Satire in "Family Guy"

Family Guy is another television show that is constantly jabbing at social issues going on in modern society. It is a cartoon series that revolves around current issues, and ways to bring them to light through a more lighthearted and deriding kind of method. Peter Griffin is the father in the series and a main character in the show. As a father figure, one would believe he would be responsible, caring, and somewhat knowledgable, however; this father figure is everything besides that. He is uneducated, and gives horrid advice to his children. The way Peter is played out to be, mocks the absent figure in most American children. Peter makes a horrible father figure, which is to satirize the modern missing figure in a majority of children's lives. Another constant theme satirized in Family Guy is the government and politics. Seen as an important organization in America, Family Guy manages to mock the government, and play it down to be unimportant and dismissible. This satirization is a constant theme in several Family Guy episodes.