Ted
Director(s) Seth MacFarlane
Production year2024
Genre(s)Comedy
Approx. running minutes38m
CastSeth MacFarlane, Max Burkholder, Alanna Ubach
Ted
strong language, sex references, drug misuse
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
TED is a comedy series; in this episode, Ted tries to get expelled from school resulting in disastrous consequences for Blaire.
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('pussy', 'dick') and milder terms such as 'shit', 'tits', 'piss' and 'crap'. There is a slightly obscured use of the middle finger gesture.
sex
Strong sex references include detailed mentions of masturbation and pornographic magazines. A character makes a masturbation hand gesture.
drugs
Teenage characters smoke joints and weed from bongs. There are frequent visual and verbal references to drugs, including to crystal meth, cocaine and crack.
additional issues
Characters express homophobia and racism, often comically, but these behaviours are always condemned by other characters. There is use of the discriminatory terms 'queer', 'midget' and 'Polak'. A school bully repeatedly hits a teenage boy in the testicles and there are references to a film, based on a true story, in which characters are forced to eat dead bodies to stay alive.
strong sex references, language, drug misuse
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
TED is a comedy series; in this episode, Ted and John's plan to enact revenge on the school bully inadvertently puts them in a parental role.
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('dick', 'cock') and milder terms such as 'shit', 'ass' and 'God'. A character makes the middle finger rude gesture.
sex
A man tells a comic story in which he says he had to masturbate a dog whilst he was a soldier in Vietnam, in order to relieve it from its erection discomfort. There is also an implied humorous reference to urolagnia.
drugs
A teenage boy and his teddy bear friend smoke cannabis from a bong. There are also references to cocaine.
additional issues
Characters make antisemitic and homophobic remarks which are condemned by other characters. There is use of the homophobic word 'queer'. A reference is made to a teenage boy attempting suicide in a comic manner. A bully punches classmates in the stomach and kicks them.
strong language, sex references, crude humour
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
TED is a comedy series; in this episode, John decides that the time has come to experience his first adult film, and Ted is only too willing to help him achieve his objective.
language
There is strong language (‘f**k’), some of which is used in the sexual sense. Milder bad language includes uses of ‘dick’, ‘shit’, ‘balls’, ‘bastard’, ‘butt’, ‘damn’, ‘hell’, ‘Jesus’, ‘Christ’ and ‘God’.
sex
Two characters attempt to watch a pornographic video, and a third character sees the content accidentally. There is only brief, undetailed sight of performers in the video engaging in sex, but frequent comic verbal references to activities such as masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, fingering, fetishes, orgasms and erotic asphyxiation. A woman reports on receiving a ‘dick pic’.
rude humour
There are comic references to men seeking medical help for damaged genitalia after over-indulging in masturbation.
additional issues
There is infrequent comic sexist discrimination, which the work does not endorse.
strong language, sex references, drug misuse.
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
TED is a comedy series; in this episode, Ted reluctantly agrees to be Blaire’s designated driver to a Halloween party.
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), as well as milder terms such as 'ass', 'asshole', 'shit', 'piss', 'damn', 'hell', 'God', 'Jesus' and 'Christ'.
sex
There is sight of erotic drawings featuring a couple in various sexual positions and an image of an erect penis, as well as male genitalia made to look like a sword. There are also crude verbal references to pornography, masturbation and female pubic hair.
drugs
Characters smoke from bongs, and there are also references to crack cocaine and snorting prescription medications.
additional issues
A character makes an exaggerated, un-serious comment about nearly being raped. There is an oblique reference to suicide. There is brief moderate threat in a scene from a horror film playing on a television, which leads on to a comical discussion about why Black people always die in horror films. There is comic male buttock nudity. People at a party binge-drink and get drunk.
strong language, sex references, crude humour, drug misuse
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
TED is a US comedy series; in this episode, Ted is enlisted as Susan and Matt's marriage therapist.
language
There is frequent use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘bitch’, ‘prick’, ‘cock’, ‘dick’, ‘shit’, ‘bullshit’, ‘crap’, ‘ass’ and ‘asshole’.
