Have you seen any confirmation of this? It’s just hard to understand why Fox would get fined by the FCC for inadvertently broadcasting expletives during awards shows, but not for a premeditated broadcast of an expletive on a scripted show. It just doesn’t make sense.
Seth MacFarlane put one over on the Fox executives. He told them that episode of Family Guy was a live broadcast.
I can believe that, but I just can’t find anything online that confirms it actually happened. It seems like there would have been a lot of media attention. Can anyone find a link?
There’s a BG without Pa Cartwright? What, a shot-for-shot remake?
Well, if there’s no fuzzy dog-robot-thing, I ain’t watchin’ it.
That was a case of the writers being writers.
Ditto the toaster robots.
That sounds like a terrible strain on the animators’ wrists.
Somewhere, I got the impression that the FCC doesn’t have a say over cable channels, just the major broadcast networks. It is the PTB at the cable channels that censor their shows so as to not offend.
Am I off base on this one?
Thank you, June. Did you ever get Looney Tunes to pay you for that second ‘meep’?
No, The FCC only has jurisdiction over Public airwaves. Broadcast Television is subject to them because they lease the broadcast frequency from the government as publiclly owned resource and have certain obligations that come with it. Cable channels are carried by private companies over privat line and sattalie feeds and are not covered.
That’s what I thought. Thanks.
Aren’t there rules about the time of day such swearwords are allowed to be used? We have them here - 9pm is the ‘watershed.’ (It changed from 8pm a couple of years ago).
You can believe that? Really? 
I’m still in shock that Sookie popped the F-bomb instead of saying ‘Shut the front door’. It’s just SO out of character for her <on the show, so far; haven’t read the books>.