Secondhand Spoke
🎞️ S12 E15 🚫 Hard pass

Family Guy

Is Family Guy S12 E15 OK for kids?

Secondhand Spoke

Peter takes up smoking cigarettes, and is approached by Mr. Stone, an advertising executive who wants Peter to be the face of his anti-smoking campaign under the caveat that Peter continues to smoke. Meanwhile, Stewie helps Chris battle bullies at school.

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Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 14

Family Guy S12 E15, “Secondhand Spoke”, scores 1/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. Peter takes up smoking cigarettes, and is approached by Mr. Stone, an advertising executive who wants Peter to be the face of his anti-smoking campaign under the caveat that Peter continues to smoke. Meanwhile, Stewie helps Chris battle bullies at school.

Across the episode we counted 10 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (5); Alcohol & drugs (2); Fat-shaming (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 S12 E15:

  • Eh, what do you care? It's not like you have to look at my face when we have sex.
  • 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 S12 E15:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • You frequently opt out of swim class because of your gross microcephalic penis.
  • Your boobs are bigger than your sister's.
  • She didn't wear a bra to school today.
  • Griffin! You look terrible! Thanks, man named Sandy! Oh, hey, uh, you know, I don't know if you're the guy to talk to about this, but when I went to my trailer this morning, there was a hairy naked guy in it.

Alcohol & drugs 2 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Family Guy S12 E15:

  • More wine! More women! More table! I'm having a heart attack! Is anyone at the table a doctor? I am! Come here! Hurry! Run! "But the very far-away doctor couldn't make it in time.
  • I guess we should go to the Stop Smoking Clinic and then maybe get a couple bottles of wine.

Fat-shaming 1 moment

How Fat-shaming shows up in Family Guy S12 E15:

  • Hey, fat ass.

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