Written by PETA
On last night's Family Guy, the show tried (sort of) to make the point that dogs' lives are not worthless (how risqué of them). But I'm not totally convinced that the animal rights message came across through the myriad of violent deaths of cartoon dogs.
Incidentally, I've been waiting, like, nine years for that oh-so-clever PETA/Peter joke. Especially since other notable animated shows tackled animal rights issues (and, yes, even PETA) years ago.
Family Guy's been on notice ever since we found out that its writers are captive manatees. (We're against that sort of thing, you know.) This episode has us thinking that Family Guy might want to fire the animal writers and hire people who can generate material that doesn't make us roll our eyes.
Written by Amanda Schinke
What are you guys talking about?
All humour aside, "Family Guy" did give a message to their viewers on what is going on with animal research and farming. This show is meant to give a laugh and also give attention to all sorts of important lessons. The majority of Family Guy viewers are ignorant to the fact that Seth Macfarlane (the creator) does put his own opinions and views in the episodes, and not only attacks everything. If you really opened up your minds and understood what the episode was really trying to say, then maybe PETA and it's activists would be known for more than just their nonsence and sexual advertising. Give this show a chance and understand the meaning to each pun or gag. Brian is for animal rights and so are the rest of the cast, they just put the humour in there to mock the ignorance of society.
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