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Sex & Nudity

  • Season 1, Episode 2 - While reading from the "N" section in the dictionary, Olaf reads the word "Nudism" out loud.
  • A boy says the word "titular" and another character replies saying that a boy his age shouldn't be saying that word.
  • An older male character says he needs to "rosin his bow" in which another character, taking it as an innuendo, replies saying that he shouldn't be saying that in front of the children.
  • A woman finds a pole in an abandoned building and asks another character if this used to be a club.
  • Olaf refers to himself as a millionaire playboy.

Violence & Gore

  • In episode 4 a baby is trapped in a suitcase and count Olaf starts stabbing the suitcase.
  • A character was boiled alive
  • Olaf slaps Klaus across the face. A bruise can be seen for a few episodes.

Profanity

  • Sunny says Merde, which is French for shit. Only once in S2 EP10
  • "God," "hell," and "damn" respectively.
  • Someone says "Land hoe" and the other person says "Stop calling me that. S1: E5.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some mentions of drinking alcohol.
  • In a short scene in mexico, a couple are seen in a bar in Peru, the man is shooting pool there
  • In one episode, a man drinks wine and seems to be intoxicated afterwards. He later falls down.
  • Some adult characters are shown smoking.
  • It is mentioned that a student at a school was expelled for smoking.
  • The main antagonist often mentions drinking alcohol, and is sometimes shown drinking alcohol (or something that looks like alcohol).
  • A young girl is shown sticking her nose into a cake covered in a powder of some sort (in reference to a term she commonly used, "cakesniffer"). She is later shown reacting in a similar fashion to being on drugs.
  • A man offers martinis to some children, however, he mentions that it is actually just an "aqueous martini", which is water with an olive that is served in a fancy glass.
  • In The Austere Academy Part 1, Count Olaf holds a half-smoked cigarette butt, and keeps moving it to his mouth as if to smoke it as he talks, but he never does.
  • In episode 1, a bag says something about gin, shown for about 3 frames and very easy to miss.
  • The main antagonist often discusses drinking wine, alcohol bottles can be seen throughout his home and in some scenes he is clearly implied to be drunk.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A character will often die. Their death will not show any graphic details, and it is usually implied rather than shown, but it might be fairly disturbing for some viewers.
  • The story mostly revolves around a man attempting to harm three children, which is rather disturbing.
  • The main antagonist often threatens to hurt or kill the main protagonists. He never actually harms them too badly, but he often gets very close.
  • A man is possibly eaten alive by an alligator during a sequence where the narrator explains the difference between the word "nervous" and the word "anxious".
  • A character breaks down a door in a scene parodying "The Shining". This is mostly played for comedy, however.
  • There is a suspenseful moment in The Hostile Hospital episode where the antagonist tries to "scare someone to death". There is strobe lights and a "The Shining" reference. Pretty creepy for a kids show.
  • This show has the main characters in non-stop danger and misery with barely any time to catch their breath, this could be bothersome to many viewers.
  • The over -the-top quirky personalities of villains such as Olaf, Nero, Esme, etc, while played for dark comedy, could be off-putting to some viewers.
  • Even though this is a kids show, the underlying themes of the story are very disturbing. There aren't really any jump scares or anything, but there is a lot of dark humor present.
  • The basis of the show is that a man is attempting to either 1) Kidnap the main characters (Children, the oldest is 13 or 14), 2) Marry the eldest child (13 or 14 year old girl, but only for her money), or 3) Kill the children and take their money. Every possible situation ends with their deaths, though, so it is quite disturbing.
  • Multiple times throughout the show, the children attempt to reveal the main antagonist, but every time, they are brushed off. Finally, the children run away.
  • If one were to dissect the story and themes, they might be depressed or sad (Much like the narrator of the story is), but if people realize that this is a fictional story, and that this did not happen, then they shouldn't get depressed by the story.

Spoilers

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

Sex & Nudity

  • Esme and Olaf mention the 'Horizontal Tango'.
  • Esme says "Bananas aren't in" and Olaf replies by saying, "We'll see."
  • Referring to a mission, a character says they "hope to get lucky in the penthouse" then looks at another character awkwardly.

Violence & Gore

  • A character is eaten by lions. Not shown but we hear her scream.
  • A woman is eaten by the lachrymose leeches
  • Season 1- A man is killed with a venom injection. His face is seen with a large swollen wound that appears to be oozing pus, slightly graphic. A woman is eaten alive by leeches. we learn that a few people died in a fire. Some fighting.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman is thrown into a furnace and burns. Nothing gruesome is shown.
  • A man is tied to a log and nearly cut with a saw. This may be frightening for some viewers.
  • A fire is set to a house, killing multiple people (deaths not shown).
  • Three children are thrown down an elevator by one of their former guardians. The children are unharmed, however.
  • A Woman falls into a pit filled with Lions; no gore is shown but the audience is shown reacting with dialogues involved and a scream in a set nearby.
  • A woman is shown trying to hurt the children by making metal stacks try to fall on them. She is also shown throwing knives during this sequence.
  • A man attempts to decapitate a girl, labeling it as a "cranioectomy", an operation where the head is cut off. While he does not succeed in doing this, we see a scene where he captures and anesthetizes her, which may be disturbing to some.
  • A boy is hypnotized during an eye exam, and while he is not harmed too badly, the scene may be somewhat distressing to some viewers. While hypnotized, he is also shown doing a few other things that may upset some viewers (nobody is actually harmed too badly as a result, however), such as nearly throwing his younger sister into a wood chipper, flattening a man's leg with a stamp presser, and almost sending a man tied to a log into a saw.
  • A man is murdered (he is falsely accused of being the main antagonist as well), but before this, he is threatened to get burned at the stake. The three main protagonists are later falsely accused of killing him, and are threatened to get burned at the stake. This leads to a rather disturbing turn of events.
  • At the end of season 2, there are two children in a caravan that get thrown off a cliff. It is unknown what happens after this, although they are most likely unharmed.
  • The main protagonists' friends get kidnapped by the main antagonist, and are hidden in an elevator shaft, before getting auctioned off, and are later hidden in a large fountain. They are eventually rescued, and they appear to be unharmed, however.
  • The main protagonists meet two children who mention that their parents and brother died in a fire that destroyed their home, much like the actual main characters. It is mentioned multiple times that their brother died, as the two children are often incorrectly referred to as "twins" when they were actually triplets, and so they have to explain that the death of their brother does not affect their birth identity. The mention of this might be fairly distressing to some viewers.
  • A man is locked in a freezer. He is eventually rescued, however.
  • When Matthias is in the library of records he pushes the projector since hes frustrated. Sine it catches on fire it caused the Heimlich Hospital fire.

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