Shameless
TV Show • 2011 • Comedy Report
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86
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9
8
Harbard
In season 9 Carl ends up bringing home terminally ill dogs and caring for them until they pass. It’s a dog hospice situation.
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0
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2
Yes
1
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73
Yes
85
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6
4
In Season 2 episode 11, 2 mallard ducks are shot to death as well as a bald eagle which is then prepared to be eaten. It’s pretty gruesome.
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Yes
79
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4
8
spacedirt
not on screen. vague references are made.
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2
zogzog
it’s suggested in s7 ep6 but doesn’t actually happen.
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Yes
87
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5
2
Me.me
Milkovich brother says he hits a deer, Later seen gutting and eating its heart
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Yes
67
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6
5
BeeboIsHigh
It's implied that a character kills a cat in season one, however, it's not shown on screen.
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Yes
29
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3
Yes
0
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79
Yes
4
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55
Yes
67
No
7
1
spacedirt
in season 4 debbie puts a snake in someone's car to scare them.
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Yes
79
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5
1
Johannaisamazing
There is a scene where you see several cockroaches escaping Jimmy's boot
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3
Puppers4life
The mother Monica abandons the kids on several occasions throughout the series. Frank also basically abandoned the family only comes around when he needs something.
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Yes
18
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2
3
413X
The main abuser shown in the show is from an extremely abusive household
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Yes
97
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4
5
mickkmilk
in seasons 3 ep 6 and 4 ep 11, a main character gets beaten by his dad for being gay. mostly in earlier seasons, frank is abusive towards his children, headbutting ian in season 1 ep 2
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Yes
94
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2
0
It’s implied Mandy is in an abusive relationship in season 3 or 4 I can’t remember which
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Yes
89
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2
4
kiricchan
frank gaslights carl into thinking he has cancer
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Yes
73
No
6
0
IzzyLong
"jimmy" stalkes fiona.
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6
Johannaisamazing
Drugs is VERY present through the whole series
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Yes
120
No
2
5
Johannaisamazing
Frank and other characters are alcoholic. A lot of scenes are happening in a bar.
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Yes
122
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1
5
NC98
Addiction is a red line throughout the story.
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Yes
44
No
0
5
TooTiredForUserNames
Several times.
In the first season Karen rapes Frank on screen very Visual. season 1 episode 11
Season 2, episode 10. Mandy is implied to be raped by her father Terry by being impregnated with his baby while underage. Not seen.
Mandy rapes Lip, slightly visual. Lip is seen telling Mandy “no” as she shoves him down to the floor. season 3 episode 11.
Mickey is forced to have sex with a hooker by his father while his gay partner watches as a form of conversion therapy. Season 3, episode 6. It is extremely visual and very hard to watch. It’s a scene I skip always.
Season 5 episode 3 Debbie raped an unconscious, semi visual Later on in the series, Debbie will have sex with another boy, however seeming consensual then she didn’t take her birth control and convinced him not to wear a condom saying that she was on birth control. However not noticeable till later.
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Yes
13
No
4
0
zzlyn
Earlier in the show, Frank is seen with his head being held in a toilet bowl.
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Yes
16
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1
1
There’s an episode about a registered female pedophile who moves into the neighborhood. There’s multiple discussions in this episode about whether or not it’s wrong that she as a school teacher assaulted her male students. It is treated as a joke and her victims are noted as “lucky”.
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Yes
105
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3
5
irritableowlsyndrome
A father sexually abuses his own daughter and forces a young woman to rape his son after catching him with another boy
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Yes
7
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0
Yes
9
No
0
0
This show is very charged with inappropriate scenes with children being preyed upon, I can’t begin to think of them all. If this is a trigger I would highly avoid this show.
*trigged warning before you read the next part*
There are multiple instances of underage sex with an adult. Including Ian being in an relationship with a 40-something yr old store owner when he is 15. Also Ian being intimate with a man in his 50’s while he is still underage. He also works at a bar while underage where he is shown being hit on and grabbed.
There’s an episode about a registered female pedophile who is a school teacher and preys upon her students. In this episode Lip tries to get proof of her reoffending, they have sex and at one point she even puts Nair on him to make him hairless in his pubic area. This issue is treated as a joke in the show like women can’t be pedophiles and the boys she assaults are “lucky”.
Mandy is impregnated by her father, it is not shown but it is talked about a lot.
There’s a scene where Debbie is very young and has a man expose himself and masturbate on a city bus. The whole episode she makes references to it.
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Yes
79
No
2
1
hannahmcmullen2002
carl has his head held under water
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Yes
60
No
3
1
JulianGourgane
In sexual context, Jody tries breath play by hanging himself
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2
NC98
Sheila suffocates Frank's mother by sitting on a pillow on her face.
