Family Guy' Mocks Sarah Palin's Son Trig For Having Down Syndrome

[romantico]

Well, not exactly as the title suggests but still a dig at the former Governor of Alaska.I thought it was hilarious but it may offend some. OBVIOUSLY, she will take to her Facebook page and paint herself out as the victim as usual and demand Fox fire Seth Macfarlane and cancel FAMILY GUY.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/15/family-guy-trig-palin-vid_n_462522.html

[the other one]

1. I love Family Guy

Incorrect humor at it's finest.

Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

[NM_hemilover]

10. My girlfriend and I,

still break out into as much of "Prom Night Dumster Baby" as we can remember.

[WeDidIt]

2. Isn't she okay with satire?

OOPS, forgot, that's only with Rush Limbaugh.

[Don Caballero]

3. Saw that. Hilarious.

[kestrel91316]

4. I know somebody who works on Family Guy. I see his hand in this.

BAD Zac! Bad, bad Zac!!

[mikehiggins]

5. Actually, I found the DS episode offensive and changed channels

Of course, we are all free to do things like that but lots of folks would rather complain.

To me that episode was a lot like stomping a baby.

Can't we just go back to blasting Cheney and Rove?

[romantico]

7. FOX

Fox refused to let Seth air the now famous "abortion" episode of FAMILY GUY because they fear there would be a boycott.Keep in mind, Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove will appear in an upcoming episode this season. If anyone lashes out at Family Guy simply remind them Karl and Rush seem to think it's OK to do the show so how bad can it be?

Someone on another wrote this and I felt it was perfect and very well said.

"Regardless as to whether people will find this offensive or not, I'm very happy that McFarlane did it.

I so hate the way Palin plays the martyr role in terms of being persecuted by the media. She spends an inordinate amount of time threatening every media outlet (it seems) that dares to disagree with her.

And most of them seem to back down. Bitch needs to tussle with someone who doesn't care about her incessant whining and empty threats, and MacFarlane seems like that guy.

It would have been better if he would have made fun of her politics rather than her family, but after she hypocritically shamed Emanuel while giving Limburger a pass, Palin really politicized the situation herself."

[piratefish08]

6. Offensive!! FOX should be removed from the air!! Go Get Em Sarah!!

[madrchsod]

8. sorta dumb....

bringing in the palin angle was stupid but that`s just my opinion. i do like the way they portrayed the woman..

[The_Commonist]

9. Lame...

Just like everything else Family Guy.
I have never once, ever, found anything funny about Seth Whateverhisname is.
Just one more hack in the dumbing down of America...

[NM_hemilover]

11. If everything everybody ever disagreed with was,

taken off the air, there would be only ME to listen to.

Cartman and I agree with you, Family Guy needs to be taken down.

[Xenotime]

12. Ha! I like anything that makes fun of her.

[tonysam]

13. Any "humor" mocking the disabled is offensive.

Why the hell is this acceptable?

Why does anybody think anything mocking the disabled is "hilarious"?

I guess some around here and elsewhere have never been around disabled people.

[dysfunctional press]

14. that's why televisions have multiple channels.

so that those of you who find it offensive can change to another channel. or just turn it off completely.

problem solved.

[LanternWaste]

18. Television channels were developed...

Television channels were developed so as to allow people to avoid the offensive? :shrug:

[Arkana]

23. If you don't like what's on, DON'T WATCH IT. CHANGE THE CHANNEL.

THE GOOD LORD INVENTED REMOTES FOR A REASON.

[LanternWaste]

24. I was simply unaware...

I was simply unaware that part and parcel of the reason for both television channels and the concomitant hardware were developed so as to allow a person not to see something offensive.

(as for me, I don't watch what I don't like... for all the relevance that had to my question)

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

71. More or less.

Multiple television channels exist because different people like different things.
So, effectively, if there's something youdon;t have to watch other options exist.

[LanternWaste]

74. By applying the same standard

By applying the same standard, I suppose steering wheels were invented so we weren't forced to go to the Jersey Shore...

