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Skip for under 13
Friends S1 E19, “The One Where the Monkey Gets Away”, 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 13.
Across the episode we counted 13 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Nudity & bodies (2); Violence & injury (4); Swearing (2); Alcohol & drugs (2). 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 3 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in Friends S1 E19:
- Rachel
With Paolo, that's all there was, was heat! And it was just this raw, animal, sexual...
- Joey
I dunno, I loved high school. Y'know? It was just four years of parties and dating and sex.
- Chandler
Yeah, well I went to boarding school with four hundred boys. Any sex I had would've involved a major lifestyle choice.
Nudity & bodies 2 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Friends S1 E19:
- Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
- Ross
Whoah, uh, what happened to, uh, 'Forget relationships! I'm done with men!' The whole, uh, penis embargo?
Violence & injury 4 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Friends S1 E19:
- Ross
Uh, okay, yeah, we could do that, but before we head off to the murder capital of the North-East, I was, uh, kinda wanting to run something by you.
- Phoebe
I-I'm sorry it wasn't one of those movies with, like, y'know, guns and bombs and, like, buses going really fast...
- Luisa
Step aside, ladies! (She loads a gun)
- In slow motion we see Phoebe look at Marcel, then at Luisa. She jumps toward Marcel just as Luisa fires the gun.
Swearing 2 moments
How Swearing shows up in Friends S1 E19:
- Luisa
Ah, it's not so much you, you were fat, you had your own problems. (To Rachel) But you? What a bitch!
- Ross
(To Rachel) You had to be a bitch in high school, you couldn't've been fat.
Alcohol & drugs 2 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Friends S1 E19:
- Ross
Anyway, I figured after work I'd go pick up a bottle of wine, go over there and, uh, try to woo her.
- Rachel
Great! It went great. Really great. Hey, is that wine?
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