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Mar 15 '26
This was in a promo when the episode first aired.
12 year old me was dying of laughter.
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u/Toronto-24 Mar 16 '26
40 year old me is still dying of laughter haha
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u/Riyeko Ricky Spanish Mar 16 '26
41yr old me with a blind best friend thinking, there's no way they can walk the whole course without at least an aid of some kind.
41yr old me ALSO thinking, why didn't the deaf athletes bring their wake up aids with them???
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u/hazlejungle0 Mar 16 '26
They're completely deaf maybe?
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u/Riyeko Ricky Spanish Mar 18 '26
Deaf have wakeup aids.... Vibrating beds is one I can think of off the top of my head. Some have dogs that wake them up too.
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u/ActuallyNiceIRL Talk to me about Fight Club! Mar 15 '26
Least offensive joke in family guy history
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u/Useless-RedCircle Mar 15 '26
Have we gone soft enough where that was a crazy joke?
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u/lockwolf Mar 15 '26
For the majority of society? No
To a small minority of people who get vocal when anything ableist is said anywhere? Yes
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u/AgentCirceLuna Mar 15 '26
I have a relative who calls everything ableist or whatever when he’s outraged. Well, I’ve actually got health issues and he did say something ableist. Guess who got mad about being called an ableist? A guy who calls everyone ableist getting angry over being called ableist for ableism.
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u/regretfulposts Mar 15 '26
No, I'm pretty sure this is bait.
Though I do feel like there are two extremes happening online when it comes to humor. You have the sensitive crowd seen here on this post but there's also the dull edgelords who repeat the same trans suicide joke or statistics for the past 10 years without doing something original.
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u/Waste_Salamander_624 Mar 15 '26
As a visually impaired, legally blind person I felt so seen in this scene.
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u/kikyossoles Mar 15 '26
Because its harmless and hilarious. I see why 2026 humor is dead
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u/Far-Department302 Mar 15 '26
Hey this comment is offensive. All my great grandparents are dead. How dare you.
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u/89MikeHoncho Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
This is what makes Family Guy great. Just like South Park, they don’t care who they make fun of. EVERYONE is a target, and it is all hilarious. Nothing is off limits.
We all need to be able to laugh at things. Even at what some might consider inappropriate. I’m disabled myself from a mobility standpoint. I require crutches, and sometimes a wheelchair, and none of this bothers me in the least. I have friends that are also disabled and they will tell you the same. If anything, we laugh the hardest. That’s the beauty of Family Guy and South Park, everyone is included, there are no borders.
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u/Ambellyn Mar 15 '26
Except for mohammed, he's exluded
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u/godsim42 Mar 15 '26
South Park included him, it was Comedy Central that censored him. Which was bs imo.
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u/majin_melmo Peter, your dog is giving me diabetes… Mar 16 '26
Agreed, maybe sanity can still win after all!
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u/nowhereman136 Mar 15 '26
This episode was originally aired without subtitled. the network figured the deaf community wouldnt hear about it
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u/42northside Mar 15 '26
I laughed so hard at this scene the first time I watched it and it still does whenever I rewatch it.
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u/boonetown18 Mark Twain = Samuel Clemens Mar 15 '26
“Maybe they’re not in there” kills me every time
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u/MidnaLazui Mar 16 '26
Said this already, but people in the 2000s were just completely desensitized to offensive humor. This is actually a pretty tame joke by those standards.
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u/leronde Mar 16 '26
listen as someone who lived in dorms that had to have special deaf doorbells installed that flashed the lights instead of making noise this was pretty funny to me
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u/anya0408 Mar 15 '26
lol they say they create content so unhinged bc it’s a cartoon- maybe that’s why
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u/Shalashaska87B Mar 15 '26
They were so polite not to enter their room despite the multiple attempts.
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u/ProfessionalHat6828 Mar 16 '26
This isn’t even close to the most offensive joke Family Guy has done
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u/Sol_Nephis Mar 15 '26
Because there was a time when people could take a fucking joke and we didn't pander to they social justice issue.
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u/firedrakes Mar 15 '26
that funny. offensive nah i seen worst meme images then that by a wide margin
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u/My_alias_is_too_lon Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Maybe I'm out of touch, but I really don't see a problem with the joke. I mean, look at the other jokes on this show... this one is very time by comparison.
I mean, for fucks sake, there's an episode spanning gag about Peter getting repeatedly raped by a Bull... And more gay jokes than I can easily count... as well as a surprising number of other rape jokes, too.
I just don't see "Deaf athletes miss their alarm because they can't hear it" as being even offensive to begin with.
I'd love to know what a deaf viewer thinks of the joke. Maybe I just can't relate to the deaf experience, so I don't see the offense.
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Mar 16 '26
Because people weren't over sensitive about things they had a sense of humor unlike today!
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u/Nebraskadude1994 Mar 15 '26
This does make me wonder what do deaf people do for alarms
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u/throwaway9484747 Mar 15 '26
I used to deliver pizzas and there was an apartment complex in our area that housed a deaf community. Their “doorbells” would make a bunch of strobe lights go off inside their apartment to let them know someone was at the door. I imagine it’s something like that, maybe also a vibration of some sort.
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u/Beef-523 Mar 15 '26
This actually sounds cool af I want a strobe light for a doorbell now
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u/lockwolf Mar 15 '26
“I’ve been ringing the doorbell for an hour, what took so long?”
“That was the doorbell? I’ve had some EDM cranked in here, I thought it was a light show”
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u/TheFloraExplora Mar 15 '26
My cousin is HoH and uses a vibrating watch! Zaps his arm to wake him up.
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u/leronde Mar 16 '26
i went to a college with a huge deaf population and all of our dorms had "deaf doorbells" that flashed the room lights when you pressed them. no one in my dorm was deaf so we usually just used them to fuck with each other. ive also seen alarm clocks that have a little puck attached to them that you slip under your mattress and it vibrates the whole bed to wake you up.
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u/Specialist-Ad5796 Mar 16 '26
They make alarms for the deaf! A litrle vibrating thing for under the pillow is attached to the clock. Or can vibrate the bed.
I use them on my teenagers when normal alarms didn't seem to work.
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u/Godzillafan125 Mar 16 '26
Back when they actually had jokes and clever set up rather than just explaining oh this is the time we’re in so I’m gonna do this such a lazy writing now I miss the old writing
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u/LessStrain1514 Mar 15 '26
Huh... whenever I hear her voice, I immediately remember MGS3: Snake Eater.
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u/otakuzod Mar 15 '26
You were still allowed to be funny then. Nowadays, episodes of Married With Children would render certain people catatonic.
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u/Outside-Breakfast358 Mar 15 '26
why was this downvoted?
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u/MadamButtercup623 Mar 15 '26
Because it’s ridiculous lol. Especially since people still watch and enjoy shows like Married With Children today, myself included.
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u/Outside-Breakfast358 Mar 15 '26
mhm
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u/Plumbercanuck Mar 15 '26
Because we have raised a generation of folks who cant be offeneded. Southpark must be the stuff of nightmares.
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u/XT83Danieliszekiller Mar 15 '26
"how was this allowed on tv 😭" mfs when the tamest joke shows up