Warning To Parents: ‘These Are Not The Cartoons You Grew Up With’

Warning To Parents: ‘These Are Not

The Cartoons You Grew Up With’

By: Russ Jones   (OneNewsNow.com) Wednesday, July 31, 2013

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Caution: This article describes media content that is extremely offensive

The Parents Television Council has issued an urgent warning to parents and advertisers concerning the explicit content of an animated programming block that just launched.

“Just when you think network standards couldn’t get any lower, they do,” begins PTC’s online alert about a new animated programming block on the FOX television network that debuted last Saturday. It is the latest attempt by FOX to enter the late night fray similar to the Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" programming block.

While the shows may appear innocent, Dan Isett, director of public policy for the Parents Television Council (PTC), warns they are ultra-violent, sexually explicit, and profanity-laden cartoons.

“There’s an entire section of this thing that’s all about ‘sexting’ – the taking of [explicit] photographic images of young men and distributing them through the whole school,” he tells OneNewsNow. “There’s references to group sex and all sorts of things that I frankly can’t describe very well.”

According to Isett, FOX has quietly built an audience for the programming via the Internet by showing explicit animations on the program's website – which has no parental controls. “Any eight-year-old could simply click and watch selections from a collection of three-minute cartoons that are more explicit than anything we’ve seen on broadcast television to-date,” says PTC.

Examples of X-rated animations that FOX has already made available online – and eventually may air on broadcast television – include nude, anatomically correct characters; dead, decomposing corpses that are disrobed; lesbianism; and fondling of women.

“The really key thing for parents to understand is that this is not the cartoons that you grew up with,” Isett urges. “[And] to not trust FOX in this instance, because they’ve taken things that sort of look like classic cartoon fare and turned it into something really raunchy and offensive and damaging to your children.”

PTC urges parents and grandparents to call their local Fox affiliates and ask that this programming block be preempted in their community.

Editor's note: So as not to drive additional traffic to the website, OneNewsNow has purposely chosen NOT to identify by name the FOX animated programming block discussed in this story.

Action Alert Take Action Against Family Guy

Action Alert

Take Action Against Family Guy

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Vomiting, Pedophilia, Genitalia – Brought to You by McDonald’s!
This past Sunday night, Fox’s raunchy cartoon Family Guy – which airs at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, only 8:00 p.m. in the Central/Mountain time zones -- exposed millions of children to another raunchy episode. (See content under tabs below.)

Two years ago, the PTC named McDonald’s one of the “Ten Best Advertisers of the Year” for sponsoring family-friendly programming. Now, the company that wants to sell your children Happy Meals is showing them men vomiting into each other’s mouths, allusions to anal sex, graphic references to women’s private parts, and jokes about pedophilia.

If YOU are disgusted by McDonald's sponsoring this sick program,
TAKE ACTION and contact McDonald's through the form below!

(WARNING! Graphic content may be shown on the content and video tabs)

Below is some of the dialogue from this episode of the Family Guy:

Charmese is examined by a gynecologist. Her legs are up on the stirrups as the doctor dons spelunking gear.

Doctor: “All right, I'm going in. If I tug on the rope twice, that means pull me out.:

Squishing noises are heard. The nurse holds the rope that disappears into her crotch, which is covered by a blanket.

Doctor: “God, who are the pigs who just throw their empty beer cans down here?”

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Charmese demands Peter and Quagmire prove they are gay.
Charmese: “Enough! Kiss each other.”

Peter and Quagmire kiss, trading vomit from each other's mouths. They strip one another down to their underwear.

Quagmire: (sobbing) “Me, too. Your body makes me so horny.”

Peter turns his back to Quagmire:

Quagmire: “It's very close, Peter. The paint brush is about to touch the canvas.”
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A pedophile yells at his mother.

Pedophile: “Hey, ma. We got any pictures of me when I was a kid? Maybe something in a tub?”
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Lois talks to Charmese.

Lois: “Are you and Glen thinking about children?”

Charmese: “Unfortunately, I can't have children.”

Lois: “Oh, menopause?”

Charmese: “No, I got knifed in the vagina one Christmas.” 






LETTER TO McDONALD'S

Dear Ms. Proud:

On January 27, 2013, McDonald’s ad dollars helped pay for the vile and disgusting content on Fox's Family Guy. In this episode, Peter and Quagmire are shown vomiting into each other’s mouth, and then proceed to swallow it. Quagmire then implies that the two are about to have anal sex when he says: "The paint brush is about to touch the canvas." In the same episode, a gynecologist wears spelunking gear to conduct a vaginal examination.
 
Beyond the harm you are doing to your hard-earned corporate image and brand by associating with this content, studies have actually shown that viewers are less likely to remember advertisements when they appear in programs with high levels of sexual content and violence.

So the question you should ask yourself is why you would waste your ad dollars paying for this kind of content.
 
Is Family Guy an accurate reflection of your corporate values? Family Guy often displays graphic vomit scenes in their episodes. We feel sure you’ll agree that associating your food-oriented corporate brand with scenes of vomiting is not in the best interest of your bottom line.
 
We ask that you reconsider your sponsorship of this program until such negative and harmful content is no longer part of FOX’s schedule.
 
And if this content is in line with your corporate values, my family and I will take that into consideration the next time we’re trying to decide where to eat out. 

NBC Fumbled and the NFL Lied

NBC Fumbled and the NFL Lied

Take Action To Demand Tape Delays for All Live Broadcasts

Last week we shared with you a statement from the NFL, promising that this year’s Super Bowl halftime show would be an “exciting and entertaining show that will be appropriate for our audience.”

