Re: Fox and its parental warnings. Or "The War at Home" and "The Family Guy"


"BTR1701" <btr1702@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <1127782578.473941.311400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> GarondoMarondo@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> I watched my tape of these shows in their reversed airing order and was
>> surprised at what FOX thinks they need to warn parents about. At at 9
>> o'clock there was a scene on The Family Guy where Peter ends up naked,
>> all you see is his massive stomach hanging over his groin area, you
>> don't even see his animated ***, yet FOX puts up a parental warning
>> before The Family Guy telling us about the "animated nudity" 8:30
>> earlier on an episode of "The War at Home" the show centered around pot
>> and after the first act almost every scene focused heavily on the herb,
>> but there's nothing prior to The War at Home.
>>
>> On a personal note I'm not bothered at all by either show's content,
>> but find it curious how the network behaves.
>
> The latest ridiculous overreaction by the TV networks is to warn people
> about scenes in movies that feature storms because people might still be
> traumatized from Katrina. The pilot episode of "Invasion" had such a
> warning and so did the SciFi movie "Path of Destruction" last Saturday
> night.
>
> I mean, dear lord... we need to be warned about fictional weather now?
>
> When exactly did the USA transform into a nation of sobbing pussies or
> do the TV networks just think we're sobbing pussies that need to be
> warned about every little thing?

The station is just covering it's ass in case the FCC get's involved. I
blame it on the conservative government.


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