Family Guy - Postmodern Text

I think Family Guy is postmodern when it comes to irony and parody. Today we see a lot of postmodernism on today's television, especially in the comedy genre. Postmodernism is characterized by ideologies and and theories. Since postmodernism is mostly common in the genre of comedy, Family Guy is a perfect example of postmodernism.

All of Family Guy's episodes are about making fun of another show or person. The only difference about making fun of other shows is that they put their own twists to it. That shows the parody of the show. For instance, when Peter and his son went to the Jewish people because Peter needed financial help and in a stereotypical sense, Jewish people are good with money. Postmodernism always concerns itself with undoing gran narratives. In this case, America always stereotypes Jewish people with being financially stable. .Moreover, in Family Guy, the scenes go from one to another. For instance, when Megan needed glasses and started explaining to her mother that she doesn't want to get laser surgery for her eyes; the scene then changed to Star Wars and the laser stick the characters use to fight. The point of that scene was to shows that the laser stick was being inserted into someone's eye as if giving them laser eye surgery. That shows parody as well.