Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, has a deep-seated dislike for Tucson, Arizona. This distaste is evident in some of the episodes of the show, where the city is constantly being the subject of many jokes. The most recent episode of Fox’s “Family Guy” threw a low blow to Tucson, Arizona, as it was not the first time the show and its characters take a helicopter tour of Tucson in “Boopa-Dee Bappa-Dee”.
The American adult animated sitcom Family Guy has been the target of numerous taste and indecency complaints, including offensive jokes including racial humor. The show is known to include offensive jokes, including racial humor. In 2025, Family Guy is set to return to Adult Swim’s late night programming block, with a special marathon to celebrate the occasion.
The show has been the subject of numerous digs, including calling the city unnecessary and questioning the University of Arizona’s admission standards. The city is also known for its cultured gem of Arizona (along with Flagstaff) being the brunt of the jokes created in Phoenix. The folks at Family Guy dropped another insult on Tucson, this time mocking the young minds being molded at the University of Arizona.
In a 2019 interview with TV Line, executive producer Alec Sulkin answered that “Family Guy” was phasing out the gay jokes. However, the show remains largely free from hardcore criticism and backlashes. Seth MacFarlane reveals how the success of Family Guy owes its success to Adult Swim and vice versa.
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| Why does ‘Family Guy’ / Seth McFarlane keep making … | Because Tucson is a trash town full of homeless people and if I weren’t for U of A it probably would not even be on the map. The roads have not … | quora.com |
| Seth MacFarlane and His Peculiar Distaste For Tucson | Past digs include calling this city unnecessary, questioning the University of Arizona’s admission standards and a variety of observations … | tucsonweekly.com |
| ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane continues to deride … | She wanted him to go back to his normal self, so she sends him to Tucson to essentially dumb him down again. As Peter arrives in what Lois calls … | ktar.com |
📹 Family Guy – Peter Visits Tucson
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📹 Family guy: Tucson
I just now realized that Brian said “Steve Gutenberg,” as in the actor, and not Johannes Gutenberg, the creator of the printing press. The writing kinda switches between making Brian smart but pretentious, to an idiot pseudointellectual. Even an idiot would’ve just named a book they read in high school.
I go between Tucson and Phoenix frequently. Tucson is only a 2 hour drive from Phoenix, but it may as well be a different planet sometimes. In Phoenix, the attitude of drivers is “I can go 20+ over the speed limit as long as I loosely follow all of the other rules” and in Tucson it’s “I can run stop signs and red lights as long as I go as slowwwww as possible.” There’s literally a place on Valencia where jaywalkers lose car dodgeball all the time and get hit frequently. Gotta get that Eegees I guess.
I live in Tucson. Our city council is stupid, and the county supervisors are almost as bad. They live in a dream world. The pavement on our streets is a wreck, but we have nice programs for graffiti artists. They need to pass a bond to pay for street repair. Imagine needing to get a lone to do foreseeable repairs on your car. Crime isn’t nearly as bad as larger cities. We don’t have a subway, but we have never seen a Tucsonan shove someone into traffic. There are shoplifters here, but none have ever gone through a store filling a bag with stuff and leaving like Santa Claus. Major businesses don’t typically move here. And of the few who have come here, most leave. Pay is much less than Phoenix. Winters are mild, summers are hot but with low humidity and relatively few bugs. We have a lot of retired people. We get about half of our water from the Colorado river. Lake Mead is nearly dry, and Phoenix gets their water before we get ours. I think this is a genuine problem, but it isn’t talked about. Our long term future doesn’t look secure to me. Other than those things, Tucson is about the same as any other city in the country. Putting the water problem aside for a minute, I’d take our other problems any day before I’d swap them for the problems they have in San Francisco, New York, Detroit, and a few other cities.
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:)…The Oscar Wilde reference shoots straight over the head of far too many people…I hope some people take time to look him up…He was brilliant…But not in a gay way…:) “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and appropriately; “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” ― Oscar Wilde
Last books I read are mysteries written by Steven Saylor and Mary Joh Rowland. Saylor’s books are on an ancient greek detective and Rowland’s books are on a 16th century Samurai detective. I may forget what century exactly. I also liked House Of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. That was years ago. I have not read any new books in years unfortunately.