When You Wish lawsuit
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When You Wish lawsuit
Variety indicates that the music publishing house Bourne Co. is suing Fox Broadcasting due to the Family Guy song parody I Need a Jew, set to the tune of When You Wish Upon A Star. Bourne believes that Fox has harmed the classic Pinocchio song’s reputation by associating it with a “vile and anti-Semitic message.”
(Is anyone else right now practically quoting Cartman's dialogue from the "Family Guy"/Mohammed South Park episode word for word?:
"Dude, let's go to Fox and have this episode pulled! It's our only chance to finally get this show off the air!" )
(Is anyone else right now practically quoting Cartman's dialogue from the "Family Guy"/Mohammed South Park episode word for word?:
"Dude, let's go to Fox and have this episode pulled! It's our only chance to finally get this show off the air!" )
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It's a must-watch episode (or at least, the first part of the two-parter is, haven't seen the second):Daniel wrote:I probably would be, had I seen that episode... Must watch it soon!
The SP episode was supposed to parody the Mohammed-cartoon headlines, but decided to take a poke at FG's bewilderingly random, robotic and basically pointless shock-gags and pop-culture refs that don't seem to be in the episodes for any reason at all--
Won't spoil it (and I don't know what mystery of comedy makes "Funny attempts to deliberately create unfunny jokes" gags funnier) but SP's dead-on parody imitation of lame/random FG jokes had me on the floor:
("Hey, fool!--Want some Mr. T.....tea?")
That, and the (slightly allegorical) scene where Kyle asks Cartman, "But I thought you'd like Family Guy, because your senses of humor are so similar!"
"DUDE!...If you ever compare my sense of humor to Family Guy's again, I will kill you where you stand! >_< "
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Well said Eric!It's a must-watch episode (or at least, the first part of the two-parter is, haven't seen the second):
The SP episode was supposed to parody the Mohammed-cartoon headlines, but decided to take a poke at FG's bewilderingly random, robotic and basically pointless shock-gags and pop-culture refs that don't seem to be in the episodes for any reason at all--
Won't spoil it (and I don't know what mystery of comedy makes "Funny attempts to deliberately create unfunny jokes" gags funnier) but SP's parody imitation of lame/random FG jokes had me on the floor:
("Hey, fool!--Want some Mr. T.....tea?")
I have parts 1 and 2 on my computer. (itunes) Worth it! Eric and Dan, you both need to see it!!
Yeah, as a Jew, it doesn't bother me either. (although I wasn't crazy about it at one point....now I just shrug it off and say: "Well, it's Family Guy." They rip on everyone and everything.)Yeah, silly lawsuit. I don't really think "I need a Jew" is vile or has a anti-semitic message. I LOVE that song. Before FG was resurrected, I considered "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" the series finale.
However, I do think South Park does the whole "Jew" thing (Kyle/Cartman etc....) about 100,000 times better than Family Guy could ever do.
I think it was more than slightly! Matt and Trey have both said in interviews how much they hate Family Guy and that to have fans comparing them is like "a kick in the balls."
That, and the (slightly allegorical) scene where Kyle asks Cartman, "But I thought you'd like Family Guy, because your senses of humor are so similar!"
"DUDE!...If you ever compare my sense of humor to Family Guy's again, I will kill you where you stand! >_< "
In part 2 the whole allegorical nature of the story and how it relates to South Park as a series becomes more apparent.
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One thing I don't get though: Why isn't Disney suing Family Guy?
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
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That's the problem: SP and (although to a much lesser degree these days) Simpsons choose their targets--Daniel wrote:How? Family Guy is and always has been a show that pokes fun of everybody. (Pop culture, etc.)
Granted, both series wimp out and have their characters make pompous "Can't we all just get along?" speeches before the end credits, but whether it's Simpsons "Homer questions the Bible, Part XXVIII", or South Park's "Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet!" you always know where the writers stand.
SP may throw potty-mouthed dialogue and cartoon gore at us, but the funniest part of the scripts is that they tactlessly un-PC blurt out what we were already thinking about the headlines--Although not so much with Simpsons, which tries to be "2 Hip 4 Opinions", and tries to satirize both sides just in case...Basically, the cartoon demonstration of , "The man with 'no loyalties' is the man with no opinions."
FG, OTOH, is the "easy" part of Tom Lehrer's "Irreverence is easy, Wit is hard." (And if you don't know who Tom Lehrer is, uh, he wrote songs for the Electric Company. )
The humor is Attention-Deficit Disorder, and seems to be popular with the Attention-Deficit Aged HS/college audience, that doesn't ask why the characters are suddenly invoking an 80's series, shock-gag or cartoon reference, it's just "funny" at this micro-moment, now bring on the next.
...Which, again, made SP's parody of FG's baffling stream-of-consciousness desperation that much funnier:
(Captain Kirk at door)
"Captain?"
"I'll be the Captain, you be Tenille."
"o/`Love will keep us together...'"