...“Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious” is an article that is very relevant on the topic of pop culture intertwining with television shows. The article was written by Antonia Peacocke, a current college student. Peacocke starts off by introducing how she has felt about the show Family Guy over the years. Then moves onto how the show has been lashed out at and actually cancelled, but still managed to get put back on the air. When looked at closely the show satirizes American Culture but taken at face value Peacocke could see the harm in Family Guy’s comedy. Then Family Guy is compared to The Simpsons by how they both have similar comedy and both have faced heavy criticism. Peacocke explains that Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, then explains his reasoning for all of the criticism received toward his show. Lastly, Peacocke explains that it’s important to remember what is actually unfunny in life even while we can appreciate in fake comedy. After summarizing the article it is clear that Peacocke demonstrates Clarity, Relevance, and is a reliable source on the issue of pop...
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...Family Guy: Often Offensive, but Smart Humor Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the popular comedy show, Family Guy, is well known for his controversial style of humor. His use of offensive jokes makes for a bad reputation with media sources and celebrities. According to Antonia Peacocke, author of “Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious,” Before she was such a devotee, she was, “adamantly opposed to the program for its particular brand of humor” (300). Antonia Peacocke explores the controversy of the jokes, and gives examples of how the show has been publicly criticized in past years. Family Guy is one of the only shows to be cancelled on multiple occasions because of off-color jokes. Peacocke informs readers that, “after its premiere in April 1999, the show ran until August 2000, but was besieged by so many complaints, that Fox was forced to suspend the show until July 2001, but the show didn’t come back the same as it was before. Due to censoring and an irregular air-time, the show’s ratings fell drastically and Family Guy was cancelled [again] in 2002” (300). I agree with her completely that Family Guy attempts to pack in more gags per minute about sex, race, incest, celebrities, etc. than any other cartoon show. I don’t see this as a bad strategy though. Making fun of groups of people is not a good thing to do, but it’s all for comedic purposes. I believe that if people and American society can’t accept humor about ourselves then we will be overly...
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...I picked the film series of Family Guy for my final exam. Family Guy is a series of shows that has been on for a while, and it displays many of the concepts we have covered in class this semester. These concepts include stereotyping, gender inequality, culture, and technology, but the show is meant for entertainment, not to be taken to the heart. Stereotyping is a huge concept in Family Guy. The characters often make jokes and racist comments. Family Guy makes jokes about many races such as Arabs, African Americans, the Irish, and many other races. Some out-groups may find the comments offensive, but the purpose of the comments is for laughs. Sometimes Peter and the guys make comments about Cleveland (an African American male), like...
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...Running head: ANALYSIS OF FAMILY GUY INEQUALITIES Analysis of Family Guy Sexism Nash, Josh SOC/100 Analysis of Family Guy Sexism This paper discusses the display of sexism of Family Guy and how it is portraying a sexist view, even if it is considered comical socially. Family Guy has become a popular cartoon even with the humor in the show not being so humorous to many. “Family Guy”, as many other shows have done in the past, obtained the role in portraying sexism through TV. Many would agree that the cartoon is derogatory and promotes many issues such as racism, sexism, and inequalities including other factors as well. People also agree that the comedy that the show presents is acceptable because it is shown in a way that is for laughter only. There have been a number of episodes that the show has done like “Chick Cancer,” and probably one of the most controversial, “I am Peter, hear me roar”. The behavior shown is that of “slap stick” comedy but could be attained in other ways than of what is shown on television. In “I am Peter, hear me roar,” the episode is sexist towards women and does not show much of an issue towards the problem. Each scene has a number of jokes to make sexism seem acceptable by the jokes being told by a character that does not have the intelligible mindset of a small child. It begins with Peter telling jokes to some of his male co-workers and the jokes that Peter shares are explicitly sexist against women. He begins with saying, “How many women...
