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(2012)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, and some drug use
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • At a party, A talking teddy bear (Ted) draws a picture of Garfield the cat on a topless woman's bare breasts on a with a marker; we see the woman's bare breasts and the teddy bear makes a remark about the breasts looking like a cartoon character's face.
  • At a grocery store, Ted makes a thrusting motion in front of the check out as a joke
  • A man's bare buttocks are seen.
  • Many passionate kisses.
  • While taking a photo, Ted puts his hand on a woman's clothed breast.
  • A couple is kissing in bed but Ted runs in and interrupts it because he is scared of the thunder
  • Right after drawing the Garfield design on a woman's chest, someone comments: "They look like a bunch of tits."
  • Ted imitates oral sex on a candy bar and squirts lotion on his face to look like ejaculation.
  • Ted simulates sexual positions with products in a market, breast nudity and other sexual references. Nothing too explicit, but still suggestive. Throughout the movie we hear a man and talking teddy bear make multiple crude remarks about gay people, including referring to a man as being a gay and a talking teddy bear telling the man that another man is "making out" with a man on a sofa. A talking teddy bear makes a joke that he is having dinner with gays because they were eating turkey burgers.
  • A man and a woman kiss passionately, with the man wrapping his arms around the woman. A man and a woman kiss. Two men kiss.
  • A talking teddy bear grabs a young woman's breasts (through her shirt) as he poses for a picture with her. As a woman watches, a talking teddy bear makes a series of sexual gestures: The bear thrusts his hips sexually against a counter, he then implies oral sex by provocatively eating a candy bar and then crudely implies having a man climax on the bear's face by squirting lotion on his face and in his eye (the woman acts disgusted).
  • Four women that appear to be prostitutes surround a talking teddy bear; they are wearing tight, cleavage-exposing dresses and the talking teddy bear makes a remark that the women are "working girls."
  • Moderate crude sexual references, content, and humor.
  • Crude humor and sexual comments.

Violence & Gore

  • In a hotel scene, Johnny and Ted get into a fight.
  • During the party scene, a man gets stabbed in the hand and some characters also get into a fight.
  • John punches a bratty kid in the face and knocks him out. But the kid turns out fine. Obviously played for laughs.
  • A Male news reporter slaps a Female news reporter on the back of the head
  • Johnny gets crushed by a television in one scene.
  • At the beginning of the film a group of boys beat up another who is shown with a nosebleed.
  • A boy tortures a talking teddy bear, ripping off the bear's ear and causing the bear to scream in pain; we later see the bear staple his ear back together. A duck attacks a talking teddy bear, repeatedly pecking at the teddy bear's eyes as the teddy bear shouts and throws the duck off him. A talking teddy bear accidentally nails a nail into its hand and it hangs from the nail, but is unharmed.
  • A man punches through a wall, and another man on the other side of the wall sticks his arm with a knife in his hand though the hole; the man from the other side of the wall walks into the room and shouts at several people, two men begin to wrestle and one man throws another man against a wall.
  • We see a man with a black eye and cuts on his face, and he tells another man that he had been extremely intoxicated and texted someone to come "beat him up"; the man makes a crude remark about the other man being gay.
  • A talking teddy bear is startled when a man appears in a dark hallway. A boy is startled by a talking teddy bear. A boy is startled by a bolt of thunder. A man is scared by a clap of thunder.
  • We briefly see a photograph of a boy and a talking teddy bear holding guns as part of a costume.

Profanity

  • 1 use of "c**t."
  • 90% of the language is said by the two main characters, Ted and John.
  • 1 use of "cocksucker" by mark Wahlberg but it's hard to hear and easy to miss.
  • Ted uses very severe language. Most of the swearing is used by the protagonists (especially John and Ted).
  • 1 use of "snob."
  • 1 derogatory slur for disabled people.
  • The middle finger gesture is used.
  • Lots of severe profanities, and many moderate language throughout.
  • Language is constant, strong, and extremely vulgar. Mild profanities, such as "hell", "bastard", "crap" and "ass". Strongly language like "bitch/son of a bitch", "goddamn", "dick", "asshole", "prick" "pussy" "tits", "cock", "whore", "douche/douchebag", "retard", "shit", and "fuck/motherfucker". There are also many racial and ethnic slurs, as well as extremely crude and off-color jokes about topics like rape. Family Guy level language.
  • 132 total of swear words in film.
  • 55 uses of "fuck" (one said by a child in the Unrated Version). Other profanities also used include 47 "shit", 22 "ass," "asshole", "pussy," "tits," "cock", "son of a bitch," "bastard," "prick", "dick", 2 "goddamn," and "whore". It is implied that a child has been abused by his father for saying a bad word.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man and a talking teddy bear also drink and get drunk a lot.
  • There are about 5 scenes of drug use and the bongs are cgi so its not that bad
  • The first half of the movie has several scenes with the two main characters doing weed as a natural part of every day, and it's realistic enough to teach watchers how it's done. No scenes include heavy drugs though.
  • Alochol, Bongs, Marjuina, Pot, Weed, Cocaine,
  • TED(DRUG USE:8/10) A few scenes of illegal drugs and an implied use of cocaine. Drinking in a party.
  • On a couple occasions we see a talking teddy bear and a man smoking marijuana from water pipes and cigars. There is much more drug use in Ted 2
  • We see a man hold up a baggie of what is implied to be marijuana in order to bribe a talking teddy bear.
  • We hear people discussing drugs throughout the movie.
  • Two men and a talking teddy bear discuss using cocaine.
  • We see two men and a talking teddy bear walk out of a room and the teddy bear has white powder (presumably cocaine) on his snout and acts erratically.
  • A talking teddy bear tells another man that he is going to talk to a drug dealer about the quality of his drugs.
  • People are seen drinking beer and liquor at a party.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In the Unrated version, Ted sees a graveyard of teddy bears and gets scared. (Not present in the Rated R version.)
  • Ted pretends to be mentally impared after coming back to life and uses the "r word" which may be offensive to some.
  • 16+ Strong Lanuage, Alochol and Drug Misuse, Moderate Sex References and Smoking Use.
  • The main character and teddy bear get into a fiery argument and a fight in one scene.
  • Adult film (18-21+)

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • In the Unrated version, Ted and Tami have intercourse. Moaning is heard and you can see the movement. There is no nudity and the scene lasts 5 seconds

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Ted and Johnny like to smoke Marjuana which is a drug
  • At one scene Ted and Johnny snort Cocaine off scene with Flash Gordon but they get loads of energy
  • Ted and John are seen smoking Marjiuana from bongs throughout the movie and when they go to a party with Flash Gordan he takes them into another room where they snorted Cocaine (offscreen)

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There are some dramatic scenes toward the end of the film involving Ted's death. He is later brought back to life.

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