Toddler's cuss word on 'Modern Family' draws ire

AP ^ | January 18, 2012 | LYNN ELBER

[ConservativeStatement]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An anti-profanity crusader on Tuesday asked ABC to pull this week's "Modern Family" episode in which a toddler appears to use a bleeped curse word.

"Our main goal is to stop this from happening," said McKay Hatch, an 18-year-old college student who founded the No Cussing Club in 2007. "If we don't, at least ABC knows that people all over the world don't want to have a 2-year-old saying the 'F-bomb' on TV."

[red-dawg]

The F-bomb?
On this show it must be referring to the word fag.

[jakerobins]

Modern Family looks like an awful show anyways....I can see why libs love the show anything showing “alternate” families. The only redeaming quality of the show seems to be Sofía Vergara...

However Moochelle and the family seem to like it...

http://www.thegrio.com/politics/obamas-favorite-tv-shows-boardwalk-empire-modern-family-and-homeland.php

[gdani]

So, let's see if I have this right:

* The word in question is bleeped out on TV
* The character's mouth is pixelated on TV so one can't even see what is said
* The actress herself didn't even say the word, saying "fudge" instead

And people are still complaining?!?!

(For what it's worth, I've always preferred the free market solution - Don't like it? Don't watch it).

[Responsibility2nd]

“Modern Family”? An ABC televison show? Where a 2 year old drops the f-bomb?

I don’t see a problem here.

/heavy sarc

[jakerobins]

Oops almost forgot...Rules is Rules ya know! LOL

[arderkrag]

(For what it's worth, I've always preferred the free market solution - Don't like it? Don't watch it).

Nah, too simple. We have to poke our noses into everyone's business for their own good! /sarc

[Oztrich Boy]

"You have to stand on this table and use these binoculars"







Thank you. Try the veal, and don't forget to tip your waitress

[Marko413]

If the word in question was “bleeped”, you all do realize that they could have just made the child say the word “fudge” and then bleeped it for the sake of comedy?

Not saying this like I know how it’s all done, but the purpose of good cinematography is to trick you and just because there was a “bleep” doesn’t mean they really said a bad word.

[svcw]

I am more offended by ED commercials than a pixilated face and a laugh spot.

[LibertarianLiz]

That may very well be what happened. However, the fact is that it will be showing a 2 year old as having said the "f" word; and, this will be protrayed as very amusing.

Whether the little girl actress actually said the word or not; the purpose is to show how "funny" it would be to have a two year old say ****. It is just another way of deadening our outrage over such outmoded ideas as words that we shouldn't say.

The purpose of these types of programs (Modern Family, Glee, obligatory "gay couple" in every show you turn on), is to push the left-wing agenda onto the entire country. Hey, it's no big deal, what is YOUR problem.

[a fool in paradise]

Walt Disney would be disgusted by ABC-Disney.

[babble-on]

the 18 year old founder of the “No Cussing Club” should not be offended by a word he surely does not know the meaning of

[Drew68]

(For what it's worth, I've always preferred the free market solution - Don't like it? Don't watch it).

That only works when people don't watch it. Modern Family is one of the most popular television shows in the country right now. People like it and that's just not right!!!

Kinda funny. Ed O'Neill is one of the stars on Modern Family. He knows all too well what happens when a single individual embarks on a crusade to bring attention to an offensive program. In the late 1980s, he was starring in a fledgling, little-watched sitcom on the then fledgling, little-watched Fox network. One of the few viewers of O'Neill's show was a housewife named Terry Rakolta. She didn't like what she saw. Didn't like it at all. So she embarked on a public crusade to get this show removed from the air. This little-watched show was Married with Children and Rakolta succeeded in bringing attention to this show. A lot of attention. Suddenly people were watching it to see what the fuss was about. And they kept watching it. And the rest is history.

[dfwgator]

SHEILA: Times have changed
Our kids are getting worse
They won’t obey the parents
They just want to fart and curse!

SHARON: Should we blame the government?

LIANE: Or blame society?

STUART/GERALD/RANDY: Or should we blame the images on TV?

SHEILA: No, blame Canada!

EVERYONE: Blame Canada!

SHEILA: With all their beady little eyes
And flapping heads so full of lies

EVERYONE: Blame Canada! Blame Canada!

SHEILA: We need to form a full assault

EVERYONE: It’s Canada’s fault!

SHARON: Don’t blame me for my son Stan
He saw the darn cartoon and now he’s off to join the Klan!

LIANE: And my boy Eric, once, had my picture on his shelf
But now when I see him he tells me to .... myself

SHEILA: Well, blame Canada!

EVERYONE: Blame Canada!

SHEILA: It seems that everything’s gone wrong
Since Canada came along

EVERYONE: Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!

COPY SHOP EMPLOYEE: They’re not even a real country anyway

CAROL: My son could’ve been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true. Instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbecue

EVERYONE: Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?

SHEILA: Heck, no!

EVERYONE: Blame Canada! Blame Canada!

SHEILA: With all their hockey hullabaloo

LIANE: And that bitch Anne Murray, too

EVERYONE: Blame Canada! Shame on Canada for...
The smut we must cut
The trash we must bash
The laughter and fun must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!

[gdani]

Suddenly people were watching it to see what the fuss was about. And they kept watching it. And the rest is history.

Oh, I know that formula well. It worked for heavy metal in the 1980s and, soon after, rap music.

[hattend]

I have season one and two on DVD.

It’s actually a funny show. I haven’t seen the other seasons, so if it’s gone downhill, I wouldn’t know.

[Publius6961]

When is this so-called entertainment on?

I'd rather watch a baby tossing the "F' bomb than be subjected to an endless barrage of Obama images delivering worse.