From controversial celebrity references to inappropriate musical numbers, these animated moments pushed comedy to uncomfortable limits. Join us as we look at the most shocking and controversial jokes from this long-running animated series that made viewers question if they'd gone too far.
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00:00Well, if I'm gonna disappear into nothing, I might as well bang my mom.
00:03Hey, Lorraine, wait up!
00:07Harry, my name's Marty!
00:09Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the Family Guy jokes that were too much for primetime.
00:18Oh no, who will pay for my saxophone lessons?
00:21Some spoilers will be mentioned, so this is your official warning.
00:26Number 30. Michael J. Fox as Zorro
00:30Well done, you barnacle-munching scallywiggers!
00:33Sir, we've got a man down.
00:34Oh my god, Adrian Peaky!
00:36Not even the most wholesome celebrities are saved from this show's twisted sense of humor.
00:41Thanks to films like Back to the Future, Michael J. Fox became one of the most beloved stars of the late 20th century.
00:48He shocked fans when he revealed his Parkinson's diagnosis.
00:51You'd think such a serious illness would be considered off-limits, but not to Family Guy.
00:58The death of Peter's parrot makes him realize he messed up worse than Disney casting Fox as Zorro.
01:04I've screwed up worse than Disney did when I cast Michael J. Fox in that Zorro remake!
01:09The scene then cuts to the fictional movie, where the masked man's famous insignia is now unintelligible.
01:16It's clearly a dig at one of the disease's most recognizable symptoms.
01:21It's the man who saved us!
01:22I don't know, but he left his insignia.
01:27A ridiculously low blow, even by the show's standards.
01:32Number 29. Peter Shaves Quagmire's Cat
01:35Hi, James!
01:37Oh my god!
01:40Watch when I scratch his bottom, he sticks his fanny in the air!
01:42Animal lovers may want to skip this one.
01:46While 420 is famous for its hilarious plot about weed becoming legal in Quahog,
01:51the inciting incident that leads up to it isn't quite as funny.
01:55Quagmire adopts a cat named James and immediately becomes attached to him.
01:59This immediately annoys the rest of the gang, so much so that they decide to shave him as a prank.
02:06Peter immediately slaughters the cat to the horror of his friends.
02:09Oh my god!
02:11Peter, you killed it!
02:11He brushes it off, claiming it has nine lives.
02:15This prompts him to keep going, counting down each time he cuts,
02:19all while James' blood continuously splatters onto him.
02:23It was shockingly violent, and the callback later on was the cruel cherry on top.
02:29Hey guys, I want you to know I'm raising my reward to $50 for anyone who can help me find James.
02:34No questions asked.
02:35I killed your cat.
02:37Number 28.
02:38Juice Will Not Replace Us
02:40That statue was a travesty, and so is the brewery.
02:43They should close it and make juice instead.
02:46What?
02:46Not every real-life moment needs to be turned into a silly joke.
02:50After Brian tears down a statue commemorating problematic Quahog hero Pawtucket Pat, members
02:56of the town, including Peter, take to the park to express their anger.
03:00A group of counter-protesters arrive, insisting that the brewery should be closed, and make
03:06juice instead.
03:07Furious, Peter starts a chant that sounds eerily similar to the one used by white supremacist
03:13groups during the 2017 Unite the Right rallies in North Carolina.
03:17How dare you!
03:18Juice will not replace us!
03:20Juice will not replace us!
03:22Juice will not replace us!
03:23It's intended to be a silly pun making fun of their misplaced anger, but it's so on the
03:29nose that it skips right over being funny, and just becomes cringe instead.
03:33All right, no more politics.
03:34Time for trains in the basement.
03:35Number 27.
03:37Peter keeps Connie warm.
03:39Connie, you are really pretty.
03:41I mean, you have filled out something wacky.
03:43Oh, thanks, Mr. Griffin.
03:45I like what you're doing with your boobs.
03:47Dad!
03:48She may be a villain, but she still doesn't deserve this.
03:52Throughout the series, Connie D'Amico has been Meg's biggest rival.
03:56Connie gets a taste of her own medicine when she fake dates Chris to make him popular, and
04:01is subsequently ditched by him.
