[Movie] Family Guy Composer Sued

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The copyright owner of “When You Wish Upon a Star” has sued Fox over “I Need a Jew,” a song featured in “When You Wish Upon a Weinstein,” an episode of “The Family Guy.”

In this 10-page complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Manhattan, big-time music publisher Bourne wants to stop the show’s distribution. In the episode, Peter Griffin can’t manage his family’s finances so he decides he needs a Jewish person to handle his money. Hence, the song “I Need a Jew,” which the lawsuit says is a copy of the music from “When You Wish Upon a Star,” only with anti-Semitic lyrics (the complaint has the lyrics).

Law Blog - WSJ.com : The Family Guy: I Need a Lawyer

I'd love to see Family Guy get shitcanned, canceled, shot out of a canon and into another canon full of male on male rape for anything, even something as silly as this.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by russ

Why don't you just, uh, not watch it

Being still in my mid-twenties, a lot of my friends (and their friends) find the show entertaining and engaging. I suspect that some of these people would laugh at watching the kitchen linolium curl on a hot summer day.

Be that as it may - its more or less shoved down my throat and I've been beleaugered more than once by someone asking me how dare I dislike the show.

Originally Posted by The Dopefish

Some people have such soft skin, I'm surprised they even venture outdoors and run the risk of being eviscerated by a cloud of pollen.

Equally, I'm confused by why pop culture references automatically make people laugh. Can I make a pile of cash by standing on a street corner, screaming things I remember from the 1980s?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by The Dopefish

I won't bother wasting anyone's time trying to defend it, but it's not a horrible show.

TIME PARADOX

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Majin yami

Of what I call the Big 4 satirical cartoons

I wonder if you understand what satire is ?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Its not the RIAA, its the rights holder for the song.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by SuperNova

It's because some people can't have a sense of humor and have to ruin it for everyone else

I can't be held accountable for other people's bad sense of humor. Is it too much to ask that people write their own jokes without it being in reference to some media blitz from the late 70s and on?

Originally Posted by Majin yami

Ridiculing, mocking or otherwise deriding something.

Quoting something doesn't mean you understand its function. You can tell me what a schwarschild wormhole is by looking it up in Wikipedia or on Google - but can you use it in a credible mathmatical or scientific explaination? Similarly, just because you can quote the definition of "satire" doesn't mean you understand how to use that particular skill.

Originally Posted by Will

Is there something wrong with that?

Absolutely. All the jokes are the same type (cut-away) and they all reference things that are already pop culture. While I don't care for South Park, their analogy towards the Family Guy writing staff was spot on.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Skexis

I think there's a sub-audience out there that likes Family Guy because it's unpretentious.

You realize, of course, that for people to watch a show for that reason, they have to be pretentious to even think that...?

FELIPE NO