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You know, I thought I felt a disturbance in the force last night, as if millions of children were having their minds corrupted all at once, like a big joining of young souls all mourning as one at the loss of their innocence. My eyes got a little glassy and I nearly shed a tear.

And then I said fuck that, it's their parents' fault for letting them watch Family Guy in the first place. Even without the accidental airing of blatant language the show is rated TV-MA, as clear a sign as any that the show is not for kids. I don't think I'll let my kids watch it until they're at least 14 by which time I'm pretty sure they'll already have learned all the 4, 5, 6, and 12 letter words on their own, so at least they'll know what's being bleeped out.

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Yah, mine was bleeped (west coast) bet most of the east coast got it uncut.

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If that indeed aired, why is there no FOX bug in the corner?

I find it hard to believe that the producers would be stupid enough to pull a stunt like that. Hopefully they'll cough up the $320,000 each FOX station that aired it could be fined.

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12 letter words?

Yeah, I didn't notice. Either the local standards guys, like Joel wrires, were on the ball--or more likely, I just dont notice things like that.

Look, someone said fuck on the TV last night. . . the world is still here today.

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TVGenius, good call on the missing bug. However, you belie your handle when you blame the producers. They create the show, obscenity and all, as a single finished product with the future (i.e. DVD) and less puritanical overseas markets in mind. It is up to the broadcaster to edit out anything they find objectionable.

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I vaguely remember that part and I think it was bleeped in Chicago.

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"I find it hard to believe that the producers would be stupid enough to pull a stunt like that. Hopefully they'll cough up the $320,000 each FOX station that aired it could be fined."

Wah wah wah

Fuck the FCC!

Maybe they should be protesting the fact that they get fined for swearing rather than protesting programmes that use language that is much less damaging to children than the wanton violence that is shown without regard.

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Well i got mine of the net instead since i forgot to see it, and in the version i got the f-word wasent bleeped out in the scene

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If the episode was captured from an HDTV source, like most episodes that hit the internet are, the fox bug is outside the 4:3 picture area (in the pillarboxes on the left and right side of the picture) so the bug would be cropped out.

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Chris:Firstly, Family guy isn't drawn in widescreen

Secondly, the bug is always in the 4:3 window anyway, the networks want to make sure everyone can see it even if they've got their settings messed up so it's cutting off the sides.

Thirdly, That clip could be from a Canadian airing

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My HD-recording of it in the Detroit area had it bleeped out, and the FOX logo is not on the content in the 4:3 area

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It was bleeped in Upstate NY.

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They will clean up all your talking in a manner such as this
They will make you take a tinkle, when you want a take a piss
They will make you call fellatio a trouser friendly kiss
Here's the plain situation
There's no negotiation
With the fellas at the freakin' FCC!

They're as stuffy as the stuffiest of special interest groups
Make a joke about your bowels and they order in the troops
Any baby with a brain can tell them everybody poops
Take a tip, take a lesson
You'll never win by messin'
With the fellas at the freakin' FCC!

And if you find yourself with some young sexy thing
You're gonna have to do her with your ding-a-ling!
(Cause you can't say 'penis')

So they sent this little warning, they're prepared to do their worst
And they stuck it in your mailbox hoping you could be coerced
I could think of quite another place they should've stuck it first
They may just be neurotic, or possibly psychotic
They're the fellas at the freakin' FCC!

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Yea like I said on the actual recap thread of this episode, the one I...uh hum...downloaded was unbleeped, and it really took me by surprise. Because the downloads are usually something that's been recorded from someone's Tivo. So, it was really crazy. I bet there's some hefty fines that are going to be dished out. The thing I don't understand is why use it then? Like that? It was a stupid place to use it. If you're trying to make a statement or something, then use it in a part of the show and with a character we all care about. Seems like they're going to get in a lot of trouble over something that was really stupid to begin with.

Aaron.

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Yeah, I've got to say that the bug on my FOX (and NBC, but those are the only ones I remember for sure) sits outside the 4:3.

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Re the FCC, here's a song for y'all:

Steve Earle
"F the CC"

I used to listen to the radio
And I don’t guess they’re listenin’ to me no more
They talk too much but that’s okay
I don’t understand a single word they say

Piss and moan about the immigrants
But don’t say nothin’ about the president
A democracy don’t work that way
I can say anything I wanna say

So fuck the FCC
Fuck the FBI
Fuck the CIA
Livin’ in the motherfuckin’ USA

People tell me that I’m paranoid
And I admit I’m gettin’ pretty nervous, boy
It just gets tougher everyday
To sit around and watch it while it slips away

Been called a traitor and a patriot
Call me anything you want to but
Just don’t forget your history
Dirty Lenny died so we could all be free

So fuck the FCC
Fuck the FBI
Fuck the CIA
Livin’ in the motherfuckin’ USA

Sarangel Music (ASCAP)

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There's nothing offensive about the word to me, what's offensive is the idea that the word itself makes anything funnier. If it were sometime in the fist 1000 times I've heard it? Maybe, like when I was 13.

What would be really funny is if they maybe actually showed a turd in a toilet. Take that Puritans! Fight the power.

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Textbook Case, "South Park" has built entire episodes around an actual (talking) turd, in and out of the toilet. So that questionable taste/humor boundary has already been crossed, stomped on, and pretty much obliterated.

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Gentlemen, we got 20 calls regarding the F-bomb incident, and as you know one call equals a MILLION people. Therefore, 20 million people were offended!

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Oh, and it was bleeped in the Philly market... I kind of wish I'd watched it on my NYC Fox channel (I get both, weird), I wonder if that's one of the markets it was aired.

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