Desperate Housewives
TV Show • 2004
ReportLooking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.
This tv show contains 35 potentially triggering events.
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Does a cat die?
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No cats doe
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Is someone tortured?
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Gabrielle’s ex stepfather tries to attack her before Carlos kills him. Angie and Danny are tied up by Patrick and and treated with a bomb, which he forces Abbie to make
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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Many people leave the show, or just the neighbourhood, without saying goodbye or having a chance to. Both from leaving the neighbourhood and dying
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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S2
E21
I Bree abandons her son at a service station.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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S4
E13
Gabrielle tries to abandon Carlos guide dog at the training centre, due to it barking when she raises her voice to Carlos. Luckily she finds her way back home
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Eddie has a abusive mother. Gabrielle’s stepfather raped and sexually assaulted both her and his other daughter and her mother was mentally abusive and did not believe Gabrielle and made excuses for him
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Is someone stalked?
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Gabrielle and her family are stalked by her abusive ex stepfather. Lynette follows Tom to Atlantic city as she believes he may be having a affair.
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Annabelle
Lots of DV throughout whole show both physical and emotional
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Quite a lot of woman get hit, slapped, shot and strangled by others
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Eddie is abused by his mother and later becomes a serial killer who strangles women who reject him. Carolyn Bigsby is cheated on by her husband and later holds a store hostage with a gun shoots Lynette in the shoulder and kills Nora
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Is someone gaslighted?
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There is a lot of secrets kept and lies told by pretty much every character in nearly every episode
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Annabelle
Lots
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Addiction
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Mike was found by Susan to be taking pills. Tom gets prescribed medical weed but lynettes throws it away
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Is there addiction?
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Bree , Andrew and Carlos all were addicted to alcohol and Gabrielle can be considered to have a shopping addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Bree Andrew and Carlos all suffer from alcohol addiction.
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Animal
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S4
E6
A possum is found dad in lynettes yard
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Is there a dead animal?
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S4
E6
A dead possum in lynettes yard
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Does a pet die?
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S4
A character waiting for her cancer results projects her feelings about her disease onto a possum invading her garden. When she gets the news that she's cancer free she goes outside and sees the possum laying dead in her yard.
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Are there spiders?
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S3
E20
Spider in a van at a reptile theme birthday
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Are there snakes?
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S3
E20
Snakes at a reptile themed birthday party
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Are there bugs?
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S3
E20
A spider is a reptile themed birthday party
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Assault
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Many woman are slapped in fights with other woman or men or as an act of domestic violence
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Is someone drugged?
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S3
E13
Alma drugs Orson and rapes him
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Is there pedophilia?
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Gabrielle was,raped by her step dad as a child. A neighbour was discovered by Lynette to have many pictures of shirtless children and teenagers in his basement
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Is someone held under water?
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S3
E15
Bree almost drowns in the bath when Gloria tries to murder her and stage it as a suicide
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Is rape mentioned?
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S1
E9
In the beginning, it is implied that Gabriella was raped by her sted-dad
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Is someone restrained?
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Some people are put in handcuffs. Patrick handcuffs angie to the bed and tied up Danny and Eddie handcuffs her husband to the bed and leaves him there so she could watch tv
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Gabrielle is reavlled to have been raped by her stepfather as was his other daughter. Brees boyfriends father tries to make a sexual move onto her while drunk. Orson is drugged and raped
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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S6
E23
Patrick ties up danny and puts duct tape over his mouth
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Annabelle
Near rape in s7finale/S8. Gabby’s stepfather tries to r her as an adult w reference to doing the same when she was a child. He is interrupted
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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S3
E5
Danielle tries to commit suicide by slitting her wrists
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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S3
E15
Gloria tries to kill Bree and she almost drowns In the bathtub
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Is someone crushed to death?
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S6
E10
A plane crashes onto the neighbourhood and runs into a playhouse set up in the street crushing it and killing one of the people inside
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Is there amputation?
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No one is amputated but one is paralysed
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Does someone break a bone?
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Penny falls out of a tree and breaks her arm. One of lynettes twin boys jumps of a balcony aiming for a pool and breaks his leg and Lynette breaks her arm
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Does someone have a seizure?
