A short spanking is heard behind a door.

In what may or may not be a fantasy, a gangster walks out of prison and is shot dead by people in a passing car. No blood is shown.

A teacher makes her students behave with the threat of a switch, which she cracks demonstratively.

A boy imagines being a pirate and whipping his classmates with a cat-o'-nines.

A boy is beat up by his classmates multiple times.

Nicolas' mother drinks too much wine and champagne at her dinner party and passes out.

Nicolas' father pretends to smoke a pepper grinder like a cigar.

The boys mix a potion that appears to contain, among many unsavory things, several kinds of alcohol.