10 Most Offensive Family Guy Moments Ever

By Barry Marshall /

8.The FCC Song

Hitting a very specific target €“ the censorship regulators for American TV €“ the scriptwriters rolled out a fantastically tuneful and wickedly funny song and dance number that contains everything that the stuffy censors hated about the show. Nobody watching can really be offended by it, while it remains one of the shows most wilfully provocative segments. Obviously, this creates a very strange paradox. Featuring in an episode of the show's comeback season after having been cancelled, the song and accompanying animation mention taboos such as sex acts, bondage, S&M and cursing, but gets away with it by being so winningly silly. That and the fact it's aimed at such a reactionary and ludicrous body as the FCC in the first place. For my money, the sketch was a perfect response to the pomposity of the FCC and it's increasingly out of touch relationship with the public. It is increasingly apparent that regulatory bodies such as these are filled with people far older than the target audience of the programmes they censor, and on a different wavelength entirely. Frankly, If they took any of the offence that the song was itching to cause them, then they probably did deserve to on balance.