Okay, so Seth MacFarlane, not having made enough millions off of Family Guy and American Dad, signed a multi-million dollar deal to create cartoon webisodes for the interwebs called Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy (TM!!!!!). What are they like? Think of something random made for Family Guy, but not funny enough to make it onto Family Guy. That's what it's like. In fact, I think Seth literally scooped up whatever was on the cutting-room floor and taped it together for his Burger King (TM!!!!!!) sponsored nonsense. As an incentive to watch his crap and eat crap at BK, there's a "Buy Seth Dinner" (TM!!!!!!) sweepstakes where you can buy Seth dinner at BK. This involved taking one of his Cavalcade cartoons and dubbing over it on youtube.com (TM!!!!!) with your own audio. I tried it out, but I had problems with my mic, so there was no audio. It wouldn't let me delete it either, so I received this message:
"Sorry, but your Cavalcade dub has been pulled from the BURGER KING® YouTube channel. Looks like our moderators felt there was a problem. Be sure to avoid celebrity references, profanity, or any other questionable content. Take another look, get it to a PG rating, and try again.
The World is waiting, get your dub out there.
You are receiving this email because you created a dub video on www.youtube.com/bk. For information about the BURGER KING® Corporation Privacy Policy, please click here."
There are two things wrong with this. Can you spot what they are?
That's right: No celebrity references. No profanity.
Seth MacFarlane has made his CAREER out of celebrity references and profanity. That's all Family Guy is. That's all the Cavalcade is. It's a bunch of jokes about random celebrities and pop-culture references peppered with profanity. Now he's got the corporate-sponsored audacity to turn around and tell you you can't do the same to the tune of $100,000.000 BK/Google/youtube.com dollars (which sounds about right). He's called dibs. You can't copy him, or his style, even though he's copying about a thousand other people. BK paid good money for one of the edgiest cartoonists (by network TV standards), so how dare you try to push the envelope doing the exact same thing he's done. The Burger King will come down on you like the wrath of God.
I exaggerate, of course, but not really.
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
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