What a load of crap. Carol Burnett should be happy that someone remembers her fondly enough to poke a little fun at her. That�s what Family Guy does; pokes fun at pop culture. It parodies things that either are popular, or were popular in the past. Which is pretty much the same fucking thing that used to happen on The Carol Burnett Show. So now she�s suing someone else for doing the same fucking thing she used to do. Y�know, back when she still had a career and people were talking about her.
That�s what this is really about; the fact that she�s pretty much a nobody now. She hasn�t actually done anything in years. Yeah, I know she�s an old crone now, but still, George Burns was doing things right up until he died. So was Bob Hope. A lot of people do, but Carol Burnett hasn�t done shit in years, or if she has, no one has heard about it � most likely because it wasn�t worth hearing about!
I get really tired of these show business idiots who think they are bigger or more important than they really are. Yes, you had a hit television show, and it was REALLY popular, but that was THIRTY FUCKING YEARS AGO! A HUGE percentage of Family Guy�s audience wasn�t even BORN when your show was on, so I�m willing to bet half of them didn�t even get the ear reference anyway. And I�m willing to bet Carol Burnett also knows that most of the viewers didn�t get it � and that�s what is REALLY bothering her. That�s what this lawsuit is REALLY about � getting her name in the headlines again. Well, that and the two million dollars, because if she isn�t doing anything anymore, she probably NEEDS the money. Thirty years is a long time to go without income, even if you did have a popular television show. Just ask the cast of Star Trek.
Happily, Fox is so far refusing to edit the episode, and kudos to them for that. Bowing down to these nimrods from the distant past is insane, and no one should do it. Parody is a perfectly legitimate form of comedy, which Carol Burnett should already know since that�s what made her in the first place.
Now all we can do is hope whatever excuse for a judge this ends up in front of realizes this as well, and the miserable cretin doesn�t cave like so many people seem to do these days. That�ll just open the floodgates for other �stars� like Carol Burnett to do even more of this shit. And that wouldn�t be funny at all.
Just like Carol Burnett after 1978.