Content guide
Mild — okay from about 9+
The Simpsons S23 E7, “The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants”, scores 1/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 1/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 2/5 — Mild — okay from about 9+.
Across the episode we counted 10 flagged moments in 2 themes: Sex & hookups (5); Alcohol & drugs (5). 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 9+Drinking, sex talk, mild sexual content in animation.
Parents need to know that The Simpsons S23 E7, "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants", is a animation episode. Scores low: the strongest thing we found is sex & hookups (joke or passing mention, in dialogue). Sexual content is mild but includes Marge Simpson says, "Welcome home, handsome! (LONG SEXY SMOOCH)". Characters drink or talk about alcohol and drugs — Male Marketing Executive: (MILD CHUCKLE, THEN:) It's about your vodka, "Absolut Krusty.". 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 5 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in The Simpsons S23 E7:
- Marge Simpson
Welcome home, handsome! (LONG SEXY SMOOCH)
- Marge Simpson
(SEXY) Hel-lo.
- Homer Simpson
My job is my wife. Loneliness, my mistress. Despair, my sex buddy. Angst is a chick I met online, but then it turned out it was really a guy.
- Robert Marlowe
Sorry, Marge. That account job hollowed me out like a cheap chocolate bunny. I've been divorced three times, I've got a cocktail addiction, a shrimp cocktail addiction, and I can't stop bending women to my sexual will.
- Homer Simpson
Let's see, my family gives me love and sex. My work gives me money and sleep...
Alcohol & drugs 5 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in The Simpsons S23 E7:
Male Marketing Executive: (MILD CHUCKLE, THEN:) It's about your vodka, "Absolut Krusty."
Female Marketing Executive: We're having trouble persuading people it's hip to drink a vodka made by a clown, in a bottle shaped like a clown, that does this when you open it...
Female Marketing Executive: He invites his cool friends, we serve free cocktails, made with your vodka, generating buzz.
- Robert Marlowe
Hey, you're a baby account man. Still on the bottle. (SHAKES WHISKEY BOTTLE) So for my last good deed before I retire, I'm gonna help you persuade Mayor Quimby to sign off on a nuclear rate hike.
- Regulator
Homer! I want a Long Island ice tea, America's most complicated cocktail.
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