I find it highly entertaining that her daughter is cutting the show down. I'd eat my hat if you could prove to me she didn't watch that show every week and laughed her ass off at all the other things going on in the show. It's supposed to be tongue in cheek. It was hilarious. For those offended, that's why it's at 10pm, way past your bedtimes.
This is, after all, the show with a musical number titled "Prom Night Dumpster Baby." They have to go a ways to shock people these days, and actually I'm surprised this qualifies.
This is, after all, the show with a musical number titled "Prom Night Dumpster Baby." They have to go a ways to shock people these days, and actually I'm surprised this qualifies.
They've also done holocaust jokes, rape jokes, implied Jesus was gay (with Stewie no less), implied Jesus was a dwarf, implied Jesus was a fraud, had a baby kill his mother, had a baby dress up as Hitler. I could go on for quite a while.
It's a garbage show. South Park does satire much better.
Oh absolutely. I don't think Family Guy is garbage but on the intelligence scale South Park, especially the last 5 or 6 seasons, is one of the smartest shows on TV. And I'm dead serious.
I was at a friend's house not too long ago and his younger brother (like 14) was watching an episode and I questioned his understanding of the real jokes, not just the blood squirting out of the virgin mary's ass. I really think it takes a politically and socially aware viewer to really get all of the satire and comedy and messages in SP.
I'm not saying that it is the greatest show ever but I think Parker and Stone put a lot more meaning into SP than most people give them credit for, possibly even themselves.
The Following User Says Thank You to flip For This Useful Post:
I don't agree with your first premise. Just because Family Guy is an offensive show doesn't mean that every single thing they mention is automatically offensive. I've seen Peter play football on the show but I didin't see the NFL issuing a statement that it was offended that they were mentioned on the show.
If I came across that way it was unintentional, 100% of what family guy does is not offensive to me, and 99% of the time I hear people complain about it as being offensive I think they are wrong
Quote:
Originally Posted by flip
They've also done holocaust jokes, rape jokes, implied Jesus was gay (with Stewie no less), implied Jesus was a dwarf, implied Jesus was a fraud, had a baby kill his mother, had a baby dress up as Hitler. I could go on for quite a while.
I think that is the difference here though, people get up in arms over jokes about the holocaust or rape etc and I think they are wrong because the joke is about the situation or a type of crime. They are not making it about a specific individual.
which many people find terrible and such, I personally think its just a joke
if there was a high profile rape victim in the news and they made a joke about that person I would think that is crossing the line
but in this case they are making a joke about an individual baby with downs syndrome not just downs syndrome, they were trying to get a laugh because Sarah Palin has a child with downs syndrome. That was the basis of the joke
Oh absolutely. I don't think Family Guy is garbage but on the intelligence scale South Park, especially the last 5 or 6 seasons, is one of the smartest shows on TV. And I'm dead serious.
I was at a friend's house not too long ago and his younger brother (like 14) was watching an episode and I questioned his understanding of the real jokes, not just the blood squirting out of the virgin mary's ass. I really think it takes a politically and socially aware viewer to really get all of the satire and comedy and messages in SP.
I'm not saying that it is the greatest show ever but I think Parker and Stone put a lot more meaning into SP than most people give them credit for, possibly even themselves.
Well, the astute viewer is well aware that they go after EVERYONE. There are too many viewers out there that think Parker and Stone are beacons of comedic light for liberal North America.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
I'm fine with people getting offended at things, but complaining on Facebook is pretty lame for a politician to do. I don't understand why people can't get offended in private any more these days... but they always have to let the world know.
I mean, I have been offended by The Family Guy (still one of my favourite shows though), and I didn't feel the urge to tell everyone on the internet.
__________________
"A pessimist thinks things can't get any worse. An optimist knows they can."
PALIN: I'm not politically correct. I am not one to be a word police. ...
WALLACE: OK. But Rush Limbaugh weighed in this week. And he said this: "Our politically correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are ######s, ######s. ... I mean, these people, these liberal activists are quote, kooks." Should Rush Limbaugh apologize?
PALIN: They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh was using satire to bring attention to what this politically correct --
WALLACE: But he used the "R" word.
PALIN: Using satire. Name calling by anyone -- I teach this to my children, you teach it to your children and your grandchildren, too. Name calling by anyone, it's just unnecessary. It just wastes time.
