We’re running out of time for year-end lists! That means it’s time for one more entry from Josh Kurp, Warming Glow’s Listmaker-in-Chief, about the absolute worst TV episodes to air this year.

In order to keep every entry from being an E! or TLC reality show, Josh limited the selections to scripted TV.  There are some ballsy selections here that I don’t necessarily agree with, so be sure to direct your outrage at him. We welcome your selections in the comments.

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This is the trailer for “It’s a Trap!,” the “Family Guy” parody of Return of the Jedi that will complete Seth MacFarlane’s trilogy. As with ”Something, Something, Something, Dark Side” (the parody of The Empire Strikes Back), this will be released on DVD before it airs on Fox.

This series has never really done it for me — nothing in the video so much as made me smile — but it’s not like I can fault MacFarlane for making these. This last spoof is gonna make him a boatload of cash, which he can leave at the dock with his yacht of cash and barge of cash. I’m not sure why he keeps all of his cash on seafaring vessels. Hollywood people tend to be eccentric.

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Below is a video of a bulldog watching “Family Guy.” Nothing really happens, it’s just a minute of sheer anthropomorphic delight. Sorry girl, Brian only dates humans.

And yes, I realize that the masculine headline doesn’t match the bitch in the video. That’s the quote, okay? Just roll with it and enjoy the magic.

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I don’t really enjoy Family Guy like I did when I was 17, but Sunday’s episode — the first one I’ve seen in years — was outstanding, mostly because it was 30 minutes of Brian and Stewie trapped in a bank vault. There were no musical selections or cut-away gags. The show held a clinic demonstrating what can be done solely with two well-developed characters. (If you’re interested in watching, I’ve embedded the whole episode after the jump).

The least interesting part of the episode involves Brian, through a sequence of logic, eating Stewie’s poop. Naturally, the Parents Television Council isn’t happy. The PTC points out that, yes, this violated FCC standards prohibiting “excretory organs or activities in terms patently offensive.” But it’s funny to see the PTC get all shook about it. Y’all are looking out for the children, correct? Your aim is to make sure that television doesn’t enforce negative behavior, right? So are you afraid that kids will watch this and want to eat poop? If that’s the case, you are working on behalf of a nation of children who will eat s*** if they see it done on television. You are lobbying on behalf of a constituency that clearly doesn’t deserve it. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, so there’s been this big thing about “Family Guy” versus Sarah Palin over the last couple days, and I’ve tried to avoid it because nothing sucks the funny out of TV news quite like politics. But, if you’ve missed it, here’s the rundown: Sunday’s “Family Guy” featured a character with Down syndrome who said, “My dad’s an accountant, and my mom’s the former governor of Alaska.” (Watch the scene here.) Naturally, Palin got all pissy about someone talking about her retard baby Trig, because being sensitive about Down syndrome is the hot-button issue here in the year 1989.

The story finally stopped being boring when Andrea Fay Friedman, the actress with Down syndrome who delivered the line in question, wrote an email to several different news outlets addressing the controversy:

I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm.”

In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes. [via Gawker]

Oh, SNAP. Someone get to Western Union and send Sarah Palin a burn notice, because that retarded girl just OWNED Palin and her mongoloid loaf of bread.