Moderate
15 of 36 found this moderate
The "Care Bears Movie" review features a child molestation joke.
Anytime nudity is in a film it is censored. Sex is shown as long as no nudity is.
The critic makes many sexual jokes.
The critic will call people pervs if they talk about 'balls'
The critic reviews Milk Money, a PG-13 rated romp about a group of boys wanting to see a woman in full nudity.
In his review of "The Last Airbender" the critic calls the Princess' hair phallic and uses a joke that says "Hey what does she use for a headband, a censor bar?"
Moderate
16 of 30 found this moderate
The two "Chart Guys" (Analysts) shoot themselves in the head to commit suicide during the "Cat in the Hat" review.
A character called "Malice" (a parody of Tim Burton's Alice) is featured, who is very violent, psychotic, and carries a knife. At one point she attacks and stabs a character; while the death is off-screen, it is heavily implied that she cut his crotch off and eviscerated him. He screams, while the Critic watches.
In the Banana Splits Movie episode, there is infrequent gore and bloody violence.
All comedic of course but the show involves critic blowing the heads off characters he doesn't like and getting killed himself.
In the "Battlefield Earth" episode, he bashes a hammer on his head in pain during his mental breakdown. However, it's not shown and is done for comedic purposes.
In one episode the critic talks about the ways he was prevented from committing suicide.
In some episodes (Home Alone 3, Mr Nanny) he comments on scenes being exceedingly violent, especially for kids movies.
The critic's anger causes a building to blow up in the Quest for Camelot episode.
Severe
26 of 36 found this severe
There is some scatological humour; the intro for "Sequel Month" features Nostalgia Critic's head spinning around in a toilet bowl while fart noises play, and the review for "Playing With Fire" features a repeated scene of a child defecating into a man's gas mask. The "Bridge to Terabithia" review features fart noises and people on the toilet.
More recent episodes have contained less profanity (occasional use of shit, son of a bitch and asshole), and less frequent use of the f word, as opposed to previous seasons.
Strong, but needs some getting used to.
Older seasons featured deliberately frequent and over-the-top profanity in the episodes. More current seasons have dropped this gimmick, although episodes still contain swearing infrequently.
The critic is very creative with his cursing; for example, an annoying internet troll is named Douchey McNitpick (who appears in the Fuckups episodes no less) A one time character (who appears only in his Sonic review) is named Fuckup McDumbass. He also describes Ninja Turtles 3 as "horribafuckus"
He also comments on language being too harsh for PG-rated movies (Warriors of Virtue, Richie Rich). Also in his Doug's First Movie review, he asks why "funkytown" sounds like "fuckytown".
He makes a guy call his sister a twat in one episode. "The WORST Christmas Special Ever".
While reviewing Les Misérables, the critic exclaims Jesus's name in vain
In "A Christmas Story 2" Mike Jeavons almost says "c*nt" but is cut off mid-word
Moderate
15 of 26 found this moderate
He plays the Stephen King drinking game in his It review.
He has a top 10 drug psa episode.
He yells "You are on meth" in the Doug's First Movie review.
He also referred to We're Back as "Land Before Time on crystal meth".
He and his young self boos the screen during the scene in "Scooby-Doo" when they're roasting burgers but it looks like bong smoke.
In that same review, he says "Dude you should totally meet Mary Jane's sister!...POT!"
In the review for "Reefer Madness", Chester A. Bum makes a cameo and proclaims that due to the effect the film had on him he has quit marijuana and instead will be switching to crack and holds up a ziploc back filled with a white substance. He then sticks his face in the bag and inhales loudly.
Mild
17 of 29 found this mild
It should be noted that "Nostalgia Critic" is a fictional character and a sort of parody of Doug Walker; Walker himself is not as extreme as the Nostalgia Critic character, and often includes interludes and credits videos where his real self is present.
The recent passing away of Doug and Rob Walker's real-life mother is referenced heavily in the conclusion of a video review. The scene is quite emotional, intense, and may upset some viewers.
There is a vague reference to the September 11th Attacks in the "Home Alone 2" review; Nostalgia Critic notes that seeing shots of the Twin Towers is uncomfortable, and other characters make comments referring to truther theories.
For teens/adults.
Mild/Moderate in a lot of episodes.
In one episode he reviews a movie with an ugly scene and is shown having a seizure as a joke, but luckily takes some medication.
Overall a coarse, satirical, and hilarious YouTube channel.
Common sense media age rating: 16+
None/Mild for neurodivergent viewers.
The garbage pail kids in his garbage pail kids review could give adults nightmares.