Fox Pulls "Family Guy" From Website Because Of Graphic Boston Marathon Murder Scene: Show's Protagonist Wins Race By Killing Runners At Finish Line [VIDEO]
Fox has pulled the the "Family Guy" episode entitled "Turban Cowboy," that includes a violent sequence at the Boston Marrathon from its website, CNN reported Wednesday.
The "Family Guy" episode was pulled because of a scene where central character Peter Griffin kills a crowd of runners in his car near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
To add to Fox executives' problems, a doctored version of the "Family Guy" episode that shows central character Peter Griffin setting off bombs at the Boston Marathon with his cell phone has been circulating online in the wake of Monday's terrorist attack.
The Boston Marathon bombing left three people dead, including an 8-year-old boy and wounded 183 people at the marathon's finish line.
"Family Guy" creator Seth McFarlane took to Twitter on Tuesday to speak out about the phony clip, which spliced together footage of Griffin being interviewed by Bob Costas about winning the Boston Marathon by hitting the runners with his car and talking on the phone in a bar.
"The edited Family Guy clip currently circulating is abhorrent," McFarlane tweeted. "The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with the victims."
In addition to Fox, the website Hulu.com has removed the "Family Guy" episode "Turban Cowboy," which the Boston Marathon sequence used in the phony bombing sequence.
The episode originally aired on March 17, prompting a conspiracy theories to pop up online that the Boston bombing was depicted in the "Family Guy" episode and that somehow the show's writers knew it was going to happen.
"This clip was another hoax accomplished by digital manipulation," urban legend-debunking website Snopes wrote on Wednesday. "Aside from the confusion prompted in people unaware it was a hoax, it has drawn criticism from those involved with the show."
See the phony "Family Guy" clip depicting the Boston Marathon bombing HERE:
See the original "Family Guy" clip used in the hoax HERE from the controversial episode Fox now pulls: