The Simpsons: Satire or Offensive?

I enjoy these shows, without satire life would be really boring. I love satire, I think if people get all uptight about it, it just makes the world too serious. These shows do not try to hurt people, and if you're that easily hurt you should never leave your house. With satirical television we can make light of hard times, and even find insight in the satire. Without satire many people would be in the dark about bad governments and would be timid to speak up in many cases. My great grandfather was Jewish, and he used satire in comic strips against the Nazi government, eventually getting himself in trouble, so he fled to America, but in that he managed to insult a horrible group of people, giving more power to the common folk, you can now find his work in the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC haha.

I never got offended with any of them. Also if it is bothering me I just change channels, no offense!

Though I don't much care for American Dad, I don't think these sort of shows were created with any real intentions of doing anything except bringing a little laughter to those who take the time to watch them. Yes some of them can be offensive in nature, but that is only if one allows them to be of such.

In my own observations of life, there are way to many things people get uptight over, we all just need to learn to relax a little when it comes to things such as television, and take it with a grain of salt. Life is to serious as it is and what is portrayed in those shows is only fictional scenarios, even if taken from a real life situation, culture, etc.

Satires are used in its many forms to expose societal follies and to inspire social reform. The shows you mentioned are merely 'voicing' out some issues that probably need attention. Only those who contribute to these societal boo-boos will consider these shows offensive. Otherwise, personally, I think these shows just want to entertain us viewers. Whether or not a person finds the shows offensive is actually dependent on his/her better judgment. But for me, I find the shows really funny and honest since they show what really goes on in our daily lives.

I live by these shows. I grew up watching the Simpson's, and family guy is one of my favorite shows of all time. The people that get offended the most are people who don't know how to take a joke. It can't be offensive if they make fun of everybody they have made fun of either extremity from poor to rich and every race or religion that there is the world. But to the topic in hand I personally have never got offended I think its funny and keeps you on the ball.