‘Family Guy’ COVID-19 Video Explains Vaccines in a Way We Can All Understand

“Family Guy” tries to convince COVID-19 vaccine skeptics that they have nothing to fear.

Longtime animated sitcom Fox released a short film on Tuesday intended to “to educate, entertain and encourage the millions of unvaccinated citizens around the world to feel confident in being vaccinated against COVID-19, ”according to a press release from the network.

In the video, Peter Griffin (voiced by series creator Seth MacFarlane) receives unnecessary “advice” about the vaccine from his doctor, Dr. Hartman (MacFarlane again).

“Think of the vaccine as a big ethnic bouncer,” the doctor suggests, “and COVID as the drunk white kid and titled shouting ‘Do you know who my dad is? “”

The scholar, sometimes murderous baby Stewie Griffin (also MacFarlane) rolls his eyes and takes his canine companion, Brian Griffin (three guesses), into Peter’s body – on a sort of journey, perhaps even fantastic. , you might say – for a visual demonstration of how vaccines boost the body’s immune system to fight the coronavirus.

The video ends with Stewie explaining that if people don’t get vaccinated, it will allow even worse viral variants to spread, until we get back to where we started, with Gal Gadot chanting “Imagine”. “We can’t let this happen! Exclaims Stewie.

The cartoon, which lasts about three and a half minutes, was written by the authors of “Family Guy” in collaboration with MacFarlane and a team of scientific experts and epidemiologists.

MacFarlane appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday evening to discuss the video. He said the decision to make the PSA was directly influenced by Tucker Carlson, who aired disinformation about the virus on Fox News Channel.

“I looked around and saw everyone at Fox Corp. doing their part to spread the word about good science and be responsible for their platforms,” MacFarlane said sarcastically. “And looking through the barrel of that kind of peer pressure, I said, ‘Damn, we’ve got to do something too. “”

You can watch the video below.