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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Family Guy Hit with New Lawsuit

Family Guy caught yet another lawsuit, thanks to an episode even the FOX Network deemed to offensive to air originally. An episode in which Peter Griffin sings a song entitled I Need a Jew to the tune of the Pinnochio classic, When You Wish Upon a Star, never aired on the FOX Network but did air on the Cartoon Network's [adult swim] programming block. The Bourne Co., which owns the rights to the song, claimed the Family Guy version was Anti-Semitic and damaged the tune's standing as a childhood classic.

As we reported earlier, Family Guy was recently hit with a similar lawsuit by none other than legendary actress, Carol Burnett. While that lawsuit was dismissed, the judge did mention that "...it takes far more creative talent to create a character such as the Charwoman than to use such characters in crude parody."

FOX has not responded to the lawsuit.

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