sex
A high-school teacher has an emotional outburst during class and rants about his difficulty maintaining an erection and his masturbation habits, although the verbal detail is not explicit. Other scenes contain verbal references to fellatio, ‘hand jobs’, ‘climaxing’ and ‘anal’. A man dismisses undergoing psychiatric treatment as paying money to be shown inkblot images of ‘priests with their dicks out’.
drugs
Teenagers and a sentient teddy bear smoke cannabis from a bong. Other scenes contain occasional verbal references to drug misuse.
additional issues
A character makes a brief series of callous remarks about a teenage girl's eating disorder. Further bad taste humour includes non-graphic comic references to ‘molestation’, self-harm, domestic abuse, and discrimination.
strong language, sex references
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
TED is a comedy television series; in this episode, Matty makes an unorthodox Christmas wish that brings chaos to the Bennett household.
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('son of a bitch', 'dick', 'prick', 'hooker') and milder terms such as 'asshole', 'shit', 'Jesus' and 'Christ'.
sex
There are occasional strong comic sex references, such as verbal mentions to pornographic magazines, masturbation and anal sex.
additional issues
Unlikeable characters are homophobic, racist and sexist; these characters later come to apologise for their views. A reference is made to dealing marijuana and to a man 'blowing his brains out'.
strong sex references, language, drug misuse
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
TED is a US comedy series; in this episode, Ted's plan to help John get a girlfriend backfires resulting in John having to make an embarrassing confession.
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'screw', 'dick', 'shit', 'balls', 'damn', 'Jesus' and 'hell'.
sex
There are strong and often crude comic sex references, such as mentions to 'felching', masturbation and 'rimming'. A comic reference is made to a teacher having sex with a student in return for drugs.
drugs
A teenage boy and his teddy bear friend smoke from a bong and there are references to various types of marijuana and the impact they have on smokers. A character offers to share a pill with another.
additional issues
Two characters sit on the roof of a moving car and come flying off when it abruptly stops. They are taken to hospital for minor injuries to their faces. References are made to murder.
Classified date18/11/2024
LanguageEnglish
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('dick', 'cock') and milder terms such as 'shit', 'ass' and 'God'. A character makes the middle finger rude gesture.
sex
A man tells a comic story in which he says he had to masturbate a dog whilst he was a soldier in Vietnam, in order to relieve it from its erection discomfort. There is also an implied humorous reference to urolagnia.
drugs
A teenage boy and his teddy bear friend smoke cannabis from a bong. There are also references to cocaine.
additional issues
Characters make antisemitic and homophobic remarks which are condemned by other characters. There is use of the homophobic word 'queer'. A reference is made to a teenage boy attempting suicide in a comic manner. A bully punches classmates in the stomach and kicks them.
strong sex references, language, drug misuse
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('dick', 'cock') and milder terms such as 'shit', 'ass' and 'God'. A character makes the middle finger rude gesture.
sex
A man tells a comic story in which he says he had to masturbate a dog whilst he was a soldier in Vietnam, in order to relieve it from its erection discomfort. There is also an implied humorous reference to urolagnia.
drugs
A teenage boy and his teddy bear friend smoke cannabis from a bong. There are also references to cocaine.
additional issues
Characters make antisemitic and homophobic remarks which are condemned by other characters. There is use of the homophobic word 'queer'. A reference is made to a teenage boy attempting suicide in a comic manner. A bully punches classmates in the stomach and kicks them.
strong language, sex references, drug misuse
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('pussy', 'dick') and milder terms such as 'shit', 'tits', 'piss' and 'crap'. There is a slightly obscured use of the middle finger gesture.
sex
Strong sex references include detailed mentions of masturbation and pornographic magazines. A character makes a masturbation hand gesture.
drugs
Teenage characters smoke joints and weed from bongs. There are frequent visual and verbal references to drugs, including to crystal meth, cocaine and crack.