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Yes
35
No
31
7
azazel
Carl doesn't get a vasectomy, he gets a circumcision and goes through difficult healing process, popping his stitches and mutilating himself multiple times in the meantime.
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Yes
20
No
40
4
irritableowlsyndrome
a child glues a woman's eyes shut
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Yes
30
No
10
Yes
0
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21
Yes
84
No
4
6
medsjj
on what i think is the last episode of season 2,
(spoiler by the way)
monica slits her wrists in the kitchen during a family dinner and blood is squirting out- she doesn’t die and is taken to a hospital i’m pretty sure.
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Yes
23
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3
1
laurenxox
S2
Someone is smothered to death by a pillow.
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Yes
1
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19
Yes
18
No
2
1
This is common through the show as Frank passes out a lot from drinking/drug use
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Yes
80
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2
5
MingaLei
Season 1 - Carl breaks his arm after being thrown off his bike
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Yes
89
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4
2
FreyaRosheen
In I think E11 S8 one of the main characters has several toes amateurly amputated
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Yes
2
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0
Yes
65
No
3
0
FreyaRosheen
S3 E9 Ian loses a tooth in a fight
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Yes
8
No
19
0
TooTiredForUserNames
S10
E8
Mickey punches Ian on the stairs resulting in him falling down them
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1
Sarawatchesthings
Someone is pushed out a window however the scene is not graphic and doesn't involve any main/likeable characters
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Yes
58
No
2
2
Johannaisamazing
Someone set himself on fire
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Yes
47
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3
1
spacedirt
not on screen, but a child does have seizures.
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Yes
7
No
46
1
goblinproblems
no, but a couple people are dug up.. one of them having been pretty freshly put in the ground
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Yes
67
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6
5
sashashec
Yes, in season 8 episode 11, Debbie has a welding accent where a heavy pipe falls on her foot. She needs a surgery, but it's too expensive, so she tries to do it herself and passes out in the process. While she's unconscious, Frank walks in and does it for her, cauterizing the wound with a cigarette lighter.
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58
Yes
0
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66
0
chandlersmallett
no, but it is mentioned in season 8
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Yes
2
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16
Yes
37
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1
1
413X
Several main characters that are children (some played by adults) are shown having active sex lives. When played by an adult actor the sex is shown, when played by a minor it cuts to a new scene before anything exremely explicit happens.
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Yes
26
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3
0
one of the characters is bipolar and takes one of the baby’s but none of them get hurt
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Yes
60
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3
2
spacedirt
yes, but it is not a main character.
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0
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17
Yes
2
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6
Yes
5
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0
0
Many characters pass in the season. Including a grandmother, mother and father. Also a character runs a hospice home for a short period of time.
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Yes
46
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4
0
hallmarkcats
In season 3 of Shameless, Sheila tries to join an Down Syndrome Advocate group that calls it's self R-SlurNation. Througout this arc the R-word is used frequently by basically everyone.
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37
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2
0
TooTiredForUserNames
While if happens several times throughout the series, Franks are mentioned a lot he is shown in the hospital alot for it.
Liam is also known for overdosing on coke, season 4 episode 5. This might be particularly disturbing as Liam is a toddler.
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Yes
63
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4
3
Dorianaz9
season 1 episode 3, Carl burns his own toys in the toaster
season 1 episode 7 Carl electrocutes a doll offscreen.
S1 ep 12 Fiona accidentally steps on a toy. No child witnesses this.
S2 ep 4 Debbie breaks a doll to de-stress at the start of the episode
I will update as time goes by
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Yes
4
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0
Yes
81
No
2
1
alyssalol
one of the main parents in the series die
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Yes
80
No
3
4
In episode 4 season 1 Debbie kidnaps a little boy
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Yes
87
No
1
3
medsjj
multiple characters cheat multiple times
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Yes
77
No
3
1
Anonymus
there are many scenes in the shower, in the bath or on the toilet.
