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TIL Since 2005, the Parents Television Council has deemed Family Guy the Worst TV Show of the Week on at least 40 occasions, and has filed many complaints to the FCC for “oblique sexual innuendo”. Seth MacFarlane responded “it was like getting hate mail from Hitler.”

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