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

83. That's one way of looknig at it.

If my car could only navigate to the jersey shore, I would likely own a different car.
If my TV only had QVC, I would get a differnet TV with a diffreent channel.

One of the reasons, not necessarily THE reason, multiple channels exist is so that if you find a television show unappealing yuo can continue watching on a different channel. Choice. If something displeases you and there is an alternate chioce available... make it.

[LanternWaste]

86. The most bizarre interpretations I've heard since...

The most bizarre interpretations I've heard since... last week.

"One of the reasons, not necessarily THE reason..." I think you confuse actual reasons with incidentals.

[Book Lover]

48. So, I should just shut the hell up? No, it doesn't work that way.

Here's how it runs:

Family Guy runs yet another unfunny joke, this time mocking the disabled.

I find out about it on DU, because as a rule, I don't watch the unfunny.

I get pissed off, and I complain.

Maybe, just maybe one person will take my complaint to heart and not make a joke mocking the disabled (which population by the way includes my child).

Civilization points increase for the USA.

Problem solved within my ability and to the extent that I can do so.

[dysfunctional press]

62. so that whole first amendment thing just doesn't work for you, huh...?

different strokes for different folks. just because you don't find something funny, it doesn't mean that somebody else wouldn't.
and of course it's always extremely enlightened to criticize a production that you haven't even seen...:eyes:
maybe next you could try to organize a good old-fashioned book-burning! :woohoo:

[Book Lover]

64. Reading comprehension was never one of your strong subjects, was it?

Since my posts contain nothing about shutting down Family Guy, I don't know where you're getting the "Book Lover hates the first amendment" thing. Wait a sec, I do know - your imagination.

I like free speech so much that I'm engaging in a little of it myself. I'm saying that jokes based on the words "retard" and "retarded" are hurtful and those who make those jokes ought to be shamed, and ashamed. That is such a straightforward and declarative statement that even you must be able to understand it.

[dysfunctional press]

75. they didn't make any jokes based on the word retard or retarded on that episode...

so what's your point...?

(BUT- someone would have to be a total retard to complain about the 'offensive' content of a show they didn't even watch. :shrug:)

[AndrewP]

60. Bingo

[Lance_Boyle]

17. Don't you mean 'differently abled?' n/t

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

72. Everybody is "differently abled" on a fine enough scale.

"Disabled" makes more literal sense to me when making the distinction of someone who has achived a minimum level of "ability".

[KamaAina]

67. It's a staple of Family Guy humor

cf. the classic "Petarded", in which Peter somehow ends up with a diagnosis of intellectual disability (not a huge stretch) and the city of Quahog puts "Caution: Special Dad" signs on Spooner St.!

[dysfunctional press]

15. i liked the part where meg queefed in the tub with stewie.

:rofl:

[Don Caballero]

19. What is queefed?

I saw the episode but I do not know what you are referring to. Thanks in advance.

[rd_kent]

28. Its where she used her "natural fighting skills" to defend hereself against Stewie.

You know about "natural fighting skills" right?

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

73. ROFL. Obscure reference pwnage. +1

[dysfunctional press]

33. a vaginal fart.

i watched a recorded episode of family guy as well last night- so it may have have been in the other episode, and i'm confusing it.

meg and stewie were in the tub- stewie says 'hey meg, watch this', and bubbles came up from behind him, indicating that he had farted...so meg does it too, and bubbles come up behind her...they're both giggling, and then bubbles come up in front of meg instead of behind. stewie pauses for a moment, and then bolts out of the tub, screaming.

[Don Caballero]

35. Where does the gas come from?

Does it move from the intestines into the uterus? That is some wild stuff.

[dysfunctional press]

38. it's not intestinal 'gas', it's just air.

(but that doesn't make it feel any better when you get one in your face during oral sex)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_flatulence

[Don Caballero]

43. Hey Ohhhhhh!!!

Can a female anal fart and vaginal fart at the same time? Do vaginal farts smell? So many questions I have. I am so naive and cornfed.

[HughBeaumont]

68. 1st question - possibly.

2nd question - no. Them's just air, not gas. It sounds really watery and strange, though.

