How Cutting-Edge, ‘Family Guy’

Published 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.

 

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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

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