i don't believe in god what
brian how can you say that welcome to
watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 times
family guy tackled serious issues i mean
certainly the love between a man and a
woman should be sacred but who's talking
about love we're talking about marriage
well don't you love mom come on lois
look at her oh god what have i done
i knew smoking was bad but but i still
sold my soul
you can't just buy a bar mitzvah it
requires a lot of study
can we skip that part for this list
we'll be looking at episodes where
family guy took on a sensitive topic
or a controversial issue what serious
issue tackled by family guy
stood out to you let us know in the
comments
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number 10 chris dates a girl with down
syndrome
in this episode chris has a crush on
ellen
a girl who has down syndrome and he
works up the courage to ask her out
after a harrowing experience in the
woods
well um i really like you
and i was wondering if maybe um you want
to go out on a date with me
you want me to be your girlfriend sucks
i guess that's what i'm driving at
however things don't work out when the
two go on a date as chris finds her to
be too difficult
hey what the hell you think you're doing
sitting down
get up and pull my chair out for me oh
goodness i'm sorry
i'm so sorry that's better andrea
f friedman the actress who voices ellen
has down syndrome in real life
and the message of the episode is that
people with down syndrome were like
everyone else
for better or for worse however the
episode also contained a controversial
reference to former alaska governor
sarah palin
who has a child with down syndrome
several people including palin herself
were outraged by the joke at the time of
the episode's airing so what do your
parents do
that's better my dad's an accountant and
my mom
is the former governor of alaska number
nine
lois has a shoplifting problem well i'm
a little shorter
i'll have to put the ham back
the reason lois engages in this illegal
activity is because of the rush it gives
her when she gets away with it
she ends up going to prison when she's
eventually caught
and her family's life ends up being
complicated when they break her out and
have to go on the lamb with her
i think i got an idea of how to smuggle
you out
bye-bye take care now have a nice day
the episode doesn't delve into the
effects of shoplifting
such as the harm it does to stores or
how the costs are pushed onto consumers
the moral doesn't really go beyond
shoplifting as a crime so
nobody should do it hopefully you
already knew that
i made my own bed with this one guys i'm
just gonna have to pay my debt to
society
number eight brian admits to being an
atheist
ugh mom you sound like a non-believer
brian
you're a thoughtful person are you
willing to open yourself up to god's
truth
oh you're you're barking up the wrong
tree meg i'm an atheist considering
himself a dog of great intellect
brian has found no need to belong to any
particular religion
when meg asks brian to lead the griffin
family in prayer
he comes out to the family as an atheist
i
don't believe in god what brian
how can you say that upon discovering
this revelation
the whole town of quahog treats brian
like he's an outcast in american society
atheists don't get the warmest reception
and this episode playfully exaggerates
the unpopularity of atheism
family guy creator seth macfarlane who
also does the voice of brian
is a vocal atheist and a critic of
religion but what is there to believe in
without god
where do the answers come from well
that's all part of the human experience
it's what we're here to find out and i
bet you that the real answer to the
nature of our existence is going to be
more unimaginably amazing than we can
possibly conceive number seven brian
griffin fights for marriage equality
brian's cousin jasper plans to enter a
same-sex marriage
but it's threatened because adam west is
considering issuing a ban
some breaking news today when mayor west
announced he will sign a city-wide ban
on gay marriages next week
while controversial it has nonetheless
effectively distracted all of us from
the digging fiasco
to stick up for his cousin brian tries
to change people's minds about
gay marriage including lois with this
take on gay marriage family guy comments
on the hypocrisy of people who pretend
that letting
lbgtq plus people get married is a
threat
while such people don't respect their
own marriage what if brian's right
i mean certainly the love between a man
and a woman should be sacred but who's
talking about love we're talking about
marriage
well don't you love mom come on lois
look at her
so two straight people who hate each
other have more of a right to be
together than two
gay people who love each other that's
what we raised you to believe
the show also pokes fun at politicians
who use the issues like marriage
equality
as a political distraction from their
own failures such as mayor west with his
diggum statue i'm sorry mayor west well
you were only doing what you thought was
right brian
and hey you've distracted everyone from
the digging statue
so i guess we don't need this bill
anymore number six
the griffins befriend a jewish man given
how irresponsible peter
is it isn't surprising that he's no good
with money
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according to my uncle who's a real whiz
with volcanoes
a volcano is coming this way hmm
i too have an uncle come in
when he's helped by accountant max
weinstein peter assumes the man is good
with finances because he's jewish
impressed with his jewish friend peter
pushes for chris to convert to judaism
in the hopes that becoming jewish will
provide chris with a better life
oh lois i'm gonna make chris jewish
what are you talking about he thinks if
chris is jewish he'll become smart
various stereotypes about jewish people
are explored and poked fun at in this
episode
because of its subject matter the
episode was considered so controversial
