I watched family guy for a couple of minutes for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and that was the first time I ever watched anything from MacFarlane.

It was garbage. I don't remember what it was, but it was one ignorant statement after another, seemingly for the sole intent to be shocking.

Yeah, I am not digging the heavy-handed stuff lately either. But I still watch. There are still small nuggets in the river of mud.

The douchey preachiness of Family Guy isn't any worse than South Park or the Simpsons *shrug*.

I've a feeling the people complaining about Family Guy's political content but giving South Park a pass are doing so because South Park's politics line up more closely with their own (Family Guy, on of the occasions that it does get political, skews more toward liberalism, whereas South Park is pretty firmly entrenched in libertarianism).

What I find mostly of note is that neither Family Guy nor The Simpsons (since it got a mention) is an overtly political show, with both taking occasional one-off jabs at political targets and only rarely making an entire episode a thirty-minute screed on a particular issue, whereas South Park has, since around the fifth season, been comprises almost solely of full-length episodes for Trey Parker to lambast anyone or anything political with which he takes issue. Neither approach is inherently bad, but there is a pretty clear double-standard that any screen time offered a viewpoint with which you don't agree is having an agenda shoved down your throat while you're just trying to watch mindless entertainment, but entire half-hours of the same, when belittling people you believe should be belittled, is absolutely fine.

Preachy is preachy, no matter the viewpoint.

South Park trashes everyone in the political spectrum. More often than not, they just go after contemporary cultural topics