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S7
E11
Susan collapses And has a seizure
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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A finger is found in Paul youngs car. The owner of the finger, Felicia Tillman, cut of her finger to frame him for murder
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Is someone stabbed?
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Katherine stabs herself. Bree is stabbed in stomach by a bbq fork buts it a fake stomach as she is pretending to be pregnant
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Children
Does a kid die?
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S6
E11
Patrick, one of lyenettes unborn twins, who she has a fever dream growing up with cerebral palsy dies stillborn.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Gabrielle is sexually assaulted by her stepfather as was his other daughter. Danielle dresses provocatively and sleeps with her Married teacher to spite her mother. Andrew while on the street pimps himself out including with a marries teacher
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Death
Does a major character die?
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Many major charcters, including edie and Mike die
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Does a non-human character die?
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S4
E10
A possum in lynettes yard dies
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Does someone die?
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Mutiple people die
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Disability
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Many of the characters have a family member who passes or were the family member who passed
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Does a parent die?
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Carlos mother dies. Mary Alice young shoots herself. Mike dies
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Is someone kidnapped?
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MJ is kidnapped by Dave. Gabrielle calls immigration in effort to get Graces, Gabrielle’s bio daughter, mom taken away so she can keep her and technically kidnap her from the family she knew
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Does someone cheat?
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Many charcaters have been cheated on or have done the cheating
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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S8
E23
The episodes ends with the ghosts of all that dies on the show watching Susan leave wisteria lane
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Is there a shower scene?
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Many shower scenes mostly not shown the actual shower mostly the person getting out of the shower or water running
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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S1
E2
Paul young throws a toy chest, later found and discovered to have a dead body in, into river
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Are there mannequins?
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There are mannequins in shopping malls and boquittes the cast go in
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Season 1 episode 20, within first 8 minutes audio only, shes sat in new car and talking about leather smell.
Season 2 episode 11, baby v* on gabrielle and can see it on her jacket, not triggering at all tbh
Season 3 episode 6, Susan is very drunk and runs to the bathroom, audio only and super easy to see coming
Season 3 episode 16, finds out she’s pregnant and goes to bathroom - 10ish seconds later audio only, another 10ish seconds later more audio only. Found this one quite triggering, might be as it caught me off guard
Season 4 episode 1, Lynette v* in a handbag as her kid is performing in a school show around 19/20 mins, audio only
Season 4 episode 12, around 33:40 she’s kneeling down in the bathroom, audio only
Season 5 episode 3, around 35:20 kid gets up from the table and v*, audio only, not very triggering as super fake sounding
Season 5 episode 13, around 22:20 Lynette v* into the toilet, audio and slight visual. Safe when she’s out of the bathroom and on the phone
Season 5 episode 15, around 1 minute in kid v*, no visual only unrealistic sound. You can skip the first little bit of this episode and not miss anything
Season 6 episode 6, guy asks if they have a sink and runs off, few seconds later around 9:25 v* sounds no visual
Season 7 episode 1, Lynette’s baby v* on her around 15:30 after they say she has the perfect suburban family, visual and audio but not realistic
Season 7 episode 20, after trying the brownie she says ‘I need to go buy a new handbag’ then cuts to her v* into the bag outside, safe when it’s back to Tom’s office. Wasn’t /too/ awful but definitely one of the more triggering instances
Season 7 episode 23, after gaby’s stepdad is gone she leans over and v* no visual but realistic audio, safe when it’s back to in the house, found this one quite triggering!
