It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One
🎞️ S5 E17 🚫 Hard pass

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Is Family Guy S5 E17 OK for kids?

It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One

Incensed by Mayor West's complicity in oil-company pollution at Quahog Lake, Lois decides to challenge him in the upcoming election.

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Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 14

Family Guy S5 E17, “It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One”, scores 2/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. Incensed by Mayor West's complicity in oil-company pollution at Quahog Lake, Lois decides to challenge him in the upcoming election.

Across the episode we counted 18 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (4); Nudity & bodies (2); Violence & injury (2); Swearing (8); Alcohol & drugs (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 4 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in Family Guy S5 E17:

  • My God, if I tried to masturbate right now, you know what'd come out? A little flag with the word "bang" on it.
  • Well, there once were two cowboys All alone out on the trail And they discovered they could sleep With another male Now they're having butt sex Cowboy butt sex Sodomy Come on, everybody.
  • 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?
  • I've been having sex with every woman in town nonstop for the past two days.

Nudity & bodies 2 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in Family Guy S5 E17:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Hey, baby, want some Adam West penis? This is unbelievable! Well, I am not gonna stand by while you let this town be destroyed by corruption! Mr.

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in Family Guy S5 E17:

  • What'd you do that for? - So I could reanimate the corpse - of Jim Varney.
  • He got the shotgun, Brian! Don't ask me how he did it, but Jim Varney got the shotgun! - Run for your life! - What? Run! - Excuse me, how much is this coat? - It's 4,300.

Swearing 8 moments

How Swearing shows up in Family Guy S5 E17:

  • …Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! There's another dog in that car! Hey! Are you seeing that? Hey! Hey! Hey, other dog! Fuck you!
  • " Hey, Lois, look at me, I got post-partum depression! I'm sad about stuff! You son of a bitch! Don't even joke about that! - This water feels kind of funny.
  • Bitch, I thought I said just shut up and be looking fine.
  • Dad, look! - Holy crap! Oh, my God, what the hell is wrong with this lake? I think it's a safe bet that that's responsible.
  • That's like making all, like, signs and walking around or what? You know, you bastards got a stake in this, too.
  • I mean, Lois is my wife, and if she's the mayor, we can pretty much do whatever the hell we want.
  • What the hell you talking about? Lois is gonna get the entire female vote 'cause of me.
  • Maybe you could do some damn laundry once in a while.

Alcohol & drugs 2 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Family Guy S5 E17:

  • I could do cocaine if I wanted to.
  • Oh, I like him! He looks me in the eye! I'd like to have a beer with him.

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