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Family Guy questions

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ixnay

I've never watched FG on Sun. nights on Fox, but I've looked in on it occasionally on weeknights in reruns while channel surfing. My questions...

1) Why the parental discretion disclaimer in front of every ep, which I've never seen affixed to The Simpsons?

2) Is FG political like, say All in the Family? Someone asked me this while we were both watching a promo for tonights Animation Domination block during a Fox NFL telecast today. I was unable to answer.

ixnay
 
To answer your first question, the parental advisory that precedes each episode of Family Guy is similar to the message that precedes the other Seth MacFarlane Sunday night shows on Fox lineup: they're simply a bit raunchier than The Simpsons - whose rare TV-14 rating could be affixed to a "Treehouse of Horror" episode on any given Halloween.
 
FG does bring up politics now and again. Bill Clinton is a recurring character (he's usually womanizing someone, in one episode he had an affair with Lois). There have also been episodes where a character has tried to legalize marijuana or gay marriage. As a general rule, though, politics are not part of the show.
 
Family Guy is just plainly rude. There is no way I would let my children watch this show. FX does the same thing with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. That show is very rude too. (I watch both).
 
There are more political overtones on Family Guy than there is American Dad though the dad on American Dad works in government (anything political on there is seldom mentioned) or The Cleveland Show (nothing about the President is mentioned at all). Some of Family Guy's episodes also took place in The White House, the episode where Stewie tries to kill Lois there for example.
 
Braves2005 said:
The Cleveland Show (nothing about the President is mentioned at all)
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There was a reference to Obama on the previous episode; I forgot the context, though.
 
Seth MacFarlane caught heat for the episode that air the Sunday prior to the 2008 Presidential Election. Two of the characters were back in WWII Berlin and ran into a Nazi, who was wearing a McCain-Palin pin on his uniform. As a previous poster mentioned, there have been multiple episodes about gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana.

While its obvious that Seth MacFarlane is to the left on the political spectrum, FG takes it turns poking fun at everyone, including those on the left.
 
Bill_W said:
Family Guy is just plainly rude. There is no way I would let my children watch this show. FX does the same thing with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. That show is very rude too. (I watch both).
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It is an "adult" show and your kids are probably watching stuff behind your back which you wouldn't approve of, just as you probably did when you were their age. Wake up and smell the coffee, friend.
 
Kurt Toy said:
Who voices the "viewer discretion" disclaimer?
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I believe it's MacFarlane in a derivative of his Neil Goldman (nerd) character. It's the same voice that is occasionally heard in "Animation Domination" spots.
 
sdwulfdawg said:
Bill_W said:
Family Guy is just plainly rude. There is no way I would let my children watch this show. FX does the same thing with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. That show is very rude too. (I watch both).
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It is an "adult" show and your kids are probably watching stuff behind your back which you wouldn't approve of, just as you probably did when you were their age. Wake up and smell the coffee, friend.
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Actually no. They're 5, 2, and 1. The 5 year old doesn't know how to turn on everything yet with multiple remotes needed these days to turn on everything. They're into watching Nick, Nick Jr and Disney still. Plus, the 5 year old knows Homer isn't for her yet and would rather watch childrens shows. She's really liking Boomerang too. I was not allowed to watch TV without asking permission until I was in Jr. High. We were one of the last people to get cable in the 80s and when we did, we only had it on 1 tv. I was in high school before I had to "sneak behind" my parents back. I know it will be harded to control what my children watch now, but I'll try to.
 
Bill_W said:
I know it will be harded to control what my children watch now, but I'll try to.
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Never give up trying. I won't. If it comes to it, I'll turn off the tv, or I'll only turn it on for an hour here and there when my wife is or I am controlling it.
That's how "they" [good parents] used to do it, in the Stone Age. Sometimes they knew better. :)
 
Bill_W said:
FX does the same thing with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. That show is very rude too. (I watch both).
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I enjoyed this show a lot when Fox aired some episodes with bleeps. But there's no way I'm paying for real cable.
 
Bill_W said:
sdwulfdawg said:
Bill_W said:
Family Guy is just plainly rude. There is no way I would let my children watch this show. FX does the same thing with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. That show is very rude too. (I watch both).
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It is an "adult" show and your kids are probably watching stuff behind your back which you wouldn't approve of, just as you probably did when you were their age. Wake up and smell the coffee, friend.
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Actually no. They're 5, 2, and 1. The 5 year old doesn't know how to turn on everything yet with multiple remotes needed these days to turn on everything. They're into watching Nick, Nick Jr and Disney still. Plus, the 5 year old knows Homer isn't for her yet and would rather watch childrens shows. She's really liking Boomerang too. I was not allowed to watch TV without asking permission until I was in Jr. High. We were one of the last people to get cable in the 80s and when we did, we only had it on 1 tv. I was in high school before I had to "sneak behind" my parents back. I know it will be harded to control what my children watch now, but I'll try to.
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When I was 5 I don't think there was anything on TV I couldn't watch. Though the only night I was allowed to stay up until 9:30 was when Red Skelton was on. I think that's right. So there could have been offensive stuff on later.

"All in the Family" was the only show I got the impression my parents didn't want me to watch. That didn't last too long.

I heard a comment about Lucille Ball on "Two and a Half Men" that was just uncalled for. Maybe Desi was that way, but Lucy in my eyes could do no wrong.
 
Braves2005 said:
or The Cleveland Show (nothing about the President is mentioned at all).
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The Thanksgiving episode of that show was about as offensive as anything I've ever seen on broadcast TV. I still watch the show, although sometimes i wonder why. The main focus was on Cleveland's wife's aunt actually being her uncle and Cleveland's father cheating on his wife with her/him.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Braves2005 said:
or The Cleveland Show (nothing about the President is mentioned at all).
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The Thanksgiving episode of that show was about as offensive as anything I've ever seen on broadcast TV. I still watch the show, although sometimes i wonder why. The main focus was on Cleveland's wife's aunt actually being her uncle and Cleveland's father cheating on his wife with her/him.
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I thought that one was pretty funny. Although kinda nasty.
In my eyes FG is pretty liberal on where it does get political on its show. and the Fat dumb guy (Peter) is usually shown as a conservative, though like others have mentioned it doesn't get political that often.
 
DToTheJ said:
Kurt Toy said:
Who voices the "viewer discretion" disclaimer?
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I believe it's MacFarlane in a derivative of his Neil Goldman (nerd) character. It's the same voice that is occasionally heard in "Animation Domination" spots.
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Actually, Seth Green voices Neil Goldman; John G. Brennan (one-half of the comedy duo The Jerky Boys) voices the character Mort Goldman, the father of Neil.
 
My bad, thanks for straightening that out. And...

FilmCritic3K said:
John G. Brennan (one-half of the comedy duo The Jerky Boys) voices the character Mort Goldman...
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"John G. Brennan?" Is this his new formal listing? Isn't he still credited as "Johnny Brennan" in the closing credits?
 
I'm sure I wasn't the only one who saw this, but on this past Monday's 11pm episode on Adult Swim (the one where Stewie and Brian travel to different universes), I had the close captioning on, the words that were audibly-bleeped out were actually displayed uncensored on-screen (a couple of "f-words" for instance). I'm not making a big deal of it, but I just found it pretty amusing.
 
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