| − | |This "interactive", pro-multiculturalist cartoon teaches young children Spanish. Multiple characters can't speak a word in English, requiring the audience has to speak Spanish to them. | + | |This "interactive", pro-multiculturalist cartoon teaches young children Spanish. Multiple characters can't speak a word in English, requiring the audience has to speak Spanish to them. The series is often criticized, too, for having its main characters "dumb down" their target audience, giving children too much time to answer questions that could be answered quickly and teaching them how to copy what they see on screen rather than learn for themselves. |
| − | |Promotes disorderly conduct and the titular characters harass other characters within the show. Not only that but they're children and their parents are never shown nor mentioned. | + | |The titular child characters with absent parents engage in disorderly conduct by harassing the supporting cast at every turning point. |
| − | |Notorious for its shock tactics, this show routinely employs willful tastelessness for comedic shock value. Examples include one regular character who is a homosexual pedophile, as well as constant Hitler jokes and clips of television shows as seen through the eyes of main character Peter Griffin, who sees them with a warped and twisted viewpoint. Brian Griffin, the Griffin family's talking pet dog, is frequently used by series creator Seth MacFarlane as a sounding board for his liberal political and social views. In addition, despite the title of the show indicating that it promotes traditional family values, the titular Griffin Family, especially Peter Griffin, the patriarch, often treated their children in an exceptionally abusive manner with it frequently being done for laughs. | + | |Notorious for its shock tactics, this show routinely employs willful tastelessness for comedic shock value. Examples include one regular character who is a homosexual pedophile, as well as constant Hitler jokes and clips of television shows as seen through the eyes of main character Peter Griffin, who sees them with a warped and twisted viewpoint. Brian Griffin, the Griffin family's talking pet dog, is frequently used by series creator Seth MacFarlane as a sounding board for his liberal political and social views. In addition, despite the title of the show indicating that it promotes traditional family values, the titular Griffin Family, especially Peter Griffin, the patriarch, often treats their children in an exceptionally abusive manner frequently for laughs. |