Family Guy Content Analsis

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Maurice Gray Family Guy Content Analysis SOC. 595/395 Instructor: Dr. Squires Title: Family Guy, Sexuality and Issues Related to Sex Introduction This research represents a content analysis of a popular cartoon entitled Family Guy. Family Guy was first aired in 1999. The characters depicted in this show are the Griffin Family and Brian the dog, Quagmire the neighborhood sex addict, Cleveland the only black in the cartoon, Joe the paraplegic, and Herbert the resident pedophile. The images that I selected show the deviant characters of the subjects. I chose this topic because the Family Guy depicts the deviant nature of the characters in the cartoon. Hypothesis This research hypothesis is that Family Guy episodes will have frequent usage of sexual orientation or other issues dealing with sex in general. This research will show that there is mentioning of some type of sexual activity throughout the episodes. Methodology For research purposes I have viewed 5 episodes of Family Guy from the 3rd to the 7th season. These episodes were selected by title from episodes on Fancast.com. When viewing the titles it is difficult to determine whether there will be sexual undertones or the mention of sex or homosexuality in the presentation of the show. While viewing the selected episodes I will indicate whether or not some type of sexual activity occurs. Episode Titles and Summary Viewed for this Analysis 1. Episode: Season 7, Ep 8: Family Gay 2. Episode: Season 7, Ep 1: Love Blactually 3. Episode: Season 4, Ep 16: The Courtship of Stewie's Father 4. Episode: Season 3, Ep 13: Screwed the Pooch 5. Episode: Season 5, Ep 8: Barely Legal Findings The findings indicated that the 5 episodes that were examined had some form of sexuality issues related to sex. In one episode Brian and Carolyn get
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