Updated 21 July 2010 @ 8:34 am EST
From the “Partial Terms of Endearment” episode of Family Guy:
There’s no funnier topic than abortion. In fact, earlier this morning I fell onto the floor unconscious after laughing myself into a state of self-induced, auto-comedic asphyxiation just thinking about it. And partial birth abortions, don’t get me started! Hysterical! So what do you get when you add such an entertaining – dare I say whimsical – topic to poor animation and a heavy dose of liberal sanctimoniousness, condescension, and elitism? Why, you get the Family Guy’s “Partial Terms of Endearment” episode! Yes children, I admit that The Playa is jaded, cynical, and even embittered, but I’m proud to be an American whenever an animated program’s visionary creator – or even it’s writer and producer – shows courage and nuance in discussing an uncomfortable topic…like, for example, Santa Claus:
Mr. Smith [a veteran “Family Guy” writer and producer], who describes himself as “a recovering Catholic,” said the [abortion episode] script was not especially contentious when it was revised by the show’s mostly male writing staff. “We’ve had more spirited debates about whether or not we should state whether Santa Claus is real,” Mr. Smith said.
And there are so many other artistically inspirational mines that are begging to be explored for their comedic ore! Maybe one day, Seth MacFarlane, the Family Guy’s creator, will produce a show discussing such inherently humorous topics as concentration camps, turning old people into soap, making cosmetics out of babies, and people jumping to their deaths from the burning World Trade Center! That’s some funny stuff! But until those deliriously funny episodes are produced, we will always have the Family Guy’s “Partial Terms of Endearment” episode.
The New York Times lamented the fact that Fox, which carries the show, refused to air the episode in the United States, choosing instead to air it in more enlightened Britain. Fortunately – despite the best efforts of George W. Bush and his nefarious Patriot Act…curse him! – Fox will release it on home video this September. Mr. MacFarlane was philosophical about Fox’s fascistic attempt to stifle his progressive creativity through censorship.
“Times really have changed,” said Seth MacFarlane, the creator of “Family Guy.” “The network is making a decision that is, unfortunately, probably based on people’s current ability to handle and dissect controversial narratives.”
That’s right losers, he’s talking about you. You stupid, “average” people just can’t fathom the complexity of his thought or comprehend the exquisitely variegated, paradigm-altering streams of consciousness emanating from his subtle, yet sublime, being. Hell, you clowns can’t even figure out how to work the self-checkout at Wal-mart much less comprehend the arcana of something as contextual and subjective as abortion. MacFarlane then takes the ippon by throwing you to the mat with a righteous verbal uchimata as he criticizes you for voting “Yes We Can” in 2008.
“People in America, they’re getting dumber,” Mr. MacFarlane said. “They’re getting less and less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.”
Wait, he wasn’t talking about America’s collective suspension of reason in order to vote for Obama! He was talking about your inability to make the personal, political! Wow, that’s like a double standard or something! So since I don’t find abortion funny, and since I find it immoral and socially destructive, and since – in extending this argument to its most logical conclusion – I won’t find MacFarlane’s abortion episode to be – as The New York Times did – “audacious” or “rebellious,” then I must be part of the America that he determines is “getting dumber.”
So while MacFarlane is no doubt the kind of iconoclastic, liberal zealot who indignantly demands that government stays out of a woman’s womb; through his support of ObamaCare, the womb will be the only part of a woman the government won’t be in. How times change, in 1920, progressives passed Women’s Suffrage; by 2020 – if ObamaCare isn’t repealed – progressives will just let women suffer. And while MacFarlane advocates killing off future American taxpayers and potential Family Guy viewers, he’ll have to modify his program’s language format to Español in order to appeal to the Mexicans who are coming here to not only do the work Americans won’t do, but to become Americans because there won’t be enough Americans having babies to do that either. Plus, good-luck enjoying all those Nanny State freebies when there’s no one here to pay for them. So who’s really the person “getting dumber?”
Funny how that works, isn’t it.
