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The number of complaints registered with the Federal Communications Commission against the Fox television show Family Guy. But this may have been the effort of the Parents Television Council.
So, my take on this was only ~180,000 families complained. I'm guessing by the continued broadcast of this show on Fox's Sunday night lineup its viewership is probably +10 that figure. And what do the complaints represent in all American families?
Personally, this is yet another case os non-parenting. We got the V-chip, but I wonder how many parents actually use it. How many [parents] actually care and not just say they care? Hmm. 
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I wonder how many parents realize there is such a thing as the V chip?
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Keep in mind as well that there's that Focus on the Family group, that has a bunch (4 million?) of subscribers. They will often tackle one issue, and have their members send email complaints to whomever they are attacking... with the complainers having never seen what they are complaining about. Sheeple in the truest sense of the word. So I'll bet those 180K complaints can be hacked wayyy down if you want to count people that were offended by the show that were truly offended.
That Seattle radio show host that I listen to subscribes just to see what they are up to.
One such attack was on Ford MoCo, when Focus on the Family found out that they advertised their cars in a gay oriented magazine. Go figure.
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I always thought it was the parents responsibility to parent and not someone outside the home--Oh, but that's only when convenience is at play.
What I wonder is how many of the 179,997 families had all their children planned for and not just a composition of 'mistakes'. 
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject: Re: 179,997 |
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| WanMan wrote: | | So, my take on this was only ~180,000 families complained. I'm guessing by the continued broadcast of this show on Fox's Sunday night lineup its viewership is probably +10 that figure. And what do the complaints represent in all American families? |
So, 179,997 people complain and you think they keep it on the air because you assume the audience as 180,007 viewers? Really? 
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I think he probably meant x10, Dave.... As in, the number of complaints were 1/10 of viewership.... Which is probably pretty typical for a similar show, I'd imagine.
Personally, I've tried watching Family Guy, and I don't see the appeal. But, whatever I guess. Different strokes...
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| ecrabb wrote: | | I think he probably meant x10, Dave |
I know, but I like accuracy. 
| ecrabb wrote: | Personally, I've tried watching Family Guy, and I don't see the appeal. But, whatever I guess. Different strokes...
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Have to agree. I found it to be not as witty or have the level of social criticism and lampooning as others in this genre.
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I've seen it a few times as I flipped through channels in a hotel room, and... I have to say, I am not easily offended, but that show hits new lows of crudeness and vulgarity. I can't believe it's won so many awards. I must be missing something.
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I have watched Family Guy and I find some of it funny. BUT....
I can't believe that they broadcast it in prime time, on network TV.
There have been portrayals of....
a man molesting his daughter, his son. Sex w/ the dog. There's a pedophile as a recurring character.
The scene that blew my mind was...
The main character... a husband and wife, smoked weed while the kids were out.
The son and the dog walk in later to find them lying naked on the couch, the husband behind the wife... she then whispers to the dog...
"Brian.... Peter's knocking on the back door......Should i let him in?...... I'm Scared...."
Now i'm no prude, and its rated 13 and above.... but is that material ok for 7pm on a Sunday night???
I dont think so.
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Wow, I knew it was raunchy, but that's way worse than I thought. Sounds like it puts South Park to shame, and that was cable/satellite!
Prime time on Sunday night? Gee, I wonder why they've received a lot of complaints?!!?!?
Judas Priest, we've come a long way in 20 or 30 years. Remember when the prime time slot was shows like Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley? I know I'm getting old when I start thinking of the era of my childhood as "idyllic" compared to present days.
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Remember... Dick van Dyke show was the first to show a married persons bedroom.
The Brady Bunch was the first to show a married couple in the same bed.
Remember that Beavis and butthead was almost taken off the air because beavis used to say "Fire, Fire"
Things done changed
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I was watching Family Guy last night, my daughter came in from playing outside with the chickens. As much as I wanted to watch the rest of the show it is not a program I want her to watch. I turned the station.
That's what is wrong with some of the parents today. They don't think about what is good for their children. All they can think of is what they want regardless of the impact on their child.
However I don't want some prude telling me that I can't watch what I want because maybe my child might see it.
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| bbfarmht wrote: | I was watching Family Guy last night, my daughter came in from playing outside with the chickens. As much as I wanted to watch the rest of the show it is not a program I want her to watch. I turned the station.
