I hadn’t heard anything about last Sunday’s episode of Fox’s American Dad until I got an ACTION ALERT! from the American Family Association this morning. Now I’ve got the transcript…
Roger has an injured arm, and tells Stan he must care for their racehorse.
ROGER:“You’re gonna have to do the horse chores…You have to brush the horse’s coat and mane, water and feed it, then give it a full release. You know, give it a happy photo finish. Take the glue out of the factory. Spank his front butt. Grant him a bone loan!”
Later, Stan strokes the horse’s side.
STAN: “Here we go. Just do me a favor and let me know when you’re about to…you know.”
Stan bends down beneath the horse. The horse’s eyes go wide with surprise and pleasure. Stan is shown with fluid spraying in his face, implying that the horse has ejaculated on Stan. The camera pulls back to reveal that Stan is washing himself off with a hose.
You can watch this “explicit, sickening scene” on the AFA’s website—in a video that appears to have been recorded by someone in a trailer somewhere who pointed a twenty-year-old video camera at the 9″ television in their living room—by clicking here.
and the point of this post is?….
Just doing my part to get the word out.
Um, don’t these shows, on top of being rated for teenagers and older to begin with, also have explicit content warnings? Funny how these same people would decry my lack of “personal responsibility” in arguing against nationalized healthcare…
first of all, that’s the most benign depiction of “bestiality” i’ve ever seen (not to mention the fact that the liquid spraing in Stan’s face is water from the hose, not ejaculate and THEN water from the hose as the American Family Douchebags attempt to imply). but most of all, why the hell are you getting action alerts from AFA, dan? how’d you get on THAT mailing list? i mean, with you being a fag who’s sole objective on this planet is to destroy families, and all.
Isn’t the true victim here comedy itself.
I thought it was freakin hilarious….but then I can’t get enough of family guy so ya…..it’s childish immature humor people….no need to get your knickers in a bunch
@4 He got on that mailing list so that we can all laugh at them.
What @5 said.
Horse Cum
is an excellent salve for
disappointed and frustrated
Liberal hopes and dreams.
Have they not watched this episode of “Dirty Jobs” on TLC?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJieLiOGj…
FF to the 2 minute mark.
Oh my god, this joke is SO old. What about that movie with whats-his-name… the guy who played Chandler?
I love seeing the fragile sensibilities of the uptight phony moralizers being skewered.
Rock on, Dan. I went to the AFA’s site you linked, and took a moment to fill out the “complaint” form, which I then sent on to the AFA. Took a couple minutes, I suggest everyone use the AFA’s form to their disadvantage! Feel free to copy what I wrote (below) and put your own name on it. Oh, and have you ever tried to find out how to contact the AFA? Their email is hidden away, no “contact us” link in any obvious place. Cowards. Here’s where it is: http://action.afa.net/Contact.aspx
Dear American Family Association,
Thank you so much for sending out the action alert about American Dad. I took the time to fill out the form to the FCC, editing it as follows:
Subject: Do not censor American Dad
This is a formal REQUEST for the FCC to ignore complaints about American Dad on broadcast television. My request concerns the PROGRAM ON:
NETWORK: Fox
PROGRAM TITLE: American Dad
BROADCAST DATE: January 3, 2010
BROADCAST TIMES: 9:30 PM ET/PT, 8:30 PM CT/MT
The American Family Association has launched a campaign against this show based on this one childish episode. Censorship is not American and never should be forced by anyone, especially a special-interest group like the AFA.
Sincerely,
OK, Dan. I was thinking of asking this yesterday but figured I wouldn’t cuz well, there’s just more important things going on in this world. After this post though, I must ask. Not a single post about Casey Johnson? More specifically her “fiance” Tila Tequila’s special famewhore brand of mourning her “wifey” ? Because I know if someone close to me died the first thing I’d do is tweet my grief then slap on some jean shorts,climb a tree & pose for some photos. I know that celebrity gossip’s not really your bag but for some reason I have found the whole thing especially nauseating, even in comparison to the 5000 other “famous” deaths recently.
