Seth MacFarlane decries hoax 'Family Guy' clip on Boston bombings

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By Patrick Kevin Day
April 16, 2013, 3:22 p.m.
Did "Family Guy" really predict the horrific Boston Marathon bombings in an episode that aired last month? No, but that's the latest hoax making the rounds on the Internet a day after the tragedy.

The carefully edited clip that supposedly supports this theory got so much exposure that "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane himself took to Twitter to denounce it.

"The edited Family Guy clip currently circulating is abhorrent," he wrote. "The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with the victims."

The edited clips came from an episode that aired last month titled "Turban Cowboy." In the edited version, the show's main character, Peter Griffin, appears to use a cellphone to trigger a pair of explosions in order to win a race.

While all the clips were taken from the episode in question, which did feature a terrorism-related story, they did not appear in such a way as to suggest that this was the inspiration for or a prediction of the Boston bombing.
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[mucifer]

1. I hate alex jones

[Dawson Leery]

2. The little skinhead and his fellow right wing hate merchants

are doing a suspicious amount of deflecting.

[randome]

3. A guy who makes his living wallowing in bad taste objects when someone else does it?

Eh. I know some like 'Family Guy' but I find it cheap entertainment.