04:03Peter's attraction was immediately clear, starting with an innuendo that ends in a movie
04:09reference.
04:10Look at that Connie.
04:11So young and live.
04:13Look at the shape of that body.
04:15Look at the shape of that body.
04:19That's it, Brian.
04:20That's where One-Eyed Willie buried his gold.
04:22His behavior later escalates when Chris shoves Connie.
04:26Peter suggests lying on top of her to keep her warm, and then immediately acts on the idea.
04:31It's an uncomfortable sight, which he acknowledges by looking at the viewers and accosting them
04:37for their potential shock.
04:39Oh no, Connie's been hurt.
04:40I guess I should lie on top of her to keep her warm.
04:45What are you looking at?
04:46It's a cartoon.
04:47It's clear they knew they were going too far, and just didn't care.
04:51Number 26.
04:53Peter's Ghost Costume.
04:55Peter isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, but this ignorance often goes too far.
05:00Jerome was introduced in Season 8.
05:03After learning he dated Lois, Peter becomes so envious that he burns his friend's house down,
05:09forcing Jerome to move in.
05:11His jealousy grows.
05:13We're just friends, Peter.
05:15Don't tell me you're jealous.
05:16What, you dating that guy?
05:18It's just a lot to take in.
05:19Oh, you're telling me.
05:21Oh, come on!
05:22Those kinds of jokes aren't helping!
05:23In an attempt to make him leave, he donned a white hooded robe and brandished a torch,
05:29a direct parallel to members of the Ku Klux Klan.
05:32When confronted, he said Jerome wouldn't want to stay in a house haunted by a fire-carrying ghost.
05:38Peter, take that thing off!
05:40Hey, what the hell's going on?
05:41I'll tell you what's going on.
05:42I have had about enough of you, Jerome.
05:44It's clear they were trying to point out that Peter is so stupid he didn't realize what he was doing.
05:50But it didn't land at all.
05:52Wow, what just happened was kind of sad.
05:56Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
06:00Number 25.
06:02Dear Diary, Jackpot, Quagmire has been a menace since the show's earliest days.
06:09In this Season 3 episode, the subplot revolves around Stewie joining the cheer squad
06:13so that he can learn their supposed mind-control powers.
06:17He easily infiltrates the group and eventually kidnaps Cindy,
06:21the head cheerleader, so that he can take her place.
06:24You know, Cindy, I'd feel worse about this if you didn't spell your name with that insufferable
06:28eye at the end.
06:30Oh, and that cock-a-doodie smiley face you used to dot it.
06:33You sicken me!
06:34I'm not gonna hurt you.
06:35I'm not gonna hurt you.
06:36He ends up forgetting her afterwards.
06:38When the squad wonders where she is, it cuts to Quagmire, finding her bound and gagged in
06:44the bathroom.
06:46As she lay there, struggling and attempting to ask for help, he merely leers at her and
06:51says he hit the jackpot.
06:53It was disgusting, even for him, showing just how vile he used to be.
06:59Dear Diary, Jackpot.
07:01Number 24, Minions 3, with Harvey Weinstein.
07:05Now open mine.
07:08Minions 3?
07:09Yeah, in this one, Gru has been replaced by Harvey Weinstein.
07:13Family Guy has never been afraid to reference uncomfortable moments.
07:18However, the way they address certain issues only highlights how depraved they are.
07:22One of the best examples is in Bri-Robot, wherein Brian is given a copy of Minions 3.
07:29Lois points out that in this iteration, Gru is replaced by defamed producer Harvey Weinstein.
07:36It then cuts to the faux film, showing the Predator in nothing but a robe.
07:41He makes an innuendo about the creature working for bad guys, and tells it to touch him.
07:46The Minion responded with a fearful rendition of one of their popular phrases, making the
07:52implications clear.
07:53Seeing a character from a children's movie juxtaposed with such an evil man was far
07:58more jarring than humorous.
08:00Oh, you like working for bad guys?
08:02I'll show you a bad guy.
08:03Now you touch it.
08:05You know what to touch.
08:06B-banana!
08:09Number 23, Stewie's Lollipop.
08:12If you thought the juice joke from this episode was in poor taste, then wait until you hear
08:17this.
08:17While in the park to tear down the Pawtucket Pat statue, Stewie takes a moment to use the
08:23public bathroom.
