“Family Guy” Abortion Episode Too Hot for Fox?
Family Guy is really raunchy, politically incorrect, offensive and over the top, so much so that I know (hipster) moms of under-14s who won’t allow the kids to watch it unless they’ve pre-screened the episode. Says one:
Not always appropriate and TMI for kids. There’s some stuff they should learn from parents not cartoons.
And at least one episode may be too inappropriate for airing by Fox. Saturday at a Comicon panel in San Diego, series creator Seth MacFarlane
revealed he’s producing a controversial episode about abortion for the upcoming season. But he and others on the panel said that Fox was unlikely to air the episode.
"20th Century Fox, as always, allowed us to produce the episode and then said, ‘You know what? We’re scared to f–king death of this,’ " MacFarlane said.
He added that it may however come out on DVD. An earlier episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" was rejected by the network, though it later aired in syndication and was included in a DVD set.
Family Guy, nominated this year for a best comedy series Emmy, has twice been canceled by Fox-TV. The network changed its tune though earlier this year, signing a $100 million dollar deal with MacFarlane.




