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Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- Some kissing between parents; in one scene, a married couple discuss going out during the night as they passionately kiss, but nothing explicitly sexual about it.
Violence & Gore
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- Mentions of blood/drinking blood. Mentions of organs being extracted with hooks and placed in Egyptian jars. A human heart is seen falling into a garbage disposal at one point.
- Characters kill and eat a monster (offscreen).
- A man attempts to turn a boy into plastic while laughing that the plastic machine will hurt him.
- In the episode, "An Old Story", a woman has magical prune juice splashed on her, causing her skin to shrivel up until she becomes a skeleton, and she is then disintegrated and falls apart.
- Some scenes of animal death; a deceased dog's skeleton washes up on the beach in "Ghost Beach". The family dog Petey is killed by the townsfolk of Dark Falls in "Welcome to Dead House". The slaughtered bodies of deer are briefly seen in "Werewolf of Fever Swamp". Boys torture worms for fun; children eat worms by mistake in "The Haunted Mask" and "Go Eat Worms".
- A few scenes of near peril; antagonists such as the townsfolk of Dark Falls are seen dying onscreen (mostly looks cheap and nothing gory or violent about it).
Profanity
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- Some mild crude humor, including jokes about "swamp gas" in "How to Kill a Monster", mild jokes about incontinence in "An Old Story". Nothing overly vulgar or crass, really.
- No swearing, only mild expletives.
- "Shut up" is used in a few episodes.
- Some name-calling ("brat", "weird", "crazy", "fat", "ugly", "pig", "stupid", etc.).
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- A boy wearing an old man mask stumbles up to two boys, begging them to help him take the mask off. One boy remarks that they should leave him because he's "just some old drunk".
- A man and several kids claim that they are going to stop a runaway girl by giving her tranquilizers.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- Mild scenes of verbal and physical bullying, nothing too violent or over-the-top, but may frighten some viewers.
- "Welcome to Dead House" features a scene where a newspaper is discovered, held up on-screen, describing a chemical factory accident that killed the townsfolk. We get references to death and unemployment, as well as bizarre, disturbing scenes of the townsfolk tearing slowly through the walls of Amanda's bedroom and the front porch. Coupled with an eerie soundtrack overlay, it may frighten both older and younger viewers alike.
- The appearance of Slappy in the "Night of the Living Dummy" stories, as well as his bride, Mary-Ellen, are quite creepy and bizarre, and may bother younger viewers.
- Scenes of immediate peril are not frequent, but they are present, for example, a family nearly having their car go over a cliffside as they scream.
- Due to the scary content, several episodes were rated "GB-7" when they initially aired, and the original VHS release of "The Haunted Mask" episodes was also rated GB-7. Then television ratings officially came into affect in 1997 and from there on out, all episodes were rated TV-Y7, though I believe some re-runs were rated TV-PG.
- On Netflix, the show is TY-Y7 for fear and fantasy violence
- Many episodes of the show do not have happy endings which can be jarring for many viewers.
- There are multiple depictions of eternal suffering throughout the show. However, they are implied and not fully confirmed.
- It's a children's show, but some episodes are scary.
- Some scenes feature family dysfunction, nothing physical, but some verbal arguing, sibling rivalry, talk of divorce/adoption, talk of putting a beloved dog down, parents fighting over an ugly antique wreath, and a boy being sent away after pranking his little brother.
