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COUGAR TOWN

ABC Wednesday, at 930 ET

 PTC Summary:

Production Companies: Doozer and Coquette Productions in association with ABC Studios
Producers: Bill Lawrence, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Kevin Biegel, Thea Mann, Randall Keenan-Winston
Creator: Bill Lawrence

Cougar Town stars Courtney Cox as Jules, a newly single mom re-entering the dating scene. Jules must balance her dating with her friendships, career, and being a mother to her teenage son.

Cougar Town is replete with sexual content. After a neighbor doubts Jules’ ability to date a younger man, she tries to prove to him that she is desireable to younger men by flashing a teenaged boy on a morning paper-route. Later, Jules’ teenaged son comes home to find her performing oral sex on a man she met at a nightclub. Further, middle-school aged boys are shown stealing yard signs which feature Jules advertising her real estate business while in a provocative pose. Her son informs her that the boys are stealing her signs so they can look at them while they “pleasure themselves.” Language is also a problem in the series. The show featured unbleeped language such as “whore”, “bitch”, “hell”, “damn”, “screw”, and an obscene reference to a woman’s genitalia. Violence is mild. In one scene, Jules’ son is teased by a classmate about the signs that show his mother baring her cleavage. Travis grabs the sign from his classmate’s hands and beats the high-schooler with the sign.

Cougar Town is not appropriate for viewers under 18.

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Show may include gratuitous sex, explicit dialogue, violent content, or obscene language, and is unsuitable for children.

The show contains adult-oriented themes and dialogue that may be inappropriate for youngsters.

Family-friendly show promoting responsible themes and traditional values.

Not yet rated by the PTC.


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