WALLACE: But you know what some people are going to say, Governor, and have said. They say, look, when it's her political adversary Rahm Emanuel, she's going to call him out, he's indecent, apologize. But when it's a political friend like Rush Limbaugh, oh it's satire
PALIN: I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with "F-ing ######s." And we did know that Rahm Emanuel, it's been reported, did say that. That's a big difference there.
South Park had an episode about the Special Olympics where some kid with Down's was giving Cartman steroids. I don't remember Palin complaining about that episode although she wasn't alluded to in that episode in any way. I'm willing to bet that if Seth McFarlane didn't add that crack about the girl's mom being the former governor of Alaska, Caribou Barbie (love that, btw, troutman) wouldn't have said anything. It's not so much about making fun of someone with Down's Syndrome as it is about making a joke about Palin herself. Satire.
Someone should make a list of stuff that isn't funny or that we're not allowed to make fun of. That way, no one will have to get upset by cartoons ever again.
Andrea Fay Friedman, the actress, who also has Down Syndrome, that played the character of Ellen in the episode:
Quote:
I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line "I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska" was very funny. I think the word is "sarcasm."
In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.
I thought I really ought to by send you a Valentine's Day greeting today, because I fear that next year you will be forgotten by all but your most rabid and demented fans. The more we learn about you, the less impressed (and more shocked and often nauseated) we are, the more we harden our suspicion that you really ARE an empty vessel, a vacuous, amoral small-town grifter with an eye for nothing beyond the main chance, the next pay-day and the next photo-op. Sunlight, they say, is the best disinfectant, and they're not wrong. But for you, the one most sorely in need of disinfecting, sunlight has the same effect it does on vampires. It eats away at you little by little, rotting you until nothing is left. The next time I address you it won't be in the form of a Valentine's Day greeting - it'll be an anti-panegyric preached over the coffin of your political ambitions.
And it goes on like this.
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Matata For This Useful Post:
This is, after all, the show with a musical number titled "Prom Night Dumpster Baby." They have to go a ways to shock people these days, and actually I'm surprised this qualifies.
In my list of top 10 things that have made me laugh on tv, this is more than likely #1.
Quote:
Originally Posted by peter12
It's a garbage show. South Park does satire much better.
I believe South Park is a smarter show, but I still probably laugh harder at Family Guy.
I believe South Park is a smarter show, but I still probably laugh harder at Family Guy.
Yeah, but you want green/orange text to come back for sarcasm.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Well, the astute viewer is well aware that they go after EVERYONE. There are too many viewers out there that think Parker and Stone are beacons of comedic light for liberal North America.
Not that I care either, way it seems to me over the past few years Seth McFarlene has been trying a little to hard to be that left leaning comedic beacon.
Yeah, but you want green/orange text to come back for sarcasm.
Not that I care either, way it seems to me over the past few years Seth McFarlene has been trying a little to hard to be that left leaning comedic beacon.
I believe DFF was talking about Stone and Parker from South Park. McFarlane is clearly a liberal.
Yeah, but you want green/orange text to come back for sarcasm.
Not that I care either, way it seems to me over the past few years Seth McFarlene has been trying a little to hard to be that left leaning comedic beacon.
Thats why Brian has become an unbelievable ###### in this series. He was funnier when he was just a drunk talking dog.
He's become far more annoying then Lisa Simpson who hopefully in the last episode will be tossed off of a bridge wrapped in a carpet bag by Diamond Joe Quimby.
__________________
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Yeah, but you want green/orange text to come back for sarcasm.
I do laugh harder at Family Guy! I realize I'm in the minority here but I've found it's gotten better the last few years.
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Thats why Brian has become an unbelievable ###### in this series. He was funnier when he was just a drunk talking dog.
He's become far more annoying then Lisa Simpson who hopefully in the last episode will be tossed off of a bridge wrapped in a carpet bag by Diamond Joe Quimby.
I believe DFF was talking about Stone and Parker from South Park. McFarlane is clearly a liberal.
Yes he was. I took what he said and agreed with him by saying McFarlene is the liberal ######. not Matt and Trey. They hate everyone equally. I know he was talking about Stone and Parker ffs.
