# Family Guy Song question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-song-question/204404 "2003-09-29T01:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-song-question/204404/21 "2003-10-01T02:42:21Z")
If he was “playing it safe”, why would he mention it at all? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-song-question/204404/22 "2003-10-01T03:15:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duderdude2 \* > \*\*If he was “playing it safe”, why would he mention it at all? \*\* Probably because enough people have asked about it over the years that he felt he should make a statement, and given a choice between saying “It’s ‘laugh and’” or saying “yeah, it’s ‘effing’ and those idiots at Fox let me get away with it for three seasons, ha-ha-haaaaaaa!” he went with the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-song-question/204404/23 "2003-10-01T03:16:45Z")
Err, former. Damn you, Lois! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-song-question/204404/24 "2003-10-01T03:43:40Z")
[The Family Guy Reference Archives](http://www.familyguyfiles.com/main.php) for **all** your _Family Guy_ questions. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-song-question/204404/25 "2003-10-01T04:02:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > \*\*Sure, it does. The song is about the loss of “good old-fashioned values” and claims we’re lucky “there’s the Family Guy”. Trouble is, the show has _nothing_ do with gool old-fashioned values, and gets almost all of its humour from violence, sex and crudity, so taking off the sanctimony of the theme song with the baby saying “effing” is perfectly in line with the premise. \*\* But see, the sentence of that part is “Lucky there’s man who, positively can do, all the things that make us…” …cry? Why would we be lucky that there’s a man who makes us cry? But if it’s “laugh and cry,” that makes more sense. I always thought that the way the baby says it, very forced and sinister, was part of the premise. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-song-question/204404/26 "2003-10-01T13:20:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yumblie \* > \*\*But see, the sentence of that part is “Lucky there’s man who, positively can do, all the things that make us…” > > …cry? Why would we be lucky that there’s a man who makes us cry? But if it’s “laugh and cry,” that makes more sense. I always thought that the way the baby says it, very forced and sinister, was part of the premise. \*\* I agree. A family man who makes us cry is not a good thing to have. A family man who makes us laugh _and_ cry is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-song-question/204404.md?page=1)