I need a Jew
By Capt Fogg
It seems like an out-take from some cheap cartoon blending of the Simpson's and Borat, and it's making money for Fox. We know what people at Fox will do for money.
Initially, Fox withheld a 2003 episode of The Family Guy for reasons that will soon become obvious, but the lure of money eventually prompted them to issue more than a million copies on video that twisted the venerable ballad When you Wish Upon a Star and used it in an episode titled: When You Wish Upon a Weinstein. Weinstein, of course is a name selected to sound Jewish and as everybody at Fox knows, Black people are good at frying chicken, the Irish are drunks, Italians are all hoodlums and Jews are good at making and keeping money. It's only fair and balanced. "I need a Jew" sings the main Family Guy, Peter Griffin, unable to manage his finances by himself.
Perhaps now he will get one or at least Fox will. The Bourne Company, owner of the rights to the academy award winning song that premiered in the 1940 Disney Classic Pinocchio, has filed suit in a Manhattan court, claiming that:
I wonder if Fox executives are humming If I Only Had a Brain to themselves this morning.
Cross posted from Human Voices
It seems like an out-take from some cheap cartoon blending of the Simpson's and Borat, and it's making money for Fox. We know what people at Fox will do for money.
Initially, Fox withheld a 2003 episode of The Family Guy for reasons that will soon become obvious, but the lure of money eventually prompted them to issue more than a million copies on video that twisted the venerable ballad When you Wish Upon a Star and used it in an episode titled: When You Wish Upon a Weinstein. Weinstein, of course is a name selected to sound Jewish and as everybody at Fox knows, Black people are good at frying chicken, the Irish are drunks, Italians are all hoodlums and Jews are good at making and keeping money. It's only fair and balanced. "I need a Jew" sings the main Family Guy, Peter Griffin, unable to manage his finances by himself.
Perhaps now he will get one or at least Fox will. The Bourne Company, owner of the rights to the academy award winning song that premiered in the 1940 Disney Classic Pinocchio, has filed suit in a Manhattan court, claiming that:
"By associating Bourne's song with such offensive lyrics and other content in the episode, defendants are harming the value of the song."
I wonder if Fox executives are humming If I Only Had a Brain to themselves this morning.
Cross posted from Human Voices
Labels: Fox, Hatemongers
posted by Libby Spencer at 3:03 PM
9 Comments:
That's hysterical. I can't believe Fox did that. Well actually, I guess I can believe it but it's still astounding.
Oooh! That better not be the JASON BOURNE company!. Say what you will but if it comes down to a real fight, Jason Bourne is going to kick Jack Bauer's ass! No doubt!
(That's really how they should settle these things, don't you think?
That's a new approach - settle it in the ring. It would definitely cut down on those huge settlements.
Considering that none of us knows the motive behind it we all would be just guessing about it all. one guess would be that they are just trying to cater to the minority complaints that minorities are not represented as they should be on tv and Jews would be considered as a mnority in this society.
What could possibly be the motive behind producing a comedy cartoon series other than money?
At any rate, if the suit makes it's way into court, I think the judge will guess that they made illegal use of intellectual property and won't really care about the rationalizations.
wow. a cartoon character said the word "jew". the horror. anyone ever seen south park?
Oh come on, it wasn't about saying Jew, it was more like singing "Negroes in the sky with watermelons" - you know you're going to get sued unless you're really retarded ( like the Fox Folk)and not because of the ethnic slur. It's about copyright infringement.
I gave up watching South Park a long time ago - about the time they introduced the talking turd character. There are too many talking turds on the tube as it is.
How did that settlement prediction work out? As valid as your other conclusions?
It's hard to know what goes on in the mind of a pompous prick like you - but of course Judge Batts lived up to her name by insisting that the overt wholesomeness of the song made it's copyright nugatory. Bad precedent and at odds with other recent rulings, but what the fuck are you gloating about? Is moronic parody somehow a subject close to your heart or are you just a gibbering asshole?
My prediction of economic collapse made in the face of uproarious laughter by any number of detractors, anonymous and otherwise did come true.
So, have you stopped having sex with your mother? Hey, your smugness justifies the parody -- just ask Judge Battshit.
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