• "Simpsons"/"Family Guy" crossover under fire for rape joke
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Should have went with a mom joke.... Hello moe? It was called a jumpoline till your mom used one. Hilarious, and everyone loves a good mom joke.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;46069586]I don't see the necessity for 'rape jokes' to exist in the comedic toolbox. Surely there is a lot more other material that can be used in its stead.[/QUOTE] It was kinda a joke about how awful the joke is though.
[QUOTE=Flyingman356;46069938]But nobody seemed to understand that and we got shit like "kick a ginger day" and children with red hair and freckles being ceaselessly bullied for having no souls Satire is dangerous in the hands of people who don't understand it[/QUOTE] But that isnt the creators responsibility. That is the persons responsibility.
[QUOTE=H8Entitlement;46072447]Should have went with a mom joke.... Hello moe? It was called a jumpoline till your mom used one. Hilarious, and everyone loves a good mom joke.[/QUOTE] My ma is dead. Now I'm depressed.
[QUOTE=EmperorKabuto;46070693]I think one of the key differences is that here in America, we have a lot of societal ways of throwing away rape cases and victims. Fraternities until relatively recently were able to brush away rape incidents in order to protect school reputations, companies cover up sexual assault and articles are written telling women to just assume that harassment is 'part of the job'. Unlike people being killed and mutilated, which are not subjects of discussions such as 'this person was asking to be murdered, she was a woman in a male-dominated field!' or 'they deserved to get mutilated because they were getting way too drunk anyway.'[/QUOTE] Plenty of people are willing to shrug off murder if the victim is seen as a bad person, though. Few would have sympathy for a child abuser who gets mutilated. It's not the same thing, but in some circumstances people do excuse violence like that.
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;46069576]Pretty sure Matt Groening didn't write the episode, I think it was the family guy writers[/QUOTE] Does Groening write anything anymore? Other than checks to himself?
[sp]The first section of the episode is about how people got offended by a cartoon Peter drawn. Did the put this in after the controversy?[/sp]
I watched the episode out of curiosity. It wanna good but it wasn't bad. The Simpsons characters felt like themselves. It was clearly an Episode of FG but simpsons part of it felt like the Simpsons
Oh gee something that was supposed to be offensive was offensive
I just saw it they left the joke in and I think the Start of epsideo was in a way an F - U to people who got offended by this joke
[QUOTE=Silence I Kill You;46069728]Neither would jokes from South Park. The Simpsons isn't known for making bad jokes about sensitive subjects. Family Guy, however, is known for that due to one of the characters being an all around evil sadistic person.[/QUOTE] But Seth McFarland has said that Brian is the character most like him. Voice, beliefs, etc...
While I think the "joke" was stupid, it was meant to be a contrast of the shows different style. Stewies' joke is this attempt at humor and the other joke was one of Bart's "Hey Moe, I'm looking for a guy first name ____ last name ______"
[QUOTE=Oizen;46071563]Of all the rape jokes Family guy has made, this is the one people freak out about?[/QUOTE] I'm guessing it's because even though it was a Family Guy episode, people saw it as an episode of The Simpsons, which doesn't do that kind of joke.
"Gosh, its not like the internet to go crazy over something small and stupid" -Peter Griffin, circa 2014
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