10 Most Offensive Family Guy Moments Ever

7. "You've Got AIDS"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXZWxzxGZGs The barbershop quartet breaking the bad news to a patient in a hospital bed that he has full-blown AIDS is one of the most loved scenes in Family Guy's history, and rightfully so as it was fantastically funny, though curiously it does lose appeal after a few repeat viewings. However, does it treat the subject of the disease with an uncomfortable glibness? While it could be deemed insensitive, I don't think that this scene is particularly brutal in it's execution; It's probably just a bit close to the line, never fully being outrageous due to it's inherent silliness. The scene in a later series where a predatory Canadian air steward seduces a chimp and gives him the virus, leading to the AIDS outbreak, is probably more wilfully offensive and crosses the threshold of taste. Neither of these sequences were the first or last time that the show tackled the subject of AIDS, with some sketches coming across as more deliberately shocking and offensive as this one. The AIDS barbershop sticks in the mind most because it is the funniest and, at the time, most oblique reference to the disease. It is worth noting, though, that at no time are we invited to laugh at the victim and his predicament. Rather, we're laughing at Dr.Hartman and his singing band of fools.