President of the PTC, Tim Winter writes:
“Our organization is taking its concerns directly to every parent, every Fox affiliate and every advertiser — as well as to those whom the Congress has instructed to uphold the law: the FCC. We encourage our members and concerned citizens to contact their local broadcasters and their public servants with their complaints. Each and every advertiser who paid for this show to air will also be personally contacted by the PTC and asked if bringing orgies and bestiality into American living rooms resonates with their corporate image.”
Family Guy messing with Fox’s corporate image? Nah. When we think of the Fox corporation, the first thing that comes to mind is bestiality and orgies. Anyway, the episode isn’t terribly funny and while its message is that gay people should be loved just the way they are, the fact that all the gays seen walk around with their arms flailing about and speaking like Snaggletooth isn’t well, very funny. The brain-damaged horse was great, though.
Watch the clip on the next page.
David
Personally, I don’t think this show is ever funny. I have two brothers who both absolutely LOVE it, so I’m forced to watch it sometimes and I just don’t see the appeal.
As for the PTC, I don’t like them either haha
ChristopherJ
hahahahaha guilteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Jack
The Christians are always angry. Why can’t they be more like the Buddhists?
There’s never a lion around when you need one, is there?
tdub
i hate the show. (but like driving by a car wreck, i can’t stop looking.)
but the husband and the teenage sons LOVE it.
go figure.
Lucas
I thought the show was hilarious. I watched it with some straight friends, and I was literally dying. They all seemed pretty awkward, but I think that FG speared all of the stereotypes really well. Plus, I’m glad that they injected Peter with a ‘gay gene’ rather than just having Peter ‘choose’ to be gay. I think there was a good point in there (i.e. that being gay is genetic).
The Christians will huff and puff, but Family Guy will continue to do whatever it wants. And I’ll be watching!
dvlaries
When queerty didn’t angrily get to this right away on Monday, I thought you didn’t care.
While the show is rather consistently funny, there has always been a mean-spiritedness about it, and sooner or later, they were going to get to us the way they did on last Sunday’s episode (“Family Gay”). The 100th episode anniversary show last year featured live-action commentary by the series creator, Seth McFarland, and made it glaringly clear how full of himself he is, and the contemptuous way he beholds his own audience.
The show has never had the imagination it pats itself on the back for. If the show had created a plausible, running gay character, who was also the sex-hound Quagmire is, but without the mincing stereotypes, THAT would be daring. Of course, cowardly Fox would never let it on, but there’s always Comedy Central. Instead, the show has lazily ripped off Waylon Smithers and Montgomery Burns of The Simpsons and refashioned them into one repugnant character: the would-be molesting, next-door geezer.
Dawster
actually i thought it was the funniest episodes i’ve seen of Family Guy in a long long time….
tdubtx
our sons came and told us “ok y’all have to see family guy this week. it’s hilarious. but y’all might be mad…” lol
DaveO
@dvlaries: If the show had created a plausible, running gay character, who was also the sex-hound Quagmire is, but without the mincing stereotypes, THAT would be daring. Of course, cowardly Fox would never let it on,
Of course they wouldn’t. The outrage they would provoke from gay rights organizations over depicting gay promiscuity would be deafening.
Tallskin
The Venture Brothers are far better, even though I enjoy Family Guy.
Although I liked American Dad as well (what happened to this series?)
mikeandrewsdantescove
I wish the Christians would just seriously fcuk off. Why don’t they work on their high divorce rate instead.
Mike
Jakub – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngif38Wwhes
Robbie
This was the funniest episode of the season, if not the past few. All the homo blogs need to take a popper and loosen up.
Confused
C’mon! Laugh! It was truly funny and a great conversation piece at the office. I’m gay, proud, and can laugh with friends about the hilarity of this episode.
Ian
Seth McFarlane, creator of Family Guy, has always supported the gay community. I remember watching him on TMZ saying: “For those of you who voted yes on Prop 8, Fuck You. Get a fucking life” or something to that extent.
Here’s a good interview with The Advocate.
http://www.advocate.com/issue_story.asp?id=51793
rick
seth is god. deal with it.
RainaWeather
isn’t this the same show with the psychopath baby who always tries to kill his mother?
Eclipse
Yep. This was a good satire, plain and simple. Only the most bone-headed viewer woulndn’t see the point of the whole episode was skewering the stereotypes.
