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'Family Guy' jokes called 'troubling'
Baptiost Press ^ | May 20, 2015 | Baptist Press Staff

Posted on 05/23/2015 12:44:51 PM PDT by Graybeard58

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To: IluvmyKalashnikov

Is this on Murdoch’s network?


21 posted on 05/23/2015 1:17:15 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: Graybeard58

The whole show [ if you can even call it that ] has always revolved around perversion & often sexual violence so this is not new.


22 posted on 05/23/2015 1:17:42 PM PDT by Republican1795.
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To: Graybeard58

I’m usually inclined to like dark humor, but “Family Guy” long ago proved just to be little more than gratutious vileness. Its comedy has a bullying quality that always seems to particularly target the weak and less powerful. The show is almost akin to watching some old person getting shoved down a stairway.

Yeah, haha, that’s some that’s supposed to be automatically hilarious. That whole “detatched irony” context is apparently what it is going for, but it fails miserably. It lacks the necessary cleverness to even remotely attain that. All it conveys is that base meanness is innately funny. It’s a pretty rancid message for young viewers who haven’t even yet learned or developed any intellectual concept of contexts.


23 posted on 05/23/2015 1:18:05 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Beowulf9
Frankly I’m surprised any media is complaining. I thought Seth McFarland got some kind of pass from all the left.

The article was written by the Baptist Press staff.

24 posted on 05/23/2015 1:29:18 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (`)
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To: Graybeard58

Saw that after I hit post. Yes, I guess he does get some kind of pass from the left.


25 posted on 05/23/2015 1:36:24 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Graybeard58
On any given Sunday evening, half a million children watch the series, Winter said.

I guess the same old question applies: Where are the parents?

26 posted on 05/23/2015 1:45:59 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: IluvmyKalashnikov

Seth M is Brian the dog, in real life. If you know the show you know why I say that.


27 posted on 05/23/2015 1:58:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Graybeard58

Hey, PTC:

“Viewer discretion is advised.”

This is a TV show for adults, not for kids.

If El Rushbo is OK with guest appearances, then it’s OK with me.


28 posted on 05/23/2015 2:24:29 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Secret Agent Man

LOLOL!

Well played.


29 posted on 05/23/2015 3:00:03 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Graybeard58
Family Guy is just gross, and to borrow a liberal term- “mean spirited”. It is definitely NOT FOR KIDS. It shouldn't be on til 10 pm or after.

There is nothing funny about pedophilia. Just because they can go for the lowest form of so-called humor- doesn't mean they should.
Sick.

30 posted on 05/23/2015 3:13:29 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: greene66

Ditto what you said. The show is too mean to be funny. It’s meanness pulls me away from the show itself and makes me think about what a bunch of pricks its creators must be.


31 posted on 05/23/2015 3:21:53 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Pajamajan

It tries too hard to be South Park, but without any of South Park’s genius.


32 posted on 05/23/2015 3:31:09 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Graybeard58
Remember this guy?:


33 posted on 05/23/2015 3:45:00 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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To: dfwgator

South Park has had some hilarious shows- but they go too far from time to time. Family Guy rarely, if ever, leaves the gutter. I just don’t get it’s appeal. To each his own I guess.


34 posted on 05/23/2015 3:48:03 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Pajamajan

it’s=its


35 posted on 05/23/2015 3:48:55 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Salamander

;)


36 posted on 05/23/2015 5:16:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dfwgator; Pajamajan
I'm with Cartman

I hate family guy.

37 posted on 05/23/2015 5:25:26 PM PDT by BBell (Cult of the Sacred Drunken Wookiee)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Yes. Adults.

...That time when Seth entertained Andrew Breitbart's son,then had something nice to say about him:

breitbart.com

>>Seth MacFarlane, the creative force behind animated TV shows like Fox’s “Family Guy,” tweeted this on hearing about Andrew Breitbart’s passing.

“All politics aside, @AndrewBreitbart was a fun guy to have a drink with. He shoulda stuck around longer”


So Andrew called his son and handed the phone to MacFarlane, who proceeded to spend 10 incredible minutes talking to the boy as all his different characters from “Family Guy” in a tour de force personal performance that left both father and son Breitbart in awe.

After MacFarlane said goodbye, Andrew told him “I critique Hollywood liberal culture for a living, but you now have a free pass for the rest of your life. Thank you.”

>>People can very good sometimes. Here’s a toast to MacFarlane, all politics aside. You gave someone a good memory about the father who loved them that will last a lifetime. Thank you for being decent.

38 posted on 05/23/2015 5:37:43 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Graybeard58

Everything on TV is not for children.
I know this comes as a shock, but the channels are not babysitters.
They are not responsible for what you allow your child to watch.
Parents need to parent and be responsible.


39 posted on 05/23/2015 8:02:53 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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To: Graybeard58
Whether you find it funny or not... this is irrelevant. The question is about censorship. Family Guy is not a children's cartoon. They are all about shock humor. Do they, or do they not, have the right to be broadcast?

Personally, I like shock humor. I will watch Family Guy during those rare times that my TV is on and there's no NFL to watch.

40 posted on 05/23/2015 8:04:12 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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