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All parent reviews for Family Guy

Age
13
Average rating based on 175 parent reviews:
  • 40% say sexual content is an issue
  • 38% say language is an issue
  • 34% say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking
  • 29% say violence is an issue
Educator
May 3, 2010
 
mINORS NO
this show could be is rated TV-PG, TV-14 (edited), and TV-MA (uncut). no one under 18 may watch this and should be on HBO or a pay channel.

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Parent of 15 year old
April 30, 2011
 
WORST,INSENSITIVE,OFFENDING, SHOW ON TV IS FAMILY GUY
DISGUSTING, SICK, VULGAR, INSENSITIVE , OFFENSIVE SHOW...

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Parent of 1 and 8 year old
September 3, 2010
 
A Hit and Miss program
Family Guy is a good show, mainly for teens and young adults. It's raunchy potty humor and random hilarity keep young teens interested but there are some very mature subtle subjects that get dropped into the program. While some of the episodes end with a good message or moral-lesson, for the most part they are all the same in their crude humor and lesson-less programming. This show is on for kids age 13 and older.

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Adult
February 26, 2009
 
ITS MAURE, ITS INCONSISTENT, ITS LEWD yet...
I love it!!!!!!! Brilliant without sacrificing slapstick.

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Parent of 6, 11, 11, and 14 year old
February 1, 2011
 
Bad Show!
This show is very...... bad! There many violent moments as in when Baby Stewie tries to kill Mom Lois! This show also has a lot of sexual references and refers to many people as b*tch and as$. It is very wrong!

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Adult
February 26, 2011
 
Funny show for people 12 and up.
I started watching this show when I was 8 (ignore my name, that is a joke), but I do NOT recommend children under 12 should watch it. The show contains occasional graphic violence such as people's heads exploding and being shot with a lot of blood, a lot of sexual content including frequent sexual references and jokes, strong language (however the worst words like the S and F words are always bleeped), along with uses of meth, crack, cocaine, and marijuana. The show also features terrible messages not to be taken seriously like converting people to atheism and condoning marijuana use. The characters are also terrible role models, and almost every character does something terrible whether it is killing, drug use, drinking, perversity or more. Overall, the show can't be taken seriously, but it is not a show for children under the age of 12.

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Adult
June 30, 2009
 
Seth MacFarlane's Humor is One of a Kind in "Family Guy"
This show is R-rated comedy for prime time. It is a good show for teenagers and adults to laugh at. It has a lot of one-liner humor, situational humor, and shock value humor. Episodes have parodied political situations, other media, religious beliefs, everyday situations (such as meeting your in-laws), and even their own broadcasting station FOX. This is NOT a show for kids and is intended for older teens and adults, this has even been confirmed by the show's writing staff. It is funny, unpredictable, and on it's way to become the next "The Simpsons". Bottom line: The show is usually rated TV-14 DLSV. Ages 16+. 5/5 stars. Enjoy.

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Adult
November 18, 2008
 
Bonfire of the Humanities
You don't have to be religious nut or even particularly moral to identify Family guy as an ethical train wreck. This show is loathsome towards woman, and finds humor in making a mockery of sexual violation and wanton murder. I don't know how this one flew under the radar here at common sense.

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Adult
April 16, 2011
 
Older prefered
This show can be quite sexual, the daughter is always the but of jokes. I enjoy the show though.

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Adult
February 1, 2011
 
Innaproprite
It's a great show hilarious but very innaproprite

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Adult
April 15, 2011
 

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Parent of 6, 9, 13, 14, 17, and 18 year old
July 20, 2010
 
Good show, not for youngsters
Very funny show, but I don't think kids under the age of 16 should be seeing this stuff. The humor is very adult, so I don't think many kids under that age would get it.

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Parent of 14 year old
January 31, 2011
 

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Parent of 4 year old
January 1, 2011
 
Oh No.
This Is A Mix Of Everything Bad.No Humor At All

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Parent
June 26, 2010
 
Absolutely not for kids, are you kidding me???
There is absolutely no reason a child should be viewing this show. Kids younger than 15 should not even know what this show is about. This show is iffy for ages 16-17. This show is CRUDE, sometimes DISGUSTING. If you are a parent, please don't show your kid this show. There is absolutely no reason for this show to be seen by children. I am somewhat shocked to see that any children have reviewed this show. I do think it's a funny show for adults, but I would think poorly of a parent telling me that they are in favor of letting their kid (pretty much at any age under 17-ish) watch this show. And I am a pretty live and let live person. This show is just too over the top. The role models lie. Rampant sexuality. Continuous drinking, drug and pedophile references. Rape is made a joke of, as is the treatment of women as objects. As an adult, you laugh at its absurdity, but for kids, what kind of messages are you teaching them? Remember, they're sponges.

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Parent of 1 and 5 year old
November 3, 2011
 
Life is too short for watching something like this
It's incredibly misogynist. It's a lot of other things too, but the frequent jokes about rape and the running joke about how fat/stupid/ugly/worthless the whole family openly thinks the daughter is are what I object to the most. (Example: in one episode where the family home is being burglarized, a running joke is that the daughter is too ugly for the burglars to rape.) The show's creators and fans argue that they make fun of everybody equally and the whole point is that it's so un-PC, and if you're offended you just aren't getting it. No, I get what they're doing -- I just find it repellent.

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Adult
October 16, 2011
 
This Is SO much better than that American Dad
I am 17 and sais, this is a Really Funny Fox flick, It is very simalur to "The Simpsons" it's like a South Park for Teens, though there are no products, there are many pop-culture referances, the violence although, really doesn't worry me,

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Parent
September 15, 2011
 
Teen and Up
Many issues about drugs, smoking, drinking, language, and sexual content. There are a lot of sex references. Sometimes characters will be under the blankets. No bad parts of the body are shown, except sometimes you can see a character's butt.

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Adult
July 25, 2011
 
the main reviewer is an idiot
these days children turned 7 but under 11 should watch these w/ an adult, just watch for beer and swearing

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Adult
February 11, 2011
 
Representative of the low television standards today
Just because it's a cartoon doesn't mean it's okay for kids. I honestly don't think anyone should watch this show because the humor is totally stupid, mean-spirited, racist, and prejudiced and the stories are anything but imaginative. However, if I were to give an age where someone could start watching it, 16 is about right.

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