I think it's brilliant that Family Guy's been nominated - a show should be recognised for showing its views on religion and, more importantly, having the courage to do so. Obviously it's going to be against many people's beliefs, but episodes like 'Not All Dogs Go to Heaven' at least give you something to think about, another perspective on atheism. It's probably the first cartoon that's done that, too. I'm not saying "everyone should follow everything Family Guy says", because I don't see that ending well, there's a good chance we'd all be dead. But the show should be given respect for challenging the subject of religion - it's one of the toughest subjects to deal with. And they didn't really do it in an offensive way, so anyone who can pull that off deserves to be nominated for an award, in my opinion.

To have a show helmed by an outspoken atheist be nominated for an emmy is an important step toward our progress.

I think it's great to see a show like Family Guy up for an Emmy. Shows me that these award shows aren't so far up their own asses to recognize a funny show when they see it.

Is Family Guy rude and crude sometimes? Sure, but it's funny as all hell. I know they won't win it, but damn, it's a nice thing to see them even be nominated.

I was also disappointed to see Family Guy get nominated. That show is one of the most vile, crude, garbage programs to air since Married With Children. And that's not a compliment to Married With Children. Because that show was funny.

In regards to the Simpsons not being able to get nominated in the Best Comedy series category, an animated show can choose to submit itself to either the animated series category or comedy series category. The Simpsons only tried twice back in the 90's to submit to the comedy series category and were unsuccessful, so they never tried again.

Granted that was during some of their best seasons, but it was a very new policy to allow animated into that category and maybe people werent open to that yet. anyway, The Simpsons never again submitted to that category, so its not really true to say that theyve never been able to be nominated as best comedy series in their 20 year run, since they only tried 2 years.

I think with the changes in the nomination process this year, if The Simpsons had submitted, they would have been nominated as well, maybe even instead of Family Guy.

I was also disappointed to see Family Guy get nominated. That show is one of the most vile, crude, garbage programs to air since Married With Children. And that's not a compliment.