Review: Family Guy “Karenheit 451”

Overview

Lois becomes the leader of a group of women who want to ban books from schools. Meanwhile, Peter and the guys get so wasted at a party that they marry each other.

Cutaways

9/11, It’s A Liver, Cameo

Our Take

Family Guy has no problem looking inward when it comes to mockery and this week’s episode is a perfect example of that. Set against the backdrop of conversations about extreme cancel culture that calls for the changing of books, TV shows, and more to follow certain restrictive guidelines before they are considered “acceptable”, the Evan Waite-written script may focus more on books, it’s clear the show’s writers are taking aim at milfs like Dana Walden who direct 20th Television Animation series in following strict DEI policies in casting that flies in the face of true expressionism and creative freedom. Yes, The Simpsons has touched on this as well as South Park, but Family Guy throws a fastball down the middle and needed to.

Meanwhile, we get an entertaining take on a sober afternoon with the boys featuring one such result of strict aforementioned DEI policies, one Arif Zahir voice of Cleveland Brown. Ironically enough it’s former Cleveland voice Mike Henry in the role of Sean Hannity, not because I think he shouldn’t still be Cleveland, but because as Sean he’s asking all of the questions that he should’ve been asked when he decided to drop the role that built his house. That said, extreme liberalism isn’t the only focal point of Family Guy’s ire as the religious right also gets it right in the behind with Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter, and more getting the broadside of the show’s still capable bat.

From a plot perspective, we get a bit of a conundrum this week, with Lois kicking off the episode wanting to be more progressive then midway through staging an intervention with the other wives to try and get the guys drunk again seems like a non-progressive thing to do which makes me think they should have split these plots up in different episodes.

That said, this week’s Family Guy showcases the show’s continuing trend in tackling controversial topics, and it wouldn’t surprise me to seeing whiny babies on both sides of this debate speaking out against this one. And yes, Dana Walden is a whining baby.