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...For years Vic has been able to keep “Vic the Tricky Work Guy” separate from “Vic the Honest Family Guy” but the distinction is eroding. Vic is at a crossroads, for he recognizes that his workplace behaviors, choices and ethics are beginning to influence “Vic the Honest Family Guy.” Worse yet, Vic is becoming satisfied with the person he is at work. This paper will explore the consequences this eroding distinction has on Vic’s professional prospects and in his personal life. It will also examine several of the consequences organizations face as a result of a corporate culture that does not value candor. For over four years, “Vic the Tricky Work Guy” work persona has served Vic very well professionally. Greenline management considers him a high performer with high potential. He has been given a great deal of latitude and his peers and employees generally seem to respect him. While Vic recognizes that he is compromising his personal values at work, he is convinced it is necessary for him to get ahead. He does not recognize or acknowledge the impact that compromising his personal values will have on his professional reputation and career growth over the long term. At work, Vic is beginning to shift focus away from fulfilling his core job responsibilities to making himself look good. As in the case of fabricating an excuse about his daughter to get out of a trip to Houston, Vic is going to rather extreme lengths to shun his responsibilities. Eventually, the excuses...
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...Paper University of Phoenix July 24, 2012 Popular Literature Paper The literacy production chosen is Family Guy, which according to Fox (2012) is a 20th Century Fox Television production with Seth MacFarlane as the creator/executive producer and Emmy award winner in 2002. Seth was born in 1972 in Kent, Connecticut. Seth plays the voices for Peter, Stewie, Brian, Quagmire, and many other voices. Because the show debut, according to Fox (2012) the show has reached highest status with the all their fans, and its breakout star, Stewie, has become one of the greatest television villains ever. The show has stacked up numerous awards, including an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series Fox (2012). Seth is also the creator of the hit comedy show, which is now playing on fox television called American Dad. A brief overview of season four on the episode of “don’t make me over”, when Meg asks the cutest boy at school on a date, and he turns her down because she looks like a boy, she turns to her family for support. In an effort to make her feel better and have more confidence, Lois takes Meg to newly built mega-mall, where Meg gets the ultimate makeover. Meanwhile, a local favorite tavern of the guys is forced to shut down because of the mega-mall taking most of the local business so Peter tries save the tavern by starting a band with the guys, but it is Meg's new look that has the record producers wanting the band. So the Griffins formed a band and that takes...
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...TED Vashawn McQurter Devry University TED Ted is a dark comedy full of “gut wrenching” laughter, this humorous satire is a film everyone from ages 17 and up should definitely check out. It’s a” must see”, actor/ director Seth McFarland (family guy) in one of his first big screen debuts scores two thumbs up for his sly but exhilarating story plot. Full of “peter griffin” type jokes and witty punch lines McFarland Captures all the fundamental aspects of a summer box office smash. As the plot thickens moviegoers and comedy lovers will experience a hilarious combination of humor and melodrama. There is no doubt that this film covers a logical story plot, comedy and a real life message all in one movie ticket. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Seth McFarland, Mila Kunis and a host of other upcoming stars, the cast is the dead giveaway of a masterpiece in the making. The story starts off with a kid, (Wahlberg) who made a wish for a friend, not just any friend a “thunder buddy “to keep him company while growing up as a misfit in Boston. His parents bought him a teddy bear for Christmas to cater to their son’s lonely childhood, which came to life after one magical wish was granted. The boy wakes up to find his new teddy bear alive and full of wise cracking jokes with an oath to never leave his side. Time passed and the two became close as brothers, through the golden years of adolescence, young adulthood and even the mid-life crisis ages of the early 30’s.A conflict came about...
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...The TV show, Family Guy, has a tendency to make fun of current social situations, but in particular, the episode “I am Peter, Hear me Roar” takes sexism extremely lightheartedly. The episode begins with Peter Griffin, a married white man with a lack of common sense, being offered a boat in exchange for attending a timeshare seminar. At the end of the seminar, Peter choose to take the “mystery box” over the boat, despite disapproval from his wife, Lois. With tickets obtained from the mystery box, Peter, Lois, and their friends go out and drink a lot of beer while at a comedy club Peter, who was highly intoxicated took it upon himself to go on stage and tells unfortunate jokes, however, the audience was not laughing at him because of his jokes,...
