Fox pulls "Family Guy" episode that depicts deaths at Boston Marathon

[Jazzy]

Fox has pulled from websites a recent episode of "Family Guy" that depicts mass deaths at the Boston Marathon, and has no immediate plans to air it again.

Fox spokeswoman Gaude Paez said Tuesday the episode has been removed from Fox.com and Hulu.com.

In the episode, protagonist Peter Griffin is asked by sports announcer Bob Costas about his performance at the marathon. A flashback shows Peter mowing down runners with his car.

"I'll tell ya, Bob, I just got in my car and drove it," Griffin says. "And when there was a guy in my way, I killed him."

Later, Peter befriends a terrorist who, unbeknownst to him, is plotting to blow up a bridge. When Peter dials a cellphone the friend has given him, explosions and screams are heard. On some websites, an edited clip has been circulating that fuses the two scenes, making it seem — incorrectly — as if the explosion was at the marathon. Some commenters have implied that the show "predicted" the bombings.

"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane took to Twitter on Tuesday to vent anger over the edited clip and offer condolences to victims of Monday's bombings at the marathon.

"The edited `Family Guy' clip currently circulating is abhorrent," MacFarlane tweeted. "The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with the victims."

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Just because they pulled it doesn't mean people didn't download it and post it on various websites. This is disgusting, IMO, to even do this in the first place.

What are your thoughts?

 

[Sinon]

If it's offensive to people... don't watch. Family Guy is well-known for being borderline offensive, with jokes about Nazis/the holocaust, sexism, racism, jokes about the disabled, elderly, mentally infirm, paedophilia, rape, bestiality, and countless other aspects which will be found offensive. I don't find it disgusting that people have edited episodes together in a parody of the tragedy, at all. It's a cartoon that gets most of its laughs from offensive content, so adding different offensive content is no big deal to me.

What I find disgusting is how huge this story is, and will be. We live in a society where a cartoon offends us more than thousands of deaths through war, famine, murder. A society where we can watch movies that feature limbs being torn off and blood spraying everywhere, but the word "shit" is censored.

 

[Evil Eye]

:that:

The episode was made before the event, pulling it is a bit of an empty gesture as the two are hardly related. As for the edited clip, that's just bad taste.

 

[Berlo]

I saw this episode prior to the attacks at Boston, it is really unrelated, but the fact that people would edit the clip is pretty low.