Speaking at this year's summer TCA press tour Seth MacFarlane has said that he expects one of the upcoming American Dad episodes to get banned by Fox.
The Dad team have just completed about a year-and-a-half's worth of new episodes for the series and Seth expects at least one of these to get banned. He doesn't know which one, but knows that there are several controversial jokes lined-up. For example a preview of Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls (the upcoming Christmas special) was shown which ends with a young boy mowing down Santa's elves with a machine gun.
Several episodes of Family Guy have already been banned in the past, and then successfully released on DVD. It's good for publicity, "it's a structure that's been good for Family Guy," Seth said. "It looks like a sales ploy, but it isn't ... that episode [Partial Terms of Endearment] really was unacceptable to the network."
The sixth season of American Dad starts on Fox October 3rd with it's 100th episode! The banned abortion episode of Family Guy, Partial Terms of Endearment is out on DVD and Blu-ray from September 28th.
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