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Yes
0
No
1
Yes
1
No
56
1
Johannaisamazing
There is an episode where someone think he hears ghosts, but it's fake
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Yes
1
No
65
Yes
8
No
4
Yes
14
No
4
Yes
1
No
58
Yes
59
No
14
4
mickkmilk
in season one, eddie jackson (karens dad) collects figures and other stuff of clowns. they are shown in a couple of episodes, but not after season 1
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1
Sarawatchesthings
Franks soils himself accidentally while sleeping but it's quickly skipped over and isn't focused on very long
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Yes
7
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42
Yes
129
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2
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sienna_119
watching for the first time and seeing as theres no time stamps i’ll write down whatever i don’t manage to skip in time
season 1:
-episode 9 when frank and a woman wake up after the woman starts crying she throws up into frank’s lap
season 2:
-episode 5: this whole episode frank has a vomit stain on his shirt, it’s not graphic but knowing that it was intended to be vomit made me a little uneasy. towards the end of the episode little hank says he thinks he’s going to be sick but he doesn’t actually throw up. at the very end of the episode as music is playing and lip is walking away a man vomits from what i saw fairly graphic but i tried to look away before seeing anything
season 3:
-episode 2: debbie tells fiona steve/jimmy is puking in the washroom and as fi gets closer the noises start VERY graphic and it cuts to inside and he is gagging himself to make himself throw up…tried to skip as much as i could but VERY graphic
-episode 8: right after fiona says “guess we’ll call the landlord and tell him we’ll take it” it lasts a while
-episode 12: when frank and lip are skating AROUND 30:55 lip goes to the side of the rink and starts coughing it’s fairly graphic and then frank says “domino effect” and close up of him vomiting blood it looks very fake but could still be triggering and in the back you can see lips vomit
season 4:
-episode 1: veronica says she thinks she’s gonna be sick and runs to the washroom, audio only.
-episode 3: they lead drunk mike to the bathroom and prop him up on the toilet it is very obvious he’s going to throw up.
-episode 7:
sammy bring in burger king for frank and he yells at her to get it out of the ro then cuts to a quick scene of him throwing up. followed by it slightly visible on the sheets
-episode 10: fiona says she’s gonna puke she opens the car window and throws up
season 5:
-episode 11: (tgis is all an assumption cause i fast forwarded this whole part) but i THINK bianca id sick in the bathroom around 44:47 if thats the case it is just audio no visuals you just see frank outside the bathroom and tou can turn the vokume up once bianca comes out, i cant speak to how grapphic the sounds are because i didnt hear them cause i muted way before ir happened
season 6:
-episode 4: right after fiona asks if sean wants something to eat
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74
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3
Yes
0
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0
Yes
0
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2
Yes
14
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4
Yes
34
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10
1
413X
A central character in the first season is a police officer and painted in a good light
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Yes
6
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1
Yes
4
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0
Yes
10
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3
0
Ichebi
S5
E11
only mentioning and disclosure of the cheating
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55
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2
3
mickkmilk
in season 5 there are mentions of electro therapy surrounding ians brief time in a mental institution and carl tries it on ian by throwing a toaster in the pool (toaster was not connected so nothing happened).
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Yes
76
No
1
2
alyssalol
monica is diagnosed with a brain tumor, frank starts dating a young doctor with cancer who eventually dies and another one of frank’s lovers named dottie is terminally ill and dies during sex
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5
NC98
One part of Ian's storyline in season 5 takes place in a mental institution.
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Yes
71
No
3
2
sorrow
needles are use for drugs throughout the show
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Yes
76
No
1
3
NC98
Several hospital scenes throughout the show.
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Yes
14
No
42
1
Sarawatchesthings
No, however, there is use of the r-word in S10
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Yes
0
No
1
Yes
62
No
4
3
FreyaRosheen
S1 E2 one of the children is shown having a panic attack
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Yes
5
No
4
Yes
6
No
24
0
TheGay
There is a scene where Debbie chews with her mouth wide open, but not to much audio
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Yes
71
No
4
2
mitty
s1ep12 timestamp 42:40-43:05 eddie commits s*icide by drowning
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Yes
36
No
3
1
girr
basically everyone in the show
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6
shr3k
there is a brief mention in season 6 i believe of ian starving himself
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Yes
15
No
31
3
About the trans charecter. That would be body dysphoria not body dysmorphia
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Yes
77
No
3
3
NC98
Monica cuts her arms open in Season 2's Thanksgiving episode.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Yes
43
No
4
Yes
40
No
4
0
Ichebi
S5
E12
mentioning of claustrophobic situation
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Yes
0
No
9
Yes
28
No
2
1
Anonnnn
The Monica scene mentioned in another comment is extremely explicit. She goes to the kitchen during dinner and slashes her wrists. The family runs in and all see her with blood everywhere, it’s very traumatizing for everyone.
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Anonymus
(tw!! self harm and violence) a bipolar mother and son act out a lot. for example the son burns a van, gets into fights, and threatens to shoot people. the mother causes self harm and slits her wrists.
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Yes
44
No
3
1
Sarawatchesthings
There are multiple club scenes through the show where flashing lights are used
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2
TooTiredForUserNames
all through out the series. Pretty much every episode and series however season 11-10 is more lighthearted about it, more just classics swears and terms then offensive language to specific groups.
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Yes
51
No
1
0
Sarawatchesthings
This happens many times through the show, mainly in the first few seasons when Liam is still a baby and Debbie runs a daycare
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Yes
34
No
2
4
aspen_giggle
at the beginning of every episode, a character will talk to the viewer and catch them up on what happened in the last episode.
