Family Guy Sued

[Mrs Behavin]

NEW YORK -- In the 67 years since its debut, "When You Wish Upon a Star" has been recorded by more than 100 artists and orchestras.
But the song's owner is irate about what it calls an unseemly spoof of the familiar tune, saying the dreamy classic was twisted into an anti-Semitic ballad and widely distributed as part of a comedy television program.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, music publishing house Bourne Co. aims to stop the program's distribution. The suit accuses Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Fox Broadcasting Co., the Cartoon Network and others of copyright infringement. It seeks unspecified damages.
The lawsuit said that in 2000, the defendants included the parody, "I Need a Jew," in an episode of the Fox television animated series "The Family Guy."
The episode, titled "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein," relied on the premise that the main character could not manage his family's finances and needed to hire a Jewish person to take care of his money, the lawsuit said.
During the episode, the main character, Peter Griffin, sings "I Need a Jew," which the lawsuit called a thinly veiled copy of the music from "When You Wish Upon a Star," accompanied by new anti-Semitic lyrics.
Fox hadn't seen the complaint as of Wednesday afternoon and had no comment, spokesman Chris Alexander said.
According to the lawsuit, Fox initially withheld the episode from distribution because of its content but eventually earned large sums of money by distributing more than 1 million copies of it to the public in various home video formats.
It said the Cartoon Network first aired the episode on Nov.

'Family Guy' Sued Over Song Parody - MSN TV News

 

[Peter Parka]

I know I've got a pretty dark and thick skinned sense of humour but that sounds really sick! Making fun of Jews in this way is the sort of propaganda the Nazis used to use!:mad

 

[Reaver]

lol he was saying how great jews were in the song, through stereotypes. It's a comedy show, FFS. Plus, it was pretty funny.

 

[Thebest]

What the hell? They're suing family guy NOW? That episode was made a long time ago. Not only that, but Family Guy was just being funny. People need to stop looking for ridiculous reasons to get some easy money and get a damn sense of humor.

 

[Silious950]

Dude that is one of my favorite episodes! It's a shame.. really is...

 

[COOL_BREEZE2]

What the hell? They're suing family guy NOW? That episode was made a long time ago. Not only that, but Family Guy was just being funny. People need to stop looking for ridiculous reasons to get some easy money and get a damn sense of humor.

Ditto.