# Most right and left wing TV shows? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476 "2009-08-05T22:18:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/81 "2009-08-08T15:22:45Z")
I agree about _Family Guy_\* being liberal. Some of the episodes like the gay marriage one or the illegal immigrant ones are almost cartoon political rants. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/82 "2009-08-08T15:43:58Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > I agree about _Family Guy_\* being liberal. Some of the episodes like the gay marriage one or the illegal immigrant ones are almost cartoon political rants. Well, _Family Guy_ is a cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/83 "2009-08-08T21:42:19Z")
If there were any doubt about Family Guy, it was removed when he had the McCain/Palin campaign button on the Nazi uniform. That goes beyond liberal to ultrapartisan. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/84 "2009-08-09T00:15:04Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > If there were any doubt about Family Guy, it was removed when he had the McCain/Palin campaign button on the Nazi uniform. That goes beyond liberal to ultrapartisan. Family Guy has gone so far to the left that it forgets at times that it’s supposed to be a comedy show. If Seth McFarlane wants to express his politics this strongly, he should find another outlet for his rants. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but let’s get back to the fart jokes and Stewie’s death wish for Lois. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/85 "2009-08-09T06:17:13Z")
> [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](#): > > Family Guy has gone so far to the left that it forgets at times that it’s supposed to be a comedy show. If Seth McFarlane wants to express his politics this strongly, he should find another outlet for his rants. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but let’s get back to the fart jokes and Stewie’s death wish for Lois. I am a conservative, and I don’t mind the leftist stuff. The show is still funny. Seth speaks through Brian, and that is not a problem to me at all. It is in keeping with Brian’s character, so fine-o. Besides, Everything’s better with a bag 'o weed! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/86 "2009-08-10T01:07:11Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > _South Park_ couldn’t really count as the most conservative show; I’m sure they piss off conservatives as much as liberals, if only for their raunch and disrespect of religion. However they generally skew to a libertarian POV. Reason magazine waxed ecstatic about the “gnomes” episode. They also make fun of global warming, environmentalists and hippies. I believe Parker and Stone are on record as saying they hate conservatives, but “really fucking hate liberals”. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/87 "2009-08-10T01:47:27Z")
I’m going to put FIREFLY in the right column. Big alliance goverment is bad. Armed citizens good. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/88 "2009-08-10T03:18:01Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Sheldon Cooper’s Mom, played by Laurie Metcaff (sp?) ROSANNE’s “sister”. Respectful? She’s pretty much portrayed as a kook and a caricature. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/89 "2009-08-10T03:31:37Z")
> [@audit1](#): > > I’m going to put FIREFLY in the right column. Big alliance goverment is bad. Armed citizens good. That would make them libertarians. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/90 "2009-08-10T10:21:25Z")
> [@audit1](#): > > I’m going to put FIREFLY in the right column. Big alliance goverment is bad. Armed citizens good. Well it’s pretty much a direct analog of post civil war South minus the racial issues. > [@FriarTed](#): > > A BIG stretch! Besides what other show has a Christian fundamentalist side-character who is treated respectfully and affectionately? Sheldon’s Mom? The show is certainly intellectual focused, which some people equate with liberal, but mostly it avoids political and social issues. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/91 "2009-08-11T03:23:34Z")
> [@audit1](#): > > I’m going to put FIREFLY in the right column. Big alliance goverment is bad. Armed citizens good. Slightly off-topic, but doesn’t this describe Star Wars as well? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/92 "2009-08-11T04:00:29Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Slightly off-topic, but doesn’t this describe Star Wars as well? Not quite. Mind you the good guys were The (Rebel) Alliance To Restore The Republic in the original trilogy, and in the prequel trilogy, the good guys were trying to protect or maintain the Galactic Republic (even at least a few of the bad guys seemed to have this goal in some form though) EDIT: Basically, in Star Wars, its’ not big government vs small government, so much as big benevolent Republic vs. large oppressive Empire ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/93 "2009-08-11T04:31:33Z")
