The Bird Reich
🎞️ S21 E16 🚫 Hard pass

Family Guy

Is Family Guy S21 E16 OK for kids?

The Bird Reich

To take advantage of a work policy granting leave in the event of a pet's death, Peter adopts the oldest bird he can find... and realizes it used to belong to Hitler. Meanwhile, after giving Stewie a signed copy of his book, Brian finds it in a free library, causing Brian to give up writing.

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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 S21 E16, “The Bird Reich”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. To take advantage of a work policy granting leave in the event of a pet's death, Peter adopts the oldest bird he can find... and realizes it used to belong to Hitler. Meanwhile, after giving Stewie a signed copy of his book, Brian finds it in a free library, causing Brian to give up writing.

Across the episode we counted 16 flagged moments in 7 themes: Sex & hookups (4); Nudity & bodies (2); Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Violence & injury (2); Suicide & self-harm (1); Swearing (5); Alcohol & drugs (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 4 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in Family Guy S21 E16:

  • "and I lost my virginity
  • Is violence in movies and sex on TV ♪
  • repressed sexuality
  • what's cool to do sexually.

Nudity & bodies 2 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in Family Guy S21 E16:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • then everyone would see your penis.

Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Family Guy S21 E16:

  • You ever hear of revenge porn, Lois?

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in Family Guy S21 E16:

  • Murdering strangers
  • Netflix for guns.

Suicide & self-harm 1 moment

How Suicide & self-harm shows up in Family Guy S21 E16:

  • honorable suicide fish.

Swearing 5 moments

How Swearing shows up in Family Guy S21 E16:

  • "My mother was a huge bitch,
  • and I have to bring in a private dick.
  • about dicks for hire.
  • Well, what the hell, Stewie?!
  • why the hell did you bring that bird

Alcohol & drugs 1 moment

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Family Guy S21 E16:

  • and a bottle of wine today,

What to watch in Family Guy · Season 21 guide

Watch With The Kids · You kids — your rules! · Informal parent guidance, not an official rating.