Family Guy is "an American animated television series about a dysfunctional family that lives in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island." In a 2001 episode titled
"Ready, Willing, and Disabled," Peter participates in a groundbreaking ceremony. He unearths a skeleton wearing a full-length chief's bonnet. The skeleton comes to life and begins chasing everyone.
A Plains Indian-style
chief in Rhode Island. Who looks and acts evil because, well, all Indian
burial grounds are cursed. Ri-i-ght.
Indians apparently have a stench of malevolent mysticism about them that lasts forever. They're born dark, mysterious, and scary and they continue that way after death.
2 comments:
DMarks wrote:
There is another episode in which Peter and Lois sing folk songs. One is about the peaceful way the Indians vanished.
To which I responded:
Well, Indians didn't vanish and they didn't decline in number peacefully. Sounds like more stereotyping to me.
Here's a posting on the aforementioned episode:
Indian folk song in Family Guy
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