I’d say “Breaking Bad” is pretty liberal. You have a meth kingpin who’s really just a good guy who’s trying to do right by his pregnant wife and handicapped son and is really just a victim of circumstance. He has cancer! We need to feel sorry for him! He’s just misunderstood. He’s not so bad. He fights the _really_ bad meth kingpins after all! You have his brother in law who’s in law enforcement and therefore is a dull, tactless, braggart, racist, right-wing caricature, as well as a hypocrite who covers up for his thieving wife - who’s just sick, after all! You have his partner in crime who does what he does because of drug problems that are all because of his parents, who want all of their children to be perfect little geniuses and put way to much pressure on them. His life of crime is their fault. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/94 "2009-08-11T04:52:39Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Designing Women seemed really liberal and a little preachy to me. If you want both in one show then Family Ties was your go to show for both right and left. The ex-hippy parents always pissed me off. What is funny about Designing Women is that Dixie Carter is very conservative. She described herself as ‘the only Republican in show business’ and reportedly had a deal with the shows producers that for every one of the liberal rants she had to give, that she would get to sing a song. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/95 "2009-08-16T11:11:57Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > _King of the Hill_ is an absolutely ingenious show and it is definitely not conservative-leaning, but it also is not disparaging towards the conservative characters that it satires. It is very thoughtful and human, and the comment that it is the “most realistic family sitcom” but happens to be animated is definitely prescient. It has some ridiculous elements like Boomhauer and the general over-the-top portrayals of Hank Hill’s friends but the core characters of the show, i.e. the Hill Family, are exceptionally lifelike. I found some absolute proof that real Boomhauer’s exist. I am Southern born and raised but even I can’t make sense of this. They might as well be speaking Icelandic. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PSF9nPPITAM/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/PSF9nPPITAM?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/96 "2009-08-16T17:20:29Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I found some absolute proof that real Boomhauer’s exist. I am Southern born and raised but even I can’t make sense of this. They might as well be speaking Icelandic. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSF9nPPITAM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSF9nPPITAM) Guy told the story of taking his dog to the grocery store…the one that used to be the Winn Dixie but now is the one where all the Mexicans are. Anyway, he takes a shower and takes his dog to the store, but he didn’t let his dog go the bathroom first. He gets there and they’re out of everything he wants, but he gets some beer and some coffee, and it takes him like 30 minutes, because there’s a line. So he then goes out to his car and his dog’s gone the bathroom all over the place. He figures he has to go back and get a bunch of paper towels. Then he sees a shopping cart with all those discount circulars, so he uses the circulars to clean up the car. Then a Mexican comes and takes the cart and is pissed at him because the messy circulars are all over the cart, so he yells at him in Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/97 "2009-08-16T23:29:26Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Guy told the story of taking his dog to the grocery store…the one that used to be the Winn Dixie but now is the one where all the Mexicans are. Anyway, he takes a shower and takes his dog to the store, but he didn’t let his dog go the bathroom first. He gets there and they’re out of everything he wants, but he gets some beer and some coffee, and it takes him like 30 minutes, because there’s a line. So he then goes out to his car and his dog’s gone the bathroom all over the place. He figures he has to go back and get a bunch of paper towels. Then he sees a shopping cart with all those discount circulars, so he uses the circulars to clean up the car. Then a Mexican comes and takes the cart and is pissed at him because the messy circulars are all over the cart, so he yells at him in Spanish. Thanks, that helps. I watched it about 10 times and understood it up to the point of the store circulars and $10 paper towels but then I was lost. You forgot about the black people in the parking lot with their bongos though. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/98 "2009-08-17T01:03:38Z")
Apparently Family Guy is going to take a turn to the right. Brian is slated to have a political conversion and become a Limbaugh fan in the upcoming season. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/99 "2009-08-17T01:51:36Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#): > > Apparently Family Guy is going to take a turn to the right. Brian is slated to have a political conversion and become a Limbaugh fan in the upcoming season. That’ll just be another opportunity to make fun of conservatives. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/100 "2009-08-17T02:35:21Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > What is funny about Designing Women is that Dixie Carter is very conservative. She described herself as ‘the only Republican in show business’ and reportedly had a deal with the shows producers that for every one of the liberal rants she had to give, that she would get to sing a song. The only fond memry of Designing Women is my neverending crush on Jean Smart, 58 and still a really fine, fine\* lady. (\* fine, fine = hot and over 50) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476.md?page=6)