Family Guy, President Gore

[Hippo_Tron]

I'm not sure when this episode aired but Peter goes back in time to when he was 18 so he can make up for all of the partying he missed while dating Lois. He ends up altering reality and Lois ends up marrying Quagmire. It's not all bad of course, because apparently there was a butterfly effect and now Al Gore is President. I was laughing hysterically. It's so funny and so sad at the same time.


Here's the clips from the episode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ_l3eMP-pk

[MatrixEscape]

1. Fantasy and enterainment can be amusing distractions ...

but is is only the failure of the American people at large that can account for the failures and travesties we are now experiencing.

We either fess up and take that responsibility, one by one, state by state, city by city, or we continue to immerse ourselves in distractions and amusing, entertaining fantasies that accomplish nothing other than providing escape and consolation within a growing and ever-present crisis of immense proportions. This is not the time to fiddle while Rome burns. The luxury of ignorance and calculated diversion is becoming far to expensive for us in relation to our very survival and the continuity of what we can still value and hope to preserve and pass on to future generations.

How can we treat an impending crisis with reactions to newsbytes and cartoons when the very foundations of our ideologies and trust-based beliefs are clearly at stake? This is it. Make no mistake where YOU are. Maturity seems to imply that you do not stop and play when it is your turn to act in a serious and conscious manner in response to a threatening circumstance of great proportions. It does not take much more than expanded awareness outside the propaganda of mass media and a corresponding action en mass to effect a result. Why are the people of America failing that requirement? Inquiring minds want to know. It is befuddling to see this play out like that.

http://www.sensiblyeclectic.com/news/index.php?/archives/5507-On-Becoming-Comfortably-Unplugged.html

[rawtribe]

2. Nice words.

If you want to know America, view this film:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo

Unfortunately, Family Guy wins.


:banghead:

[MatrixEscape]

3. I strongly disagree.

I have seen that film and I can totally applaud it for its capacity to take a small snapshot and a group of actors and depict it as a rather realistic and unsettling scenario. After all, art is for art's sake and the that film accomplishes what it sets out to.

If you want to mistake that movie for a realistic and generalized picture of Americans, you are sorely mistaken and I assume you have not been around, lived in any aspect of rural America, nor have you even read Joe Bageant and considered what his indictments about your failure to understand or address that rather ignored and marginalized aspect of this country.

Any elitist remarks about the heart of the country and its rural residents often results from an elitist or intellectual form of snobbery and its ensuing oneupmanship. I assure you that rural people have both brians, intellect, and function senses that do not differ that much from your own. If you would like to present an movie in order to further disassociate your fellow Americans from yourself, that is certainly a poor and worthless position to take. I would suggest here that you consider that the many, media stereo-types you might evoke are probably farther from the truth than you would be comfortable with. Within the cities and suburbs there are a wide range of people with varying intellectual capacities and proclivities. I suggest you consider the possibility that that also applies to rural ares in these modern times, even though the proportions may vary.

If information and education are at all factors in your equation of equality and understanding, then I would suggest that you abandon nny tendency to marginalize these people and utilize them for some sense of superiority. Rather, do your best to communicate, connect, and educate them directly and see what happens. Your prejudice is obvious and prejudice is probably yet another stereo-type that you project and bestow upon the common country folk and find issue with, ey?

It seems to be that people who point out a fictional depiction such as a movie like Gummo are merely those who are in a form of collective denial about their own lack of determination and will to act. In that case, the need to point out an seemingly obvious fall guy for this failure, (one that has no real face or clear channel of response) would be practical. Why not blame your own failure to act on the those "stupid" backwards rednecks out there? That works. Divert the shame and blame at all costs even though cities and suburbs have their own share of the purposefully marginalized and disenfranchised in their ghettos and untouchable zones. It is always better to blame your intened or unintended victims for your own foibles than to face them as your own doing.

In that case, you don't need a "Family Guy". You need a fall guy, so to speak.

[Hippo_Tron]

4. kick

[Edweird]

6. So Seth McFarlane used his influence to help raise awareness. What's the problem?

Comedy has been subverting tyranny as long as tyranny has existed. You catch more flies with sugar than vinegar.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Thanks for the heads up Hippo_Tron

Kicked and recommended

[Hippo_Tron]

7. One more kick for those who don't venture to the video forum

[petronius]

8. Heeeeeeerre's.... Chevy!

Oh my God! Nooo!

:rofl:

Great episode...