[rd_kent]

27. That was some funny shit right there!

[proteus_lives]

16. Meh. Family Guy jumped the shark awhile ago.

[xultar]

21. +1

[pecwae]

25. Never saw the humor in it really.

[trumad]

37. Jumped the Shark jumped the shark awhile ago.

[superduperfarleft]

42. Eh, I still find it funny.

The Simpsons, on the other hand...

[Codeine]

65. I still love it.

Nothing more subjective than humor, I suppose.

[chrisa]

20. That whole episode was hillarious.

[Arkana]

22. Seth MacFarlane has officially

made mocking Sarah Palin a national pastime.

If she picks a fight with him...dear God. She will lose, and lose badly.

[The_Commonist]

36. Seth and Sarah are both owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Seth is just getting paid to keep Rupert's latest investment in the news.
And it looks like people here have gotten suckered and are falling for it...

[superduperfarleft]

40. From what I understand, it's nothing like that at all.

Seth was rightfully pissed when they canceled his show a few years ago, so when they put him back on the air, he now goes out of his way to get Fox in trouble and poke fun at them every chance he gets.

I didn't find the segment particularly funny, but I think that most of the humor will be when Sarah Palin does exactly what he wants her to do and she starts flailing around indignantly screaming for apologies from everyone.

[Arkana]

61. Er, do you watch the show at all?

Seth continually needles Fox for canceling him all that time ago. He's not afraid to go after his network.

Not everything is a massive conspiracy.

[rcrush]

81. Of course going after his own network on his show doesnt give fox publicity that they love

[Fleshdancer]

26. When I watched it, I just knew this was done for the free Palin complaint publicity

Everyone knows she'll make a deal out of this and I'm sure that's what the writers of FG are going for. It will be funny to see if Faux News attacks Fox Entertainment for this too or if they'll only go after Seth Macfarlane.

[Arkana]

29. And Seth will love EVERY minute of it.

If she complains vocally, you can bet there will be more jokes.

Whether or not you like Family Guy or American Dad, you can bet Seth will use them to the fullest extent to mercilessly mock Palin if she protests.

And she will deserve it.

[Fleshdancer]

34. then I really hope she complains loud and often....

because I think people like her underestimate people like Macfarlane. She'll be walking into the funniest trap ever made. If this plays out the way I'm hoping it will, then I hope Bill Maher gets in on some of the action too. He already loves to slam Palin and I would love to see Macfarlane on Real Time again next season.

[aikoaiko]

30. I don't get it? I thought Trig was boy.

:shrug:

[rd_kent]

31. One of the best episodes EVER!

I have not laughed that hard at a Family Guy in a while.

[otohara]

32. Old Episode Peter Explaining Polio vs Aids

“Polio back then was like AIDS today, ... only people with Polio go to heaven"

Yeah, I'm going to heaven in spite of my no-religion beliefs.

I love Family Guy - McFarland is a genius and crosses the line more than Pat Robertson.

[Subdivisions]

39. Love Family Guy! Thanks for the reminder, missed it last nite. Watching now. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

41. That just wasn't even funny.

But I've never cared much for Family Guy anyway. Maybe I'm "humor challenged," but I just don't get the appeal.

[emilyg]

44. Agree.

My teenager grandson loves it.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

45. The main problem was it was unfunny

It was just one of those gratuitous Family Guy moments

[superduperfarleft]

46. It wasn't meant to be funny, I don't think.

It was meant to provoke Caribou Barbie into responding. And oh man do I hope she does. This will be hilarious.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

47. Yeah, good point

I think that explains it.

[ArnoldLayne]

49. No good..No good ... and I can't stand Sarah Palin

[Odin2005]

50. making fun of the disabled is WRONG, period.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

51. Damn, I missed the first half of that episode.

Oh well, I'll catch it again.

[liberal_at_heart]

52. I never watch Family Guy

I don't watch anybody who mocks the disabled. Calos Mencina is another comic I NEVER watch. I cringe when he does his imitation of a mentally disabled person.

