Did anyone catch the new episode of Family Guy on Sunday? Part of the story dealt with Lois and Peter using weed to get inspiration to perform songs in a community talent show. There were some funny scenes with them high. They go on to perform high and assumed everything went well. It turns out that their "good performance" was just a hallucination from the weed and they actually just stood on stage and screamed the whole time, as told to them by their son Chris. Anyhoo, at the end of the show Chris lectures his folks on the dangers of weed and recites a pathetic prohibitionist rant about THC being like acid and how MJ will rot your central nervous system.

Watch the clip here

I really like Family Guy and know that most of the writers are stoners so I don't understand the point of this kind of bullshit message. Normally when characters on FG make idiotic statements they show how stupid the statements are. In this case, they left it like it was a public service announcement for kids. No doubt parents and educators will use this against cannabis.

Overall, a pretty funny episode ruined by a stupid speech at the end.

THC is a mild form of acid? WTF!?

I am curious what Stewie says afterwards. It seems like he says he's trying to watch some TV program, so, if I wanted to be charitable I might say that they were trying to set up the idea that TV will do the same things.

And just because the writers smoke pot doesn't mean they know anything about it. I've had people who smoke pot try to tell me it causes brain damage. In the same vein, I've had people who eat shrooms tell me they work because they make your brain bleed. Use of a substance does not imply any sort of rational understanding thereof.

Stewie concludes the show with a similar joke to one he made earlier in the show. He complains that people are rudely talking while he watches TV so, to drown them out, he starts singing the theme to "Mr. Belvedere" at the top of his lungs.

Point taken about the writers not necessarily being pot experts. However, upon further reflection I think the point of the lecture was to balance the earlier "pro-pot" part of the show. FG often has very biting satire and I'm guessing they took an approach similar to this premise:

"We're going to catch hell from the network, FCC, etc., if we have such a pro-pot show. They'll make us put in some sort of DEA-like disclaimer. Therefore, let's fuck with their heads by putting in our own anti-pot message that is so foolish and over-the-top it will make the message ridiculous."

I'll bet the writers are quite aware of the idiocy of "Just Say No" politics.

P.S. I'm not as outraged as I may appear by this issue. I just found it odd and a little frustrating before I got the joke.

Well, first off family guy is random, funny, twisted show.

So, after watching the clip,(even though im rather stoic right now) it is funny. Chris sounds like a health test book issued by the Dea! But it is a hidden, twisted satire just like someone else said.

I think, in my opinion that the writers have at least smoked some bud back in the day, they must have, lol.

I would say the 'lecture' is meant to be satirical in that it's exactly the kind of completely false reefer madness lie that the DARE program teaches school children who are too young or, in case's like a Chris Griffin, too stupid to not know that it's bullshit.

Of course if you want to see an animated show with some balls, when it comes to pot, Minoriteam had an episode last Sunday about time travel that dipicted Abe Lincoln smoking from a giant bong that looked like a home-made chemistry set. We'll see if that part makes it into reruns or not.

I was toking while watching that episode and it was a total buzzkill when chris went off.

The part with Lois and Peter just howling on stage was hilarious though.

Clearly it is satire. THC a mild form of acid? Destruction of motor function? This is so obviously wrong that as an anti-drug statement it deconstructs itself.

That said, like so much Family Guy, it just wasn't funny enough to watch.