08:24Stewie, no!
08:24He emerges a moment later with a lollipop, but a second later, text appears on the screen
08:30saying that he was assaulted and merely imagining it, as if that wasn't harrowing enough.
08:36Brian then pretends to see the candy as well, simply so he won't have to have a long talk
08:42about it.
08:43It cemented how much of a scumbag the dog could be, but the implications of what happened
08:48to poor Stewie were anything but comical.
08:51Now let's stop talking about that lollipop and get to work.
08:54Number 22, Horton Hears Domestic Violence.
08:58Do you think it's easy working all day?
08:59No.
08:59Do you think I like it?
09:00I don't think it's easy, but yes, I do think you like it.
09:03No, I, yeah, I like being away from you because I can't stand looking at you.
09:06If there's one thing this series isn't afraid to do, it's ruin the innocence of some
09:11of our favorite children's media.
09:12One of the most infamous examples occurs when Stewie and Brian come across a copy of
09:17Horton Hears Domestic Violence in the Next Apartment and Doesn't Call 9-1-1, a parody
09:22of the Dr. Seuss classic.
09:24It then cuts to the elephant sitting in his home and reading, while the sound of slightly
09:28muffled screams and physical abuse is heard offscreen.
09:32He ignores it, saying there must be two sides to the story.
09:36The abuse sounds so realistic that it ends up making the whole cutaway uncomfortable, even
09:41for the edgiest of viewers.
09:43I'm sure there's two sides to this.
09:45Number 21.
09:47Quagmire Attacks The Simpsons
09:49It's no secret that Family Guy and The Simpsons have been in competition since the former started
09:55airing in 1999.
09:56The latter wasn't shy about poking fun at their successor, and eventually, the Family Guy
10:02writers struck back.
10:04During a now-removed scene in Season 6, a fake ad for The Simpsons appeared, showing Marge
10:10waving to the camera.
10:12Quagmire suddenly pounced on her and chased her offscreen to presumably assault her.
10:16If you're just stringing her along, well then I gotta say, I've lost a lot of respect
10:20for you, Brian.
10:21They then went back to The Simpsons' home to hook up again, leading to him slaughtering
10:26the entire family.
10:27Wow!
10:28Three times in a row!
10:29You're amazing, Glenn!
10:31Oh, I just take a lot of pride in what I do.
10:33It was a bizarrely violent escalation that forced producers to cut it from the initial
10:38broadcast.
10:39The joke still lives on in some versions, but time hasn't made it any funnier.
10:44You shot my homie!
10:46I'm calling the police!
10:48Number 20.
10:50Aquaman's Limitations
10:51Aquaman, perhaps prior to some more recent casting choices, didn't have the best reputation.
10:58He's a fish guy, powerful in the ocean, but what about on land?
11:03Family Guy decided to poke fun at Arthur Curry, yet could perhaps have gone about it a little
11:09differently.
11:09A woman is shown being assaulted on a beach, crying for help.
11:13Hey, let her go!
11:14Or what?
11:15Or, or, I don't know, man, but you're, you're lucky you're not doing that over here in the
11:21ocean, or else, or I would stop you.
11:24Aquaman pokes his head out of the ocean at a distance, yet stays where he is, confined
11:29to the ocean.
11:31He tosses a harmless starfish and threatens the criminal with fish backup.
11:35When the woman asks why you won't help, he gives a pretty insensitive response.
11:40Well, maybe you shouldn't have let him on.
11:42We get the Aquaman criticism, but can't help but think this joke would have worked showing
11:47any other crime.
11:49Number 19.
11:50The Ipecac Contest
11:52Long-time fans of Family Guy will be far too familiar with this scene.
11:57It never gets less disgusting, even so many seasons later.
12:01In a season 4 episode, Peter gets a hold of some Ipecac, a syrup made from plant extracts
12:07traditionally used to rapidly induce vomiting.
12:10Alright you guys, I got 8 crates of Ipecac from Mort, all on my tab.
12:13Well, the Griffin boys have a contest to see who can go the longest without vomiting.
12:18What follows is a full, one-minute scene of continuous puking.
12:23The four end up writhing in agony on the floor, vomit lining every piece of furniture and most
12:29of the floor.
