A proper analysis of Family Guy's satire requires us to go beyond the description provided previously from Satire: A Critical Reintroduction. Satire has a rich past, a variety of styles, and a variety of practitioners, making it difficult to define. Seth Macfarlane is the creator of the American animated comedy Family Guy, which is aimed at adults. The Griffin family, which consists of Lois and Peter's parents, Chris, Stewie, and Meg's kids, as well as their talking companion Brian, is the focus of this program. This show is broadly known to be founded on sarcastic diversion which not just jabs fun at political figures or generalizations, however, is intended to achieve the issues in the present society. It also utilizes cutaway gags, which is a short intrusion of a constantly shot activity by embedding a perspective of something unique; in this present show's case, more gags of American culture.
Nonetheless, Family Guy has been censured for its cutaway gags in light of the fact that the collection of such a large number of jokes at one time which reduces the show's satirical jest. The cutaways in this show are used for comic drama. Additionally, they supplement the first joke which does not influence the plot progression of a specific scene.
Family Guy satirizes numerous points from our political figures or government and religion to social generalizations and other "touchy" subjects, for example, 9/11. The utilization of satire is intended to be entertaining, yet its more prominent reason for existing is to utilize helpful feedback or constructive criticism by utilizing whit to achieve the more extensive issues in the public arena today. For instance, in episode six of season seven, Peter Griffin references Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign's watchwords "Change" and "Hope" when he gives a vagrant hope (Booker, 16). The reason for existing was to convey attention to the gathering of people about their criticalness in the Presidential Election while MacFarlane all the while expressed his help for Barack Obama in the scene.
In season ten, episode three, Family Guy highlighted a scene that was intelligent of the subject of aggressive behavior at home. Quagmire's sister, Brenda, battles with the physical and mental mishandle of her sweetheart, Jeff. Joe, Quagmire and Peter consider approaches to calm Brenda of her anguish. It was then that Quagmire thought the best way to spare his sister from additionally mishandle was to execute Jeff. Quagmire, in the end, winds up murdering Jeff by running him over into a tree with his auto in the forested areas. This scene overstated numerous examples of mishandling that ought not to sit well with pundits as they saw this scene to not have ridiculed such a touchy subject. The point of aggressive behavior at home was depicted in a genuine way while likewise adding to the show's satire.
Another type of satire will be a parody which is the demonstration of ridiculing a class, author or artist with a think embellishment for humor. Family Guy utilized this a lot and is one of the main kinds of parody utilized as a part of this show and is utilized to ridicule celebrities and TV shows and music. This is utilized severally in this show since it is not difficult to do and is extremely comical to individuals who have watched the show, know the performer, or have once listened to the song. Family Guy utilizes this to target more established crowds by focusing on shows more established individuals would watch and will once in a while target what children might watch.
In scene fourteen of season two, the sitcom presented the subject of drugs and peer pressure. Meg sees a young lady named Lisa, additionally the young lady who spooks her doing mischief behind the school with the majority of the mainstream kids. Lisa spooks Meg some more when she discovers that Meg does not abuse drugs. Meg, is that as it may, needs to wind up plainly prominent and is peer compelled into holding drugs for them so as to get a date to the Winter Snow Ball that week. It demonstrates that this sitcom additionally addresses vital issues that our general public countenances, particularly among teenagers. Despite the fact that there are numerous cases of parody and satire, it doesn't decrease the significance of this issue. In addition, that is a part of parody: to utilize whit to get these issues to light.
Like all scenes of Family Guy, there are cutaways that ridicule and satirize distinctive subjects in our general public, for example, social contrasts or segregation. Some of which that appears to be arbitrary with regards to the show. For example, inside an initial couple of minutes of a scene, it included a spoof of the Jurassic Park film. Peter is seen entering the bathroom when out of the blue there is a helicopter holding up to take him away to take a look at the island of dinosaurs (Booker, 23). This cutaway parody was planned to poke fun of the legal advisor who attempted to stow away in a bathroom stall, however, was at that point eaten by the Tyrannosaurus Rex as he tried to hide. Although a great number of people would see this spoof as a diversion to the show's theme, it is utilized for a humorous impact.
A portion of the broadly known cutaways of Family Guy includes ridiculing the idiocy of one of our previous Presidents, George W. Bush. In one specific scene, there was a cutaway of George W. Bush playing with a slinky in the White House. He was endeavoring to get it to roll down the stairs when, at, to begin with, he was not able. At that point, once the slinky began to go down without anyone else, he began to yell at his better half Laura, to look at what he had accomplished. Another one he was mentioned was the issue of Hurricane Katrina. In this one, Brian was embarked to discover George W. Bush since he was abstaining from dealing with this disaster. In both cutaways, it accentuated the satire in how the show was ridiculing Bush's idiocy.
A significant part of the criticism Family Guy gets deals with its regularly offensive and questionable content, for example, Stewie's assault joke in "The Simpsons Guy." Some may protest the show for reasons broader: Peter's "profane tricks," Lois' disappointment as a house spouse, Chris' sluggishness, Stewie's devilish slants, Brian’s hard living and Meg's pitifulness (Crawford, 9). Proof from the show legitimizes those judgments of the Griffin family, yet to concentrate exclusively on characters' identities, one disregards other critical, more subliminal, parts of the demonstrate that impact how it is seen.
Generally, Family Guy is a sitcom that engages individuals through its satirical diversion. It establishes that by making jokes about religion, political figures and numerous more themes. The parody again achieves useful criticism by utilizing whit to convey audience's regard for the current issue (Booker, 5). The cutaways might be arbitrary now and again yet they supplement the joke made by the character and it doesn't endanger the uprightness of the scene. It is the thing that makes this show exceptional and in its very own group. This show has its own comical inclination and is unique.
Works Cited
Booker, M K. Drawn to Television: Prime-time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy. Westport, Conn. [u.a.: Praeger, 2006. Print.
Crawford, Alison. ""oh Yeah!": Family Guy As Magical Realism?" Journal of Film and Video. 61.2 (2009): 52-69. Print.
