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JamesHowardCrow ago

Comparing Family guy to bambi is ridiculous.

Do you watch family guy?

The characters on family guy don't have personalities they have traits they need to exhibit for 15-30 seconds so a joke lands...

Def reading too much into this

EDIT: Also the PTC is a censorship organization that has stifled creative development in this country for far too long. If you think something is inappropriate don't watch it, don't think it is appropriate for your kids-BE A PARENT

Psalm100 ago

Your reply is what's ridiculous.

Apparently "Family Guy" is a sacred cow of yours, but it's an evil show that portrays evil things, and it's central to the show to involve children in those evil things.

Edit: PTC isn't a "censorship organization." If it wasn't for people you call "censors" we'd already have videos like the alleged Podesta "Fatherhood" video on tv.

Please type out for me some of the sexual content involving the child characters on that show that you know of, right here, right now. If it's so innocent, you shouldn't have any trouble promoting it, being proud of it, and standing behind it.

rwb ago

I will watch a few minutes of South Park or Family Guy here and there, clinically, to have a more informed world view of what people are exposing themselves to. One scene on South Park had the teacher ask the sex ed. class which positions they were aware of. Five were named by different kids. Two I knew, and the other three I had to look up in the Urban Dictionary. They described unspeakable acts involving two people and excrement. I have seen things just as bad on Family Guy. I'm no prude, but the producers of these shows and those that run the government agencies that have deregulated TV/obscenity laws need serious prison time by my reckoning, for exposing impressionable minds to the worst things man can imagine.

Psalm100 ago

Please see my latest edit. It describes some pedophilia "jokes" on FG.

JamesHowardCrow ago

Do any of those jokes make the pedophile out to be anything but a weird creep?

Psalm100 ago

You have the answer to that. The show is sharing pedophile-themed jokes with its viewers.

JamesHowardCrow ago

Do nazi themed jokes support nazis?

Like most religious fanatics you seem to have difficulty distinguishing depicting something from endorsing it....

Psalm100 ago

The smear tactics aside, you're falsely separating depiction and endorsement. It all depends on the presentation. People get off on the fact that it's a baby saying and doing these things. That's a part of it, and that's what's the matter with it, whether someone is willing to admit that or not.

JamesHowardCrow ago

People don't "get off" they find it funny because it is a role reversal. Kinda like John Goodman in King Ralf

Psalm100 ago

Like I said, what's the appeal of laughing about Michael Hutchence's death, and teaching young people especially to be callous like that? Just to be clear, since you're so intent on attacking me personally, I wasn't any sort of fan of Michael Hutchence. I liked a few INXS songs way back when, but I liked many popular songs at the time. The point is treating someone's death that way, that it's merely nothing more than a punchline.

JamesHowardCrow ago

The point is to produce 20+ episodes of a show as quickly and cheaply as possible. Having been in a very similar writers room I can tell you right now what happened.

One writer either really likes or really hates INXS and came up with a joke about it. Everyone else either thought it was passable or just really wanted to go home.

markrod420 ago

These are adult television shows. For adults. If impressionable minds are watching these shows its because of poor parenting and it's really not the fault of the shows. Adult humor is fantastic and I would never want to see it taken off the air. You don't like your kids watching it then raise your fucking kids you loser. Don't try to take it away from everyone else just because you are a prude who doesn't take the time to know what their kids are watching.

rwb ago

The definition of a loser is someone justifying shows that openly allude to defecating in someone's mouth being shown to kids during the day on MTV or Much Music while the parents are off doing their own thing. Further, if you find that kind of humor fantastic, you have really bad taste. It's everyone's fault, the producers for making it, the networks for showing it, you for consuming it, and the rest of us for not marching on Hollywood and D.C. with pitchforks.

markrod420 ago

Lol. Weak minded people can't handle dark humor. To the extent that you think we should be killing people over dark humor. You are very weak minded.

rwb ago

On the contrary, real strength is knowing there are certain boundaries that should not be transgressed, in comedy, cartoons, books, movies, whatever, like the one I just described. Look man, I'm 51, and I've seen it all. My opinions have changed drastically over the years. Here's wisdom. It's far more difficult to write clean comedy, and those that can do it have great minds. Really dark humor is a cop out, a shortcut for the weak minded writer. Anyone can do it, just say or portray something so outrageous that the nervous shock response will be triggered in the listener/viewer. The mechanism that usually causes one to laugh at an outrageous joke is the subconscience telling you that you really should not be laughing, but rather heading for the door.

JamesHowardCrow ago

Gallows humor has been a thing since the invention of writing if your life is nice enough not to need it good for you- Now stop trying to censor comedy!

Psalm100 ago

I'll do that, too. That's how I ended up watching a few episodes of Family Guy. As I said, I wouldn't even want to describe the sexual things I saw on those three episodes that involved children. It was graphic content that would be too graphic for live action television even if the behavior just involved adults, much less children.

Family Guy and South Park are like cartoon pornography.

And I recall that some of the commercials I saw while Family Guy was on were child-focused, with children in them. One ad had children on skateboards. That shows they know what they're target audience is.

JamesHowardCrow ago

"It was graphic content that would be too graphic for live action television even if the behavior just involved adults, much less children."

CONGRATS you are starting to understand where things fall on the real to pretend scale!

Psalm100 ago

Rationalization. By your standards, even a non-fiction book is "pretend" too.

JamesHowardCrow ago

No those things actually happened. Your problem seems to be much more severe than I thought.

Psalm100 ago

No, the problem is with you but you don't see it. You missed the point. You defined something as real if only if actual live people were involved. A book is mere print.

JamesHowardCrow ago

Live action people makes it more realistic but by no means real. SEEK HELP!

We can accept an animated character doing things that are physically impossible (loony toons) because animation isn't realistic.

Psalm100 ago

Was it real when Family Guy joked about the death of Michael Hutchence? That was in one episode I saw, the Stewie character saying to the dog, "you're going all Michael Hutchence on me" when the dog is being strangled.

JamesHowardCrow ago

No it was a lazy joke...Had they depicted the scene in live action and advertised specifically to get children to watch you would have an argument that they were going for realism...

Psalm100 ago

No, they treated a person's real death as a joke, a horrible thing to do. As I said, blatant sociopathy and Satanism.

JamesHowardCrow ago

Now you are confusing "things that are in bad taste" with satanism....Do you think wearing white after labor day honors the lord of darkness?