12:30Who wants chowder?
12:31Yeah!
12:33If that wasn't enough, a season 11 episode where time is reversed shows it again, but Brian
12:39and Stewie have to endure it backwards.
12:42Number 18.
12:44Peter Griffin Jr.'s Demise
12:47Did you know the Griffins had four children?
12:49Four children.
12:52Four children.
12:54There's Meg, Chris, Stewie, and the dearly departed Peter Jr.
12:58In a season 7 episode, a cutaway reveals a funeral scene in which Peter consoles a crying Lois
13:05over the grave of Peter Jr.
13:08In a gentle voice, Peter says he thought the infant would stop crying if he shook him hard
13:12enough.
13:13I'm sorry Lois, I thought if I shook him enough he'd stop crying.
13:19I was kind of right.
13:21It goes without saying that shaken baby syndrome is one of the leading causes of infant death.
13:26So the joke is quite provocative.
13:29Those vaguely familiar with this condition may guiltily giggle, and those all too familiar
13:35will likely not.
13:37Number 17.
13:39Domestic Violence
13:40In a season 10 episode, we're reintroduced to Quagmire's sister Brenda and her aggressive
13:46boyfriend Jeff.
13:47When we were kids, our mother used to sing a song when we were sad.
13:51Maybe that'll help now.
13:52Come on, Brenda.
13:53A stupid nursery rhyme isn't going to wake him up, especially the way you sing.
13:57Right, man?
13:58She refuses to leave him, despite his clear physical and mental abuses towards her.
14:03Quagmire and friends end up secretly putting an end to Jeff and faking a farewell letter to
14:09Brenda.
14:10This episode generated a lot of controversy, as it was unlike the show to take on such a heavy
14:15topic.
14:16In all fairness, they handled it with care, but it was perhaps too serious for a show
14:22like Family Guy.
14:23I guess he's really gone.
14:27It takes away from the severity of the situation.
14:30Also, the episode's title, Screams of Silence, the Story of Brenda Q, mocks those melodramatic
14:36TV movies, which also arguably lightens the mood unnecessarily.
14:42There are a lot of jabs at Christianity in Family Guy.
14:50Jesus himself is a reoccurring character, yet prior to this Season 7 appearance, he was
14:55pretty much only in cutaways.
14:58In the episode, I Dream of Jesus, Peter runs into Jesus who claims he's secretly hanging
15:03out on Earth.
15:04Peter persuades him to reveal his presence publicly, and Jesus reluctantly does so.
15:17He then becomes a sort of fame-hungry diva, appearing on various talk shows and shunning
15:22Peter for groupies and limousines.
15:24Reactions were not favorable to the portrayal of Jesus as a famous snob.
15:38A Season 13 episode sees JC faking virginity in order to sleep with people's wives.
15:43So, yeah.
15:45Jesus ain't no virgin.
15:47He did the same thing to me last Christmas.
15:49He what?
15:50Yeah, Jesus did the same thing to my wife Christmas before last and my buddy's wife the year before
15:55that.
15:55Number 15.
15:57Brian Gives Stewie an STI
15:59Brian and Stewie have been in a lot of adventures.
16:03Some good, some bad, and some ridiculous.
16:06In an episode titled Herpy the Lovesore, Stewie learns about Blood Brothers and performs the
16:12ritual with Brian.
16:14I think we should hold hands more often.
16:15There you go.
16:16We're Blood Brothers now.
16:17You happy?
16:18Actually, yes.
16:19I mean, I really feel the bond, Brian.
16:21However, he gets a little more than he anticipated when he wakes up with a herpes outbreak.
16:26Stewie is shunned by his daycare friends, has to call a former partner, hilariously a ripoff
16:33of Bob the Builder named Handy Manny, and confess to Rupert.
16:37Um, Rupert, you know how we promised never to lie to each other?
16:42Well, I lied earlier tonight.
16:44It's not a burn from Dunkin' Donuts coffee.
16:46Brian continues to hide his affliction from his dates, but is thankfully stopped by Stewie
16:51and Chris.
16:52Ew!
16:53I'm sorry, Brian.
16:55I've got to go.
16:57Damn it, you guys!