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Yes
1
No
1
1
TooTiredForUserNames
Yes, we see baby Liam in the early seasons. Season 5 , you can see baby yevgeny. Season 3-4ish V and V’s mom will both be pregnant and time to time we see V’s mom son. And we will see Amy and Jenna in almost all episodes after they are born. Debbie will also get pregnant with Franny season 6, and have her with her in every episode after that. Tami will be seen pregnant with Freddy and you will see him from then forwards. Karen also has her baby. And lip will interact with some babies at a play group.
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Yes
0
No
48
2
Sarawatchesthings
No, however a character does almost die after labour
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Yes
67
No
2
4
NC98
Fiona gets an abortion in Season 6.
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Yes
65
No
3
1
NC98
Debbie goes into labour in Season 6. She gives birth on the Gallagher's kitchen table.
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Yes
18
No
5
Yes
47
No
3
2
leeshark
Karen has an early miscarriage in Season 6 episode 5 and Kelly has a late one in season 9 episode 2
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1
Anonymus
there is one episode about saying the ‘r-word’
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Yes
65
No
3
5
NC98
Micky was homophobic to Ian at the beginning of the show. This homophobia was internalised due to his cruel upbringing.
Micky's dad is homophobic & forces him to sleep with a woman.
In season 5 Micky & Ian fight Micky's dad & while getting arrested Micky rubs in the fact that he's been in a sexual - & at that time also romantic - relationship with Ian for several years.
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4
BeeboIsHigh
A main character's dad is a n**i and anti-semitic symbols are shown throughout the show.
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Yes
1
No
6
Yes
43
No
3
0
Johannaisamazing
In Season 7
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anikandem
to add on to the previous comment, the boy wasn’t actually transgender. his mother wanted a daughter so she dressed him up in girl clothes and told him that he was a girl.
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Yes
54
No
3
2
sereqnity
season 3 episode 8 a white guy says it
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Yes
55
No
3
0
irritableowlsyndrome
Frank mocks his buddy as a "fat j***a"
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Yes
0
No
48
Yes
74
No
3
4
Johannaisamazing
Mickey's dad is homophobic and he insults his son everytime he sees him
.Also, Yanis hates on his lesbian neighbors
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Yes
34
No
3
Yes
12
No
5
Yes
0
No
0
Yes
24
No
0
0
ian has many relationships with older men up to season 4/5
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1
A main character is shown throughout her “journey to lose her virginity”
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Yes
58
No
3
7
irritableowlsyndrome
Steve's family kiss each other in a not family-like manner, Kevin's foster daughter attempts to have sex with him since she was raised in a cult (he rejects her), Karen's father has a creepy obsession with her sex life, Karen comes on to Frank multiple times despite dating his son and Frank sleeping with her mother and eventually has sex with him. Frank, being himself, was definitely not sober though was enthusiastic.
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Yes
0
No
8
Yes
31
No
0
0
TooTiredForUserNames
All through out the series, although most of the seasons have genitals covers other than breasts. There are about Two or three scenes you can see genitals
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Yes
25
No
1
Yes
85
No
1
5
Johannaisamazing
In almost EVERY episode
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Yes
17
No
3
Yes
15
No
0
Yes
12
No
4
1
TooTiredForUserNames
S11
Yes Frank Gallagher in season 11 is diagnosed and shows signs and symptoms
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Yes
9
No
5
-1
There are both pro and anti abortion themes in multiple episodes
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Yes
28
No
3
1
aspen_giggle
yes, multiple characters become homeless throughout the show and in the later seasons, several homeless people get a chance to become the mascot for a beer company and have to compete in various challenges.
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Yes
0
No
10
Yes
0
No
35
8
TheGay
No but if the child is this young that’s the least of your worries
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Yes
13
No
22
7
Anonymus
this is an opinion-based question
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Yes
25
No
2
Yes
46
No
4
1
MayaYousri
S9
E6
Fiona gets hurt in a car accident at the end of this episode (9x06) and it becomes a major subject of the following episode as well.
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Yes
27
No
3
0
Johannaisamazing
Not graphic
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Yes
58
No
3
4
Johannaisamazing
Quite graphic IMO
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Yes
54
No
2
2
NC98
Several altercations end with a bloody nose, blood in the face or a facial injury like a broken nose.
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Yes
1
No
45
2
chandlersmallett
not nuclear but there are explosions
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Yes
57
No
2
1
Anonymus
a recurring theme throughout the show.
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Yes
47
No
4
2
medsjj
in season one episode 12, shiela’s husband attaches something heavy onto his leg and then drops himself into an icy lake.
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