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Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- There's an attempted rape scene.
- Sexual acts are portrayed on-screen and off, including kissing, touching, intercourse, and oral sex. Characters are seen in their underwear or naked beneath covers. Male actors are shown without shirts, but there's no nudity.
- Sex is mentioned 3 times in season 2 episode 14.
- Seasons 1-3 are fairly clean. The sexual references become more frequent as well.
Violence & Gore
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- Frequent moderate violence involving vampires and demons. Usually with just punching and kicking. Vampires are often 'dusted', which involves stabbing them in the heart or decapitating them. They then turn into dust with no blood. For a show about vampires, there's very little blood shown.
Profanity
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- About 2 or 3 uses of shit per episode.
- Occasional mild language includes "ass," "piss," "bitch," "bastard," "wankers," "bugger," "bollocks," "damn," "crap," and "bloody," as well as name-calling and slurs such as "spaz," "loser," "dork," "whore," "ho," and "slut."
- In one scene Giles calls a computer programme the slur fag.
- A few episodes have references to the word pussy.
- Mostly damn and hell, but occasional instances of bitch, ass, slut, wanker etc. There is also some occasionally crude sexual humor. The word "bollocks" is used once or twice. The word retard/retarded is also said which may be an offensive word to some.
- Seasons 1-4 have infrequent strong language however, seasons 5-7 has more frequent use of strong language
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Several characters smoke throughout the series; however, it is mostly villains who do so.
- One of the main vampires gets drunk at a bar in a few episodes and ends up going nuts and attacking Buffy.
- Vampires smoke cigarettes on a number of occasions. Characters drink at bars and with dinner, including an incident where an underage character may have accidentally drunk alcoholic eggnog. Mild intoxication. Drug use is alluded to in the form of addiction to magic and the consumption of "happy cookies," as well as vampires and humans taking a fictional drug called "orpheus," which appears to have a similar effect to opioids.
- Some alcohol can be seen being consumed. In a few episodes people appear to be 'high' on magic. Some mild drug references. One of the main characters, a vampire named Spike, smokes cigarettes regularly.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- A few episodes are very dark, and some of the vampires and demons can appear scary.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- Two of the main characters wake up naked under a tree in what appears to be in a garden area. This is likely a reference to Adam and Eve.
- Moderate sexual references and some brief sex scenes with no nudity. In season 6 however there is a nude sex scene with Buffy & Spike moaning and thrusting is heard and their full bodies are seen. The scene is brief and it is revealed that Buffy was dreaming it the whole time.
Violence & Gore
- Quite a bit of realistic, non-fantasy violence in some episodes: A Slayer mistakes a human for a vampire and stabs him to death, the scene is slightly bloody. A beloved character is shot to death. A human male is flayed alive and shown hanging from a tree, muscle, bone, and sinew exposed, lacking skin. There are many scenes of human women being assaulted by vampires. The Slayers (enhanced young human women) experience repeated violence that in real life would be fatal many times over; as it is, they are slammed against walls, bloodied, bruised, and knocked unconscious.
- At the end of season 6 Willow goes after a group of 3 men after they kill someone she loved a lot. She skins one of them (using magic) and you see the body skinless however only for a few seconds.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Buffy dies -- more than once. The deaths and funerals are intense.
- In season 1 episode 8 at around 12 minutes in a character carves an M into his arm this may be triggering to viewers who struggle with self harm there's also a suicide in this episode it's somewhat brief and but is also very graphic.
