Fox Removes ‘Family Guy’ Episode From Websites
NEW YORK (AP) — 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, which originally aired March 17, 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.
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“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.”
Comments (3)
Jason Crundwell says:
April 17, 2013 at 10:21 am
Hey, Seth. You’re a jerk. You created the mess, even if some other jerk edited it into this disaster. Your shows are the lowest of the low and you deserve financial ruin.
Warren Harmon says:
April 17, 2013 at 2:52 pm
Ditto; same goes for me!
Christina Perez says:
April 17, 2013 at 7:45 pm
The question for Seth McFarlane is what prompted him, or a writer, to come up with the gruesome Boston Marathon depiction, and what prompted him to include in the SAME EPISODE a scene showing a cellphone bombing that resulted in TWO explosions. Did someone put that Boston Marathon meme in his head — perhaps by “subaural suggestion”? This veteran print and TV journalist (Fox 29 Philly) is NOT kidding. U.S. mil- intel has the technology to do just that — and WORSE. Read my article and wake up to the silent ideology- and hate-driven electromagnetic holocaust that is targeting opinion leaders, “dissidents” and “undesirables” in this country, and employs cell tower electromagnetic weapon “entrainment” to do it. It’s also another reason why Big Brother wants your station’s spectrum back:
http://viclivingston.blogspot.com/2011/12/u.html