that fox didn't air it
until after it had already premiered on
adult swim how much for one of those
you can't just buy a bar mitzvah it
requires a lot of study
can we skip that part i mean come on if
chris knew how to study he wouldn't need
to become jewish in the first place
right
number five peter griffin takes on big
tobacco
hello boys today's pie is cherry it'll
be ready just in time for lunch wow
these guys sure know how to run a
company
look how happy those morons are they'll
never realize we're using those toys to
get children
addicted to our company's cigarettes
after the el dorado cigarette company
buys out the happy-go-lucky toy factory
peter finds himself working for the
organization he finds the job to be
lucrative and is quickly promoted to
president of the company
however this doesn't sit well with lois
and the rest of his family
who find peter doing the bidding of big
tobacco to be morally reprehensible
oh god what have i done i knew smoking
was bad
but but i still sold my soul and for
what
martha stewart come on kids we got to
put a stop to this
now the episode satirizes tactics
cigarette companies use
to deflect blame such as lobbying
congress
and tactics they use to target consumers
through advertising mascots like the
marlboro man
and joe camel timmy where's lassie she's
out in the orchard ma
peaches are coming in mighty early this
year smoke
you know what they say timmy early
peaches long
summer smoke
what's that lassie are you smoking yet
number four
the griffins deal with immigration boy i
never knew where to feel this good to
love my country it's like loving god or
a step
parent you never really feel them love
your back but that's okay because
they got other stuff going on and you
understand with a newfound sense of
patriotism after attending a parade
celebrating military vets
peter becomes fiercely anti-immigrant
however because of an office policy he
pushed for that required his company to
verify
every employee's legal status peter
finds out that he wasn't born in the usa
but actually mexico i was so afraid of
being judged by the community
that i never filled out the paperwork to
make you a citizen
mom what are you saying peter
as far as the u.s government is
concerned you're an
illegal mexican immigrant unable to pass
a citizenship test
his status is considered undocumented
and he discovers what life is like on
the other side of the immigration debate
in classic family guy fashion the
episode takes sympathy with
undocumented immigrants while still
cracking jokes at their expense
immigrants built this country and i say
it's time for us to take it back
who's with me could you say whole speech
again in spanish
number three the griffins come to terms
with brian's passing
in 2013 family guy decided to take a
bold step and send brian to the great
beyond
his untimely passing was the result of
getting hit by a car while getting ready
to practice some street hockey
brian look out one of the most emotional
moments from the show comes when the
griffins visit brian in his final
moments to say goodbye
damn it brian you can't die we were
gonna do so many things together
we were gonna become windsurfers i was
gonna be a little better than you but we
were both gonna be good
however brian was brought back a couple
of episodes later which one could argue
mitigated the finality of the issue
many longtime fans of family guy were
furious that the show would send off
such a beloved character as brian
you've given me a wonderful life
i love you all number two
glenn quagmire deals with his dad coming
out as transgender
at ease ladies hey glenn you're not
gonna give your dad an entrance oh yeah
yeah i forgot
guys watch this upon coming to quahog to
attend a naval ball
quagmire's father dan intends to become
a woman identifying as ida
quagmire doesn't know how to react
feeling mostly uncomfortable and ashamed
of course peter is completely
unenlightened on the subject
and when the griffins host quagmire and
ida he raises questions that are stupid
and pointless related to the gender
reassignment surgery
but i did put a lot of planning into the
meal yeah we went down the list nothing
with wieners nuts or grapes
out of respect after the episode aired
several lgbtq plus groups including
glaad
raised objections finding the episode
transphobic
and it isn't hard to see why with the
jokes made at trans people's expense
including a subplot where brian is
horrified to discover ida is trans
after having hooked up with her oh man
what do we call him now
we still call him dan no and i'm not
crazy about the name change what is it
like danielle or dana
no ida before we continue
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number one peter and lois griffin debate
matters of life
and choice you need to look any further
than the title of the episode to see the
amount of sensitivity family guy was
going to give this subject
to help out a friend lois becomes a
surrogate mother but due to a tragedy
lois has to choose whether or not to
continue her pregnancy
however peter becomes opposed to
terminating it and the issue becomes
contentious
peter what the hell are you doing have
you lost your mind
don't you worry unborn fetus child i am
here to save you and protect you
i have seen the light the episode has
one scene where the griffin family
debates the ethics of terminating a
pregnancy
and as to be expected peter's opinions
don't contribute anything to the
conversation
what if carrying the baby to term would
endanger the mother's life
i don't know what seven of those words
were what if you look at the ultrasound
and see that the baby's gonna be born
with no arms and no legs
you name it matt this episode is so
controversial for the handling of its
subject that it has never
aired on fox but you know what it's one
more person to share the world with
another little voice in the back seat of
the car one more griffin to love and to
love us
in return
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