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Where Are Those Good Old Fashioned Values? Family And Satire In Family Guy, Reilly Judd Ryan
Where Are Those Good Old Fashioned Values? Family And Satire In Family Guy, Reilly Judd Ryan
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This paper explores the presentation of family in the controversial FOX Network television program Family Guy. Polarizing to audiences, the Griffin family of Family Guy is at once considered sophomoric and offensive to some and smart and satiric to others. Though neither judgment of the show is necessarily mutually exclusive, the intention of this study is to reconcile those disparate viewpoints in order to measure the show's purposefulness. After all, if Family Guy succeeds in its satire, it is full of social purpose, offensiveness notwithstanding. This thesis focuses on arguably the main point of contention in Family Guy: the family. …