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2 ‘Family Guy’ Jokes That Were Too Offensive to Make It to Air

The show has aired plenty of controversial gags, but the cast once revealed two cutaway jokes that never made it to broadcast.

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Family Guy has dealt with its fair share of censorship since it first hit the airwaves back in 1999. Season 2’s “When You Wish Upon a Weinstein,” in which Peter attempts to get Chris to convert to Judaism so that he’ll end up being smart and successful, was shelved for years because Fox executives thought people would perceive it as anti-Semitic. And the idea of Lois contemplating an abortion in the 2010 episode “Partial Terms of Endearment” is apparently still too controversial for the network, as it has yet to be shown on U.S. television. It eventually aired on BBC Three in the UK and was released on DVD later that year.

This is, of course, in addition to all the criticism Family Guy’s gotten over the years. The FCC........

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