Additionally, the council has asked Family Guy sponsors such as Wrigley Company and Burger King to stop advertising during the show as their products appeal to kids. In order to prevent child viewing, the PTC has objected to Fox scheduling Family Guy during early prime time hours. The council has cautioned parents that due to the animation style, children might get attracted to the adult show. The PTC has targeted Fox, criticizing the network for failing to include "S" (sexual content) and "V" (violence) descriptors in content ratings for some Family Guy episodes.
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In addition, a live-action special hosted by series creator Seth MacFarlane and fellow voice actress Alex Borstein titled Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show was also named "Worst TV Show of the Week" by the PTC due to what it said were "Disgusting sex jokes, crass Holocaust humor, cruel impersonations of deaf people, and loads of bleeped profanity." The series was also named the worst show of the 2006–2007 season by the PTC. This was due to profanity, animated nudity, and violence. Family Guy made the PTC's 2000, 2005, and 2006 lists of "worst prime-time shows for family viewing", with over forty Family Guy episodes listed as "Worst TV Show of the Week". This followed the show's return from a long hiatus in its second season, due to what the PTC claimed were "strong advertiser resistance and low ratings". In May 2000, in an email, the PTC launched a letter-writing campaign to the Fox network to persuade the network to cancel Family Guy. The Parents Television Council (PTC), a conservative non-profit watchdog group, has published critical views of Family Guy. Lane described Family Guy as among several television sitcoms that he believed were "aimed at the darker side of family life." Parents Television Council In his 2006 book The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture, author Frederick S. This cutaway angered audience members and led to protests by several AIDS service organizations. The airing of this episode led to immediate backlash. For example, in the episode " The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire", Peter and a barbershop quartet sing and dance around the bed of a man with end-stage AIDS. The jokes that receive controversy are often found in the cutaway gags. Brent Bozell III, founder of the Parents Television Council, has frequently criticized Family Guy for its content and has accused it of anti-Christian themes.įamily Guy 's frequent use of offensive jokes and satire has led to controversy. The Parents Television Council (PTC) has attacked the series since its premiere, deeming it the "Worst TV Show of the Week" on at least 40 occasions, and filing complaints with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
The show's dark humor and sexual themes have also led to backlash from special interest groups. The show is known to include offensive jokes including racial humor and violent, gory, and disturbing images.Ĭritics have targeted Family Guy 's reliance on cutaway gags, panning the show for its characterization and writing outside of these gags, and have unfavorably compared the show to contemporaries such as The Simpsons and Comedy Central's South Park South Park itself has also parodied and criticized Family Guy in several episodes throughout its run. The American adult animated sitcom Family Guy has been the target of numerous taste and indecency complaints. Series creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane. Public criticism of the American adult animated sitcom
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