One courageous man stares down the evil bastards at Family Guy.

Note the sarcasm.

Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media was up in arms over promos FOX aired during NFL coverage on Sunday. The promos were of Family Guy, in particular, the scene in last week’s “Barely Legal” episode (where Brian took Meg to the prom, got drunk, kissed her, etc), where Brian puked on the floor and asked if anyone was going to eat it. A typical gross-out gag, nothing too heinous; I suppose someone with a weak stomach might have been disturbed, but nothing to go crazy about.

Unless you’ve got nothing better to do.

I’m the sick one — sick and tired of trash like this being marketed to an NFL audience that includes families. It was like Fox was thumbing its nose at the viewing audience, daring us to turn the channel. But this was one game that the Redskins were winning and won. So I stayed tuned.

What I really resent is for Fox Broadcasting http://www.fox.com/home.htm to run ads for this sick and trashy program when families are watching. It’s as if they were deliberately trying to hook or tease kids. When the announcer says that viewer discretion is advised, it seems to me he’s trying to entice or lure kids into watching it.

Because as we all know, “Viewer discretion is advised” actually means “come watch the debauchery, children! Satan rocks!” Apparently, a dog vomiting on the floor and considering eating the vomit is dangerous to families. It may be in poor taste; generally, Family Guy is. But dangerous to families? In what way? What exactly is endangering any family? What, is little Johnny going to stick his finger down his throat, puke, eat it, and then die, go to hell and burn for eternity? Since when is a gross out gag sleaze?

Evidently, some people agree with Kincaid; he wrote a follow up article, which featured comments like these:

“During that clip I had to surf the channels. I for one couldn’t stomach that sickening promo and I didn’t want to subject my children to that garbage! It is a sad day for all of America when a mode of entertainment is a cartoon of a puking dog asking ‘Are you going to eat that.'”

“That station is so disgusting it made me want to puke. I think the motive behind that animated show is bestiality; after all this isn’t the first intimate exchange between a woman and a dog on TV. They are out there and they are coming for our children. We need to pull the damned plug and throw the TV out of our homes.”

“It really comes as no surprise to me that Murdoch, who recently endorsed Hillary Clinton, condones such trash on his network. Keep after him!”

“The only time I watched a few minutes of this drivel [Family Guy] showed me more than I wished to know. The plot is that Dad is a right-wing nut job whose dog is smarter than he is. The whole show is about how dumb we are and tries to point out our faults through what they consider humor. I have a feeling that the people watching this are either lefties wanting to feel superior or brain dead conservatives that don’t know when they are being made fun of.”

They’re after our children! Run, kids! There’s… vomiting! Those liberal bastards are vomiting! They want your wives to do your dogs! And then they want your kids to do your wives while your wives are doing your dogs! Don’t you understand?

And, in reference to that last comment, I think that genius has Family Guy and American Dad confused. Just because Peter Griffin is an idiot, doesn’t mean he’s a Republican. No need to get partisan, sir.

(And by the way, the picture above is from a different episode. Family Guy tends to rely on a lot of vomit jokes. Which doesn’t make it obscene, just lazy.)