Family Guy Cast Perform ‘Abortion Episode’ Live
Posted by SunnyChanel at 10:00 AM on August 14, 2009
If you are a Family Guy fan, you’ve no doubt heard of the infamous ‘Abortion Episode’ which was recently banned from US screens. Seth MacFarlane, the man behind Family Guy, created the controversial episode.
MacFarlane recently explained “20th Century Fox, as always, allowed us to produce the episode and then said, ‘You know what? We’re scared to f–king death of this.” But a lucky audience got the chance to experience the episode live and in person.
On Wednesday, members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences plus members of the press were treated to a reading of the episode by the cast of the popular animated show. Seth MacFarlane along with John Viener, Danny Smith, Christine Lakin, Alec Sulkin, Mila Kunis and Alex Borstein read the episode in front of a live orchestra. In between episodes MacFarlane and Borstein entertained the audience with musical routines.
So what happens in this episode? The Associated Press reported that:
“Most of the episode dealt with matriarch Lois (played by Borstein) deciding to become a surrogate mother for her infertile friend — against Peter’s wishes. After her friend is killed in a car crash, the Griffins are left with the difficult decision of what to do about the pregnancy.
At one point, Peter watches an anti-abortion video, which proclaims several people would be alive if abortion wasn’t legal, including a fourth Stooge, the guy who would have killed Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden’s America-loving brother, who could have prevented 9/11.”
Although the episode will never actually air of the tube, a Fox Television spokesperson said that it will probably be included in an upcoming DVD release.
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