The Fight
🎞️ S3 E13 🚫 Too much

Parks and Recreation

Is Parks and Recreation S3 E13 OK for kids?

The Fight

📺 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

Parks and Recreation S3 E13, “The Fight”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13.

Across the episode we counted 18 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Porn / strippers / sex work (2); Affairs / cheating (1); Violence & injury (2); Swearing (5); Alcohol & drugs (6). 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.

Parents need to know

Age 13+

Strip-club and porn references, language, sex talk in live-action sitcom.

Parents need to know that Parks and Recreation S3 E13, "The Fight", is a live-action sitcom episode. The series is known for gentler than most workplace sitcoms; innuendo is the main thing. Driven by porn / strippers / sex work (explicit, in dialogue), with swearing alongside it. Violence includes Sounds like you took a snake and twisted it like a rag until its blood and guts came out. Sexual content is explicit — for example, Me so horny; Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot. Language isn't constant, but you can expect swearing — for example, I feel like such a dick. Characters drink or talk about alcohol and drugs — Jerry, you'll be playing a boring beer drinker. Every flagged moment below is a direct quote from the transcript or a short description of what happens on screen.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Sex & hookups 2 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in Parks and Recreation S3 E13:

  • Caution
    Me so horny.
  • Mild
    That makes it sexy.

Porn / strippers / sex work 2 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Parks and Recreation S3 E13:

  • Too much
    Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
  • Too much
    I actually was on your show once Wait! Were you on the show where we had that stripper do math? Classic, right? Hello, strange person who I have never met before.

Affairs / cheating 1 moment

How Affairs / cheating shows up in Parks and Recreation S3 E13:

  • Caution
    Long answer, his wife, Jan, had an affair, gave him a venereal disease, and so he put signs about her all through City Hall.

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in Parks and Recreation S3 E13:

  • Caution
    Sounds like you took a snake and twisted it like a rag until its blood and guts came out.
  • Caution
    Laurence Fein two-inch, axe-style scraper oscillating knife blade.

Swearing 5 moments

How Swearing shows up in Parks and Recreation S3 E13:

  • Caution
    I feel like such a dick.
  • Mild
    I was the best damn agent they had until I was framed for a crime I didn't commit.
  • Mild
    Damn, if that isn't delicious.
  • Mild
    " Huh? This sucks, man.
  • Mild
    What the hell is in Snake Juice, Demerol? All I know is Leslie's always talking about how lucky she is to have you as a friend.

Alcohol & drugs 6 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Parks and Recreation S3 E13:

  • Mild
    Jerry, you'll be playing a boring beer drinker.
  • Mild
    " "I'll take something basic like a beer.
  • Mild
    Why aren't you holding a Snake Juice? I'm more of a whiskey man.
  • Mild
    Yeah, I'm very angry, and I'm really drunk.
  • Mild
    You're stupid, and you're drunk and you're stupid.
  • Mild
    Everybody's wasted.

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