Fay Guy Is Ready to Dial Down the Gay Jok

Contents:

• ‘FAY GUY’ PHASG OUT GAY JOK
• HAS FAY GUY REVERSED ITS DECISN TO ‘PHASE OUT’ GAY JOK?
• FAY GUY IS GETTG RID OF GAY JOK—FALLY
• FAY GUY REVERSED S STANCE ON 'GAY JOK'. WHY?
• ‘FAY GUY’ ADDRS S STANCE ON PHASG OUT “GAY JOK”
• GAY GUY OM FAY GUY
• ‘FAY GUY’ WILL PHASE OUT GAY JOK
• AFTER ALL THE YEARS, FAY GUY IS MAKG A CONSC EFFORT TO DIAL DOWN THE GAY JOK

‘FAY GUY’ PHASG OUT GAY JOK

But tucked among the sight gags and Tmp cricism was Griff tellg the lear of the ee world that “Fay Guy” is “tryg to phase out” gay jok. Ne months after announcg on-air that was “tryg to phase out” gay jok, Fay Guy offered a clarifitn of sorts on Sunday. Followg a scene wh jok about Peter’s sexualy, one group member said, “I thought I read you guys were phasg out gay jok, ” to which Peter replied, “That quote was taken out of ntext and wily misunrstood.

“Many children have learned their favore Jewish, black and gay jok by watchg your show over the years, ” Tmp said, promptg Peter to reply, “In fairns, we’ve been tryg to phase out the gay stuff. Back to Sunday’s episo… It’s unclear whether the “wily misunrstood” quote was Peter’s ial claratn that Fay Guy has been “tryg to phase out the gay stuff, ” or one of the quot given to TVLe by the show’s EPs, which were picked up ternatnally by outlets like CNN and BBC News. In an episo of Fay Guy on Sunday, protagonist Peter Griff remarked that the long-nng seri is “tryg to phase out gay jok.

Dpe creator and star Seth MacFarlane’s outspoken support for gay rights, the program has equently dabbled homophobia and transphobia. The show has long ma lazy jok at the expense of character Stewie’s homosexualy, and drew particular outrage om LGBTQ groups for s portrayal of a transgenr character the 2010 episo “Quagmire’s Dad. ” It’s unclear why took the show this long to qu the gay jok.

HAS FAY GUY REVERSED ITS DECISN TO ‘PHASE OUT’ GAY JOK?

For better or worse, this junk food of the televisual world has bee a larger part of my life than I ever is why I paid attentn when, last year, the January 2019 episo “Tmp Guy” (an tertg episo and of self, sce took on the Tmp admistratn and featured Meg Griff as a victim of sexual asslt on the print’s part), the show announced s tentn to stop rortg to “gay jok”. It started wh a fictnal Donald Tmp tellg Peter: “Many children have learned their favoure Jewish, black, and gay jok by watchg your show over the years”, to which Peter replied: “In fairns, we’ve been tryg to phase out the gay stuff. ”This moment was great many ways: the show acknowledged s rponsibily shapg young viewers’ mds, Peter attempted to flect the cricism wh a ltle touch of meta humour – a Fay Guy hallmark – and we were all left lookg forward to a gay-joke-ee future.

FAY GUY IS GETTG RID OF GAY JOK—FALLY

So ’s not exactly surprisg that, a recent season 18 episo, Fay Guy appeared to do a plete 180 by reversg s stance on so-lled “gay jok” “Disney’s The Reboot”, the episo se Peter and his fay tryg to fd a new inty for their show.

The sequence isn’t so homophobic that mak you want to throw your remote to your TV screen (though by all means, feel ee), but ’s still kd of “meh”. If you’re gog to joke about sexualy, do properly, and maybe make sure your quip packs enough of a punch to jtify s own existence – otherwise, you’re jt jokg about beg gay for the sake of this sequence, Peter Griff go back to the foc group helpg him craft a Fay Guy reboot, at which pot someone asks him: “I thought I read you guys were phasg out gay jok? It’s almost self-pretn on the show’s wrers’ part – we thought we uld do whout “gay jok”, but turns out we jt like them too much, silly !

Bt edy shows on NetflixShow all 10Peter Griff’s sexualy is a recurrg theme on Fay Guy, where ’s regularly implied that Peter, a middle-aged married man the fictnal cy of Quahog the (real) state of Rho Island, might be gay. The “Peter is gay” jok are never the most cisive the seri, and ankly, you uld remove them whout losg out. But if the pot of your quip is the very ncept that someone might be gay, one might argue that your wrg is gettg kd of aforementned, Fay Guy is currently s 18th season.

FAY GUY REVERSED S STANCE ON 'GAY JOK'. WHY?

If Fay Guy’s mment to “irreverence” (sometim, “irreverence” is jt another word for “sensivy”) tak precence over s qut for relevance, then the show’s future will be jeopardised, and rightly the show would specifilly highlight the topic of “gay jok” this manner before dog a public about-face is jt bizarre.

‘FAY GUY’ ADDRS S STANCE ON PHASG OUT “GAY JOK”

How hard n possibly be to shelve the “Peter is gay” punchle once and for all?

Earlier this year, executive producers Rich Appel and Alec Sulk expand on a Peter Griff le the episo ‘Tmp Guy’ — where the character said “we’ve been tryg to phase out the gay stuff” — which was seemgly spoken on behalf of the show.

GAY GUY OM FAY GUY

In a scene where a foc group jok about the pictn of Peter’s sexualy on the show, one group member tells the character: “I thought I read you guys were phasg out gay jok. After sayg that the show would be "phasg out" gay jok earlier this year and then airg a wildly transphobic episo jt a few days ago, Fay Guy is already leang on the same tired old gay jok always the latt episo of the Fox animated s, Fay Guyimag what would be like if Disney bought the work and reimaged the show as a Disney show. Regular characters Quagmire and Joe have been turned to one-dimensnal gay neighbors whom Lois greets by sayg: "Oh, hello gay uple who's nstantly joggg.

" "Yeah, we're work TV gay, " Joe says, "so all we n do is adopt children and pucker-kiss, no tongue stuff. Stewie, who officially me out 2018, is nstantly the butt of homophobic jok, and there's also the elrly pedophile Herbert, who is sentially a walkg gay rape joke. I'd take a sexls, whe Disney gay uple any of those thgs any day.

Naturally, Fay Guy cid to implement some gay characters to their le-up so people. uld better relate to the st and enjoy more personalized fun gay jok as a rult. Fay Guy Gay Characters.

‘FAY GUY’ WILL PHASE OUT GAY JOK

When addg gay characters to the le-up, Seth Macfarlane opted to create multiple gay.

Addg gay characters allow the productn team to tailor more jok to. Whout gay characters.

AFTER ALL THE YEARS, FAY GUY IS MAKG A CONSC EFFORT TO DIAL DOWN THE GAY JOK

gay character. Often referred to as “Herbert, ” John Silverbird is one of the gayt characters Fay Guy.