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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (4)
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- Spoilers (5)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- A poster that says "date rape" on it is seen on a wall in the background.
- The word "AIDS" is seen spraypainted on a set of lockers at a high school.
- Sometimes there is light teasing including characters mocked for kissing, characters calling out other girls for being "hot" and older characters in love with younger girls. This never crosses over to the point of being explicit or crude.
- A Poster is seen in the background warning about Hepatitis B
- Repeated gag in "Old Man Corcoran" features a boy's crotch getting spiked on a fence post.
- There are some instances of grown men and women flirting, kissing and saying mildly suggestive things (never to the point of being explicit).
- A boy asks his brother if their father just told them a "dirty joke" (the joke in question is actually revealed to be about the Stock Exchange).
- A boy dressed as a vampire passionately kisses a girl dressed as a princess, sucking on her neck, which is then revealed to be a bite.
- Characters accuse a girl of flirting with a boy and ogling him; she accuses them of eyeing his backside like "a couple of silly gooses".
- Some kissing is seen between characters in many episodes, including a boy calling a girl "babe" and kissing her without permission.
Violence & Gore
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- There are some incidents of mild gore including characters with bloody teeth-marks in their necks from vampires, blood being stored in a refrigerator, skeletons coming to life and ghouls covered in rotting flesh.
- Incidents of adult characters threatening children with violence, including but not limited to a man threatening to cut out a boy's brain, three old ladies threatening to behead a teen girl, and a nurse threatening to inject a girl with poison.
- A high school jock running a race at school is startled by a large dog. He falls and breaks his leg; the character is seen groaning and crying as he holds his leg and the coach calls an ambulance.
- Some graphic descriptions of gore including "slime" on a tire after a car runs over a girl, discussions of rotting corpses, and a pop-up corpse jump scare with bulging eyes and rotting flesh.
- A skinned horse's head is seen on a stick; bloody muscles and tissue seen beneath, with the horse's eyes still intact. As the girl who discovered it walks by, the stick rotates, making it look like the dead horse's head is watching her ("The Tale of Watcher's Woods").
- Some stories contain scenes of moderate violence.
Profanity
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- A boy tells his mother that his employer is a "boss from hell." The usage of the word "hell" is about as extreme as the profanity ever gets. There are also multiple uses of "fink", multiple uses of "jerk"/"idiot", one use of "crap", and one use of "lying sack".
- One use of "crap", one use of "lying sack" (of shit), the characters only say "lying sack", but older viewers will understand what this means.
- Some minor bathroom humour; a boy pees himself after his brother plays a prank on him ("The Tale of the Gruesome Gourmets"), a woman is seen with her pants down on the toilet while eating donuts ("The Tale of the Dream Machine").
- Some mild words and phrases, including "turd-face", "nutbag" and "nerd". Swearing is often replaced by made up insults like "cheeseball" and "zeeb".
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Because much of the series was recorded in real schools, there are often posters and graffiti in the background making mild references to drugs and alcohol. Oftentimes this is not supporting drug usage but instead is posted up by the school itself, including D.A.R.E. posters. Most of this goes by too quickly for most younger viewers to spot.
- A man, depressed about the closing of his small movie theater, takes a swig of booze at his desk in "The Tale of the Midnight Madness".
- A character, a minor child, smokes a cigarette in "The Tale of Watcher's Woods". She puts out the cigarette after another girl scolds her for the possibility of starting a forest fire.
- There are a lot of references to cigar smoking in the episode 'The Tale of Laughing in the Dark'.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- Some of the themes in the show are heavy-handed and may upset some viewers. This includes divorce, bullying, grief/loss, sibling rivalry, moving away from home, animal cruelty and the mistreatment of elderly people.
- Some stories are very scary. Not every episode has a happy ending, many are left ambiguous, and in some the protagonists die. Some of these "Twilight Zone" endings may be upsetting for some viewers.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- A teen boy attempts to flirt with a younger girl doing pull-ups on a bar in his room by telling her, "I always admire a girl with great physical strength". He then later suggests that she can live alone with him at his house and that they can be friends; he is revealed to be a ninety-year-old man.
- A woman places her hand on an old man's chest and says it's time for a "new start", after which a character remarks that they'll be renewing their love affair ("The Tale of The Room For Rent").
Violence & Gore
- There are incidents of bullying throughout the show, both verbal and physical, including but not limited to a boy being punched graphically in the eye and stepped on, a boy being mocked for supposedly smelling bad and having poor hygiene, a boy telling another boy that he is going to "pound him" and a story told about a deaf child being chased home by bullies and locked in a house alone where she starved to death, among other things.
- In one episode a ghost of a teenage boy is briefly shown with a bloodied and severely burned face.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
- A live-in nurse chases a little girl around trying to inject her with "poison". This is later revealed to be penicillin.
