Argumentative Essay On Family Guy

In Antonia Peacocke’s essay, “Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and their Relations to the Unconscious”, she defended how vulgar Family Guy is. Although she agreed with many people who the show is “a cartoon comedy that packs more gags per minute about race, sex, incest, bestiality, etc.” (pg 300), Peacocke clearly stated “Family Guy is not harmful and derogatory, but a comical parody of day-to-day circumstances about taboos.” (pg ) She supported her thesis very well by including many evidences from Family Guy, when it talked about social injustices and such. However, there are a few things that made the essay imperfect. Peacocke forgot to include a counter argument for her own claims. Her organization is also very poor, making her essay quite

To start off, Peacocke uses excellent examples and structure to familiarize people about the show Family Guy. She discusses in depth, about the history and criticism that this show has taken over the years since

The show Friday Night Lights gives viewers an inside look into the lives of high school football players of a small town in Texas. The show is astonishing on many levels, from it's unique camera styles to the complex characters. Many people usually dismiss athletes as dull characters and some think of sports as something pointless or shallow. The show disproves these thoughts by giving viewers a perspective into the lives of the players, coaches, and fans of the Dillon Panthers football team. This show ultimately builds empathy for the lives of the football players in the show, which helps in understanding real life athletes and their coaches.

The target audience of Family Guy is primarily youth in their teens and young adults (it also slants mostly male). This age group is of course more impressionable than others, being in their formative years; the messages in the television that they watch, then, have a particularly strong effect on their perceptions of race and ethnicity. In the Family Guy episode “PTV”, Osama bin Laden is depicted ‘humorously’ recording a threat to America, using a rubber chicken and other slapstick humor; he goes on to make a joke that someone used a doctor’s note to get out of a suicide bombing. This joke is highly offensive, propagating a bigoted point of view of “Arab,” “Middle Eastern,” and “South Asian” (hereinafter “AMESA”) worlds, which are often perceived as being barbaric, untrustworthy, anti-democratic, violent, and filled with religious militants” (Hughey and Muradi 2009). Shows like this that

This episode is very controversial because it has to do with certain members of a society who are born with the ability to engage in sexual intercourse mentally. Similarly, homosexuals in real life are sometimes believed to be born attracted to the same sex and are therefore the only ones who behave in a strange manner. Because of that, people who are homosexual often experience discrimination, just as the characters in the episode do.

Family guy is a dysfunctional family that lives in Quahog, Rhode Island. The parents: Peter and Lois. The children: the oldest, Meg, the middle child, Chris and the baby is Stewie. Last but not least, the dog Brian. This TV show exhibits crude, adult humour. There are many different opinions on this show, many parents are ok with letting there children watch it and other refuse to do so because of the kind of humour some parents are on edge. So is family guy a negative influence on children? I believe it does have a negative influence on kids. To start the language they use, secondly the violence and actions towards each other and

During the time period 1933 to 1945, a very devastating event occurred in history, the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a time where Adolf Hitler created an army of people to kill Jews so he could create the “perfect race”. Those with blonde hair and blue eyes were safe, but everyone else was considered a Jew, therefore being someone Hitler didn’t want to include in his “perfect race”. In the end he had killed about six million Jews, which tore apart many families (history.com). In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it talks about the Holocaust in the point of view of a young boy named Bruno. Bruno was very naive and oblivious to the situation happening around him. He didn’t quite understand what was happening, nor did he really want to know. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the novel because it allowed him to

The You tube video of the advertisement begins with a man in his stable preparing to load his horse into the trailer when he spots the puppy hiding in the hay. While not looking, sensing the owner is about to leave, the puppy sneaks into a horse trailer. The owner appears to look around and notice the pup is missing. Distraught, the owner is seen posting signs around town in hopes of locating him. Unaware to the owner, when he is forced to slam on his brakes, the horse trailer door opens and the pup escapes, off on a run across the countryside to take on new adventures. During these adventures, the puppy is out running after the sun goes down and is confronted by a coyote who is heard growling at the pup… flash to the stables, the owner

There are many prevalent issues, including abortion, race, religion, and pedophilia, that exist not only in America, but across the world, that many people have a difficult time discussing. These topics have a tendency to make people uncomfortable, and when brought up in discussion it can be easy to offend someone who has an opposing opinion. Even though conversation about these issues is difficult to engage in, the conversations are important to have. Satire has a way of making light of uncomfortable topics, and it allows for the conversation about these topics to be started. Since satire approaches these topics in a joking manner, people might be less inclined to be offended. In Bojack Horseman and South Park, the characters are able to talk about an incredibly controversial topic, abortion, in a way that should not be taken offensively. These examples demonstrate that if done in an effective way, satire can touch upon any topic. Since these two episodes are fictional and presented as an animation, there is a separation from reality that makes it easier to tackle more controversial topics effectively. Being a cartoon, audiences automatically view these shows as as fictional, so discussion about controversial topics can be brought up and audiences are less likely to be offended. When topics that are difficult or uncomfortable to talk about are covered in different mediums, like articles, novels, and non-animated shows, it is easier for

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When I was in middle school, I first discovered Family Guy late at night while I was channel surfing in my hotel room. Usually, cartoons are never shown at night, simply because most kids are asleep by that time. I didn’t find anything decent, until I saw this cartoon. I figured it was for children, but I after I saw the theme song, I second guessed that. I continued to watch the show and even though it clearly had adult humor, I still continued to watch it, because I found it hilarious.

Saturday Night Live celebrated its 40th anniversary in style last season. Sure, the three-and-a-half-hour special welcoming back alums and esteemed guests was entertaining, but the real celebration should be because of its talented cast. SNL often gets a bad rap because people are partial to "their" version of the show. If we look at the 2014-2015 cast ten or fifteen years from now, we might consider them one of the best ensembles the NBC institution has ever produced. Here's a look at the top 10 cast members from last season.

Jerry Seinfeld began his commute after dinner, in no particular hurry. Around quarter to 8 on a drizzly Tuesday, he left his Manhattan home — a palatial duplex apartment with picture windows and a broad terrace overlooking Central Park — and made for a nearby garage. Due to tell jokes at a comedy club downtown, he decided to drive what he calls his “city car”: a 1998 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S. Stepping into the garage, he tugged a thick fabric cover from the car. The interior was a pristine matte black, and the paint job was a startlingly luminous azure. “It’s called Mexico blue — a very traditional Porsche color,” Seinfeld said. “In the ’70s it looked normal, but now it looks insane.”

In mid two thousand and eight, a New York magazine had circulated a controversial political cartoon targeting the White House’s current residents, the President, and first lady. Within weeks many other news companies like CBS, NBC, and even Huffington post had some sort of written article on this controversy. This though had been one of many controversial cartoons they had circulated throughout their years of business. When they had circulated this one though they didn’t expect that big of a backlash. For them to keep their cartoon on the front page they had a lot of explaining. This led to interviews and more publicity for their cartoon in question.

One of the most well known and most prevalent pop culture satire of our time is Family Guy. Over 15 seasons were made of the show and it is known internationally for its riska