Sunday night's Family Guy/House crossover gets Parents Television Council mad

[alp227]

I just started up Sunday night's episode of Family Guy, "Business Guy", on my DVR, after reading articles reporting that the Parents Television Council (a longtime hater of FG) has filed a complaint with the FCC about this episode.

According to the moral guardians:

In the episode, loutish Peter takes his father-in-law and friends to a strip club named the Fuzzy Clam. Peter tells a stripper to perform a lap dance on his father-in-law. She bends over and waggles her rear before his face. "Do I stick the money right inside of her?" he asks. When Peter replies, "No, you do not," his father-in-law asks, "Why? Have you done that before?" Peter giggles nervously. As the woman briefly rubs her rear against the father-in-law’s crotch, he asks, "When do I hit her?" Peter pours beer down his in-law’s throat and orders the stripper to "give this old bastard the ride of his life." The stripper writhes up and down against the father-in-law’s body, shakes her breasts in his face, then straddles his lap and thrusts her groin against his. Lois’ father grunts in pleasure, then spasms and collapses to the ground as he has a heart attack.

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Apparently Fox must believe that because the program is animated it can air anything it wants on Family Guy no matter how inappropriate or indecent.

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This quote is from Tim Winter, president of the PTC, also a liberal registered Democrat.

PTC also noted that FG is among the most popular shows among children ages 6-11.<1>

Brian Lowry said: "'Family Guy'is surely crude. But trying to label it 'ndecent' at this point seems like an exercise in futility. Or maybe an excuse to watch animated strippers, which is really just kinda sad."<3>

Sources:
<1> Hal Boedeker, "Family Guy: Parents Television Council blasts stripper’s lap dance". The TV Guy and More (blog) hosted by the Orlando Sentinel, 12/15/09
<2> John Eggerton, "http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/440501-PTC_Files_Indecency_Complaint_About_Family_Guy_.php?rssid=20065">PTC Files Indecency Complaint About 'Family Guy'". Broadcasting & Cable, 12/15/09
<3> Brian Lowry, "PTC Makes Me Regret Missing 'Family Guy'". BLTV (blog) hosted by Variety, 12/15/09

And I have just seen the lapdance scene. I don't know what I think about it in a legal sense, but back in 2006 the FCC fined CBS over a teen orgy scene on Without a Trace despite being in the context of spreading a socially relevant message, according to CBS's defense.

[Mojambo]

1. If Family Guy is among the "most popular shows among children 6-11"

that is ENTIRELY the problem of the fucking moron parents who let it happen.

The Parents Television Council should go STFU.

[Bucky]

2. Ugh. Families have to watch this show together.

Wait, no they don't. They can turn it off. I wish everyone would. It's for crap like this that I don't have a TV anymore. What an utter waste of electrons.

Watching Family Guy is its own punishment. Still, if they get fined into poverty for this, good job. What a loathsome topic.