One Mormon's crusade against "Modern Family"

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One Mormon's crusade against "Modern Family"

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Looks like some Mormon is getting his garments in a wad again. Modern Family is taking a common real life occurrence, that many parents have had to deal with, and making it a plot point in their next episode. What parent hasn't had to deal with a toddler blurting out a cuss word? And why are Mormons watching a show that has a gay couple raising a little girl?


http://tv.yahoo.com/news/toddlers-cuss- ... 07751.html

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An anti-profanity crusader on Tuesday asked ABC to pull this week's "Modern Family" episode in which a toddler appears to use a bleeped curse word.

"Our main goal is to stop this from happening," said McKay Hatch, an 18-year-old college student who founded the No Cussing Club in 2007. "If we don't, at least ABC knows that people all over the world don't want to have a 2-year-old saying the 'F-bomb' on TV."

"We hope they know better," said Hatch. He's asking his club's members, whom he said number 35,000 in the United States and about three-dozen other countries, to complain to ABC.

ABC has yet to respond, he said Tuesday. The network had no comment, a spokeswoman said.

In the episode titled "Little Bo Bleep" airing 9 p.m. EST Wednesday, 2-year-old Lily shocks parents Mitchell and Cameron (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet) with her first expletive.

The dads, who are preparing Lily to serve as flower girl in a wedding, now have an added parenting challenge.

The tot is played by Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, who says the word "fudge" during taping. It will be bleeped on the air and her mouth will be obscured by pixilation, and viewers will get the impression that her character used the actual F-word.

Steven Levitan, creator and executive producer of the sitcom with Christopher Lloyd, told the Television Critics Association last week that he's "proud and excited" about the F-word plotline that ABC was persuaded to allow.

"We thought it was a very natural story since, as parents, we've all been through this," Levitan said to EW.com. "We are not a sexually charged show. It has a very warm tone so people accept it more. I'm sure we'll have some detractors."

The program, which won the Emmy Award for best comedy last fall, was named best musical or comedy series at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony.

Hatch, who is from South Pasadena and attends Brigham Young University in Rexburg, Idaho, said he began his anti-profanity club in 2007 when he noticed how rampant cursing was at his school and how it was linked to bullying.

"If kids are accountable for their choices, then adults should be as well," and that includes media, he said.

TV profanity was an issue before the Supreme Court last week, which heard arguments about whether regulating curse words and nudity on broadcast stations is sensible when cable and satellite services offer channels with few restrictions. A decision is expected by late June.
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What a tit this kid is. Almost all children say “F” at some point while learning.g to speak. Many times it happens in saying truck, other times it happened because they are repeating what is heard
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McKay Hatch? Most Mormon name ever.

So what does an anti-profanity club do when they aren't picking on TV shows? Do crossword puzzles with no profanity in them? I wonder if they have a chalkboard where they list all of the words they aren't supposed to say.

PS I love Modern Family
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I find it hard to take this seriously. The "No Cussing Club" (!!!) is protesting the television broadcast of "a 2-year-old saying the 'F-bomb'", when it's clear that THAT IS NOT SCHEDULED TO HAPPEN. In other words, they are protesting the suggestion of a two year old swearing: a bleeped out, pixilated, "fudge."
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Blixa wrote:I find it hard to take this seriously. The "No Cussing Club" (!!!) is protesting the television broadcast of "a 2-year-old saying the 'F-bomb'", when it's clear that THAT IS NOT SCHEDULED TO HAPPEN. In other words, they are protesting the suggestion of a two year old swearing: a bleeped out, pixilated, "fudge."


You reminded me of something that happened long ago. When my late brother was about 4 years old (I would have been about 9), we were sitting at the dinner table, and he said, "Mom, can you please pass the damned butter?" He had heard neighbor kids using the word and had no clue what it meant. So, the idea isn't so far-fetched.
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Runtu wrote:You reminded me of something that happened long ago. When my late brother was about 4 years old (I would have been about 9), we were sitting at the dinner table, and he said, "Mom, can you please pass the f*****g butter?" He had heard neighbor kids using the word and had no clue what it meant. So, the idea isn't so far-fetched.


My youngest brother, too. "There's a f*****g bug in my cereal!"
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It also reminds me of the Spongebob episode where Spongebob and Patrick learned new words by reading the graffiti out by the dumpsters. Great episode, but I'm sure the No Cussing Club disapproved of it.
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Runtu wrote:You reminded me of something that happened long ago. When my late brother was about 4 years old (I would have been about 9), we were sitting at the dinner table, and he said, "Mom, can you please pass the f*****g butter?" He had heard neighbor kids using the word and had no clue what it meant. So, the idea isn't so far-fetched.

Don't keep us in suspense. What happened next?
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Sethbag wrote:Don't keep us in suspense. What happened next?


Mom went pale, and then after a few seconds, everyone laughed. My brother couldn't figure out what was so funny. So, my father explained to him that we don't use words like that in our home, and that was that.
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Runtu wrote:
Sethbag wrote:Don't keep us in suspense. What happened next?


Mom went pale, and then after a few seconds, everyone laughed. My brother couldn't figure out what was so funny. So, my father explained to him that we don't use words like that in our home, and that was that.


So it provided a learning opportunity for your brother, and a lifelong family memory for the rest of you. But think of how much better your lives would be if your brother never heard that word. That time could have been better spent reading from the Book of Mormon.
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