Partial Terms of Endearment Family Guy Episode will not air on Fox

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The Family Guy team and Seth McFarlane, series creator, are always trying to push the envelope, but this time it seems they will not get a chance to show it on television.  Partial Terms of Endearment deals with abortion and while they were allowed to actually make the episode, it seems it may only show up on the DVD now.  It should be interesting to see if that DVD package does any better than the previous ones based on the censored episode.

You know what, Family Guy has said and done a lot of messed up stuff over the years and this is the one that gets banned from television?  What about the show where Brian tells us he is an atheist, or all the gay jokes, or the fact that the old man is a pedophile?  This is where the line is drawn?  It seems like a political move more than a censorship type move.  Really I do not see taking on abortion being any more shockingthan the other things they attack.  I used to enjoy Family Guy a lot more when it was funny, but now that is has become more offensive than funny I find myself not so interested.  Ok I watch it, but I get mad at myself later.

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   sbp

   July 28, 2009 at 7:52 pm

   Family Guy jumped the shark years ago and is now nothing more than a vehicle for McFarlane’s leftwing views.

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   theresa lalli

   July 28, 2009 at 11:38 pm

   Why shouldn’t it be aired? Seth McFarlane and the entire crew of Family Guy push the envelope all the time, so why is this any different? Abortion is a topic that no one likes to talk about, but to be honest, there are 14 year olds having sex and getting abortions because they ‘made a mistake’. I think it should be aired since Seth McFarlane has probably gotten slammed for far worse then an episode of this magnitude.

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   chris

   July 29, 2009 at 9:54 pm

   It does seem strange that Fox allowed the airing of Prom Night Dumpster Baby and this is being banned?

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   Bob

   May 31, 2010 at 5:39 am

   you see this is why south park steps over family guy with ease they diss on censorship unlike the consistency of family guy fearing to be banned from tv dude your fox’s #1 show take a fucking risk every once in a while

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   Bjack

   June 6, 2010 at 6:02 pm

   This is dumb. Seth McFarlane has every right for this to be aired. The world has just gotten to damn sensitive.
   Once again the bastards at fox have ruined one of the only good tv shows left.

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6. 

   HawaiianDiver

   June 20, 2010 at 2:07 pm

   This really does piss me off that we can’t see this episode. I don’t like a lot of thing that Seth McFarland does but this time he did nothing bad. So apperently Abortion is worse then mocking religion… I don’t think so.

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   JJJJ

   June 23, 2010 at 2:11 pm

   Well it’s good every channel in every country aint a sensitive as fox, then we would never get any entertainment..
   And i would have expected a channel such as fox to be far more concerned with mocking of religion, than an abortion episode..
   btw mock religion some more it’s more fun than abortions

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8. 

   shoop

   June 26, 2010 at 8:46 pm

   fox needs to relax.i mean hasnt family guy done worst. i mean there was the prom night dumpster baby and the abortion story ( with the one handed abortionist) just let it air

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