Does Watching TV Make You Smarter? TV shows are recurring television programs in the form of episodes and series. My point of view is that the television show watched is chosen by the viewer. Different people watch TV shows from different angles. It is their ability to decode the information transmitted by the program and understand it that determines the type of television program they will like to watch. TV shows have a continuing effect on teenagers, but the positive outweighs the negative. Family Guy, an ongoing show, which has won three primetime Emmys (IMDB), has struggled leading to the show's cancellation twice, due to its "gags per minute about race , sex, incest, bestiality, etc. (Peacocke 300), Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, described Family Guy. This show “deliberately offends just about every group of people you could name” (Peacocke 300), claimed New York Times reporter Stuart Elliot. However, this satirical show is even for ages 14 and up, although it falls into an adult animation category. Family Guy produces a comedy based on the faults and imperfections of American society in a derisory and sometimes sectarian manner. But some jokes, according to Harvard University student Antonia Peacocke, are "tamer and more insightful, the kind one would expect from the New Yorker" (306). In other words, Peacocke believes that Family Guy demonstrates an accurate and deep understanding of American society, in the form of jokes. It's a series that might lead people to "easily think that the cartoon revels in controversial humor just for its own sake." But those who pay more attention and think about the creators' intentions can see that Family Guy understands...... middle of paper ...... what matters in academic writing. 2nd ed. 303. Print. March 11, 2014.—-. “Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious.” Is pop culture really good for you? Russell Durst, ed. New York: WW Norton & Co., 2010. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2nd ed. 306. Print. March 11, 2014.—-. “Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious.” Is pop culture really good for you? Russell Durst, ed. New York: WW Norton & Co., 2010. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2nd ed. 300. Print. March 11, 2014.—-. “Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious.” Is pop culture really good for you? Russell Durst, ed. New York: WW Norton & Co., 2010. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2nd ed. 300. Print. March 11 2014.