@5 What you said.
I’m certainly outside the target audience age for American Dad – 40+ – and I LOVED this episode, thought it was one of the best yet in an absolutely terrific series. I think I’m gonna take #13 up on his suggestion.
Anyone can get on the AFA’s action alert mailing list. I was on it for a while. It’s actually quite useful for doing exactly what #13 did, and I sent a few supportive emails to companies and groups that I learned the AFA was harassing via their stupid list.
@14
Every Child Deserves
a Mother and a Mother…
In 2007, Johnson adopted a daughter, Ava, from Kazakhstan. Socialite Nicky Hilton is the child’s Godmother.
Johnson was openly lesbian. One of her ex-girlfriends was Courtenay Semel (whom she dated off and on during 2008–2009, and who set Johnson’s hair on FIRE in January 2009). On November 30, 2009, Johnson was arrested for allegedly STEALING jewelry, shoes, 600 pages of a legal document, clothing, and UNDERWEAR from Jasmine Lennard, who was tipped off by Semel (whom she was seeing at the time). Johnson allegedly left a used vibrator and WET towel as a calling card.
On December 9, 2009, Johnson and bisexual reality TV star Tila Tequila announced that they were engaged.
@3 The rating doesn’t matter because this is a cartoon, they know that besides an adult viewership they are also trying to reach minors with this type of programing. It’s the same as those tobacco companies who used to advertise with cartoons, until reglamentations and lawsuits started apearing, everyone knows that they were pushing and programing the mind of minors to ‘consume’ their products. The FCC should step in if Faux doesn’t do something about programing like this and the other cartoons in their lineup.
@13
Good work, Genius.
When you send an email thru the AFA site they won’t read the altered text- they’ll just tally it up with the rest of the Right Wing nutjobs.
Maybe for your next trick you could send a check to the Republican Party. In the ‘for:’ line you could scrawl “GOP sux!!”. That should teach them…
I love the “Are you a pastor?” Y/N Button on the email form.
Oh really #19? And what are their dastardly aims in “trying to reach children”?
Hasn’t 20 years of the Simpsons proven that cartoons aren’t, by definition, just for children? Are we not sophisticated enough to recognize that it’s content that determines if a show is for grownups or kids?
Well, maybe some of us aren’t.
I wonder if the AFA action alert functionality will actually send what I wrote:
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St, S.W.
Complaints and Political Programming Branch
Enforcement Division, Mass Media Bureau
Washington, DC 20554
This is a formal REQUEST for the FCC to ignore complaints about American Dad on broadcast television. My request concerns the PROGRAM ON:
NETWORK: Fox
PROGRAM TITLE: American Dad
BROADCAST DATE: January 3, 2010
BROADCAST TIMES: 9:30 PM ET/PT, 8:30 PM CT/MT
The American Family Association has launched a censorship campaign against this show based on this one childish episode. Censorship is not American and never should be forced by anyone, especially a special-interest group like the AFA.
Though parents may be upset about their children seeing such programs, it should be up to them — not the government — to decide what to watch. Any parents who ignore the repeated “content warning” that Fox makes available should not complain and control what others are watching.
Censorship of any kind eventually hurts us all. Once the government gets involved on what should or shouldn’t be said it’s a slippery slope. Today it’s animated horse masturbation; tomorrow it could be religion. I’d hate to lose the right to either.
Sincerely,
Mike McNamara
the slog defending Fox.
priceless…
@24 . . From:
The Desk of Barack Obama
Mike,
Thank you so much for sharing your concerns. The FCC felt this matter was so important they hand delivered your message to me just this second.
I certainly understand your panic at the prospect of someone tampering with the childish content your favorite cartoon. I share your desire to see the airwaves filled with hours of mind-numbing crap- it keeps the unemployed glued to their sets and their minds off what a shitty meaningless existence they lead.
I have instructed the FCC to print up your letter on fine paper and frame in in a gilded frame and return it to you. So you can shove it up your ass.
