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Family Guy S9 E6, “6. Brian Writes a Bestseller”, scores 1/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. Feeling discouraged with the progress of his writing career, Brian decides to throw in the towel until Stewie becomes his manager and one of his books hits the bestseller list. But when the fame goes to his head, Brian gets a wake-up call from Bill Maher (appearing in a live-action scene as himself).
Across the episode we counted 13 flagged moments in 3 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Swearing (10); Racism & slurs (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 2 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in Family Guy S9 E6:
I've injected him with the Viagra.
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?
Swearing 10 moments
How Swearing shows up in Family Guy S9 E6:
What was it, Batman Has a Son? No, no, you fucking idiot.
Hey, fuck you, man.
Now, what does that tell you? Tells me Americans will get all Christ-y about any sort of stupid shit.
I'm just I'm just Look, what I was saying Look, just tell me what you want me to say! Bill, he's urinating! -Oh, shit! -That's it! -Look, Bill, can I just -Outside.
This is why nobody bought my damn book.
I tell you, I could crap one of those things out in a night.
I'm gonna tell Mom you said "crap.
It's even better than the one yesterday about the guys who Wait, I mean, the woman with the What was it? Was she a shape-shifter? Damn it, I just had it.
I swear, Rupert, Brian has become a monster! That trip was sheer hell.
Stewie, I got a flea thing going on in here! Where the hell's my Frontline?
Racism & slurs 1 moment
How Racism & slurs shows up in Family Guy S9 E6:
Stewie, that's racist.
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