If you won’t listen to doctors, maybe Stewie from Family Guy can convince you to get vaccinated?
Honestly, if this is what it takes, then please listen to Stewie and Brian from Family Guy
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A lot of people out there have completely valid reasons for not getting a COVID-19 vaccine yet, but there are also a lot of people who don’t have valid reasons for getting one—like maybe they’re too scared or they get their medical information from Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend. If you’re one of the people without a good reason and the opinions of everyone else in the world haven’t done the trick, maybe you just need a little nudge from the right people? Like, Stewie and Brian from Family Guy? You love it when they make you laugh with their bickering and somewhat inexplicable sci-fi hijinks, right? So if they’re telling you to get the vaccine, maybe that means you should do it?
And we should make it explicit here: If this is truly the push that you or someone you know needed to get the vaccine, we wholly support that and would truly never judge you for it. If you don’t want to listen to Dr. Fauci, that’s fine. (Just between us, his overnight ascension to celebrity status was a little much.) But if you do want to listen to Stewie and Brian from Family Guy, then for the love of god, please listen to Stewie and Brian and get the damn vaccine. When we’re all safely going back to concerts and movies and the grocery store without needing to wear masks, nobody’s going to say “you got vaccinated because it was just the obviously smart thing to do, right? You didn’t wait until a cartoon baby and a cartoon dog told you to do it?” And if they do, tell them that The A.V. Club said they can fuck right off. Be proud that you got vaccinated, no matter which fictional characters convinced you that it was a good idea! You think people living through the 1918 influenza pandemic would’ve been ashamed of getting a vaccine because The Bungle Family and Toots And Casper told them to do it?
So get vaccinated if you can! It’s good! It’s fun! Stewie says it’s safe and that it helps everyone, not just you! Also, if this doesn’t work, please go and tell someone what will. We can bring back The Bungle Family if it’ll help. You can find more information about the COVID vaccines at this link, but Stewie seems to be pretty on top of it. Just do whatever he says.
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I’m on the fence until I hear from the characters on the Big Bang Theory. (Full disclosure: I got vaxxed the second I was eligible. I pushed an old lady out of the way to get it. Future belongs to the middle-aged, old lady!)
Bazinga!
But what if Stewie and Brian are being sarcastic? They should have a sincere character doing a PSA so we know if they’re serious or not.
Greased Up Deaf Guy or no dice!
But then Sean Hannity would just say that it’s his deafness and grease that stopped the virus.
I was going to suggest the Bob’s Burgers characters, but I don’t think that would reach the same audience.Maybe a Rick and Morty PSA where Rick gets as worked up over vaccine awareness as he did over that McDonalds dipping sauce.
Maybe if you get Jimmy Pesto to do it…… 🙁
This was a surprisingly pleasant PSA. Moderately funny, nothing about it that really annoyed me. I wish the entire show could keep this level of humor.
The only thing that annoyed me is that Stewie says you won’t get sick if you get the vaccine. That is not entirely accurate, and statements like these are what anti-vaxxers will pounce on to denounce the whole PSA.
The secret is that it was only 3 minutes long and had to make specific points, so they couldn’t just give up and cut away to an unrelated parody of an 80’s movie.
“This is worse than that guy in The Right Stuff with the needle in his hand, having to masturbate a few scenes later!”
Or Conway Twitty.
That baby crazy!
very gross and condescending tone to this article, i’d expect nothing less of Sam. one of the worst writers on the net
I don’t think anything short of real world consequences will convince most of the unvaccinated. On top of everything else you now have reluctance to admit error, which is a very powerful impulse in most idiots.
That’s why there’s the “Herman Cain Award” sub Reddit. It’s heartbreaking how stupid these folks are, and how they misjudge the real world consequences.And most of them seem to always need Go Fund Me.
Poor Meg. Even in a PSA, she gets no respect.
I think it is great that Mr. MacFarlane and the Family Guy staff did this. I have no idea whether it will move the needle or not, but if it convinces even one hold out to get the shot it will be worth it.My youngest son is too young to be vaccinated. I am terrified daily sending him out into the world where adults refuse to protect themselves and everyone around them by getting a free, effective, safe vaccine. Anybody using their platform to tout vaccination is doing great work, period. I would also like Season 3 of the Orville soon, thank you. 🙂
‘…move the needle’. I like what you did there.
It makes me really happy that someone caught my dumb joke. 🙂
“A lot of people out there have completely valid reasons for not getting a COVID-19 vaccine yet,”Please define “a lot” because I think less than one percent of people over 12 years old (soon to be people over 5) does not constitute “a lot.” Don’t give people an out.
its an odd opener, but cancer patients and some people with immune disorders come to mind. its not a huge number, but “a lot” is a subjective number.
There is no reason that people with cancer or immune disorders can not get the vaccine. It is strongly recommended that these people get the vaccine and now the FDA has recommended three doses of the mRNA vaccines for them because they may not form as vigorous or lasting immunity. That is the opposite of not being able to receive it. There are numerous studies showing that people with cancer are not at increased risk of side effects. I get those in my daily ASCO emails.The only contraindications are history of severe allergic reaction to one of the vaccines components. Depending on how broadly you interpret that, it could mean anaphylaxis to polysorbate which is used as a preservative or any history of severe allergy. Physicians are cautious by nature as a group so many are interpreting it as the latter, but the former is probably more appropriate. Nobody withholds penicillin from somebody with a bee sting allergy.
I think it’s just meant to placate the morons. These people are pathetic little babies so you have to speak to them as such and not hurt their feelings.
You’re about the only credible source on the internet with a Dr. in the name… 🙂
If you won’t listen to doctors, but will listen to Family Guy when it comes to medical advice, maybe you’re better off just dying of Covid.
im waiting for the “cells at work”video. not to get the shot, i got that a long time ago, but i bet theirs would be cool.
(ok they did a manga for it, but i want anime!!)
That was pleasant.
Inarguably the best thing to come from Family Guy in years.
I’m actually surprised that the “he’ll protect himself and those he loves” argument contained silhouettes of the rest of the family and not, say, the Micronauts or something.
If Casper had got the vaccine he wouldn’t be a friendly ghost now!
A lot of people out there have completely valid reasons for not getting a COVID-19 vaccine yet
Less than half as many people watched Steve & Roger from American Dad’s vaccine PFA even though it was WAY more informative.