As if we need further proof Seth McFarlane was a furry…
#19 You always find new ways to prove how stupid you are, LC. Because it’s animated it’s just for kids? Daft bat…
@19, I am also 40+ and also was amused by the episode (American Dad is consistently wittier than the other McFarlane offerings, I’m guessing due to his likely mere producer/voice actor role), but at the same time as a Dad, I was skeeved out by the content of the show as well as of that night’s Family Guy (arguably much more offensive).
It’s easy enough to turn off the TV late Sunday night so my kids don’t get exposed to the content, but (especially with Family Guy) the shows get repeated endlessly in syndication at all hours, and are all over Hulu and Youtube and all their friends watch and it gets harder to screen for content all the time…
I really wish that FOX would get uppity about this and a few of their other shows (Family Guy, Glee, Wanda Sykes) so that they could all move to a network that I can watch without feeling dirty. I love all of these shows but I hate giving ANY viewership time to FOX.
19, Loveschild, what kind of parent are you that you’d let your children watch TV unsupervised?
Fox is committed to political balance in their programming like no other network: batshit crazy right wing pundits at 6:00, horse bukkake at 10:00.
“bone loan”? *snort*
Hilarious stuff. Nothing explicit was said or shown — only intimated. People are bawdy. Bawdy is good. Horses are funny. No one is encouraged to do things in cartoons. Worry about something important. Really, “bone loan” is going right into the lexicon!
Oh for fuck’s sake LC, would you-all learn a little fucking HISTORY before you spew your inane, nonsensical rantings all over the comments section?
Animated “cartoons” were originated first and foremost FOR ADULTS! You know all those “Looney Tunes” with Bugs, Daffy, Porky, et al? Or the Fleischer Brothers’ “Popeye”, “Superman” and “Betty Boop” ‘toons? They were all shown as short subjects in conjunction with motion pictures waaaaaay back in the ’30’s & ’40’s when 90% of the movie-attending public was over the age of 18. It wasn’t until the early 1960’s that those same cartoons were recycled and fed back to kids as Saturday morning TV fodder.
Really, you guys aren’t even trying anymore, are you?
Pardon, everyone, for my unclosed tag…
Why are there no instances of the word Enumclaw on this page? What the fuck, people?
Someone should tell bill o’reilly right away!! I’ll bet he’ll tear up fox for corrupting america’s children.
Judging by some of the comments on this subject, some folks think it would be perfectly okay to set a big bowl of warm dog sh_t in the center of the dining room table. I mean, that is what they are doing by allowing American Dad to spew its cr_p into their living room. I guess some folks just can’t function if they don’t have their daily dose of filth.
As the old saying goes, “By beholding, you become changed.” No wonder so many are not offended by such filth. They have learned to enjoy gorging on sh_t.
If some people selected what they eat the same way they choose what to watch on TV, they’d eat a diet of nothing but dog sh_t.
Now some folks would say, “Who cares what I like to eat or watch, it is none of your business so just f-off.
The fact is we should all care what people are watching and eating. The more cr_p people eat and watch the more fully we as a country ooze into the gutter of history. Countries die from within because of moral rot. America is well on its way.
PS: Those who down what I have said, know, in their hearts, it’s true. They simply cannot stand it when anyone objects to them getting their daily dose of filth.
Any children watching this cartoon would probably not realize what the joke *was.* However, when they watch “Tom and Jerry,” they can very clearly see the cat getting shredded to pieces on a regular basis. That shit freaked me out when I was a kid. This episode of American Dad would just have confused me.
@19–“reglamentations”?!? My god, you’re better than Early Cuyler.
@31 FTW!
“By beholding, you become changed.” Um, why are you reading slog then?
Number 43, you asked, “By beholding, you become changed.” Um, why are you reading slog then?
You are right. It is important NOT to spend a lot of time with things like this. That is why I refuse to have a TV. When I was asked by Am Family Association to write the FCC about Am Dad I did watch enough of it on the internet to see that it is pure filth. With that knowledge I could, in good conscience, email the FCC with my complaint. It is one thing to call crap by its right name. It is another thing to jump in and wallow in it.