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American Dad on Fox

At the South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival earlier this month, American Dad and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane talked about his planned remake of the classic animated series The Flintstones. He assured the audience, "We're kind of shooting for the level of edge in mid-'90s Simpsons. You're not going to see abortion jokes." Pardon the PTC for being skeptical. MacFarlane has made a career out of being irreverent. Actually, “irreverent” doesn’t begin to define his noxious brand of comedy; “offensive,” “disrespectful,” “smug,” and “repugnant” are more like it. For a taste of what MacFarlane’s version of The Flintstones could potentially devolve into, one needs only look at the “edgy” content in the March 25^th episode of American Dad (Sundays, 9:30 p.m. ET), the Worst TV Show of the Week.

In this episode, Stan and Francine attempt to prove a point by living on minimum wage for a month in order to get their deadbeat daughter Haley and her free-loading husband Jeff to move out of their home. Stan and Francine rent a room in a squalid apartment complex and hear a man knocking on their neighbor's door. 

Man: “Charlotte, I know you in there, bitch!...Open, bitch!”

The sound of the man breaking down the neighbor’s door is heard. A woman screams and gunshots are heard. Francine cries and Stan tries to comfort her.

Stan: “It's okay. It's over Francine. She's dead. She's finally dead. She's dead now.”

Eventually, Stan and Fran end up sleeping in their car.

Francine: “I can't get warm!”

Stan: “I know what will warm us up!”

Stan puts a CD in the CD player.

Stan: “Sex!" 

Francine: “No, Stan! Those homeless people are watching us!”

Three homeless men are shown staring in the car window.

Homeless Man: “It's okay!”

Stan: “Francine, we don't have much but we do have each other. I think we should sex each other.”

Homeless Man:  “He's right!”

Francine: “I don't want to sex, Stan!”

Francine tries to convince Stan to give up his quest to prove to Haley and Jeff that they could live on $938 a month. Suddenly, the homeless man interrupts their conversation.

Homeless Man: “Hey guys, you gonna do it or what? My boner's freezing out here!”

Completely destitute and left to pursue his ridiculous quest without Fran, Stan teams up with a deranged homeless man to commit a robbery. Stan suggests they rob his own house. As they creep through the house, Jeff hears them and runs out of the kitchen with a large knife. He tackles the homeless man to the ground and stabs him repeatedly. The homeless man grabs Jeff's hands and helps Jeff continue to stab him. Blood squirts out. Stan pulls Jeff off of the homeless man, and Jeff turns around and stabs Stan in the shoulder. Francine turns on the light and they all realize it is Stan. Stan breaks down and admits that he couldn't live on only $938 a month. Stan implies that he performed sexual acts for money:

Stan: “I did things out there. I did things with my hands and my mouth that I'm not proud of, just to get by! It's what you do. It's what you've got to do!”

As the family continues to talk, suddenly the homeless man regains consciousness and stands up and runs into the knife that Jeff is holding. The knife plunges all the way through the man's body and sticks out the back. The man bleeds profusely and rubs his body against the wall, trying to draw something with his blood. When Francine guesses correctly the Pyramid of Giza, the man falls forward, dying. The knife pops out of his body and does a flip through the air, falling back down to stab the man in the head. The man dies.

Seth MacFarlane has mocked religion, 9/11, and the Holocaust – just to name a few. Why on Earth would anyone think that The Flintstones is somehow too sacred, when MacFarlane has demonstrated time and time again that for him, nothing is?

For yet another excessively violent, sex-laden episode, American Dad rightfully deserves the title of Worst TV Show of the Week.

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