The American animated sitcom Family Guy has been the target of
numerous taste and indecency complaints. The show is known to include
offensive jokes including racial humor and violent, gory, and
disturbing images.Critics 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 show's dark humor and sexual
themes has also led to backlash from special interest groups. The
Parents Television Council has expressed moral opposition to the
series, deeming it the "Worst TV Show of the Week" on at least 40
occasions, and filing complaints with the Federal Communications
Commission.Family Guy's frequent use of offensive jokes and satire has
led to controversy. The jokes that receive controversy are often found
in the cutaway gags. 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 airing of this
episode led to immediate backlash. This cutaway angered audience
members and led to protests by several AIDS service organizations. In
his 2006 book The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American
Culture, author Frederick S. Lane described Family Guy as among
several television sitcoms that he believed were "aimed at the darker
side of family life."The Parents Television Council, a conservative
non-profit watchdog group, has published critical views of Family Guy.
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. 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". 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[s] of the Week". This was due to
profanity, animated nudity, and violence. The series was also named
the worst show of the 2006â€"2007 season by the PTC. 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 also was named "Worst TV Show of the
Week" by the PTC due to what it said was "disgusting sex jokes, crass
Holocaust humor, cruel impersonations of deaf people, and loads of
bleeped profanity." Family Guy controversies Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter