Family Guy Content (Reader Discretion Advised)
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT!
Foul language,
graphic violence and inappropriate sexual content including
bestiality and child sex), and disrespect of parents and
authority is abundant in this television program. In addition,
the show also features inappropriate content regarding
religion.
Examples of Coarse Language:
Inappropriate
words such as “ass”, “damn”, “bastard”, "bitch", "ass" and
“douchebag” are used often. During one episode, a Fred
Flintstone-like character (which is appealing to children) says
to Wilma, “You passive aggressive bitch!” In another incident,
one character says to another, “I’ll bet you can’t get a
boner”, which was replied to by “That’s not very
nice, Brian”, to which “Brian replied, “Neither is your mother’s
ass.
Examples of Inappropriate Sexual
Content (including bestiality and child sex):
During one
episode girl was having a sexual relationship with a dog. Once
she walked out on him after the child walked in the room, the
child implied that the dog should have sex with him for the girl
walking out on him.
In one episode,
the father dresses up as a police officer at his daughter’s
bachelorette party. He starts taking off his uniform as a
stripper. He is wearing a tiny thong. He puts his leg up on the
couch suggestively. He starts gyrating and wiggles his behind in
his daughter’s face. All the while the daughter is telling her
father to stop. Her glasses get stuck somewhere in his behind.
In another
episode, Stewie (the baby) gets in trouble by the mother.
Later, he fantasizes about himself being laid out on and chained
to a rack, with his mother (in a garter and bra and with a
cigarette in her mouth) tightening the rack. Stewie is laughing
and yells, “Oh, what’s next, what’s next, oh, God! I’ve been so
bloody naughty! I need to be taught a lesson and you’re going
to do it!! Then, the mother holds a burning cigarette on his
abdomen and the baby yells, “Aaaah! Ooooh! Thank you!” He
then comes back to reality, and says to himself, “Oh, yes, all
that stuff – let’s make THAT happen!” He tries to make his
mother mad at him and says to her, “Slap me across the face like
a bitch! Violate me with a wine bottle!”
During a family
vacation, a babysitter is hired. His name is Mr. Herbert and he
is a pedophile. He tells the kids that he expects good behavior.
Chris, the teenager says, “Well that sucks.” Mr. Herbert
responds, “Don’t you mouth off to me or I’m going to smack you
right in your penis.”
In another
scene, Lois, the mother, and Brian, the dog, are sitting on the
couch. Brian tries to kiss her and she pushes him away. Later
Brian and the husband Peter get into a fight at a bar. They are
punching, biting, and throwing each other. When they are
finished glass is broken and there is a lot of blood.
During
another episode, the baby is having a relationship with a high
school girl. They are in the car and the girl rips her shirt
off. The baby says, “I’m ready for sex!” and pulls off his
pants. The girls starts laughing and tells him to get out of
the car. Later, at school, the kids are making fun of the baby
by calling him a “baby penis”. He confronts the girl for
letting out their “secret” and she replies, “Well, you’re the
one with the baby penis.” The baby then convinces her again to
kiss him and then pulls off all of his clothes, mocking that she
is kissing a nude baby with a baby penis.
During another
episode, the baby of the show commands, “Mother, I’m hungry.
Take those breasts out.” The family then discusses whether the
dog, she herself or the teenage son should “try them out” to
make sure that they are not “drugged.”
In another
episode, some male characters have a discussion during which
they contemplate which (in their opinion) distasteful women they
would sleep with in order to have sex with someone they thought
was extremely attractive. At another point, one character’s wife
seduces her neighbor by purposefully undressing in front of the
window when he walks by.
While the mother
is celebrating with her arms up, the family dog (Brian) reaches
up to fondle her breasts.
At the
17-year-old daughter’s birthday party, a man is telling a joke
to a group of young girls. After they giggle at the joke, the
man says, “So, which one of you girls wants to lose your
virginity?”
Examples of Graphic Violence and
Disrespect of Parents and Authority:
In one scene
during the one episode, Peter, the father, assaults a girl who
has been bullying his daughter Meg. He beats her with a fire
extinguisher, and father and daughter leave her in a pool of
blood.
During another
episode, the baby schemes to kill his mother. He shoots her
down with a machine gun, after which she comes back to life, and
then confronts the baby. The baby tells his mother, “Bring it
on, bitch.” They have a shoot-out/punch-out fight in their
living room. At the end of the fight the baby is left dead in a
blood bath. The next scene is the baby removing his “virtual
goggles” and telling the dog, “I guess I won’t kill her – it’s
not worth it.”
During one
episode, Peter imagines putting a pistol in his mouth and
pulling the trigger, and Bonnie points a gun at Joe and shoots
him multiple times.
The daughter
yells at her father (after he implies several times how old she
is), “You don’t even know my birthday, you son-of-a-bitch.
On scene shows
the mother punching and kicking her baby.
Examples of Inappropriate
Content Regarding Religion:
During one episode:
Pontius: This is
so weird because just today I was thinking about how I wanted to
find the son of God and nail him to some wood.
Judas: Well
let’s go find him and kick his ass!
During one
scene, a couple of the character has Mother Teresa in the back
of a van. One yells, “Push the bitch out!”