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Family Guy S7 E12, “420”, scores 2/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. After Brian gets thrown in the slammer for drug possession, he launches a campaign to legalize marijuana. Mayor West passes the law, and the whole town goes to pot.
Across the episode we counted 24 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (5); Violence & injury (2); Swearing (7); Alcohol & drugs (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.
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Sex & hookups 1 moment
How Sex & hookups shows up in Family Guy S7 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?
Nudity & bodies 5 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Family Guy S7 E12:
- Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
Hey, Brian, did you do hard time? Or hardly working? Penis.
Hey, check out the size of Stewie's penis.
So I need some of your urine, so I can Uh, you don't have to be naked for this.
But I don't have to not be naked for it, either.
Violence & injury 2 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Family Guy S7 E12:
There's a blood-soaked corpse in the back seat.
The driver's inebriated and covered in blood.
Swearing 7 moments
How Swearing shows up in Family Guy S7 E12:
Son of a bitch! What do we got, partner? Empty alcohol containers.
Well, what is it? What's the big damn deal? Look.
What the hell are we doing? Quagmire, since when do you like cats? Since I found this little guy living under my house.
Oh, crap! God, I hate cops.
Crap! Just a sec.
Brian, what the hell? Uh, hey, Lois.
" Not bad, eh? Damn it! That was Fox News.
Alcohol & drugs 9 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Family Guy S7 E12:
…three, ho! A bag o' weed, a bag o' weed Oh, everything is better with a bag o' weed No, you don't need meth and you don't need speed Because everything is better with a bag o' weed Have a go, Brian.
You've smoked pot.
Pot is illegal because William Randolph Hearst ran a smear campaign against marijuana in the 1930s to protect his interests in the timber industry, because hemp was poised to replace wood…
Joe is doing a drug test, and if I give him some of mine, he's gonna know I've been smoking pot.
What's sick is making marijuana illegal when it's been proven that it does less damage to you than alcohol.
Brian, when you have to go to these lengths just to get away with smoking pot, it's time to make a change.
…way of feeling good Every kitty needs a ball of string and every dog a stick But all you need is a bag of weed to really get a kick One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight!
…said But try and use your heads and don't buy into all the fear Hey! Because all we need is a bag o' weed to make us want to cheer And one, two A bag o' weed, a bag o' weed Oh, everything is better with a bag o'…
You know, Peter, it's sort of adding insult to injury raiding Quagmire's fridge for beer after you killed his cat.
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