That's what is wrong with some of the parents today. They don't think about what is good for their children. All they can think of is what they want regardless of the impact on their child.
However I don't want some prude telling me that I can't watch what I want because maybe my child might see it. |
I'm not for censorship. But there need to be standards for what is broadcast on networks in prime time.
Fox at 11pm, im ok. Cable network.. im ok but broadcast in prime time??? I think its wrong
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| Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: 179,997 |
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| Person99 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | So, my take on this was only ~180,000 families complained. I'm guessing by the continued broadcast of this show on Fox's Sunday night lineup its viewership is probably +10 that figure. And what do the complaints represent in all American families? |
So, 179,997 people complain and you think they keep it on the air because you assume the audience as 180,007 viewers? Really? |
No, because I think less than 10% complained, whereby suggesting the viewing audience is at least 1.8 Million.
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| emdawgz1 wrote: | | bbfarmht wrote: | I was watching Family Guy last night, my daughter came in from playing outside with the chickens. As much as I wanted to watch the rest of the show it is not a program I want her to watch. I turned the station.
That's what is wrong with some of the parents today. They don't think about what is good for their children. All they can think of is what they want regardless of the impact on their child.
However I don't want some prude telling me that I can't watch what I want because maybe my child might see it. |
I'm not for censorship. But there need to be standards for what is broadcast on networks in prime time.
Fox at 11pm, im ok. Cable network.. im ok but broadcast in prime time??? I think its wrong |
Which is the duality of Fox. There news channels are a heck of a lot more conservative (not just politically, speaking) and they are cable-only. And Family Guy is on broadcast TV, thus governed by FCC, and this show (and American Dad) get away with it. 
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Which is the duality of Fox. There news channels are a heck of a lot more conservative (not just politically, speaking) and they are cable-only. And Family Guy is on broadcast TV, thus governed by FCC, and this show (and American Dad) get away with it. |
You only think there is duality because you don't understand Fox--or more to the point Rupert. There is no duality. Rupert does not care about spreading a position or any of that. He cares about money. Do you think if he cared what he broadcast he could put an obvious moron like Glenn Beck on TV?
Rupert is driven by money. As cable news moved from news to entertainment on commentary, he saw saw a huge opportunity for money. There was no "news" channel serving the small percentage of Americans who are very racist, sexist, generally bigotted and uninformed, etc. So, they steered Fox toward that market and have repeated the rewards. You can get very rich in that industry with only a few percentage points of the American public watching.
The other side of the equation is the same. The TV network broadcasts what makes them the most money. They are/were the reality show kings because those shows are cheap to produce and get decent viewership which equal more $$$ to the bottom line.
If Rupert thought more money could be made by turning the Fox broadcast channel into the "all Christain network" and turning Fox news into the "lefty lib atheist network" he would do it in a heartbeat.
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| WanMan wrote: | | Person99 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | So, my take on this was only ~180,000 families complained. I'm guessing by the continued broadcast of this show on Fox's Sunday night lineup its viewership is probably +10 that figure. And what do the complaints represent in all American families? |
So, 179,997 people complain and you think they keep it on the air because you assume the audience as 180,007 viewers? Really? |
No, because I think less than 10% complained, whereby suggesting the viewing audience is at least 1.8 Million. |
The joke was that you did not say "10 times" or "10 percent complained". You said "complainers +10 is probably the total viewership". That means taken literally as written, you actually said that about 99.99% of the viewers complained".
I was making fun of the fact that you did not understand the difference between addition and multiplication.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: Re: 179,997 |
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| Person99 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | Person99 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | So, my take on this was only ~180,000 families complained. I'm guessing by the continued broadcast of this show on Fox's Sunday night lineup its viewership is probably +10 that figure. And what do the complaints represent in all American families? |
So, 179,997 people complain and you think they keep it on the air because you assume the audience as 180,007 viewers? Really? |
No, because I think less than 10% complained, whereby suggesting the viewing audience is at least 1.8 Million. |
The joke was that you did not say "10 times" or "10 percent complained". You said "complainers +10 is probably the total viewership". That means taken literally as written, you actually said that about 99.99% of the viewers complained".
I was making fun of the fact that you did not understand the difference between addition and multiplication. |
I've often admitted after learning advance mathematics I failed to remember the simple things in life.
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