{"id":26787,"date":"2014-09-25T16:29:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T08:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=26787"},"modified":"2014-09-25T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T04:11:00","slug":"before-rape-joke-family-guy-episodes-have-created-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/25\/before-rape-joke-family-guy-episodes-have-created-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Before rape joke, \u2018Family Guy\u2019 episodes have created controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26788\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-25-12_09_51-Simpsons-Family-Guy-Episode-Offends-Some-With-Rape-Joke-YouTube.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26788\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-25-12_09_51-Simpsons-Family-Guy-Episode-Offends-Some-With-Rape-Joke-YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from YouTube.\" width=\"701\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-25-12_09_51-Simpsons-Family-Guy-Episode-Offends-Some-With-Rape-Joke-YouTube.jpg 701w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-25-12_09_51-Simpsons-Family-Guy-Episode-Offends-Some-With-Rape-Joke-YouTube-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wrETKeOGTgA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2014This weekend\u2019s crossover episode of Fox\u2019s \u201cFamily Guy\u201d and \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d has received criticism for a scene where a character uses rape as a punchline for a joke. It\u2019s not the first time the adult-oriented humour on the animated \u201cFamily Guy\u201d has gotten its creators in hot water. Here are some other examples:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fox declined to air an episode, \u201cPartial Terms of Endearment,\u201d during the 2009-10 season when family matriarch Lois Griffin contemplates an abortion. She was acting as a surrogate for a couple killed in an auto accident before the baby was born. Fox executives said it was fragile subject matter at a sensitive time. The episode was later released on DVD.<br \/>\n\u2022 The episode, \u201cWhen You Wish Upon a Weinstein\u201d was criticized as anti-Semitic by The Forward, a newspaper that spotlights Jewish issues. In it, the character Peter sings a song titled \u201cI Need a Jew.\u201d Fox initially declined to air it, and it was shown first on Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network in 2003. Fox then aired it the next year.<br \/>\n\u2022 Advocates for AIDS patients criticized a 2005 episode in which Peter was part of a barbershop quartet that dressed in red vests and danced around a man\u2019s hospital bed singing a song titled, \u201cYou Have AIDS.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 Palin called the show\u2019s writers \u201cheartless jerks\u201d for a 2010 episode in which the character Chris dated a girl with Down syndrome. When Chris asked what her parents did, she replied: \u201cMy dad\u2019s an accountant, and my mom is the former governor of Alaska.\u201d Palin, who had resigned as Alaska governor months earlier, has a son with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014This weekend\u2019s crossover episode of Fox\u2019s \u201cFamily Guy\u201d and \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d has received criticism for a scene where a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":26788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}