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Article about Cartoons as Education tool

Shows cartoons as something more substantial than purely entertainment, and gives insight to critiquing them.



http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=15394
The ongoing conversation between people and the media that create pop-culture, one of the finest examples.


Http://www.noob.us/humor/family-guy-voice-actor-seth-macfarlanes-harvard-class-day-speech-2006/
Some insight to the creator Seth McFarlanes. A speech he gave, some insight to his motivation for the show and his thoughts on society





http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/4/17/familyGuyVisitsFarm
Family guy in the News


http://www.entertainmentearth.com/hitlist.asp?theme=Family%20Guy
TV and Popculture and the ways it spreads like wildfire.

Fat vs beautiful?

Picasa Web Albums - check out some images



Notice that all these pictures are of females.
I know the family guy clip is of Peter becoming more attractive, but look at how Lois responses. Why are there only pictures of Female celebs looking overweight, and why is it such a negative thing?

body image message for everyone!

Family Guy clip
Although there is humor here, What message is this sending about "beautiful" people? Do you think this message is accurate. Any thoughts?

Topic change

I changed my topic to focus on the same issue, but using the t.v show family guy. The reason for this change is based on the large viewer audience of Family Guy and the age group that watches this show (younger group of viewers)
Also Family Guy uses satire to address a lot of issue I would like to analyze and discus.
Stay Tuned!

Welcome to Jersey, Population too many

This is the start of a very interesting project. The goal is to analyze the way popular culture influences all of us in an inescapable way. Particularly, I will be using the T.V show the Sopranos- 'cuz hey I'm Italian and I live in New Jersey- and let's face it, The Sopranos is one of the many t.v shows we all love to hate some times.

So Stay Tuned...
There will be much more to come!