Limbaugh, Rove to guest on 'Family Guy'

[villager]

Limbaugh, Rove to guest on 'Family Guy'

Talk show host Rush Limbaugh, former Bush strategist Karl Rove and other famous Republicans will play themselves on Fox's left-leaning "Family Guy" next season.

Karl rove In an episode being produced for next season, the Griffins' liberal dog, Brian, gets bored and frustrated because he feels he no longer has anything to complain about with Barack Obama in the White House. So Brian becomes a Republican and starts listening to Rush Limbaugh (who, apparently, also sings a song).

"'Family Guy' tends to be very liberal because it's written by liberals," creator Seth MacFarlane said. "So we thought let's give the other side some face time. So we put it out there to a lot of Republicans -- 'we're doing this show, who wants in?' -- and we got some bites. I'm sure the reaction from some will be 'you monsters, how could you have Karl Rove on your show?' "

MacFarlane was appearing at an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences event where the cast of the Emmy-nominated "Family Guy" performed a live table read of its controversial abortion episode (exclusive video of that here), which Fox has refused to air.

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http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/08/limbaugh-rove-to-guest-on-family-guy.html

[zbdent]

1. Well, gee ... it's not like Rove and Rush would be able to get any air time

anywhere ... they're so underappreciated and underrepresented ... :sarcasm:

[Deja Q]

2. I'm sure they'd fit right into that show... What are the show's ratings? And does he really think

that catering to Rushbots, you know - the lot that claims Seth's show is immoral and crude beyond a reasonable doubt and everything else, will improve ratings? (Or will Oxyboy and Rover be used as sacrificial lambs, in which case I might just turn in.)

[villager]

3. that's the question! Is it cave-in, or a co-option?

n/t

[Romulox]

4. I find "Family Guy" peurile and stupid. I don't find it "very liberal" in the least.

As always, the worst crime is in comedy is to not be funny. Seth McFarlane isn't funny. :hi:

[PVnRT]

6. Neither do I

It was funny for about a season, then became saddled with more and more in-jokes and "bits," especially more so after it got put back on TV again.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. How wonderfully ironic.

[Romulox]

10. I saw the "gay marriage" episode last night. Jasper is a fairly hateful stereotype

and Brian's (portrayed as perhaps the most pathetic of a cast of grotesques) quest to allow him to be married ends in a violent stand off.

Real "liberal". :eyes:

PS: If you are referencing ATHF, they are puerile, stupid, and...funny. Sorry that your fart show doesn't compare! :rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. I wasn't referencing ATHF, I was referencing you.

[Romulox]

16. I see. Another boring, content-less post by our radical conformist.

:yawn:

[maxpower]

19. I humbly disagree

Yeah a lot of their humor is juvenile, but if you look closer they take a lot of shots at the right wing. But comedy is in the eye of the beholder.

[Hippo_Tron]

27. That's just because you don't get it

[Echo In Light]

5. Horrible idea. It's the moderate South Park approach that puts Left/Right on equal footing

Thus giving a VERY skewed impression of politics in the U.S. to millions who watch those shows, yet don't know their ass from a hole in the ground re how and why the American landscape is as it is.

[villager]

13. South Park indulges in a kind of half-assed "Libertarianism" bereft of any deep understanding

...of American power....

[Echo In Light]

14. I enjoyed the first few seasons, even the movie. Beyond that, one-note joke dried up.

[villager]

17. oh, SP has had its moments -- the Civil War re-enactment episode, the Da Vinci Code send-up

It can be hilarious, but often opts for the glib when trying to provide a societal/political "overview..."

[maxpower]

20. I agree

The Simpson's set the bar so high, that all adult cartoons will ultimately be compared to it

[maxsolomon]

7. Seth, you're revving your engine and heading towards the shark tank

"let's give the other side some face time" is repulsive when you consider what the "other side" advocates. it's not just 2 sides of the same coin.

and making BRIAN a repuke? he's the moral center of the show. don't fuck Brian up.

[Dramarama]

26. Let's wait for it to air

:)
Maybe he'll put a Palin sticker over his Kucinich '08 sticker

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Brian gets bored with Obama so he decides to become a freeper?

Sounds like half of GD.

[Robb]

12. LOL

:rofl: Nice. :D

[Romulox]

11. PS: I find it HILARIOUS when McFarlane puts a talking animal in one of his shows.

I wonder if he'll every try that crazy bit of casting in any of his future shows?

[Libertas1776]

18. Family Guy

has already had Limpballs on. He was a radio show pundit in the "Blue Harvest" star wars episode, in which he blamed affirmative action for getting Lando Calrissian his job in the cloud city.

It really makes me wonder, is this all just one freaking big game to these people? It reminds me of what Keith Olbermann once said of Fox and their drones, that they all did for the money and could care less about the ideology; that Murdoch would turn his Faux News into a bleeding heart liberal network in a heart beat if it were more profitable. OxyRush spews his hate through his tin can and down to the stupid masses it goes. And they all eat it up, these one step above poverty, red state, god fearin' christians. These financially poor, feeble minded folk swallow the BS that big govt, universal health care, and tax hikes for the rich are evil. Does OxyRush believe what he says? Likely. Or maybe he is just trying to protect his interests (his $30+ Million a year salary interests) just like the rest of these hate spewing RW talking heads, and just like that faux liberal MacFarlane. Ah, the age old driving force; GREED.

[Fleshdancer]

21. I like Family Guy...

MacFarlane is such a big Democrat so I'm curious as to how this will turn out.

[Big Orange Jeff]

22. Golly, the episode hasn't even aired yet...

...and some of you have already determined what is in the episode.

<big eyeroll>

[titoresque]

29. golly?? nt.

[Ratty]

23. I love FG but I won't like this

I can't stand to listen to the right wing anymore now days, in any context. Rush Limbo was the part of Blue Harvest that made me cringe. I don't want to be in on the joke with him. I don't want to be laughing with him. I don't want to be a part of him poking fun at himself. I don't want him or Rove invading one of my escapes from their filthy politics. I have a great sense of humor but it has its limits.

[villager]

24. Exactly... I'm not really sure what's "funny"about rightwing 5th columnists

and closet fascists. If the show wants to make fun of them, fine. But letting them "redeem" themselves --when they haven't really owned any of their behavior -- strikes a false note indeed...

[John Kerry VonErich]

25. If you have the BH DVD....

MacFarland said in the commentary track that Limbaugh "is one of the nicest guys he's ever met."

[villager]

30. that's what I mean -- why go out of your way to rehabilitate these noxious folk?

He'll be "nice" when he starts owning up to his behavior, and the vast corrosive damage he's done...

[Hippo_Tron]

28. Rush was already in the Blue Harvest (Star Wars) episode

It was actually a very good parody of himself and if he were any less despicable I would respect him for it. But I can't bring myself to respect him for anything.