NEWS: FCC: Protecting You From Bare Cartoon Ass

CULTURE: FCC: Protecting You From Bare Cartoon Ass

In a sign that the cultural stupidity launched by a bare tit at the Super Bowl is not going away, Fox pixelated the image of a bare cartoon ass from a showing of "Family Guy" on Sunday night, despite the fact that said ass did show in the original viewing about 5 years ago.

I think that if Michael Powell could lick some whipped cream off a stripper's body, he might relax a bit.

I think your right about the stripper thing. I got $5 on it. Lets send him one. Why were at it, we can get a male stripper for Tipper Gore to. She looks like she needs one.

Free strippers for everyone!

I feel so safe now. Thanks Fox. And thank you, FCC!

not for me thanks i've just had lunch

that whole Super Bowl thing was fuckin infuriatin. if it had been Justin gettin his nipple out, no-one would give a shit. but no, it was - oh my christ - a female.

if people actually used their fuckin brains they'd see this is in fact sexual discrimination, albeit blurred.

if i switch on the TV (which is becomin a rarity these days) and see someone wearin a cross that represents Jesus Christ, whom supposedly i must embrace as lord or suffer an eternity of agony and despair, surely i have every fuckin right to take offence to that implication and make a formal complaint? and would anyone listen? no. but if a woman exposes her breast, a piece of flesh, that's offensive? and the powers that be will listen to the genetically defective, nature allergic fuckheads who complain? ok...

sorry, i digress, but your country has serious problems.

Was Oprah ever fined by the FCC for that 'tossed salad' episode?

I said it too many times already. America is way fucked up.

One of the articles

Looks like from the article that the FCC had nothing to do with this. FOX did it by itself to avoid trouble.

good lord. if you want to re-air Family Guy, don't fucking take anything away from it. If you're going to make it all toned down and cut up, then don't even bother. let everyone who actually WANTS crude humor get the Cartoon Network and watch it after the uptight Fox execs go to bed.

c'mon...it's family guy, suchj ridiculous things tend to make it even more funny...even if they weren't meant to.

you mean peters ass doesnt look like that?????

God bless America.

It was pixelated?

Fuck it. Ill just crack open the exact epeisode I have on DVD and watch it at the same time the show is on.

Anyone else do that?

Fuck censorsh*p

If I can't see an animated fat man's ass on tv the terrorists have already won.

[Edited on Jan 18, 2005 by oddyophile]

I agree that the cross is at least as offensive as a nipple. At least, if our government is supposed to be interpreting it, the cross should be *more* offensive.

Feel free to file a complaint. However, you should be aware that it will be a drop in one group's very large puddle:

MediaWeek article
"Through early October, 99.9 percent of indecency complaints ... were brought by the PTC, according to the FCC analysis dated Oct. 1."

If they weren't spamming the FCC, you might have a chance at being heard.

EDIT: My kingdom for a preview button.

[Edited on Jan 18, 2005 8:40AM]

Agreed.

Self censorship is fine, but once art is created, leave it the fuck alone. If you can't handle broadcasting it, don't bother, but don't change a thing about it if you do.

Same with all other forms of art.

The thing is, I don't entirely blame Fox for this, like I didn't blame the affiliates who didn't show Saving Private Ryan on Veteran's Day. Who knows what the FCC is going to fine? You've got a guy with such a tight ass that he's shitting diamonds running it, and loony advocacy groups spamming the FCC with complaints about everything (and if I'm remembering correctly, Bozell did say he would file complaints on Saving Private Ryan, because he'd prefer WWII soldiers to say "Golly darn" and "Well shucks.")

The FCC is doing all they can to kill broadcast TV.

They were showing that on the Simpsons 10 years ago, too. And Peter's ass is way less sexy than Homer's.

i was watching it and didnt realize they blurred it...

huh... weird...

Fox will pixelate Family Guy ass but they forgot how like 3 days earlier they reran the Simpsons bear suit one where Homer's ass was viewable for a good 1/4 of the episode. Strange

"I think I remember reading that almost all complaints the FCC gets are generated from a single tiny organization. "

Lemme guess - Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association? (www.afa.net)
(http://www.mediacoalition.org/reports/wildmon.html)

Personally, if I wanna little T&A, that's what a DVD player is for!


[Edited on Jan 18, 2005 1:49PM]