Family Guy and Freud

Seth Macfarlane had a great life and has had many achievements but still had obstacles like his show being canceled three times, but the ratings for family guy were to high that FOX had to bring this show back every time they canceled it. Before Family Guy Seth was going to start a show named Life of Larry, which was pretty much the same thing as Family Guy, but with different characters, But Life of Larry was later replaced with Family Guy.

Within her arguable essay “Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Uncouncious”, Antonia Peacocke, who is a graduate instructor in Philosophy from the University of California: Berkeley, uses Freud’s ideas to compare them to the harsh humor and satire to the show Family Guy. From these ideas, Peacocke is able to make a connection and an argument from Family Guy’s rude humor to the ideas that Freud literates. This can help the viewers of the show have an open mind on the reality the humor can have on people mentally.

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

Family Guy, an animated sitcom about a New England family and their everyday dilemmas, is a way for viewers to see the comedic side of a dysfunctional family. The Griffins consist of Peter and Lois, the patriarch and matriarch, and Meg, Chris, and Stewie are the children(Family Guy). Every character is different from the next character. They are also weird in their own way. The television show itself displays feminism, structuralism, and gay and lesbian criticism. Each character in the show also displays those criticisms in a certain fashion. Family Guy can be offensive to viewers with its satire, and the way the show delivers its message can make the family and the other characters in the show seem dysfunctional.

Don't we all have something in common? Well that's just how comedians have an effect to communicate a universal truth with their audience. Whether if its confusion, sickness, frustration we all have something that we can relate to and that is how comedians use this effect because we can relate to that feeling or subject. That's how a comedian can communicate a universal truth to us by using humor.

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

The show is quite abundant with meta-humor; in fact, there is an entire episode in which the characters engage themselves in watching T.V. shows featuring themselves in an alternate universe while they discuss the possible consequences if those realities had been their realities. There is some semi-dark humour in display as well as one of the many inventions turn the entire population of the globe to become fatally obsessed with Morty and they get eventually transformed into deformed beings prompting the titular characters to enter a universe where they are dead and replace themselves with the dead versions and completely enter into a different reality.

American television today has drastically changed from the first appearance of the television in the 1920s. Currently, television is nothing but sitcoms poking jokes at the disabled, the LGBT community adapting to the American family standard, and even late night television poking fun at our 2016 Presidential candidates.1950s television depicted America’s heterosexual, patriarchal society in which an “ideal and acceptable” family consisted of a generous working class father, an accommodating and good-natured mother, and a few respectful children. Whereas 1950s American television required the audience to accept television families without question, American networks today understand that times are changing and just like mass communication, adapting to the millennial generation of technology is a must for television families to appeal to the growing masses. But when did television families first start to step away from the cultural ideals of its time? From the 1920s through the 1960s television upheld the Father Knows Best standard of television with shows such as ‘Father Knows Best” and “I Love Lucy.” Well, fast forward 30 years, and in came the Bundy’s. The Bundy’s were television’s first dysfunctional, on screen family to undermine the idea that an ideal family must function perfectly all the time. Married with Children reminded us that it was ok to not conform to society’s cultural norms. “…people want to watch a family that

MacFarlane has been able to object a varied diversity of viewers that relates best with Rabinowitz, in his essay, “Actual Reader and Authorial Reader.” Rabinowitz argues that the actual audience versus the creative writes who establish plots for the show. MacFarlane has also been able to fill governmental comedy with family morals and ethics, which goes toward a certain crowd. Family Guy is also seen to control a state of people over the worship of mainstream accomplishments and endless teachings to survive one’s lifetime. MacFarlane also has politically-based ethics/morals behind each character, which fascinates the majority of the audience.

In Freudian therapy, or psychoanalysis, healing occurs when repressed thoughts and feelings are brought in to consciousness. This allows the patient to develop a stronger ego and resolve internal

. Freud’s commitment to the theory of “Psycho-Sexual” development of the person stems from his own childhood memories. He was born into a family that lived in a small space, with his half-brothers that look like adults and a father that looked like a grandfather. At a very young age he would record his dreams that exposed his fantasies. I believe he was confused about sex growing up that he is confused about his feelings about sex. His commitment to his theory was to decipher what was appropriate for the different stages of life. In order for Freud to make his feelings seem “normal”, he opened up peoples’ minds about the thought of a person and their sexual accumulation.

Created in 1999 by Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy is an adult animated cartoon, commonly aired on FOX (“Family Guy”). Since its start, 269 episodes have been created; each teetering on the edge of morality and ethics. It is true that Family Guy is a chat-topping, clever, and properly thought out cartoon; however, it’s easy to discern the creator’s common use of inappropriate topics and remarks.

A show about a seemingly normal family might not be a show that doesn't catch a lot of viewer's attention. I have to disagree because Family Guy is one of my favourite televsion shows, and i rarely watch TV. Family Guy is comedy based off a normal middle class family, but like all families they have their problems that can be very strange. I admire shows that are different than any other shows that are out there. I find the show to be very interesting for various reasons such as their use of stereotypes,violence, and its slight case of predictibility which is why I love the "Patriot Games" episode.

In this episode a young pregnant women meet with a couple of the same sex who wants to adopt her baby. This lady sitting in the restaurant complains loudly saying "I think that's the worst thing to do to your baby, no offense." She basically is bashing same-sex couples for trying to adopt. The first person says "wow, excuse me. That's not your place. What's wrong with that? If they're in love then it don't matter." He apologized to the couple and said he doesn't know what he would do if someone said that to his gay brother. The second was a man and a woman. The man tells his wife what is going on and gets offended and says "they will make great parents, don't worry about it." The gay couple left and the lady tries to talk to the pregnant girl

Freud viewed the unconscious mind as the primary source of human behavior. Freud saw the conscious mind as only the “tip of the iceberg” of the mind, because people are not always conscious of every decision they decide to make. For example, you may consciously think ‘I’m thirsty.’ and drink water, but according to Freud, that only scratches the surface of the decisions we make. According to Freud, the unconscious mind contains “significant” and “disturbing” thoughts and experiences that we need to keep out of the conscious mind. Traumatic events would be one such example of a thought that needed to be kept out of the conscious mind, and therefore was