The One With Rachel's Inadvertant Kiss
🎞️ S5 E17 🚫 Hard pass

Friends

Is Friends S5 E17 OK for kids?

The One With Rachel's Inadvertant Kiss

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Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 13

Friends S5 E17, “The One With Rachel's Inadvertant Kiss”, scores 2/5 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 12 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (7); Nudity & bodies (2); Violence & injury (2); Slut-shaming (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 7 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in Friends S5 E17:

  • Joey Did you tell the guy you wanted to have sex with his wife and then fall right out of your chair?
  • Rachel Oh my God! What if he thinks I'm the kind of girl that-that would just sleep with him?
  • Chandler {Finally! The voice of reason.} I mean, just impress Gary and Phoebe we have to go upstairs and have sex over and over and I'm saying no to this, why?
  • Monica So! So we've got to go upstairs and have a lot of sex to prove them wrong!
  • When I thought you wanted sex in exchange for this job, I said no. That shows integrity.
  • gotta have courage. And umm, and finally when I thought you were making sexual advances in
  • Monica Yes it is. You see I've always found the men's bathroom very sexual. Haven't you?

Nudity & bodies 2 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in Friends S5 E17:

  • Joey Boy, that guy's underwear sucks!
  • Gary's Radio Suspect has just emerged naked from the sewer.

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in Friends S5 E17:

  • Chandler (To Gary) So what do you say, maybe sometime I hold your gun?
  • Monica Okay. (They walk away to get some privacy.) We have got to beat them! {Here we go yet again.}

Slut-shaming 1 moment

How Slut-shaming shows up in Friends S5 E17:

  • Rachel (stopping him) Wh-whoa! All right, okay-okay, I see, I see what's going on here! Now listen, look-look, I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression, but I am not some hussy who will just sleep around to get ahead!

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