Content guide
Preview first — about 10+
Friends S5 E15, “The One With The Girl Who Hits Joey”, scores 3/5 for violence, 1/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 10+.
Across the episode we counted 8 flagged moments in 3 themes: Affairs / cheating (1); Violence & injury (6); 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
Affairs / cheating 1 moment
How Affairs / cheating shows up in Friends S5 E15:
- Ross
This is fun. Hey Rach, remember that whole "We were on a break thing?" Well, I'm sorry, will you marry me? (Laughs--whines as he sees that no one is laughing. They're just staring at him in shock.)
Violence & injury 6 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Friends S5 E15:
- Joey
Hey Ross, will you pass me that knife?
- Joey
(shyly) She keeps punching me.
- Chandler
Hey listen, come on, Joey is having a problem! A little girl is beating him up.
- Katie
No, you make them funny. You're the funny one! (She punches him again and he retreats to the arm of the couch.)
- Joey
Okay? But sometimes when you, when you playfully punch me like that it-it feels like someone's hitting me with a very tiny but very real bat.
- Katie
Aww, like I could hurt you. Are you making fun of my size? Don't make fun of me because of my size! (She punches him again and almost knocks him off the arm of the couch.)
Alcohol & drugs 1 moment
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Friends S5 E15:
but when I first meet you y'know Kurt, I thought, y'know abrasive drunk, umm Lola, mind
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