1. Married... With Cancer
🎞️ S17 E1 🚫 Hard pass

Family Guy

Is Family Guy S17 E1 OK for kids?

1. Married... With Cancer

Brian meets and quickly falls in love with a woman named Jess, who reveals she has cancer. After she receives devastating news regarding her diagnosis, Brian proposes marriage to her.

📺 Where to watch

Netflix, HBO or Disney+ — catalogs differ by country.

🛒 Where to buy

Digital seasons or a box set to keep.

Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 14

Family Guy S17 E1, “1. Married... With Cancer”, scores 1/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. Brian meets and quickly falls in love with a woman named Jess, who reveals she has cancer. After she receives devastating news regarding her diagnosis, Brian proposes marriage to her.

Across the episode we counted 7 flagged moments in 3 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (2); Swearing (3). 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 S17 E1:

  • 1 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'm not just out for sex.

Nudity & bodies 2 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in Family Guy S17 E1:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • It may have started in my penis, but it spread to my heart.

Swearing 3 moments

How Swearing shows up in Family Guy S17 E1:

  • Shut up, dick.
  • He called me a dick earlier.
  • Somebody call 911! Damn it, Fox.

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