Family Guy producer draws the line
Family Guy's executive producer David Goodman wants to protect kids from watching Family Guy - specifically, his own kids.While his son's friends are starting to watch the show, he refuses to let his own son hunker down with the Griffin clan. "I think children are growing up a little too fast and are exposed to things that they shouldn't be. I don't want to have to explain some of the things that are happening on the show. I don't like lying to my kids so I don't let them watch it...They have plenty of time to be adults and to understand all the sex jokes."
Reminds me of Stephen Colbert's 60 Minutes interview in which he explained why he doesn't let his children watch The Colbert Report. Children don't understand satire, and he doesn't want his children taking his real, sincere love for them as parody.
With Goodman, it's more a case of not wanting to explain the offensive, adult material to his son. I'd probably be more frustrated trying to explain the hyper-referential Stewie and Brian "Road To" movie and musical parodies that litter the show. How do you explain 80s nostalgia, postmodern irony and that MTV used to play music videos? "Well, Chris got pulled into the freezer section by a pencil-drawn cartoon man because that's what happened to A-Ha's frontman."

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