NEW BERLIN, WI [ JG ] I thought I might be imagining things, so I researched it a bit. Incidentally, if I get hauled off by the decency police for repeated Googling of “Stewie’s naked butt”, you’re my alibi. Notice I didn’t say “character witness”.
Anyway, I was watching “Family Guy” and a scene that I swear I’d seen unedited before now features a ridiculously over-the-top amount of pixelation to hide a cartoon character’s nekkid adolescent booty from us. During the same week, I’ve witnessed shootings, stabbings, decapitations, maggot-infested corpses, and inferences of cannibalism involving newborns on network television (watch “Bones” if you don’t believe me).
The fact that “Family Guy” can be aired today is a testament to our increasing tolerance toward blue humor, but the irony is that we’re blurring out cartoon asses nearly twenty years after Bart Simpson ran butt-naked across our screens on the Tracy Ullman show. I’ve pointed out before that kissing a woman’s breast garners an “R” rating, but stabbing her in it only warrants a “PG”. In an increasingly violent culture, we’ve ordained modern-day censors protect us from what?
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