Ross can be very manipulative and after cheating on Rachel declares ‘WE WERE ON A BREAK’ which becomes a running joke. It’s pretty funny but he is very much denying cheating on her when he did.
At another point Chandler thinks his girlfriend is cheating on him and when he confronts her about it she gets mad and hurt but it is eventually revealed that she was in fact cheating (with the man Chandler was worried about).
Monica’s mother is really awful at many points. She is very critical of Monica’s weight, considers her to be a failure and strongly prefers Ross. It could be upsetting for anyone with an emotionally abusive parent.
Not really but Joey has a girlfriend who jokingly punches his arm a lot. The ‘friends’ make fun of him for being hurt/upset by it because she is very small and he is supposed to be a ‘man.’ Could be upsetting for men who have been subject to domestic violence and been gaslighted on account of their masculinity.
Phoebe starts dating a cop, who gets annoyed with a bird singing outside his apartment window in the morning. Instead of simply scaring it away or closing the window he shoots and kills it. Phoebe breaks up with him pretty quickly.
In two episodes - one is awful and has it throughout. It's the episode where phoebe and Rachel are fighting on who lives with Monica and who lives with Joey.
The other episode is better. It just talks about holding one but doesn't show one. It's the episode where Rachel is scared of the swings.
in a episode Ross and rachel are facing their fears and Ross has to hold a spider however it isn’t shown it’s still in his hand but u don’t see it at all
In the plot of a later episode, there is rape by deceit. Monica and Chandler are fighting, and it is the last die she is ovulating, and they want to conceive a child. Chandler says he does not want their child to be conceived while they're fighting, and Monica appears to respect this, and they make up and have sex. As soon as they're finished, Monica admits she was lying and picks up the fight again. In a later scene it also implied that Chandler has committed rape by deceit when she says "You used to tell girls you were a Kennedy!". The fight is resolved when Joey gaslights Chandler saying "You're a guy and you got to have sex. What are you complaining about?" making a joke out of male rape victims. Overall, it is an episode that has not aged well.
There is also a tailor who sexually assaults clients in an earlier episode. All the male characters behave towards women they are attracted to in incredibly creepy ways at some point during the show. Joey removes the shower curtain when he gets a female roommate.
ross and chandler are bullied by two other men at the coffee house. they threaten to beat them up, but i don't think they ever fight. instead, they all team up to find the guy who stole all their keys.
Joeys head gets squashed in between the door of Monica’s apartment season 10 episode 8. It’s nothing gruesome and the character suffers no injury from it
No, but there is an episode when they show that Rachel has an intense phobia of "things coming close to, or touching eyes", and the others make fun of it. No eye mutilation, but they have to go to the eye doctor in several episodes (problems just mentioned, not explicitely shown).
There are other instances as well, Ross breaks his fingers in an episode, Rachel cracks her ribs, Ross almost breaks Monica's hand. There are a lot of minor injuries.
"The One with Ross's Teeth" Ross leaves tooth whitener on too long.
Phoebe gets toothache in 'The One with the Giant Poking Device.'
Neither has damaged teeth as such.
Joey's Days of Our Lives character Drake Ramoray falls accidentally down the elevator, instantly dying. The production used that as a method to cut him out of the show and the details of the body are gruesome.
There's one comment in s3e11 where Chandler comes home feeling low because he saw Janice and asks for "a rope that's 6ft long with a noose at the end" when the gang asks what's up.
no but in one of the later seasons rachel says to her sister "you do know what happened to the little girl who tried too much too fast? she died, jill."
In season 8 episode 6, The One With The Halloween Party there is a kid dressed up as a clown that comes trick or treating.
Also there is a cookie jar shaped like a clown that can be seen in the background of some episodes
In an episode Phoebe gives a massage to an old lady who dies during the session and her soul went in Phoebe. (We don’t see it when it happen)
But she leaves at the end of the episode.
Can someone please tell me what episode and when? I feel bad but I have really bad anxiety when it comes to vomit . If it's just the sound I can handle it but I can't see it. So if someone could tell me that would be great thank you so much! ?
Chandler’s dad kind of…granted it’s not really clear if they’re a gay drag queen or a trans woman so it’s possible “Helena Handbasket” is just a stage name…I don’t know?
There is a slight mention of cancer in one of the earlier seasons, Rachels Dad talks about how his boat is rusted and tells Ross that rust is boat cancer. Could be triggering for some viewers as he says it quite aggressively too.
Not quite an anxiety attack, but there's an episode where Chandler finds out Janice kissed her ex husband twice. He confronts her about it and she begins to talk and keeps making a "haaaah" noise. She says that she can't breathe and begins breathing in and out with a brown paper bag.
There's a main character that gets very upset in season 5 episode 9. He is medicated and goes on leave from work as a result. The leave lasts for at least a few episodes. Another character discusses her mothers mental illness throughout the show.
In season 7 episode 13 a man has severe depression (not a main character, not part of the show after that).
There is one episode in the first season when Chandler and a woman gets trapped in an ATM because there is a black-out. There are some other scenes where people or several people are in very small rooms, but they are not really claustrophobic.
yes and no, the middle finger is mentioned multiple times and ross and monica have a gesture they use and they say it’s giving the finger without giving the finger. in season 3, pheobe says ‘it’s a shame you can’t see what finger im holding up’
The main characters continually watch and talk about someone living in the building opposite them while they are at home. They refer to the person as the "ugly naked guy"
No slurs that I can think of but Chandler (and occasionally other characters) is routinely made fun of for acting/seeming ‘gay’ (he is not) and it can be pretty problematic.
Throughout towards Monica. Severe eating disorder content that can be very triggering with its portrayal of obesity and Monica’s new weight being used as a positive and something to aspire to
No but lots of problematic gay jokes and plot lines that portray gay people in a negative light. Chandler is often teased for seeming ‘gay’ (he is not); an episode where upon getting a female roommate Joey ‘acts like a woman.’
Ross becomes concerned at one point that his son is playing with a Barbie & is generally hostile towards his ex-wife (who left him for a woman) and her [female] partner. He occasionally gets paranoid about future girlfriends being gay.
There is a lot of kissing and "making out". Sex is not shown explicitly, but sometimes characters are shown afterwards, naked in bed. There is a lot of talk and jokes about sex, and quite a lot of times, when they watch p***o on TV in the background, and the sound effects can be heard.
characters are naked sometimes but everything important is covered up or the scene is shot waist up. most is a little side boob from a mostly-back angle
yes, basically constantly, by many characters who are supposed to be likeable. it’s always for laughs or treated so normal it’s ignored. the main theme of the entire show is pretty much single people seeking sexual partners, which can be done without objectification, but they often sexually objectify the people they’re attracted to.
joey in particular sexually objectifies even his women friends very often. it’s clear he pretty much sees women as porn objects, even his friends who he cares about and probably would like to respect/thinks he respects.
see incest answers for a particularly triggering episode with Ross sexually objectifying his cousin.
Pheobe was previously homeless and talks about her experiences frequently. She also meets people she used to know while living on the streets, including one who still might as he attempts to mug Pheobe and Ross in one episode