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...Pop Culture paper Psychology 12/6/14 Confirmation bias in Family Guy There are a lot of psychology principals and theories shown in animated television shows because it is easy to show how true and funny they really are. There is a clip in the television show called, family guy. The clip starts out as Lois and another person are trying to run for government and they are taking questions from undecided voters to see who will be mayor. It then goes to an undecided voter who asks a question to the guy Lois is running against and instead of answering the question the guy just goes up to the undecided voter and shakes his hand and looks him in the eye. The voter replies “Oh I like him he looks me in the eye” and there is a commotion among the crowd and someone says “I am voting for him”. It then goes to Lois who is very confused because she does not get why the people love the other guy when he did not even answer the question. Then Brian who is a different character on the show says “Just say short things that everyone agrees on”. So then it is Lois turn to answer a question from the undecided voters and it did not matter what the question was she kept replying “911 is bad.” The crowd of undecided cheered every time she said that despite the fact that 9-11 had nothing to do with the questions. For example one time she said that 911 is bad someone from the crowd said I agree with that like as if he was going to vote for her just because of that. This fits in psychology class...
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...Zhifeng Liu MW 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Morality Issue Over Cartoon Shows TV shows have a tremendous effect on everyday people. Whatever we watch and hear on TV reflect how we act in real life. Television has a major influence on our morality today. In the recent years, a lot of TV shows have been played; they are about love, friendship, science, and all kinds of topics. Sometimes, they are giving out negative images of morality and culture, but some are giving positive as well. For example, South Park and Family Guy, although they are both cartoon sitcoms, they are not as childish as cartoons like Doraemon and Power Ranger. A lot of parents don’t allow their kids to watch these cartoons on TV, because they seem too violence and with too much dirty language in the show, they are not always wholesome, and not even in good taste. As a teenager, what I think is totally opposite to those parents. If we watch these shows carefully and look into all those dirty jokes, violence action, and inappropriate language, actually the show is full of morality and everyday knowledge. Although the jokes seem neither appropriate nor polite, they serve to give education to kids at the end. These shows allow us to look at things at different angles and different aspects, and they also allow us to think more about the differences between moral and immoral. One of my most favorite episodes of South Park is “Manbearpig”. The show is about a lonely and attention-desperate Al Gore goes...
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...According to Fox (2012), the show has reached its highest status with their fan base. Its breakout star, a character named Stewie, has grown into a very clever villain. The show has won various awards; among those is an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy. Seth MacFarlane is also the creator of the hit comedy show, which is playing on fox television called American Dad. A brief overview of season four, an episode named “doesn’t make me over,” the Griffins daughter Meg invites the cutest guy at school on a date. The boy declines her offer because she looks like a boy so she reaches out to her family for help. In an attempt to make her feel better and have more confidence, her mother Lois takes her to a newly constructed mega-store, where Meg receives the greatest makeover of her life. In the meantime, a local favorite tavern of the guys is forced to shut down because of the mega-store taking most of the local business. Peter, Meg’s father tries save the tavern by creating a band with his family and friends. Meg's new makeover has caught the attention of a record producer who wants to sign the band. The Griffins sign with the record producer and perform in New York on Saturday Night Live. Meg’s personality started to change because of her new look, she starts to get spoiled, but after the guest star of Saturday Night Live took advantage of her, she realized how bad she had been acting and corrected her spoiled behavior. The cultural values and challenges this episode faces are...
