| − | |Notorious for its shock tactics, the most successful series created by leftist Seth Macfarlane routinely employs willful tastelessness for comedic shock value. Examples include one regular character who is a homosexual pedophile, as well as frequent Hitler and Holocaust jokes and film and television clips as seen through the eyes of the patriarch protagonist 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. Although the title implies that the series values the traditional family unit, Peter and occasionally his wife Lois treat their children in an exceptionally abusive manner, usually for laughs. | + | |Notorious for its shock tactics, the most successful series created by leftist Seth Macfarlane routinely employs willful tastelessness for comedic shock value. Examples include one regular character who is a homosexual pedophile, as well as frequent Hitler and Holocaust jokes and film and television clips as seen through the eyes of the patriarch protagonist 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. Although the title implies that the series values the traditional family unit, Peter and occasionally his wife Lois treat their children in an exceptionally abusive manner, usually for laughs. There's also a considerable propagandized [[ageism]] and quite biased hypocritical double standards, both from some characters and the writers of the show (three episodes as examples are ''Scammed Yankees'', ''Quagmire & Meg'' and ''Single White Dad''). |