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🎞️ S5 E17 ✅ All clear

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Is simpsons S5 E17 OK for kids?

Bart Gets an Elephant

📺 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

Mild — okay from about 9+

simpsons S5 E17, “Bart Gets an Elephant”, scores 2/5 for violence, 1/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 2/5 — Mild — okay from about 9+.

Across the episode we counted 5 flagged moments in 2 themes: Violence & injury (3); Alcohol & drugs (2). 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

Violence & injury 3 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in simpsons S5 E17:

  • Chief Wiggum Help! Help us! They stole our uniforms, guns and tasers!
  • Marge Simpson Homer, it looks like it could gore.
  • Homer Simpson Heh, heh, it does look like Al Gore.

Alcohol & drugs 2 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in simpsons S5 E17:

  • Homer Simpson I'd love to honey, but Daddy has to go to a beer drinking contest today.
  • Homer Simpson Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose. It's how drunk you get.

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