Comments on: Family Guy “Down syndrome Girl” Episode — What Am I Missing?

By: “I have come to the conclusion that when you have a retarded kid, you can’t make fun of retarded people.” | Girl in a Party Hat

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:42:46 +0000

[...] about Sarah Palin. As Stacey eloquently put it in the comments on the previous post, the thing that’s so infuriarting is not that the Family Guy folks decided to make fun of [...]

By: stacey

stacey — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:53:53 +0000

Sarah Palin’s qualifications as an advocate for Down Syndrome are probably about the same as her qualifications for being Vice President. She’s done more harm than help. And it’s the families and children affected by DS that have to suffer the backlash. Would family guy make fun of DS if not for her? Well…maybe, but she certainly does tend to bring a negative light to the subject. Either way, the episode was not funny, but then again most of their episodes aren’t, in my opinion.

By: jonashpdx

jonashpdx — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:31:24 +0000

actually, whoopi, too. her last point is a good one.

By: jonashpdx

jonashpdx — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:30:40 +0000

I’m with TUC, not funny, but I wasn’t offended, really. not any MORE offended than I am by any episode of that show. I think I’m mostly with Joy Behar on this one, as much as this pains me.

By: TUC

TUC — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:52:40 +0000

Not my kind of funny… but not appalling either, for Family Guy anyway. They did not use the R word. So aside from not being funny, I don’t get what all the fuss is about. And I am usually a hard a$$ about these things… a real mama bear. But on this one, I see it more as trying to get a rise out of SP than anything insulting to our kids.

By: Cheri

Cheri — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:08:33 +0000

Nope. Not funny.

By: Mary Ellen Woods

Mary Ellen Woods — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:28:18 +0000

For what it’s worth, I didn’t think it was funny. I’ve never watched the show and this is the only clip I’ve seen.

By: Kathleen Vanesian

Kathleen Vanesian — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:49:00 +0000

I’m with Whoopi, too. Though I don’t think any of the clips were even remotely funny, I have to appreciate the fact that here in the US we can say crap like this on public television without being arrested, waterboarded or cattle prodded. And what it has done is open a dialogue about special needs and politics and hypocrisy (witness Palin’s first reaction to Rush Limbaugh’s use of the term “retarded”).