Family Guy among 5 TV shows pulling episodes after US plane crashes

Cartoon Network has reportedly changed its docket aft 2 fatal level crashes successful the US.

The channel’s big part – Adult Swim – has pulled six episodes crossed 5 TV shows successful airy of caller aviation tragedies successful Washington D.C. and Philadelphia apt owed to the perchance insensitive quality of the content.

Earlier this month, a commercialized American Airlines pitchy was progressive successful a mid-air collision with a subject chopper portion landing astatine Ronald Reagan National Airport, sidesplitting 67 people.

Just days later, a aesculapian level went down successful Philadelphia, with six radical connected committee and 1 idiosyncratic connected the crushed dying.

In airy of the tragic events, it appears Cartoon Network has removed assorted episodes from its accustomed schedule, per X relationship CNschedules.

Which Family Guy episodes are being pulled?

The 2 Family Guy episodes are Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Dog) and Yug Ylimaf.

As good arsenic The Amazing World of Gumball occurrence The Saint; Courage the Cowardly Dog occurrence Scuba-Scuba Doo; Robot Chicken occurrence Happy Russian Deathdog Dolloween 2 U; and Eric Andre Show occurrence Hannibal Quits.

Each occurrence has a notation to a level disaster. In The Saint, Gumball and Darwin leap retired of a level during a foundation lawsuit with the level crashing into a gathering soon after.

In Scuba-Scuba Doo determination is an enactment series involving an aged warplane which blown up by a torpedo earlier being utilized arsenic a submarine-style weapon.

Family Guy’s play 16 occurrence Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Dog) includes a 9/11 gag portion play 11’s Yug Ylimaf features a level crash.

The Robot Chicken occurrence features a country wherever level parts travel crashing done a ceiling during a Halloween party. And finally, Hannibal Quits shows a country wherever Eric falls retired of a plane.

As pointed out, Cartoon Network has had to apologise for airing insensitively timed episodes earlier specified arsenic successful 2013 when they apologised to radical successful Oklahoma, precocious impacted by a tornado, for airing a Family Guy occurrence involving a tornado reference.

It is commonplace for TV networks to set schedules astir real-world events.

In 2013, an occurrence of ABC’s Castle which included an accidentally triggered weaponry was delayed by a week pursuing the Boston Marathon bombing.

In 2020, Spongebob Squarepants occurrence Kwarantined Krab successful which determination is an outbreak of ‘clam flu’ astatine the Krusty Krab, was removed from streaming for 2 years aft coinciding with the commencement of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic.

And aft September 1, 2001, respective episodes of TV were either pulled oregon edited including shows similar Friends and The Simpsons.

There is nary denotation erstwhile the existent Cartoon Network episodes which person been removed volition beryllium backmost successful rotation.

Metro has reached retired to Warner Bros for comment.

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