This is a hilarious animated show imho. Last night's episode focused on Peter getting injected with the "gay gene" in a "medical experiment" in which he's participating to earn extra money. He's injected and immediatley turns into a stereotyped flamer who loves fashion, cooking, etc.... I laughed at a lot of it, and the ending is highly anti homophobic.....Just wondering if anyone else saw this episode. This is a very popular series and I am wondering if their approach actually helps in promoting acceptance of gays in society, or hurts, because it makes gays all appear to be ultra flamboyant...

Damn, I missed that one!
I love Family Guy, especially uber gay Stewie!!

You can always catch Family Guy at hulu.com; I'm watching it now and had to post that the first 3 minutes had me rofl.

I think this show has a tendency to go too far. I remember an episode where they created an animated version of a very overweight Liza Minelli and even managed to joke about her mother's (Judy Garland) death. Some topics need to be off limits but the good news is I can always change the channel and I do.
Any writers who find humor in everything from pedophilia to matricide need to spend a lot more time on a therapist's couch.

OK...I just watched it...funny as crap!!

"Kids, some of the milk in the fridge is not milk...."

I this show!

Definitely going to watch this on Hulu tonight.

As said some of the topics just go too far at times.

The baseball bats and fists bit was hilarious...

Ok, just watched the first segment. Gay things noticed were:

Watersports
Cum/Semen collecting or snowblowing?
Rimming in the bedroom scene at night

Second:

Squirrel gene, buck teeth. Rude lesbian reference?
Seth Rogan, not a gay reference but funny.

Edit: This episode is beyond disturbing. Not going to bother watching it.

DJ, I was just curious what part of the show pushed you to turn it off?

For me Stewie eating the cereal was a definite highlight. And I thought I have been suffering in silence or was just being a hater because Seth Rogen has never been funny to me ever in life. It's like John Belushi, John Candy, Chris Farley....Seth Rogen?????? Really?

The tone of the episode did push a lot of boundaries which I noticed and felt that's why they listed all of the FOX shows that have been cancelled since FG was cancelled then brought back as a kind of middle finger to the entire world. And saying that people are born gay and therefore not sinners or evil in this context was cool to me because it was raw and offensive and didn't feel like an after school special where they were trying to convince people that gay people are respectable and therefore "worthy" of being considered human or having equal rights. We're just like everybody else but with a different orientation. Referencing anti-Semitism in the same ep. was brilliant.

I have never been comfortable with Stewie wanting to kill Lois, especially early on. But when it's on target I think the show is hard to beat. South Park gives me the same feeling; sometimes I am like, this is going too far and it offends me, other times I am like this is the funniest ish ever, still other times I am like this is really offensive but it's making me laugh out of recognizing the tragic nature of it. Kind of like the slavery episode of FG where Stewie said "I'm half black and half white which means both black people and white people are going to love me..." I laughed through 15 years of pain on that one.

Jay, I honestly can't lie since I made a topic about this only a few weeks ago that I brought up the issue. The minute Peter went into the high voice and dressing up was the minute I became uncomfortable. I decided to stick through the show but it just got worse from my perspective. I ended up watching the season finale of Burn Notice again. I just don't feel very comfortable viewing those kinds of things.

OMG! Just watched the Straight Camp teaser. Gotta love the twistedness of this show...

The, "No, no, no" comments about the using the bats & fists is just too f-ing funny!

It took me a few seconds to realize that they'd be used as dildos and fisting.

Right on. You gotta do you.

For the most part I find FG hilarious. However, the AIDS jokes are a bit much for me.

I guess. I mean I feel bad about it, so I try working on the acceptance of others issue. Not everyone is perfect.



What was the joke? I didn't see that part.

DJ, you are only where you are when you are there. Life is a process. Performative femme dudes used to get on my nerves because I knew guys growing up who were naturally femme that got their butts kicked and the guys who could turn it off and on seemed fake to me. But I eventually realized that they have a right to be flamboyant if they so choose and often there is stuff they are reacting against like being oppressed, repressed. I dated a femme dude for a long while and that's when it truly shifted for me. He was flaming, out, open, and wanted to hold my hand in public. It was definitely a growth experience. I think if you just live and let live everything will eventually fall into place.

SoftStud, the Aids jokes used to bother me as well until my friend sero-converted a couple of years ago and I was devastated. We were hanging out one day and he was like "Hey man, guess what?" I said, what? He replied, "I got The AIDS..." and went on to sing a song about it. I was like this isn't funny and tried to be mad and hold onto my sadness but he kept singing and dancing and being funny until I finally laughed and released a lot of tension. I don't know if FG is doing this, but I look at the jokes as a way to release stress and it helps.

The song might have been from Family Guy. There was an episode where Peter had one of his many "This is just like the time when..." flashbacks and, if I recall correctly, it was to when he was part of a barbershop quartet singing a song like that to inform people that they had AIDS. I'm sure someone can find a more detailed reference or even a clip.

Yeah, I remember that episode Joe. My friend didn't sing the same words. He was kind of doing a Carpenters "Close To You" version and strutting about. Definitely got me over a lot of my fears...not having protease inhibitors around until I was 22 years old really had me in a head space where sex was always connected to a life and death choice. Probably explains why I still gravitate to closeted practitioners of orthodox religions.

P.S. - I don't date them anymore though. But they are fun to flirt with!

You mean one like this:

That's such an obvious Photoshop job.

I'd never have heard of Hasidic Jews until a certain House MD episode I came across. Very interesting twist on Judaism. Always interesting to learn about new things.