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    Default Family Guy- Just a tad discriminating?

    Like it says on the title. Eg. back to the future spoof:

    doc brown: Quick Marty we have to go to the future. Your daughter is going to marry a black man!
    Marty: I'm actually kind of ok with that.
    Doc: Oh um...

    I can asure you there are plenty more.

    Not the exact words but close enough.
    What do you think, fling your opinions.

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    Family Guy is full of discriminating humor. It's part of the show. Most of the time, though, it parodies modern society and in some way calls out the social ills as illogical.

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    yes the whole point of the jokes is to deface intolerance, not to promote it

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    After seeing the South Park episodes that pointed out how absurd Family Guy really is, it lost it's humor. Futurama was a better show. But Family Guy is suppose to make fun of everything.

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    and as for south park, it's a platform for the writers to voice their opinions about the world and make jokes...but they admit that

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    As said before, the whole point of Family guy is to make fun of things, but other times, they are just random.

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    Yeah, you know what else was a discriminating show? "All in the Family" :rolleyes2

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    Family Guy is discriminating, but only because the world in large is full of discriminating people in the first place.
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    Most adult cartoons wouldn't be half as funny as they are if they didn't go out of their way to be racist, sexist and generally politically incorrect.

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    Blackuweather meteorologist for the win.

    I enjoy Family Guy because of those jokes. Not that I take them seriously, though.

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    If family guy didn't offend atleast one person every episode, then the show would end up vanishing.

    I dunno though, I was excited when the show came back but now it seems to just be repeating the same old stuff in newer situations or just make them way too dramatic. Kind of like the fall of the Simpsons.

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    The Olie Blackie Weather report is a little more insulting then the Back to the Future skit. But it's Family Guy and that's what they do.

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    a pedant writes: Discriminating is the wrong word in this context, possibly discriminatory.

    anyway, i've not seen the episode you quoted but from what you say it seems to be (as someone else already said) mocking racism rather than condoning it
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    I don't think you get to be pedantic about the language if you keep missing periods and capital letters.

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