additional issues
Characters express homophobia and racism, often comically, but these behaviours are always condemned by other characters. There is use of the discriminatory terms 'queer', 'midget' and 'Polak'. A school bully repeatedly hits a teenage boy in the testicles and there are references to a film, based on a true story, in which characters are forced to eat dead bodies to stay alive.
strong language, sex references, crude humour
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language (‘f**k’), some of which is used in the sexual sense. Milder bad language includes uses of ‘dick’, ‘shit’, ‘balls’, ‘bastard’, ‘butt’, ‘damn’, ‘hell’, ‘Jesus’, ‘Christ’ and ‘God’.
sex
Two characters attempt to watch a pornographic video, and a third character sees the content accidentally. There is only brief, undetailed sight of performers in the video engaging in sex, but frequent comic verbal references to activities such as masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, fingering, fetishes, orgasms and erotic asphyxiation. A woman reports on receiving a ‘dick pic’.
rude humour
There are comic references to men seeking medical help for damaged genitalia after over-indulging in masturbation.
additional issues
There is infrequent comic sexist discrimination, which the work does not endorse.
strong language, sex references, drug misuse.
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), as well as milder terms such as 'ass', 'asshole', 'shit', 'piss', 'damn', 'hell', 'God', 'Jesus' and 'Christ'.
sex
There is sight of erotic drawings featuring a couple in various sexual positions and an image of an erect penis, as well as male genitalia made to look like a sword. There are also crude verbal references to pornography, masturbation and female pubic hair.
drugs
Characters smoke from bongs, and there are also references to crack cocaine and snorting prescription medications.
additional issues
A character makes an exaggerated, un-serious comment about nearly being raped. There is an oblique reference to suicide. There is brief moderate threat in a scene from a horror film playing on a television, which leads on to a comical discussion about why Black people always die in horror films. There is comic male buttock nudity. People at a party binge-drink and get drunk.
strong language, sex references, crude humour, drug misuse
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is frequent use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘bitch’, ‘prick’, ‘cock’, ‘dick’, ‘shit’, ‘bullshit’, ‘crap’, ‘ass’ and ‘asshole’.
sex
A high-school teacher has an emotional outburst during class and rants about his difficulty maintaining an erection and his masturbation habits, although the verbal detail is not explicit. Other scenes contain verbal references to fellatio, ‘hand jobs’, ‘climaxing’ and ‘anal’. A man dismisses undergoing psychiatric treatment as paying money to be shown inkblot images of ‘priests with their dicks out’.
drugs
Teenagers and a sentient teddy bear smoke cannabis from a bong. Other scenes contain occasional verbal references to drug misuse.
additional issues
A character makes a brief series of callous remarks about a teenage girl's eating disorder. Further bad taste humour includes non-graphic comic references to ‘molestation’, self-harm, domestic abuse, and discrimination.
strong language, sex references
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('son of a bitch', 'dick', 'prick', 'hooker') and milder terms such as 'asshole', 'shit', 'Jesus' and 'Christ'.
sex
There are occasional strong comic sex references, such as verbal mentions to pornographic magazines, masturbation and anal sex.
additional issues
Unlikeable characters are homophobic, racist and sexist; these characters later come to apologise for their views. A reference is made to dealing marijuana and to a man 'blowing his brains out'.
strong sex references, language, drug misuse
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'screw', 'dick', 'shit', 'balls', 'damn', 'Jesus' and 'hell'.
sex
There are strong and often crude comic sex references, such as mentions to 'felching', masturbation and 'rimming'. A comic reference is made to a teacher having sex with a student in return for drugs.
drugs
A teenage boy and his teddy bear friend smoke from a bong and there are references to various types of marijuana and the impact they have on smokers. A character offers to share a pill with another.
additional issues
Two characters sit on the roof of a moving car and come flying off when it abruptly stops. They are taken to hospital for minor injuries to their faces. References are made to murder.
Director(s) Seth MacFarlane
Production year2024
Genre(s)Comedy
Approx. running minutes38m
CastSeth MacFarlane, Max Burkholder, Alanna Ubach
Classified date18/11/2024
LanguageEnglish