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..."Religions such as Judaism and Christianity are portrayed fairly and sensitively in the media." Do you agree? Religion is a very important thing in the media. The media can manipulate and stereotype as much as they want and people won't know about it. The media can put their point across and not say anything about the other arguments involved. They have one view however, this is not necessarily the right view. In this essay, I am going to view both arguments and then conclude with my opinion and the argument that I agree with. In the media, there are a lot of programmes such as Family Guy, Citizen Khan, The Simpsons and Father Ted where there are jokes about religion. I feel that most of these jokes are funny however, I think that some of the jokes aren't funny and that they could offend some people of that religion. I think that this quote, 'Offending the minority to entertain the majority' explains what the media thinks. But is it right to do this? What if the 'minority' was the whole religion? How would we know? I don't agree with this quote. This is because we don't know how big the 'minority' is. It could only be a few people but it also could be the whole religion it was directed at. People take things in different ways. How would the media know how many people it was going to offend? There can be lots of damage done by stereotyping/ joking about a religion as it is a subject that many people feel strongly about. It is something people follow for their whole lives...
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...Dr. P. A. Jones English 101 11 October 2013 Review of Family Guy “McStroke” "McStroke" is an interesting animated comedy, and it is a really funny animation. The animation is the eight episodes with six season comedy series. The “McStroke” is written by Wellesley Wild, and directed by Brian Iles. Wellesley is a famous American animation writer, whose famous writing is the episodes of the animated series Family Guy. The director Brian is a professional animated director, who is the co-executive producer. According to the episode we watched in the class, it is mainly introduced several stories, and all of them are funny story. One of the story showed that Peter suffer a stroke and he eats 30 hamburgers in the restaurant. As far as I’m concerned, this story is use the chronological order to introduce the story, and the role use the critical thinking to the story. Peter has a chance to eat free hamburgers because someone burned his mustache. Therefore he eats almost 30 hamburgers, then he fall down due to the stroke. I think this scene is seems like very funny, but it also express some other things. For example, he has a chance to eat 30 hamburgers because someone burned his mustache, and after his critical thinking, he accepts his apologize and choose to eat free hamburgers. He used the critical thinking to make choice. Then, he goes to the hospital, and his family members are going to hospital to visit him. In the animation, they might use very funny tone to talk, but...
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...“Ladies and Gentleman, Garfield and Friends. Friends are there to help you get started, to give you a push on your way. Friends are there turn you around, get your feet on the ground for a brand new dayyyyy….”, if your small tube television never sung this tune, or any other tune that opened up for an animated series, in the morning during breakfast, then I must say I’m quite sorry for you since you basically missed out on one of the best things of childhood: animated cartoons. Except for anything on PBS KIDS, the big and mean adults always criticized the early animated cartoons deeming them as “not educational” and that they “ruin the minds of kids” but that can be contradicted with today’s animations. When South Park was first broadcasted on television, I thought the running gag of the show was “ OMG (shortened for those know text language), they just killed Kenny!” Let me tell you how Lil’ Johnny corrected my thought when his incident became the number gossip in elementary school. It’s just one in the afternoon and everybody’s in their assigned seats acting like pure angels except for Johnny whose lately been given an attitude to everybody. The poor teacher’s frustrated face and expressions can be easily compared to my mom’s when I stayed up past twelve. Time out seemed like the most lenient punishment for this disobeying buckaroo. The problem being was Johnny didn’t cooperate so the only option left was the principal’s office. Johnny-once again- refused and called the teacher...
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...poster there was a release date to inform when they can go see the film. I think that the mis-en –scene was very modern and simple for example the background colour is mainly white which connotes peace and modern and the target audience is modern, this is good because it would not be difficult to understand it. It also uses things that the target demographic can understand and relate with e.g. the masthead is white and blue which connotes fresh and modern also FWB is highlighted in blue which might be linked to the target demographic because it is text language which the target demographic will be familiar with it. Also the audience are familiar with some on the connotes of the mis-en –scene such as The guys tie is loose which shows that he is casual and a playful kind of guy but it could also connote a ‘player’ which the target demographic are familiar with because it usually happens in rom coms. This...
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