Family Guy' Mocks Sarah Palin's Son Trig For Having Down Syndrome - Page 2

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 4:58pm

best line in any of the episodes, hands down...

"holy crip, it's a crapple!"

[romantico]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 5:30pm

Stewie's HD Thoreau quote and rant afterwards had be laughing so hard!That and the 'your tougher than a doggie dominatrix' gag was just wrong!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taIo35sHkNQ

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 5:34pm

Interesting that Bristol was the one take over the response for Sarah, considering the rumors about Trig.

The show has made it pretty clear over the years that Chris has some undiagnosed special needs as well.

Updated On: 2/16/10 at 05:34 PM

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 6:33pm

I don't believe for a second that response came from her directly.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 6:35pm

Bristol's real response?... "Hey, I can blow bubbles in the tub too!"

Updated On: 2/16/10 at 06:35 PM

[romantico]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 6:49pm

I don't believe Sarah Palin wrote her autobiography either.I doubt she's even read it.I wish someone would ask Sarah whats the difference between Rush Limbaugh's satire and Seth Macfarlanes? She is OK with Rush using the R word.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 7:13pm

ZOMFG they made fun of people who's eaten themselves into having strokes on tonight's episode. they also made fun of gay vegetarians. and i stand corrected from my first post. peter didn't bribe the black judge with a subscription to "orange soda quarterly"... he bribed him with "grape soda today"... which he already had!
i think they also made fun of firefighters and people with mustaches who are poorly educated and leave high class porn magazines out in the open, but i can't be sure.

Updated On: 2/16/10 at 07:13 PM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 7:22pm

I am not the biggest Family Guy fan in the world, but if it's on, I usually laugh. Maybe it's because of my line of work, but I just didn't really get how this was up to par with the normal humor. Stewie's song was pretty cruel. I can just hear kids, who shouldn't be watching, but we KNOW they are, taunting other kids with the song. The woman who did the voice may be of a level to defend herself. I don't know. Most kids with downs aren't. I guess I am just too sensitive.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 7:36pm

it's actually not the first down syndrome joke made on fox this season.

there was an episode of glee where one of the cheerios (brittany... she's the one who's basically portrayed as being an idiot) becomes friends with a girl with down syndrome named becky. while they're walking together, 2 of the other cheerios see her "what's she doing with her?" "i dunno, i think they're friends or something. she (brittany) cheats off her (becky) in math class."
although no one got upset about the episode because it ended on a heartwarming note when sue held auditions for a new cheerleader and chose becky, before going to visit her older sister, who has down syndrome, in some sort of nursing home.

[romantico]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 7:38pm

Here is the actress.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295141/

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 7:39pm

oh! she was on L&O special victims unit! she's fantastic! =]

[gertiecummings]

Posted: 2/17/10 at 1:55am

Or when the "special" boy pets Brian in front of K-Mart. SO FUNNY!

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/17/10 at 10:58am

DOGGGY! DOGGGY!

[harris007]

Posted: 2/17/10 at 12:33pm

Gonna bite

[winston89]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 1:20pm

I think that this might be considered offensive if they got someone to pretend that they had down syndrome to play the role. However, I wouldn't consider the character or plot to be as offensive as everyone is making it out to be. If it was, then I doubt that someone with DS would be willing to have voiced the character.

And, yes, Family Guy did make fun of people with DS and I agree it wasn't any worse then they have made fun of any other group of people. And, I think that it was great to have Chris yell at her and say that she might have DS but she is still pretty much an asshole like everyone else out there.

[romantico]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:24pm

If Sarah Palin was not mentioned at all in the episode this would not be news. Does Sarah have another child with Down Syndrome? If the girl was a recovering drug addict and she said her Mom was the former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin would be smearing Seth and Family Guy for accusing her kids are drug addicts.

This woman has to take to her Facebook EVERYTIME HER NAME IS MENTIONED!!! Has anyone ever seen such a thin skinned politician who can not and will not tolerate any kind of joke or criticism made at their expense without releasing some sort of statement? GW Bush, Bill Clinton, Condeleza Rice,or Al Gore. NEVER have I ever seen such a cry baby who is a public figure or celebrity who whines the way Sarah the quitter does. T

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:30pm

Sarah needs to look up the word 'satire'.

And then STFU.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 3:32pm

you mean like in one of those books with all the big words?? gawsh...

[romantico]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 10:11pm

Lets see if the MSM tells her side of the story.Wonder how long it will take the Tea Party idiots to start trashing this girl.

"Family Guy" Actress with Down Syndrome Puts Palin in Her Place

In the wake of Palin's attack on Rahm Emmanual for using the term "****ing retarded" (which Palin misrepresents as "f-ing retard"), she has repeatedly defended Rush Limbaugh's multiple uses of the word "retards" when referring to people he did not like as "satire."

Following this, Family Guy ran an episode about Chris dating a young woman with Down Syndrome who informs him that she is the daughter of the governor of Alaska.


Did Palin know that the actor who provided the voice for Chris' date was Andrea Friedman, a relatively successful performer who happens to have Down Syndrome? Friedman has appeared on "Saving Grace," "Law & Order," "ER," and "Life Goes On," among other television shows.

Palingates.com, a Website devoted to exposing Sarah Palin (and, yes, engaging in rumor-mongering), published an e-mail sent to them by Andrea Friedman's father, who told the person he sent it to to "circulate it on the Web or in any manner that you choose," so I am doing my part to spread the word of what Andrea Friedman thinks of Sarah Palin's attack:

http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/02/actress-from-family-guy-sets-record.html

My name is Andrea Fay Friedman. I was born with Down syndrome. I played the role of Ellen on the "Extra Large Medium" episode of Family Guy that was broadcast on Valentine's day. Although they gave me red hair on the show, I am really a blonde. I also wore a red wig for my role in " Smudge" but I was a blonde in "Life Goes On". I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line "I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska" was very funny. I think the word is "sarcasm".

In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.

Whatever does she mean?

[romantico]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 10:12pm

More

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/18/838448/-Actor-with-Down-Syndrome-Puts-Palin-in-Her-Place

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 10:17pm

Good see Andrea put the hypocritical bitch in her place.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 10:21pm

Fantasic piece!

Can't wait to see what she has to say.

[romantico]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 10:22pm

You realize Sarah the Quitter will tear this poor girl apart tomorrow. Of course, it will have to be on Facebook and it won't be written by Sarah but still,this girl is toast. Like I said in my other post, lets see if the MSM gives this side of the story the same amount of coverage they gave Sarah.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 11:01pm

Do you really think she's going to go after the actress?

If she does, then she's only going to look even dumber than she does now, if that's at all possible.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 2/19/10 at 1:18am

I can seriously see her say something along the vein that ANdrea, because of her disability, does not fully realize she is being made fun of and is being used by the MSM to attack her (Palin). What else could a professional victim say?