Season 8 episode 1, Gaby has chewing tobacco, mute when she gets out of the car, v* into a bin no visual realistic audio. Safe when cuts to man in car
Season 2 episode 11, baby v* on gabrielle and can see it on her jacket, not triggering at all tbh
Season 3 episode 6, Susan is very drunk and runs to the bathroom, audio only and super easy to see coming
Season 3 episode 16, finds out she’s pregnant and goes to bathroom - 10ish seconds later audio only, another 10ish seconds later more audio only. Found this one quite triggering, might be as it caught me off guard
Season 4 episode 1, Lynette v* in a handbag as her kid is performing in a school show around 19/20 mins, audio only
Season 4 episode 12, around 33:40 she’s kneeling down in the bathroom, audio only
Season 5 episode 3, around 35:20 kid gets up from the table and v*, audio only, not very triggering as super fake sounding
Season 5 episode 13, around 22:20 Lynette v* into the toilet, audio and slight visual. Safe when she’s out of the bathroom and on the phone
Season 5 episode 15, around 1 minute in kid v*, no visual only unrealistic sound. You can skip the first little bit of this episode and not miss anything
Season 6 episode 6, guy asks if they have a sink and runs off, few seconds later around 9:25 v* sounds no visual
Season 7 episode 1, Lynette’s baby v* on her around 15:30 after they say she has the perfect suburban family, visual and audio but not realistic
Season 7 episode 20, after trying the brownie she says ‘I need to go buy a new handbag’ then cuts to her v* into the bag outside, safe when it’s back to Tom’s office. Wasn’t /too/ awful but definitely one of the more triggering instances
Season 7 episode 23, after gaby’s stepdad is gone she leans over and v* no visual but realistic audio, safe when it’s back to in the house, found this one quite triggering!
Season 8 episode 1, Gaby has chewing tobacco, mute when she gets out of the car, v* into a bin no visual realistic audio. Safe when cuts to man in car
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Is there audio gore?
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Vomiting sounds, some gunshots, screaming
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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Paul young is arrested for murder, the person was still alive, Felicia Tillman is arrested for framing Paul young for her murder, Bree is arrested as the police suspect her for murder, Gabrielle was arrested for ‘assaulting’ police.
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Loss
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Medical
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Bree checks herself into a mental health institution after having a breakdown. Carlos was sent to a institution for rehab for alcohol and zach was sent to one for drugs
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Many of the charcaters end up in hospital whether it’s for a illness, injury or pregnancy/birth
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Does someone have cancer?
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Lynette gets cancer but survives it. Karen gets cancer in the end of the series and passes at the end
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Eddie, zach, Katherine all have mental health problems and are mentally insane/unwell
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Bree and Andrew heavily drink and suffer from addiction due to stress and depression. Danielle cut herself in effort to commit suicide.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Eddie attacks women and strangled them to death for rejecting him and zach attacks and threatens Mike and Paul. Katherine kidnaps MJ and stabs herself during a mental breakdown
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Karen lays down behind a car to get someone to run her over. Danielle slits her wrists in effort to commit suicide
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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S6
E10
Katherine stabs herself and has a break down following that
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S1
E1
Mary Alice young shoots herself.
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Noxious
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Does a baby cry?
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Many babies are born or seen I. Flashbacks crying
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Is there screaming?
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There is many dramatic moments that cause screaming both from pain, anger and sadness
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Gabrielle and her family are watched by her ex stepfather. Dylan is watched by her father before he tells her the truth.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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S6
E11
One of lynettes twins are , stillborn
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Does someone miscarry?
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Gabrielle miscarrys and Lynette has a stillborn baby
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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You see a few babies being born and one of lynettes twins are stillborn
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Is there childbirth?
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Lynette, Danielle, Gabrielle, Julie and Susan all give birth during. the show
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Prejudice
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Are there fat jokes?
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Gabrielle makes fat jokes about how Juanita and Celia are obese and how she is skinny
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Danielle had a large age gap with her teacher who she sleeps with, one of lynettes twins had a affair with a married mother of his friend and Bree had a relationship with a man much younger then her
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Religious
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Gabrielle is raped/sexually assaulted by her ex stepfather as was his othe daughter, Danielle often dresses and acts provocatively to spite Bree
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Annabelle
Stepdad/daughter (not consensual)
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Is there sexual content?
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Melody0660
Plenty of sex scenes but nothing to graphic or revealing shown
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Bree hits two people with her car. Andrews hits and kills Carlos mom. Edie crashes into a pole and gets electrocuted. A car hits into the applewhites car and reveals a body in their trunk. Mike crashes into MJs kidnappers car
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Does a plane crash?
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S6
E10
A plane crashed into a residential area
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Bree hits Juanita with her car and later hits a man with her car. Brees son hits Carlos mother and kills her.
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Violence
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