So I, like many awesome people out there, am a huge Family Guy fanatic. Every Sunday night at 8pm I’m usually found in front of my television, VCR (yes, I still use a VCR) set to record, and FOX’s wonderful programming reassuring me that my show is on next. This past Sunday however, I raced home from work to discover a repeat of Family Guy being aired that night. No biggie, as any diehard fan knows I was in for any number of hilarious celebrity spoofs, fart jokes, explosions, language that young children shouldn’t hear, and Stewie’s latest installment of world domination. That night’s episode dealt with Peter being fed up with the FCC blocking out “all the good stuff on TV” as he puts it. So what does he do? At the advice of the local news anchorman, Tom Tucker, Peter creates his own television network.
Obviously, hilarity ensues as Peter’s network shows are offensive to just about any demographic one can name. However, as in any TV masterpiece, they “bad guys” (in this case the FCC) come in the nick of time to foil Peter’s plans. Even though I’ve seen this episode before, the song Peter and his family sing (in tribute?) to the FCC cracks me up every time. It’s so true, how every little thing that could possibly be misconstrued and be deemed as offensive, the FCC jumps on immediately. It’s also ironic, however, that Family Guy has been named one of the most controversial shows in the past decade, yet somehow manages to still have shows airing which include gags people like myself find side-splitting, and have people like my parents in disbelief how I can watch something so “vulgar”.
So to please all the addics out there like yours truly, I included a little something special in this week’s post. Yep, you guessed it, it’s the FCC song as preformed by the lovable Griffin family!!!! (you're welcome) And here’s to all the “vulgarity” that still makes it on the air for us to enjoy! TAKE THAT FCC! :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U058nz0Jepg
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Perhaps you have seen Battlestar Galactica (which returns for its third season beginning Friday)? It's set in the future, of course. So everyone in the Battlestar Galactica future says "frak" instead of the other f-word, which is an imaginative way of getting around problems of regulating offensive language. No one can claim that "frak" is a dirty word, yet that is exactly how it functions within the world of the Battlestar narrative. And yet: SciFi Channel, the network that runs Battlestar, is on cable rather than broadcast TV and thus is not regulated by the FCC. So there are other reasons, aside from government regulation, why shows avoid naughty stuff. One big one is fear of offending advertisers or special interest groups like the Southern Baptist Convention. And as Battlestar shows, sometimes media producers come up with engaging, creative solutions to problems created by content regulation.
Anyhow, that's a funny song. Thanks for linking to it.
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