- Moderate
- There are some dangerous situations such as gunfights, fist fights, Moe threatening people with weapons such as guns, knives, etc.
- Some episodes feature blood and gore.
- Non-dramatic comedic slapstick violence may occur throughout the show.
- Throughout the show, whenever Bart does something rude, inappropriate or annoying, Homer would start strangling Bart and then he says "Why, you little...!" This is a running gag and is intended to be funny, but it may disturb some viewers.
- In the annual Treehouse of Horror episodes, over the top, extremely gory horror-violence is often shown but it is always meant to be comedic.
- One episode shows a kid assaulting a mailman, at the end of the short scene, the kid slits his throat with a letter. A little blood is shown.
- The older episodes have nothing more than some scrapes and a little blood, but most seasons around the teen seasons have more gore.
- Barely any grown man such as Homer is shown strangling his son a lot in the series, but it's not violent and played for comedic effect.
- A decent amount of episodes a season are gory and bloody
- Unnecessary violence but it's funny
- Very cartoony and funny, blood murders and su*cide references in there Halloween specials but it's more funny then scary or gory but kids might find it gory.
- Every episode has Frequent Slapstick and Cartoon Violence: Car crashes, explosions, practical jokes, injuries, schoolyard bullying, but not very violent. However in Halloween specials are Particularly Violent, with animated disembodied limbs and heads, blood, and gore.
- The scenes where the kids watch their favorite cartoon, there is some extreme over the top violence. Lots of blood and gore is featured. The cartoon is only featured for very small sections of some episodes, but a few episodes have it be part of the plot.
- The Simpsons of violence and gore is less violent and tamest than a Family Guy, South Park, and Rick and Morty.
- Many episodes contain comic animated violence, including blood.
- A show-within-a-show, titled "Itchy & Scratchy", itself a parody of Tom and Jerry, includes uncompromising scenes of violence, including blood, gore and viscera.
- The annual Treehouse of Horror episodes (which are non-canonical) also contain such violence, but often involving more prominent characters of the series. These episodes generally contain instances of over-the-top bloody violence (including images of gore, viscera, decapitation and mutilation).
- While violence on the show is cartoonish and intended to amuse, as opposed to horrify.
- In "Treehouse of Horror" episodes,some characters can be killed (though,later,in non-Treehouse of Horror episodes,they shown to be alive).
- An older treehouse of horror episode has a gas remove all skin. The Simpson family is seen dancing around with no skin. Pretty gory and long. Lasts for the credits.
- One episode has Ned Flanders create a movie about the Bible. He makes it gory. One scene has a kid with his eye falling out. One scene has somebody sacrificing himself by cutting himself in half vertically. One of the goriest scenes in the show, gorier than a lot of treehouse of horror. The scene can be very disturbing.
- Mr Burns was stabbed. It showed the blood and there was quite a lot.
- Later in the series, the violence tends to get worse (only in the Treehouse of Horror episodes) and in one of them, Lisa was a serial killer; it showed large pools of blood and organs being unattached from the body.