Conservatives hit 'Modern Family' for toddler’s cuss word
MANILA, Philippines — Creators of TV’s most acclaimed comedy “Modern Family” stood by its controversial episode “Little Bo Bleep” aired Tuesday (Jan. 24) locally even after a group called No Cussing Club criticized the show for a plot line grounded on a toddler’s first “effing” trouble.
The anti-profanity organization has requested on Jan. 18 for ABC to pull out the entire “Modern Family” episode where the show’s youngest cast member appeared to have dropped the F-bomb, wire reports said.
The scene involved parents Mitchell and Cameron (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet) shocked to hear their two-year-old daughter Lily utter her fist cuss word while prepping her for flower girl duties.
Of course, the show’s creators did not have toddler, played by Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, say the F-word during taping. She was made to say “fudge” repeatedly bleeped and pixelized to make it seem like she just used her first expletive.
“Our main goal is to stop this from happening. 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,” protested college student and club founder McKay Hatch.
“We hope they know better,” Hatch added.
Creators of the show previously told EW.com that the plot mirrors reality. Series co-creator Steve Levitan defended the episode, “We thought it was a very natural story since, as parents, we’ve all been through this.”
“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,” Levitan added
The Emmy-sweeping show which was recently named Best Musical or Comedy Series last Monday at the Golden Globes constantly thrived on nearly three seasons of effectively written material. This is one of the rare times the show came under fire from conservatives as “Modern Family” hardly resorts to controversial, let alone offensive humor.
While other shows struggled to justify same sex partnership plots, “Modern Family” handles gay couple Mitchell and Cameron’s hits-and-misses all too seamlessly hilarious through effective characterization and writing.
In the Philippines, the show is aired via US “match-airing” over 2nd Avenue. Recently, 2nd Avenue’s sister channel ETC rolled out the new seasons of American TV series lined up this 2012. Apart from “Modern Family,” the Solar-backed channel will also air “America’s Next Top Model Cycle 18,” “Project Runway Season 4,” “The Rachel Zoe Project Season 4,” “The Millionaire Matchmaker,” and “The Bachelorette Party Las Vegas.”
In an event last Jan. 19 hosted by the group of channels (ETC, 2nd Avenue, Jack TV) and mother company (Solar Entertainment Corporation), new seasons of “American Idol 11,” “Project Runway Philippines” and hip guide “Etcetera” were also launched.




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