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Is simpsons S7 E9 OK for kids?

Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming

📺 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

Preview first — about 10+

simpsons S7 E9, “Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming”, scores 3/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 10+.

Across the episode we counted 9 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Violence & injury (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.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Sex & hookups 1 moment

How Sex & hookups shows up in simpsons S7 E9:

  • Sideshow Bob There, that's the last condom wrapper.

Nudity & bodies 1 moment

How Nudity & bodies shows up in simpsons S7 E9:

  • Bart Simpson Tight, binding underwear?

Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in simpsons S7 E9:

  • Colonel (PEEVED) Bob is not here! We have searched every square inch of this base, and all we have found is porno, porno, porno!

Violence & injury 6 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in simpsons S7 E9:

  • Bart Simpson And he tried to murder me.
  • Colonel Sweet Enola Gay! Son, I'm gonna come in there and corpse you up!
  • Colonel (HITTING DOOR) Corpse you up and mail you to Momma!!
  • Bart Simpson (TO AIRMAN) Way to guard the parking lot, Top Gun.
  • Bart Simpson Cool! I want to be around when those guns start going off!
  • Chief Wiggum (WORRIED) Oh, great. Well... if anyone asks, uh, I beat him to death, okay?

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