[romantico]

54. That's

That's why I said the title is a bit misleading because they in no way mock the disabled but more Sarah Palin. The girl with down syndrome is the bully and Chris even says in the end you are just like the rest of us A-holes. How is comparing someone with down syndrome as being just like us mocking them? I think if people actually saw the clip rather than respond to the what the OP at Huffpost wrote would clearly see they are wrong being offended at the character. I see it different. I see Chris finding the girl with down syndrome pretty and wanting to ask her out s being anything but mocking the disabled.If you don't like Family Guy or get the humor,that's fine. It's clearly not for everyone. However,to attack Family Guy for creating a character who has down syndrome who acts like the rest of us is just not true. I suggest everyone to watch the clip before making any final decision. Or better yet,watch the entire episode to see how this character with DS is portrayed. Some of the comments to the OP at Huffpost are saying the same thing. The title is misleading. I would change it but I want people to see the clip and judge for themselves

[liberal_at_heart]

56. I've never liked Family Guy so I don't watch it

I find the whole show offensive. If they are going for satire that's fine. I just don't find it all that funny.

[Sans Culottes]

57. Nicely put, romantico.

It's a shame some of our members can't look past the obvious trigger-issue to see the ambush FG has set to expose Palin's Munchausen-by-proxy.



Folks need to actually think instead of just reacting.

[backwoodsbob]

53. I'll have to say no funny here

besides not liking making fun of the disabled the double standard by SOME kills me.

We cry moral indignation when Limpballs makes fun of Micheal J Fox and demand his head but find this stuff funny when it's their side being made fun of?

Sorry but I can't roll that way.

[dysfunctional press]

63. i'm covered.

i've never cried "moral indignation" when Limpballs makes fun of Micheal J Fox

[cags]

55. But it was SATIRE! So Palin better keep her damn mouth shut.

[backwoodsbob]

58. so thats makes us better than them how?

we can't bitch about them while doing the same shit and saying it's funny when we do it.
we'll just have to agree to disagree

[Lance_Boyle]

69. Who's out to be 'better than' anyone else?

It's a friggin' laugh, for jeebus' sake! BTW - your use of the word "bitch" in your reply was totally uncalled for and offensive.

[cags]

88. Palin has no right to condemn this since she gave Rush a pass by calling it Satire. This is satire,

so she can just sit down and shut the hell up.

By her own rules.

But of course she wont, because she is a complete hypocrite, and uses that poor boy to her own advantage. She doesnt care that anyone made fun of him.

[lazarus]

59. I had to quit watching Family Guy

when they started doing dead baby jokes. 20 years, and I'm still sensitive as hell about it. There are some lines that just shouldn't be crossed.

[Codeine]

66. The episode had a pretty positive message, really.

Chris had a genuine crush on the Down's Syndrome girl; he thought she was beautiful and special. Turns out that she was an asshole just like everyone else.

[cherokeeprogressive]

70. LOL... And DU'ers belittle other DU'ers for watching American Idol...

Isn't that funny.

[AngryOldDem]

76. Really don't get the humor in this...

But then, this is a show that found humor in shaken baby syndrome. If there's a problem with Palin, fine; but don't make the kid the butt of the joke. That attitude concerning Down children is still too common in some circles and need not be given any more of a national stage than it deserves -- which is none.

I have absolutely NO use for Seth MacFarlane and the shit he produces.

[el_bryanto]

77. Family Guy is a piece of shit show done by elitists to mock the working class

In my opinion

They have occasionally funny jokes and animation - the first season was regularly funny - but it's gotten worse and worse as the years have progressed.

Bryant

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

78. Pff.

Yeah, because they don't make fun of the rich. That Sarah Palin, pure folksy working class.

[el_bryanto]

79. You can comfort yourself anyway you like

Making fun of the idle rich is safe ground; it doesn't really question how the system really works, and it's a tradition.

Bryant

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

80. So... you're upset because it's not a radical communist show?

[el_bryanto]

84. No I'm upset because it's a piece of shit show. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

85. Nah.

That's not the real reason.

[el_bryanto]

87. Well what's the real reason? n/t

[rcrush]

82. I like South Park.

CRIPPLE FIGHT!!!!!!!!!