Family Guy has been on the air for so long, people forget how divisive it used to be, how “problematic” it was in certain circles. In the early days, announcing Family Guy was your favorite show was a sure way to out that “friend who’s too woke.”
“That show is racist and misogynistic! Do you know they make fun of RAPE?! Do YOU think rape is funny too??”
And then you, with the patience of a saint, would have to explain to your shrieking, nose-ring friend that rape wasn’t the joke. Sometimes, the tactical uselessness of fictional superhero, Aquaman, was the joke.
And sometimes, the preposterousness of Lifetime movie melodrama was the joke, as seen in the (infamous) Peter the Strawberry cutaway.