The NFL broke their word, and let families down… again.

In case you missed it, during Sunday night’s game, performer M.I.A. directed an obscene gesture at the camera while singing, “I don’t give a sh**.”

It is unfortunate that a spectacular sporting event was overshadowed once again by broadcasting the selfish acts of a desperate performer. For the second time in recent memory, the most-watched television event of the year (this year, in fact, the most-watched television event in US history, with over 111 million viewers) left parents across the country lunging for their remote controls.

The NFL has betrayed the trust and goodwill of families across America by inviting artists known for courting controversy to perform during the half-time show.  The NFL offered an apology, of sorts: "There was a failure in NBC's delay system.  The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing, and we apologize to our fans."

Though the NFL clearly exhibited poor judgment and a certain naivety in assuming this group of performers would deliver an “appropriate” halftime show, NBC is ultimately responsible for anything that goes out over the broadcast airwaves they license. 

Whatever mechanisms NBC had in place to catch this type of material completely failed when it mattered most – during the most-watched television event in history. It is time for NBC to put a new system in place to prevent future such occurrences; and if there was a provision in the performers’ contracts to hold them responsible for any indecent behavior, it should be enforced. 

NBC cannot plausibly claim they were caught off guard.  It has been eight years since the Janet Jackson striptease, and both NBC and the NFL knew full well what might happen. They chose a lineup full of performers who have based their careers on shock, profanity and titillation. Instead of preventing indecent material, they enabled it. M.I.A. used a middle finger shamelessly to bring controversial attention to herself, while effectively telling an audience filled with children, ‘F– you.’

The networks have demonstrated zero interest in safeguarding the broadcast airwaves, and last night’s Super Bowl debacle is just the latest proof.  If NBC had procedures in place, adequately trained staff, a reasonable time delay, and a commitment to preventing inappropriate content from airing during live broadcasts, the entire incident could have been avoided. Instead, NBC prefers to pretend that they can’t control what happens during a live show, and argue to the U.S. Supreme Court for freedom from responsibility for anything that happens during their watch. 

This can not stand, and should not be tolerated any longer. If this were the first time NBC erred during a live broadcast, it might be understandable, but NBC has allowed these "accidents" to happen time and time again. Enough already.

Please take action today by signing our petition to demand NBC put all future live broadcasts on an adequate tape delay and to hold on-air talent accountable for their actions during live broadcasts.  And please, share this e-mail with friends who share your values and concerns.

We will deliver the petition to NBC and all of its affiliates to let them know we are fed-up with their careless disregard for America's families.  the obligations and responsibility that come with the licensed use of the broadcast airwaves.

The NFL and NBC must take responsibility for allowing this offensive material to air in front of one hundred million Americans; and they must take immediate steps to ensure this never happens again.

Send Your Warning to the Sponsors of The Playboy Club!

Daimler/Chrysler and Unilever Sponsor Season Premiere of The Playboy Club

The Playboy Club debuted last night to dismal ratings – meaning the American people, by and large, agree that the Playboy brand does not belong in prime time, but some companies clearly still have not gotten the message. 

Chrysler/Dodge and Unilever (which owns such brands as Hellmann’s Mayonnaise and P.F. Chang’s Home Menu) sponsored last night’s premiere episode. 

Help us hold these companies accountable for their role in pushing the Playboy brand into every living room in America by taking action now. 

And please, if this issue is important to you, forward this e-mail to your friends and associates who share your values and urge them to take action.

After months of denials from NBC that their new fall show “The Playboy Club” was in any way connected to or helping to promote the Playboy brand, the truth is out. 

The latest issue of “Playboy” magazine to hit the stands features one of the show’s lead actresses on the cover and sells for a mere 60¢ - the price in 1960s when the series is set. The October issue also takes a retrospective looks at the Playboy clubs in the ‘60s and features a spread on the NBC series.  Thanks in no small part to the publicity the brand will enjoy through the program, Playboy has announced plans to reopen its Chicago club next spring.  Oh, and Hugh Heffner also provides voice-over narration for the first episode. 

And today the show plugged “Tuesday Tweeting with Hef,” on its Twitter page, promising fans “Hef’s take on the premiere and life at the club in the ‘60s,” while urging fans to send questions to Heffner using the identifying hash tag “AskHef.”

…But as NBC has stated, the show and the Playboy brand are not at all connected.

Every single company that sponsored the premiere episode of The Playboy Club is complicit in the act of mainstreaming pornography. With Playboy spelled out blatantly in the show title, no advertiser can claim to be surprised.

And let us not lose sight of what the Playboy brand represents: It’s about promoting a narrow, and for most women, unattainable ideal of feminine beauty; it’s about reducing a woman to a set of measurements to the exclusion of everything else.  It’s a brand that owns the Spice Digital Networks, purveyors of hardcore pornography.  It’s a brand that seeks to lure young girls through pink, sparkly, bunny logo merchandise that is often shelved alongside Hello Kitty products.

PTC is contacting each advertiser to ask them to state for the record whether they plan to continue to underwrite this content with their advertising dollars. Unilever and Chrysler/Dodge dealerships need to hear directly from PTC members and other concerned citizens. There is no reason for any advertiser to associate its brand with a program that exploits and degrades women. 

Each advertiser is helping to make adults-only material available in virtually every living room in the country. Even worse, this show is putting a sickening, glamorous sheen on an adult entertainment industry that destroys countless marriages and families. All brands appearing on future episodes of the show, regardless of how cheap the ad spots get, can rest assured they will hear from PTC about their decision to sponsor the program. 

You can help us hold NBC and the program’s sponsors accountable by taking action now.