Family guy is an animated sitcom created by Seth McFarland surrounding the Griffin Family. The creator, Mr. Macfarlane uses many techniques of satire to help break down many prevalent stereotypes in US doing so in a light hearted manner. From a parody of Star Wars or Stewie, a baby, taking over the world, family guy uses just about every satirical technique in the books and then a few. Family guy has broken just about every taboo; terrorism, pedophilia, god/Jesus, abortion, physical/mental disabilities, Transgenders and even AIDS along with just about every other racial stereotype, so why do people continue watching this show? There are two important things that the creators of family guy do so that they continue airing episodes twenty some years later. First and most importantly is they do not single out one group in particular but instead, they poke fun at many different (and many times) very taboo things. By doing this they are not marginalizing one specific group and instead make fun of human nature itself. I think what the show is really going after is the fact that we are all human; we make mistakes, we’re ignorant people, but at the end of the day we have to embrace this and learn to laugh more at ourselves for all our flaws and imperfections.
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