The One With The Sharks
🎞️ S9 E4 🚫 Hard pass

Friends

Is Friends S9 E4 OK for kids?

The One With The Sharks

📺 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 E4, “The One With The Sharks”, 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 11 flagged moments in 3 themes: Sex & hookups (8); Porn / strippers / sex work (2); 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 8 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in Friends S9 E4:

  • before yeah we had sex on this couch and then on that chair and no. no we
  • Joey well that's not even the weird part. I don't think she remembered sleeping with me.
  • Monica : But you don't remember sleeping with her.
  • Joey come on, come on, search your brain all right. it was (thinks) a certain amount of time ago, I was here you were here, we had sex (starts pointing out the places) here, here, here NOT there. Anything?
  • Joey (looks at a girl walk in) see ordinarily I would talk to her, but my confidence is shaken did I sleep with her? Did I not sleep with her?
  • Joey your right! I love my life! (He gets up to go and speak to the girl and he turns back and sits down) I actually did sleep with her.
  • Joey HEY! I never have an off night ok although sometimes when I'm a little bloated I don't feel very sexy BUT EVEN THEN I'M BETTER THEN MOST!
  • Monica : you don't think sharks are sexy do you?

Porn / strippers / sex work 2 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Friends S9 E4:

  • Chandler (enters singing) Oklahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plane, STOP IT! Why couldn't they have sent me to Texas? 7 o clock maybe I'll hit the gym (sits down) who am I kidding pay-per-view porn.
  • Monica : Yes! Chandler Watches Shark Porn!

Alcohol & drugs 1 moment

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Friends S9 E4:

  • Monica : Im very, very drunk right now.

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