16:58Her dad's really rich!
17:03Wow, you weren't kidding.
17:05Yeah.
17:06Critics considered the episode one of the worst, as it inaccurately portrayed the virus,
17:11as well as reduced it to mere fodder for gross-out humor.
17:15Number 14.
17:17Brian Cleans Stewie's Diaper
17:19The Season 8 episode, Brian and Stewie, is different from your average episode, as it
17:25features no cutaways and serves to further develop the characters and friendship of Brian
17:30and Stewie Griffin.
17:31Nice, right?
17:32Well, it can't go a full episode without something gross.
17:36The dog and baby end up accidentally locked in a bank vault over a weekend.
17:41What was that?
17:44I don't believe this.
17:46Hello?
17:48Hello?
17:49We're locked in!
17:50Despite his wit and seeming maturity, Stewie is still a baby and inevitably ends up with a
17:56dirty diaper.
17:57In desperation and complete lack of a change, he asks Brian to consume the contents of the
18:03diaper, which Brian hesitantly complies.
18:06There's just one part left.
18:09What are you talking about?
18:09There's nothing left.
18:10Look, the diaper's completely clean.
18:11Critics were understandably repulsed, disturbed, and completely grossed out.
18:16Number 13 Reactions to Ida Glenn Quagmire loves the ladies so much, so you would expect the
18:25elder Quagmire to be the same, or even more of a womanizer.
18:29To subvert expectations, Seth MacFarlane and company went in a different direction, one that
18:35was roundly criticized.
18:37Dad, they're here!
18:40At ease, ladies.
18:41Hey, Glenn, you're not going to give your dad an entrance?
18:43Oh, yeah, yeah, I forgot.
18:45Guys, watch this.
18:48Are you ready, boots?
18:51Quagmire Sr. comes to Quahog, revealing herself to be transgender and planning to undergo gender-affirming
18:57surgery.
18:58No, it's okay.
18:59It's a perfectly normal question.
19:00We can't sit here and just pretend everything's the same.
19:03It is a big transition for me, yes.
19:05That, in itself, isn't over the line.
19:08But the transphobic jokes were.
19:10Especially when Brian sleeps with Ida Quagmire and vomits upon learning of her transition.
19:16Many groups raised serious concerns about the episode, including the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
19:21Against Defamation, or GLAAD, saying it used offensive language and perpetrated harmful
19:27stereotypes about transgender people.
19:29For his part, Seth MacFarlane stood by the episode, believing it to be a sympathetic portrayal.
19:36Number 12.
19:37The Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
19:40Ah, the cutaways.
19:41A constant source of potential outrage.
19:45In a season 8 episode, a trip to the nation's capital finds Peter and the gang driving by the
19:50Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
19:52And there's the Vietnam War Memorial.
19:53Hey, check out that Vietnamese guy giving the business to those Vietnam vets.
19:57Peter points out a Vietnamese man giving the business to Americans.
20:01We then see two U.S. veterans visiting the memorial and being taunted by a Vietnamese veteran
20:06who refers to the memorial wall as a scoreboard.
20:09Then points to a specific soldier on the wall whom he claims he killed.
20:14What happened to your friend?
20:16Hey, I know that guy.
20:17I killed him.
20:18He cried like a bitch.
20:19Vietnam, undefeated.
20:21It's really easy to see why this was ill-received by many, as it reduces the seriousness and massive
20:27death count of war to a sport.
20:30Some fans claim the gag puts down those who are already down.
20:35Number 11.
20:36The Whale and the Forklift.
20:38Any fan will recognize that Family Guy loves jokes that we're out there welcome.
20:43Remember that dead frog joke?
20:46Well, that was nothing compared to this one.
20:48In a 2014 episode, Peter gets a forklift and, of course, shenanigans ensue.
20:54It goes a little too far when he arrives on a beach to aid the rescue of a beached whale.
21:09In an attempt to lift the animal, Peter instead impales it with the forklift prongs and spends
21:16nearly a full minute trying to get the whale into the water, gruesomely destroying it in
21:21the process.
21:22This whale's beached himself.
21:24He needs to get back in the water or he'll die.
21:26Step aside.
21:27I'll handle this.
21:27Give me some room.
