One thing I really have to give credit to Family Guy for is this bravery to say the things that most people feel like they’re going to go to Hell if they laugh at. I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, we all get that disabilities aren’t a laughing matter, but we’ve gone so far in our culture towards political correctness in all aspects of life that it feels like we’re breaking some really sacred rule if we laugh at someone else’s misfortune. For example, Parkinson’s is not funny, and yeah, I feel bad for Michael J. Fox, and I realize he can’t help being all twitchy, and I don’t think that should really make him personally a target of derision. But in one episode they did one of those pop references to the effect of, “well, that was a bigger miscalculation than when they cast Michael J. Fox as Zorro…” and even though it was wrong, when they showed the mark of Zorro as this unintelligible scribble, c’mon, that’s FUNNY. It doesn’t mean I hate people with Parkinsons or feel they should be subject to scorn or ridicule, but this is a cartoon, it’s for fun. Or the episode where they say, “let’s watch that YouTube video of Marly Matlin calling moviephone” and she’s trying to say the name of the movie she wants to see “The Last Mimzy” in the deaf person voice, and the system says “you have selected…300”. Personally, I don’t think this humor is wrong just because it treads on areas that we’ve decided are sacred cows, in fact that’s what makes it funny to me. Because it’s not a mean spirited knock at someone’s misfortune, it’s more a jab at the political correctness we’ve been saddled with. And it’s an equal opportunity offender…no one is safe, it’s like saying “no more kid gloves, we’re just going to make fun of popular culture, period, no excuses.”