Chavez to Venezuelan TV Stations: No Family Guy! I'll Fine you!!!

Loopy Dictator Hugo Chavez hates Americans with a vengance! After banning "The Simpsons", Superman, Batman and the Hulk, he's setting his sights on "Family Guy"

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan authorities plan to impose fines on cable television companies that refuse to stop airing the animated television series "Family Guy."

Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami says the program should be pulled from the airwaves because it promotes the use of marijuana.

El Aissami was outraged by a recent episode in which the show's characters started a campaign to legalize marijuana.

He said Thursday that cable networks that broadcast "Family Guy" would be fined by Venezuela's telecommunications regulator if they refuse to dump the program.

The government of President Hugo Chavez is preparing to impose new regulations on cable television. Among other rules, cable providers could be forced to carry Chavez's frequent speeches.

Fortuño and Chavez

ASSHOLES!!!!

Family Guy makes Emmy history!

Major congratulations are in order to the team over at the hit animated show Family Guy. The show has earned itself a big Emmy nomination.

Outstanding Comedy series!

In all of Emmy history, only one other animated series has ever been nominated in this category and that was The Flintstones back in 1961.

(Fun Fact- The Flintstones is a production of Hanna-Barbera, which is where Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane got his start. There, now you're smarter.)

The show is up against some heavy, heavy competition - such as Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, 30 Rock and Weeds. The odds aren't in their favor, but for once the phrase "an honor just to be nominated" is very, very true!

So congrats Team Griffin and may we just say…Giggity.

"Family Guy" wins one over Disney!

This lawsuit has finally settled! The mouse got trampled!

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Creators of the U.S. television show "Family Guy" did not infringe copyright when they transformed the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" for comical use in an episode, a U.S. judge ruled on Monday.
Music Publisher Bourne Co., the U.S. copyright owner of the song made famous in Walt Disney's "Pinocchio," sued Fox Broadcasting Co., creator Seth MacFarlane and producers in October 2007 for copyright breach.
The lawsuit said the song "I Need a Jew," featured in one of the animated show's episodes, was a thinly veiled copy of the music from 'When You Wish Upon a Star' coupled with "new anti-Semitic lyrics" and had done damage to the original.
But U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts ruled that the lyrics and tone of the song used in "Family Guy" were "strikingly different."
The judge also said it was fair for it to be imitated for humorous effect since the music publisher had benefited from the song's association with other more "wholesome" shows like "Pinocchio."
"It is precisely that beneficial association that opens the song up for ridicule by parodists seeking to take the wind out of such lofty, magical, or pure associations," she said.
The song, by composer Leigh Harline and lyricist Ned Washington, was introduced in 1940 in the movie "Pinocchio" and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song that same year. It has been recorded by more than 100 artists and orchestras.
Fox, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, initially did not distribute the controversial "Family Guy" episode in recognition of how offensive it was, the suit claimed.
It was eventually broadcast on the Cartoon Network in 2003 and has run at least 36 times in syndication and reruns.
Bourne Co. did not return a call seeking comment.

It's good to see that the big "D" can be taught a lesson every once in a while! They don't own the world! Just a piece of it!

Parents Television Council complaints about "Family Guy"to the FCC.

The Parents Television Council, a fundementalist religious organization that opposes "indecency" on network and paid TV, has filed a complaint to the FCC about the March 8 episode of "Family Guy", feeling that it was too racy. According to them...

"Fox treated viewers to everything from an ‘eleven-way’ gay orgy to baby Stewie eating a bowl of cereal with horse sperm instead of milk … if that isn’t enough, the show’s leading character is also shown fanaticizing about his wife and moaning while a horse licks his bare behind. Clearly, the explicit content was not isolated to one instance in one segment of the show; it permeated the entire program."

Okay...

To be fair, we here at the Les'Shyerar Laboratories and Fried Chicken Shack, have obtained a copy of the "offensive" clip...




Okay...Is anybody offended by it? Is God gonna strike you down because you watched this?
NO!

To further the case, Here's series creator Seth McFarlane's reaction to the PTC complaint...

"Oh, yeah. That’s like getting hate mail from Hitler. They’re literally terrible human beings. I’ve read their newsletter, I’ve visited their website, and they’re just rotten to the core. For an organization that prides itself on Christian values — I mean, I’m an atheist, so what do I know? — they spend their entire day hating people. They can all suck my d**k as far as I’m concerned."

The PTC reminds me of this group of people, that tried to tell people what to think, see, read, sing and hate. And they were all very good christians.

The National Socialist Workers Party, a.k.a. NAZIS!

You know what happened to them.

Sieg Heil to you PTC. And oh yeah...suck my d**k too!

Christian Bale attacks Peter Griffin

The guys at "Family Guy" decided to poke fun at Christian Bale and his diva like rant on the set of "T4". What would have happened if Peter Griffin was the subject of Bale's anger.
This never gets old!