6 Weird Conversations Seth MacFarlane Must Have Had Making Ted 2
2. The One Explaining His Browser History
Hey, everyone, remember that time you found my browser history and past it round the office because it was full of penises? Yeah? Well, Ive finally got an explanation
Right at the outset of the film, John takes down the Internet generation by saying that youre only ever two clicks away from seeing black c*cks no matter how innocuous your search terms. Its a silly running gag, and very much in the Family Guy trend of over-beating the batter with increasingly diminished returns. But when you imagine the context of the joke, it becomes all the weirder. Was MacFarlane forced to explain the contents of his hard-drive when he was caught enjoying it? Obviously, theres no need to be embarrassed about it, but thats quite a lot of effort to hide what you were doing on the Internet. It feels even more like normalising behaviour when Ted discovers Johns porn collection stashed on his laptop (so heinous the offending computer MUST be smashed), which numbers into the thousands of files. Was MacFarlane trying to tell everyone something?
