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TUESDAY JANUARY 18 2005 5:00 AM

FCC: Protecting You From Bare Cartoon Ass

Submitted by jake_lex

Edited by Christopher

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.

"We have to be checking and second-guessing ourselves now, and that's really difficult," Fox entertainment president Gail Berman said Monday. "We have to protect our affiliates."

Fox didn't act on a complaint. But the move happened in the wake of the FCC's October vote to fine 169 Fox stations $7,000 each for airing an episode of "Married By America" that showed people licking whipped cream from strippers' bodies and a man in his underwear being spanked by strippers.

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

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Stric9

Philadelphia, PA

January 2004

JAN 18, 2005 05:12 AM

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.

Pirate_Romeo

Oklahoma City, OK

November 2004

JAN 18, 2005 05:38 AM

Free strippers for everyone!

Graven

Reading, MN

March 2003

JAN 18, 2005 06:22 AM

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

ALIO

United Kingdom

October 2004

JAN 18, 2005 06:23 AM

arariel said:
Free strippers for everyone!

not for me thanks i've just had lunch

Huck

United Kingdom

July 2004

JAN 18, 2005 06:31 AM

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.

stavrogin

Boring, MD

November 2003

JAN 18, 2005 06:32 AM

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

supercrisis

Canada

July 2004

JAN 18, 2005 06:47 AM

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

ninetysevencents

Rochester, NY

August 2003

JAN 18, 2005 06:51 AM

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.

KellyLynn

I'm lost

September 2003

JAN 18, 2005 06:53 AM

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.

alpha_hazard

Fort Collins, CO

April 2004

JAN 18, 2005 06:58 AM

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