 5:30 in the morning.
Man, this sucks worse than my 16th birthday party.
You cheeky bastard.
We're here on the I95 overpass doing our first segment, "I Dare You To Crap Off Of That".
We'll spend the day crapping off things that others have dared us to crap off.
Damn! And the motion carries.
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