“I fail to see where Trig is being made fun of in this clip. Is it in other parts of the episode? Someone, please clarify the problem for me.”
HUH!! The former governor of Alaska?? Clue:The chick has Downs syndrome,Make the connection?
So you are saying that anything that reminds you that Trig has Down's syndrome is an attack on Trig? What did they say that was an attack on Trig? What did they have the character do that put Trig in a bad light?
If Family Guy was trying to prove a point, I think they just did. They got people to look at a functional Teenage Female with Down's syndrome, and immediately associate her with a baby boy with Down's syndrome, as if "Down's Syndrome" was the only important characteristic. They got conservatives to ignore everything good about the girl, and instead focus on the one "other" trait she had in common with Trig, other than the fictional "mother is the former governor of alaska".
Oddly, not one of these conservatives even thought to complain about a much more OBVIOUS conclusion they could have jumped to -- that the female is supposed to represent one of Palin's female daughters, and the "joke" would be that her daughters, and are also afflicted with a disability.
The point being that, instead of making the obvious association: "Female Daughter", they got conservatives to jump to the "Down's Syndrome". Now, was that the message Palin wants to send, that the most important characteristic of a Down's Syndrome child is that they have Down's Syndrome? That this characteristic is more important than their age, sex, or father (all of which were DIFFERENT with the character?).
It is clear what Family Guy was doing. They portrayed a Down's syndrome person as a normal person on a normal date. They made that person completely different from Trig, EXCEPT that the person had Down's syndrome.
And then they threw in "mother is the ex-governor of Alaska", so they could try to provoke Palin into attacking them. It worked, unfortunately.