The One Where Emma Cries
🎞️ S9 E2 🚫 Hard pass

Friends

Is Friends S9 E2 OK for kids?

The One Where Emma Cries

📺 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 S9 E2, “The One Where Emma Cries”, 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 7 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Affairs / cheating (1); Violence & injury (3); 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 2 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in Friends S9 E2:

  • Monica (looking at Chandler sleeping with a balloon in his mouth) So sexy. (Waking him up.) Honey.
  • Phoebe Yeah, no kidding, this just proves no good can come from having sex with Ross!

Affairs / cheating 1 moment

How Affairs / cheating shows up in Friends S9 E2:

  • Phoebe I dunno, well he got over the "We were on a break" thing really quickly.

Violence & injury 3 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in Friends S9 E2:

  • Ross throws a punch, but Joey ducks and Ross punches the pole. Ross then screams from the pain and turns to Gunther, and Gunther has a huge smile on his face.
  • Joey I couldn’t help it! When a fist comes at your face, you duck! Look! (He goes to punch Ross, expecting him to duck, but he doesn’t and Joey punches Ross. Gunther is amused.)
  • Joey Your thumb? That’s weird. (Makes a fist.) You sure you’re punching right? Make a fist. (Ross just looks at him with his thumb in a cast.) Maybe later. Ross I feel terrible.

Alcohol & drugs 1 moment

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Friends S9 E2:

  • Chandler Umm, you know how we always said that it would be fun to move to Paris for a year? You know, you could study French cooking and I could write and we could take a picnic along the Seine and go wine tasting in Bordeaux?

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