Comparison Of Family Guy And The Office

The television show “Family Guy” aired on January 31, 1999. The show's description specifically states it is sick, twisted, and politically incorrect. It was canceled in 2002 for the inappropriate content it presented, On March 1, 2005, it started up again. The show contains twenty-one seasons and four-hundred Episodes. On March 24, 2005, “The Office” was aired for the first time. The show has nine seasons and two hundred and one Episodes. Both are top-rated television shows that have been criticized for the vulgarity and appropriateness of their content. “Family Guy” and “The Office” are not good television shows because they are explicit, magnify inappropriate jokes, and broadcast hate for minorities.

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Some topics joked about include AIDS, rape, death, teen pregnancy, school shootings, domestic violence, murder, abortion, etc. For example, in Season 9 Episode 15, Peter has to pretend to be a teenager again. When he decides he wants to make the popular kids pay for the way they treated him, he is seen cocking a large gun before trying to call it off when he hears gunshots and screaming over the phone (Danielle 6). “The Office” makes jokes about controversial topics that cause backlash from producers. Jokes are made about slavery, people with disabilities, systemic racism, the LGBTQ+ community, perverted father-daughter relationships, murder, catfishing, etc. In Episode 22 of Season 8, Michael says, “We’ll auction off people, like in the olden days,” however, this was not the only issue in this Episode (Gibbs 5). In Season 3 Episode 8, Michael says “Follow me, I will show you where all the slaves work,” to an African-American man which caused the producers to receive criticism about the types of jokes used in the television

In “The Office,” many times characters use the word “retard” in regard to certain people or things. In one Episode of “Family Guy,” jokes were made about being a student and having down syndrome, including being the child of the governor in Alaska. This caused Sara Palin and her entire family to go after producers calling them heartless, this caused an uproar leading to an email to The New York Times from Ms. Friedman; she states that Sara Palin uses her son for votes and sympathy and has no sense of humor (Itzkoff 4). People of color are mocked, openly discriminated against, etc. Like states before, in Episode 22 of Season 8, Michael says, “We’ll auction off people, like in the olden days,” however, this was not the only issue in this Episode (Gibbs 5). Also, in Season 3 Episode 8, Michael says “Follow me, I will show you where all the slaves work,” to an African-American man which caused the producers to receive criticism about the types of jokes used in the television show (Gibbs 7). “Family Guy” shows racism along with intolerance for minorities in American society (Warnery