21:31Is it funny or just nauseating?
21:35Oddly enough, something similar actually happened in 2015, when a whale corpse being airlifted
21:41made a mess on a Uruguayan beach.
21:44Number 10.
21:45The JFK Pez Dispenser
21:47In a Reddit AMA forum in 2017, a Redditor asked Seth MacFarlane if he regretted any Family
21:55Guy scenes.
21:56Out of all the scenes one might expect him to name, MacFarlane answered that he could do
22:01without the JFK Pez Dispenser scene.
22:04In Season 1, Episode 5, a child exits a store and proudly displays his John F. Kennedy Pez
22:09Dispenser, only to have its head promptly shot off.
22:13Check it out.
22:14It's a John F. Kennedy Pez Dispenser.
22:16He then pulls a Robert Kennedy Dispenser out, saying he's glad he still has that one.
22:21Good thing I still have my Bobby Kennedy Pez Dispenser.
22:24The former President and Senator were both assassinated, making this joke quite distasteful.
22:29In fact, the scene was cut from earlier DVD releases of the show.
22:34Number 9.
22:36Michael J. Fox's Wine Party
22:37Family Guy occasionally features self-aware cutaway gags, where they break the fourth
22:42wall to apologize or explain the jokes.
22:46This cutaway was introduced as usual, but cut to Peter against a plain background, explaining
22:52that they won't show it because it will make us all sad.
22:55See, he has this disease and it makes him shake a lot, and what would all have shaken,
22:59he spilled his wine all over my shirt, and my shirt was ruined.
23:05So that's what that was.
23:06They, of course, show it anyway.
23:08Michael J. Fox with a tray of wine-filled glasses inevitably spills it all on Peter's
23:13shirt due to his Parkinson's disease.
23:16However, Fox himself has a sense of humor about his ailment, so we have to wonder if he was
23:21offended by these.
23:23Number 8.
23:24The Boston Marathon
23:26This cutaway was already in poor taste, yet was also the victim of really bad timing.
23:32The 11th season episode, Turbine Cowboy, features a cutaway in which Peter won the Boston Marathon.
23:38The thing is, he wasn't running but driving through the crowd.
23:42I haven't felt a rush like this since I won that marathon.
23:44About one month after this episode aired, the Boston Marathon bombings took place, taking
23:52the lives of three people and causing injuries for hundreds of attendees.
23:56The episode was pulled from airing again on Fox, as well as multiple streaming services.
24:01There are some grim jokes on Family Guy, and this one isn't much different.
24:11The coincidence, however, is uncanny.
24:15Number 7.
24:16Somewhere That's Green
24:18One resident of Spooner Street has a penchant for the youthful.
24:22You know who we're talking about, Herbert.
24:26He's repeatedly shown interest in Chris, and in one particular episode,
24:30Herbert daydreams about his potential life with him.
24:40He sings Somewhere That's Green from the musical Little Shop of Horrors.
24:44In the original song, the character Audrey sings of a potential perfect life with Seymour,
24:50having left behind her abusive boyfriend.
24:53Herbert imagines his perfect life with himself as the wife.
24:57The problem here is that Herbert is clearly an offender, and these types of scenes appear
25:14to lessen the severity of the problem.
25:16Some viewers have surmised that his age and feebleness take away from the clear offense.
25:22Number 6.
25:24The Terry Schiavo Musical
25:25The Terry Schiavo case, for those unaware, was a notorious court case that spanned several
25:31years.
25:32In 1990, Teresa Marie Schiavo, then 26 years old, collapsed in her home.
25:39Though she was resuscitated, the lack of oxygen to her brain had caused massive, irreparable
25:44damage.
25:45Her husband vowed to make her well again, and took her to numerous doctors and rehabilitation
25:50centers.
25:51But years later, after winning a million-dollar malpractice judgment, Schiavo said he realized
25:56his wife would never recover.
25:58After two months, doctors declared her vegetative.
26:02In 1998 began a seven-year-long court case, riddled with appeals.
26:07Schiavo's husband wished to remove her breathing tube, whereas her parents wished to keep her alive.
26:12Family Guy decided that the case would make a great musical for Stewie and his daycare buddies.
26:17Terry Schiavo is kind of alive-o, the most expensive plant you'll ever see.
