This book is a classic example of being willing to go way, way… way too far to be funny. Nearly everything in this very lengthy section below is an attempt to bring humor.

There is a surprising bit of more adult like content scattered throughout

• An older doctor woman asks about a superhero, “Did you say his whole body could stretch?” (the author makes sure we don’t miss the reference by making Rick make a big. When this woman is asked what her husband would say, she says “you don’t even want to know”.
• Rick refers to this older woman as “hottest hottie” and we hear the comment, “If I was 30 years younger and had it to do all over again, well…”
• An achievement is titled “Baby Daddy”
• Rick calls a narrator voice “a little sexy”
• Upon arriving in a pub a barmaid is said to “fill out” her outfit in a way that “set my mind a wanderin”. Rick tells her his name is “definitely not Dick” and then adds “I can’t believe I just said that… and to a lady!”
• A creature is said to show off “boob cleavage”
• Says an enemy may give him an “STD cocktail”
• When scared he says “I’m pretty sure my testicles tried to crawl into my butt”.
• A character says “Hold my staff” to which Rick thinks that an "inappropriate snarky comment comes to mind”
• When his pants rip in battle Rick calls it a “walking peep show”
• He later comments, “Gail didn’t need beer goggles to make her pretty”. After several drinks they start to kiss passionately and fall all over each other before being interrupted.
• The term “horny” is used, as is “ejaculation”
• Rick comments on Gail’s “bum” while flirting
• Speaking of the patrons of the bar she works at, Gail shares that they often “take in my shape and imagine all kinds of steamy things”.
• Rick says a girl has huge eyes, then jokes, “ha, you thought I was going to follow ‘huge’ with something else”
• When fighting with Gail, Rick says the money he is about to make would “probably be the only scoring I’d be doing anytime soon”.
• He awakes to a woman who has her “robes distinctly parted revealing much of her chest”
• In one of our least favorite lines of the book (saying a lot), Rick explains she “wasn’t raised to jump into the sack with just anyone. While my parents weren’t super strict or religiously domineering, they did their best to live by the Good Book, and they taught me to do the same.” adding that “marriage was sacred”. Then on the heels of that he adds, “Yes, yes, I was in a fraternity… and yes, I definitely bent the rule a few times in college and beyond. Still, I had good intentions and I tried. Sara had been different from any random frat party hookup.” So, there’s that.
• Later heavy bedroom flirting escalates quickly and the book heavily implies Rick and Gail sleep together. The next chapter shows they didn’t go through with it and he is upset.

There is so much focus around cursing. While the worst words are not mentioned the book brings so much attention to this:

• A woman curses and Rick informs us it wasn’t a “run-of-the-mill s-bomb or f-bomb”.
• As the story unfolds, the game Rick is in penalizes him for cursing. The author uses this to bring even more focus on this language, as Rick badly wants to curse so he eventually starts filling in other nonsense words to take the place of his go-to curse words. E.g., “Holy dweffin fark!”
• To distract himself from bad news, Rick chooses to read a list of banned curse words and he says he “dreamed of curse words”.
• Rick makes a joke that references Chris Rock and George Carlin, two comedians notorious for profanity and inappropriate content in jokes.
• We see “What the —-”, “Son of a b—--”, “Oh, Sh–” (shown as we have it here)
• The following terms are used: “pissed off”, “impressive as hell”, “Where the bloody hell did it go?”, “I see Uranus” (joke), “What the…”, “I make a mental note not to piss him off”, “not hostile… unless you piss her off”, “hell bound”, “screw despair", “bastard”, “It’s eerie as hell”, “I’ll be damned”, “like a bat out of hell”, “arse”, “screwed”, “screw that”, “pissed”, “badass”, “pissant”, “whoop-ass”, “pissed off”, “FUBAR”, “pissed the bed”, “wear your sorry ass out”, “evil bastard”, “apparently my subconscious had more balls than my conscious”. There are flippant uses of things like “Dear God in Heaven”, “holy biscuits and gravy”, “holy biscuits”, “holy smokes”, “Holy Shin Kickers”

There is a high amount of alcohol related content as well. This mixed with the attempts at humor makes light of the drunkenness:

• Rick meets two drunk characters who invite him to join them for ale. They get sick to their stomach and one comments that this, “made room for another pint… or three”.
• Rick drinks beer and calls it tasty
• Rick comments he is “red-bull-chaser-awake”
• Reference to a “shot of bourbon”
• As the strange plot events unfold, Rick wonders if it isn’t real and that in fact he had really gotten “rip-roaring drunk” and was dreaming.
• Rick has a drink affect him more than he expected and begins showing signs of being drunk and he sadly says he feels “amazing”
• Drinking again later, he references "Milwaukee's Best” and calls another drink “the nectar of the gods”
• When drinking again later in the story, Rick and another character drink an ale and rave about how amazing it is. He again drinks far too much.
• Rick comes to a new town and again heads to a bar.
• In a really sad addition considering the audience, Rick remarks, “I thought I could actually feel new chest hairs sprouting” after drinking a strong drink.

In the middle of the lighter, meant to be funny feel we see moments that are more serious / scary

• There is an earth destroying cataclysmic black hole event early on that actually may frighten some readers.
• We read “Millions – billions – died”
• There is an ongoing set of fantasy violence that at times get a bit graphic.
• Another comment, “For all we knew, he could lead them into the woods and murder them all.
• Rick wrestles with a terminal cancer diagnosis, which is heavy in flashbacks.
• The final villain is said to “hold you beneath the murk, and feed upon your corpse.

Christian parents won’t need to hear more, but here are some additional things we found

• The endorsement references “Deadpool” and includes a joke about multiple people having a “love child”. Other references include the horror movie “Event Horizon” (called a very underrated movie), Independence Day
• Rick starts to wrestle with a darker form of magic they call necromancy
• A theory from outspoken atheist Stephen Hawkins is shared.
• Rick shares a quote from Macbeth, “"Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
• Reference to “sphincter”
• Blames calling a girl hot on his “dang lizard brain”
• Goblins are said to “like to go for your crotch… with their teeth”. We also hear of an "aluminum bat to the family jewels”, “You kicked him in the b—-”, “swift kick in the nards”
• Rick remembers a “frat party from back in the day”.
• Rick says a weapon’s looks gave it “a wicked, mischievous quality that made you want to explore its contours to find out its secrets”
• Rick remarks, “I’d gladly roll around naked in a grove of poison ivy”
• Really sadly, Rick mentions having “monster movie figurines”, specifically calling out Leatherface, Chucky and others.
• The following are referenced: Animal House, Labyrinth, Short Circuit, The Princess Bride, Gremlins, Ghostbusters, The Breakfast Club, Munsters, John Wick, A-Team/Mr. T., David Bowie, Close Encounters, Indiana Jones, Saturday Night Fever, Rick Simmons, Aerosmith