‘Family Guy’ COVID-19 Video Explains Vaccines In A Way We Can All Understand

“Household Man” is taking a shot at convincing COVID-19 vaccine skeptics they don’t have anything to worry.

The long-running Fox animated sitcom launched a brief movie Tuesday that’s meant to “educate, entertain and encourage the hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated residents across the globe to really feel assured getting vaccinated towards COVID-19,” in keeping with a community press launch.

Within the video, Peter Griffin (voiced by collection creator Seth MacFarlane) will get some unhelpful “recommendation” concerning the vaccine from his doctor, Dr. Hartman (MacFarlane once more).

“Consider the vaccine as a big ethnic bouncer,” the physician suggests, “and COVID because the drunk, entitled white child yelling ‘Have you learnt who my father is?’”

Erudite, often homicidal child Stewie Griffin (additionally MacFarlane) rolls his eyes and takes his canine companion, Brian Griffin (three guesses), into Peter’s physique ― on form of a voyage, perhaps even a implausible one, you may say ― for a visible demonstration of how vaccines enhance the physique’s immune system to struggle the coronavirus.

The video ends with Stewie explaining that if folks don’t get vaccinated, it would permit even worse virus variants to unfold, till we find yourself again the place we began, with Gal Gadot singing “Think about.” “We can’t let that occur!” Stewie exclaims.

The cartoon, which lasts about three and a half minutes, was penned by the “Household Man” writers in collaboration with MacFarlane and a group of scientific consultants and epidemiologists.

MacFarlane appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” Monday night time to debate the video. He stated the choice to make the PSA was straight influenced by Tucker Carlson, who has unfold misinformation concerning the virus on the Fox Information Channel.

“I seemed round and I noticed everybody else at Fox Corp. doing their half to get good science on the market and be accountable with their platforms,” MacFarlane stated sarcastically. “And looking out down the barrel of that type of peer strain, I stated, ‘Properly gosh, we’ve bought to do one thing too.’”

You’ll be able to watch the video under.