Family Guy is known for taking everything a couple steps beyond the punchline and dragging out the joke until it’s painful. That’s the point of the whole show. Just like the “guilteeeeeeeee” line from this episode. Two seconds is funny, 5 seconds in you start to squirm, and then 8 seconds later it’s funny again.
They’re not trying to be “brave” they’re trying to make people laugh. And this big queer did.
alan brickman
it was totally funny deal with it..
hardmannyc
If Macfarlane pisses someone off w/a Famly Guy episode and faces protests, somehow i think that’s exactly what he wants to do. The whole point of the show is to be insulting. There was a Holocaust takeoff a while ago much more insulting than this, and Jewish groups didn’t protest. This won’t go anywhere. As if the FCC gives a shit.
Andrew Triska
Ha! I can’t believe THIS is the episode that bugged the Christian community. “Gay men kissing” and Reagan-bashing, according to the linked article, are their complaints. What about every single profanity- and sex-filled episode in this show’s long, inglorious history? Why would they let little kids watch this show in the first place?
Sebbe
I hate this show, but dvr’d it because of this episode this week. It was all I could do to make it through it.
scandi
They weren’t upset when Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertson made out?
BombasticMo
The episode was hilarious. While it made fair use of stereotypes, they were clearly meant in the best way possible.
At one point Stewie (the baby) went on a rant against how evil the gays were. Brian the dog told him “Stewie, you can’t even read and you’re quoting the Bible.”
“Welcome to America,” responded Stewie.
(If my memory serves me, I didn’t re-watch the clip.)
They definitely slammed Christians and homophobes way more than gays.
I remarked to a friend after watching it how much it must suck to truly believe that homosexuals are ruining the media, because shows like this really sock it to ’em.
P.S. we all love orgies. I don’t think a blog that features naked dudes once a day can really complain about sex-addict stereotypes.
P.P.S. keep the naked dudes coming.
P.P.P.S (or is it P.P.S.S?) Predicatbly? Really? Firefox spell checks while you type….
kendall
They’re just now complaining about beastiality? Brian (a dog) has been having sexual relationships with women for years. I guess they didn’t notice because that’s heterosexual beastiality.
Jason
I’ll admit there are times I would rather smash my head into the tv than watch Family Guy, but sometimes it has been hilarious. Yes, the creator is overly vain (although he has a face that looks like he was a test tube baby and left in the jar too long).
I must agree with Jack (#3). The ancient Romans did not have enough lions.
geoff
Love this show, love Seth!!!! I heard the Dickheads Television Council actually wrote a letter to Seth wanting to explain himself for Sunday night’s episode,and he wrote back telling them to suck his dick. Is that true? If it is, I love him even more.
n1spirit
I found the episode of Family Guy that aired this week amusing on most levels (stereotypes exist after all, because some people ARE like that) and I found some parts of it a little offensive. Not every gay guy runs around looking for a glory hole to shove his privates through, nor are we all interested in having orgies. I’ve never been to a bath house; have no interest in doing so. Some of us are effeminate while others are not (and God help me but I’m NOT interested in fisting!) So yes, while the fodder used in the episode is perhaps accurate for some it is not accurate for all. The same can be said of stereotypes for blacks, Asians, women, men, etc.
We should appreciate the comments made by the character Lois; they were insightful and should be appreciated. (They were also obviously intended as a slap in the face of the “Religious Right” folks who have had it in for us since the very beginning.)
Sure, it “can” be argued the episode was denigrating and harmful to the further understanding and acceptance of homosexuals but for me it was just the standard “Family Guy” faire. (They make fun of everybody on that show, folks and we shouldn’t expect ’em to bend over backwards in an effort to NOT offend gay men like ourselves – lest they risk losing some of their straight audience. I think the episode was entertaining and believe there was more positive coming out of it than negative – but that’s just my opinion. Everyone is entitled to their own.)
rumpledforeskin
umm, it’s Snagglepuss, not Snaggletooth.
IsThereAmoralThreshold
I find family guy to be funny but it crosses a line, traveling from a time of puritan to amoral. We have Brian the dog fucking a human, normalizing bestiality not simply keeping tucked away to a porn fetish but rather to the point where its acceptable prime time viewing. For some people there is no right and wrong, there is no line that can not be crossed, they are driving us towards the abyss. Sure you might not find this to be the your moral line, but wait a few generations and you will see whats coming.