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- Sex & Nudity (18)
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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (8)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (4)
- Spoilers (2)
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Sex & Nudity
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- The show's main character, Fry, is occasionally seen in just his underwear, but most of the time, it is played for laughs.
- Bare (animated) butts are shown in some episodes. However, this is the only real type of nudity that is ever shown.
- Some episodes contains mild to moderate sexual content and it's not grapric at all. It's more inappropiate than The Simpsons but it's less inappropiate than Family Guy.
- In one Episode, Leela and Fry sit on a bed in the dark and begin making out. This is quickly interrupted by a Virtual Assistant asking them if they'd like "Erotic Scented Massage Oil."
- Infrequent minor sexual jokes, and a few instances of minor innuendo, but nothing major.
- Characters are heard making verbal sexual references.
- Fry and his friends take a trip into the digital world and come across billboards that read "Porno", "Sex", and "Naked Ladies Viewed From Space". However, no visuals are depicted.
- In some episodes, characters are seen kissing and embracing each other, and jumping into bed at times. In these scenes, sex is only implied as characters do not go beyond kissing and hugging.
- An elderly couple are seen kissing before the scene cuts to their clothing strewn across the floor and the two of them are lying on the bed completely nude. However, no nudity is depicted as their bodies are strategically covered by their arms and legs.
- In some episodes, characters (both male and female) appear to be fully nude, but their bodies are either obscured by objects or their hands.
- In a sauna, naked ladies are seen but bare butts are shown only.
- There are instances where female characters are fully nude, but their breasts and pubic region are obscured by strategically positioned objects.
- Two female characters are seen lying on a sauna bed with their arms positioned across their chest to obscure the view of their breasts.
- These scenes of nudity are discreet and fleeting side profile nudity, and are depicted in a non-sexual context.
- A female vending machine bangs against a male robot and eventually gives birth to a baby robot that resembles the male robot, as well as some verbal sexual references including a scene where some teenage robots watch a sex education video together.
- An episode revolves around a female character's mother who dates her ex-boyfriend, with some verbal references to her mother having sex with her ex-boyfriend and a scene of the female character trying to seduce her ex-boyfriend while dressed in sexy lingerie.
- Verbal sexual references to a man about having breakup sex alone. Also a scene of an actor dressed as a policeman on stage who mourns the death of his partner at work, claiming that he was the best partner "on the beat and in the sack", implying that he is gay.
- There is a scene where a man can be seen chained to a rack and whipped by a female robot, while another man can be seen suspended in mid-air and spanked by a robot standing nearby.
Violence & Gore
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- In season 6 there are multiple decapitations. there is no blood but you can see the inside of the body where they were decapitated.
- The early episodes originally aired on Fox are very mild and is usually cartoonish slapstick violence while the episodes originally aired on Comedy Central has stronger violence with some blood. But it's always used for humor and it's not meant to be intense or disturbing at all.
- Contains mild animated violence throughout the course of the series.
- Some characters are shown to be injured or killed, and some engage in hand-to-hand or armed combat.
- Blood is visible in some instances, however, there is scarcely any emphasis on pain or injury.
- Volume 8 contains episodes featuring violent scenes.
- Some violence in the form of robots being shot in the foreheads with ray guns, but with no bloodletting visible.
- Some violence is also featured in other episodes such as 'T.: The Terrestrial' where the viewer sees shots of an alien's arm being shot at, causing it to disintegrate and exposing the cross-section of the injured arm, 'Saturday Morning Fun Pit' which features shots of an ax being thrown against a man chest, a brief close shot of a man being shot in the side of the stomach, and a shot of a woman stabbing a man several times in the stomach with some bloodletting visible.
- The series also features some disturbing and gory scenes. A man can be seen slitting a mechanical goat in the belly while performing a Satanic ritual (even though he denies that what he is doing is Satanic). Also, a hand is bitten off by a giant clam at a dinner table with the severed hand and stump visible, and repeated shots of Fry landing in front of Leela after he jumps off of buildings, with some bloodletting and body parts visible.
Profanity
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- The original episodes that aired on Fox are more family friendly, while the episodes produced for Comedy Central have more language and sex references.
- In at least every other episode, the term "I'm boned" or "you're boned" etc. are used in place of the F word
- Hell, damn , and ass are used pretty frequently
- Bastard is commonly used and B.S meaning Bullshit is sometimes used
- Dammit is more Voguer than Damn in some episodes.
- Mild language such as "damn", "hell", "ass", "crap", "bastard" and "piss".
- Very mild and infrequent, but still occasionally heard. "Bitch" tends to be the worst offender of the lot, and is almost never used.
- If stronger words like the f-word is used it is completely censored, however it is RARELY used. In "Silence of the Clamps", the f-word was used 6 times to satirize how filthy mafia films are. Of course, it is 100% censored on cable.
- Bender's main catchphrase is "Bite my shiny, metal ass!" With many variations such as "Bite my, glorious, golden ass!"
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Lots of alcohol and smoking
- There is lots of alcohol every episode
- Bender uses alcoholic beverages as a fuel source; though he primarily consumes beer, he has been shown partaking in a variety of other types of booze. But if he is running low on his "fuel", he will begin to shut down in a way reminiscent to someone going through withdrawal symptoms. Bender also enjoys smoking cigars.
- Other characters also partake in alcohol and tobacco in their own way, though on fewer occasions.
- A running gag throughout the series is the addictive influence of the soft drink "Slurm".
- One plot revolves around two of the female characters, who become addicted to taking a plant-based supplement in order to enhance their athletic performance. (The viewer sees the women swallowing liquid from test tubes, as well as their physical appearance altering and becoming more masculine due to changes in their hormones from the drugs. However, the women are later seen going cold turkey in order to quit the drug as it is affecting their relationship with their partners.)
- The viewer sees shots of a robot smoking a cigarette-like object with a bright spark at the end. Although it is claimed that the cigarette isn't a drug, the robot enjoys smoking it and it is implied that he performs sexual services in order to make money to purchase more of such cigarettes. (The viewer sees the robot getting into a limousine under the instigation of another male robot.)
- The scenes above are brief and the drug use itself is not condoned. The characters who abuse drugs usually get into trouble because of it.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- although a mostly lighthearted series, some episodes like "Jurassic bark", "game of tones", and "luck of the fry-ish" deal with heavy themes that could be saddening.
- the overall science fiction theme, as well as some of the creatures featured throughout the series might be scary to the youngest of viewers.
- Some episodes are emotional
- The way in which Zoidberg blurts out "Don't do this! It's too exciting!" in the episode 2-D Blacktop best describes most episodes of Futurama.
Spoilers
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
- Bender is addicted to electricity, which gives him trips, and makes him angry to people in one episode.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- In Season 7 finale, the earth was completely frozen except two characters (Fry and Leela) and the last scene is very emotional. But in next season (which is now on Hulu), everyone are back to normal and been frozen for 10 years.
