The One With Ross's Sandwich
🎞️ S5 E9 🚫 Hard pass

Friends

Is Friends S5 E9 OK for kids?

The One With Ross's Sandwich

📺 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 13

Friends S5 E9, “The One With Ross's Sandwich”, 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 13.

Across the episode we counted 9 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (4); Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Violence & injury (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 2 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in Friends S5 E9:

  • Joey Oh-oh, yeah-yeah, I bet all the sex makes it easier!
  • Cynthia I can't believe you thought that you were going to video tape us having sex on the first date! (She storms away and Rachel enters to confront Joey.)

Nudity & bodies 4 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in Friends S5 E9:

  • Joey I don't know uhh… (Pause as he thinks about it.) Well, I'm Joey. Yeah, I'm disgusting, I take my underwear off in other people's homes.
  • Rachel (waving them in his face) Take 'em! (Joey makes a noise and jumps out of the way.) Joey, you can touch them! They're your underwear.
  • Chandler (gasps) You're naked in this picture!
  • Rachel Yes! He has a naked picture of Monica! He takes naked pictures of us! And then he eats chicken and looks at them!

Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Friends S5 E9:

  • Chandler No-no, wait! There's got to be a better explanation. You can tell them you had to make an adult film for your (Thinks) adult film class.

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in Friends S5 E9:

  • Phoebe Someday I'll, tell you about the time I stabbed the cop.
  • Phoebe Well, he stabbed me first!!

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