26:25It's easy to see why this was in poor taste.
26:29Number 5.
26:30Peter, the high school student
26:32In a season 9 episode titled Trading Places, Peter and Lois trade lives with Chris and Meg.
26:39Wow, guys, you hear that?
26:41A raise.
26:41Hmm, interesting.
26:42Seems like the kids are doing pretty well at this grown-up thing, huh?
26:46I would suggest that you suck that.
26:48This means Peter and Lois are high school students, and Peter takes this to a dark place quickly.
26:54He enters the kitchen the morning before school in an intimidating outfit, wielding a shotgun.
27:00He claims to want revenge for how the popular kids treated him.
27:04Lois tells him to call it off, which he tries and fails to do according to the response on his phone.
27:10Peter, no, you're just a normal high school kid.
27:13Oh.
27:15Hey, Lance?
27:16It's off.
27:17It's off.
27:17It's off.
27:18There have been too many such real-life incidents to count, especially since the episode aired in 2011.
27:25This gag hits too close to home.
27:284.
27:29Peter has dark thoughts.
27:31There are some things that arguably shouldn't be joked about.
27:35Make what you will of this one.
27:37The subject matter is touchy, but the punchline crosses the line, in our opinion.
27:41Peter, put that knife down.
27:43Lois, I don't have any friends.
27:44Peter asks Lois how to take his own life.
27:47From another room, Meg, often a dark character, answers him, even giving him tips.
27:54This joke is as dark as jokes can get, and could have a negative effect as well, as the
28:00information provided is accurate from a medical perspective.
28:03Meg is right.
28:04Okay, I'll be in the garage.
28:06It's common to use comedy to deal with hardship, but there's a limit.
28:103.
28:11You have AIDS.
28:13Using a barbershop quartet to deliver bad news is potentially funny, but there's always
28:18a line.
28:19In a season 4 episode, we're shown one of Peter's countless alternate careers.
28:24He's part of a quartet that eases the blow of tough hospital news by singing it.
28:29Cue You Have AIDS.
28:30I don't know how to tell you this, Mr. Devaney, so I'll let these guys do it.
28:35You have AIDS.
28:37Yes, you have AIDS.
28:37I hate to tell you, boy, that you have AIDS.
28:40Family Guy staff members reportedly defended the scene, claiming that the tasteless absurdity
28:45of the situation was the joke.
28:47Again, this could be seen as subjective.
28:50A season 19 episode sees Peter revisit the moment, now partly regretting it.
28:55At least he knows what he did.
28:57You have AIDS.
28:58Oh, and next door is a classic song about AIDS that I now partly regret.
29:03What a blessed day in cutaway land.
29:052.
29:06I Need a Jew.
29:08Religious territory is sometimes close to hot water, and it's easy to fall in.
29:13In a season 3 episode, which was actually pulled from airing for some years, Peter finds himself
29:18in need of a good accountant.
29:20He sings a song where he wishes for a Jewish person to come help with his finances.
29:25I gotta get a Greenstein or a Rosenblatt of my very own.
29:29The Jewish financial stereotype isn't new, and is normally taken in stride or even laughed
29:34about.
29:34But this time, Family Guy was sued by Bourne Music Company, original owners of When You Wish
29:40Upon a Star, they claimed that the parodied version contained offensive lyrics and took
29:56away from the wholesome nature of the original.
29:58They lost the case in 2009, and the episode was returned to syndication.
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30:201.
30:21The Cosby Show Credits
30:22In a season 14 episode, in what at least one viewer called a swift dose of cruel truth,
30:29The Cosby Show's opening sequence is reimagined knowing what we know now.
30:34The classic TV sitcom opening credits sequence is then shown, with Bill Cosby's
30:38dancing and pulling faces as he used to, yet his co-stars are… not well.
30:432.
30:44This refers, of course, to the at least 60 women having accused Cosby of sexual misconduct.
30:542.
30:55Honestly, it is a joke that makes us uncomfortable, but as stated above, it removes a mask we perhaps
31:02wanted to keep on.
31:032.
31:04What do you think?
31:09Which Family Guy joke do you think went too far?
31:12Let us know in the comments below.
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31:15Here it comes James.
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