Morality group attacks ‘American Dad’ for horseplay

Posted Jan 7, 2010 by Walt Belcher

Updated Jan 7, 2010 at 04:25 PM

The Jan. 3 episode of Fox’s “American Dad” really pushed the envelope of bad taste, and so the animated comedy is under fire from the Parents Television Council, a conservative group that monitors the content of broadcast television.

The PTC is urging people to write the Federal Communications Commission to complain about an episode that the group said depicted scenes of a man masturbating a horse.

PTC said it was urging its members to file indecency complaints because the show aired at 9:30 p.m., when indecent content is prohibited on broadcast television.

“A broadcast television network aired an animated program on a Sunday evening when children were in the audience, and the program featured a man masturbating a horse,” said Tim Winter, president of the PTC. “Up until now, I never imagined that those exact words could ever be spoken in that particular order. But sadly, here we are.”

Fox declined to comment. What’s really weird is that the PTC has posted the offending scene on its Web site. So you can go there and be offended all over again.

PTC said the episode also included graphic scenes of a character ripping a woman’s arm from its socket and bleeped uses of the F-word. 

“And at the very same time, the broadcasters and their hired mouthpieces are ranting in federal court about how the broadcast decency laws are ‘chilling’ the content they want to air,” Winter said. 

Winter added: “Under what definition of ‘contemporary community standards’ is the Fox broadcast standards department operating? The fact that this material even made it to air demonstrates the network’s contempt for families. It also demonstrates their complete and utter disregard for the terms of their broadcast licenses that allow them to deliver their programming and their advertisements into every home in America for free.”

Here’s another link to “American Dad.”