Does watching television make you smarter? TV shows are recurring television programs in the form of episodes and series. My opinion is that the television program you are watching is chosen by whoever is watching it. Different people watch television programs from different perspectives. It is their ability to decode the information conveyed through the show and understand it that determines the type of television program they will want to watch. Television shows have an ongoing effect on teenagers, but the positives outweigh the negatives. Family Guy, an ongoing show, which has won three primetime Emmys (IMDB), has had issues with the show being canceled twice, due to its "gag a minute" about race, sex, incest, bestiality, etc. (Peacocke 300), Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, described Family Guy. This show "purposely offends almost any group of people you could name" (Peacocke 300), said New York Times journalist Stuart Elliot However , this satirical show is also rated for ages 14 and up, although it belongs in an adult animation category. Family Guy produces a comedy about the flaws and imperfections of American society in a derisive and sometimes bigoted way. But some jokes, Antonia Peacocke, a student at Harvard University, said they are "more tame and insightful, the kind you might expect from the New Yorker" (306). American society, in the form of jokes. It's a show that could lead people to “easily come to think that the cartoon derives pleasure from controversial humor only for its own sake. But those who pay more attention and think about the creators' intentions can see that Family Guy intellige...... center of paper ......es That Matter in Academic Writing. 2nd ed. 303. Print. March 11, 2014.—-. "Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious." Is pop culture really good for you? Russell Durst, ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2nd ed. 306. Print. March 11, 2014.—-. "Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious." Is pop culture really good for you? Russell Durst, ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2nd ed. 300. Print. March 11, 2014.—-. "Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious." Is pop culture really good for you? Russell Durst, ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2nd ed. 300. Print. March 11th 2014.