Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20181104041616/@comment-37627195-20190313052553

Lord O&#039; Darkness wrote: A few days ago, I visited the children's book section of my local drugstore - and there was a Rick and Morty book on the shelf. That's hilarious. I have a friend who was raised on Family Guy. It was his favorite childhood show and still enjoys it to this day.

I personally am just shocked that parents will allow their kids to watch anything with that amount of sex, gore, swearing, and ethnic stereotypes in it.

Even when it comes to the tamer jokes, I just can't picture a young child understanding Family Guy's overtly adult sense of humor. About 90 percent of the show's humor stems from old school pop culture that no kid should ever be expected to know. I wonder how often the show's tendency to reference obscure shit totally confused my friend when he was a kid.

Although, if it were up to me. The main reason I would never let a young child watch Family Guy is how they regularly make light of pedophilia throughout the series.

As an adult, I can understand the satire of Herbert and other such jokes that Family Guy makes about that particular subject, but I would worry that if a child who's brain isn't fully developed yet sees pedophilia being treated like some sort of cartoon-ish joke it could possibly desensitize them to that awful thing.