Question: What kind of humor does Family Guy often use?
About the article "Family Guy", section "Humor".

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Freud made a key distinction between tendentious and non-tendentious humor.
Tendentious humor involves a “victim,” someone at whose expense we laugh.
Non-tendentious humor does not require a victim.
This innocuous humor typically depends on wordplay, and Freud believed it has only modest power to evoke amusement.
Tendentious humor, then, is the only kind that can evoke big laughs.
However, Freud believed a mixture of both tendentious and non-tendentious humor is required to keep the tendentious humor from becoming too offensive or demeaning to its victim.
The innocent jokework of the innocuous humor would mask the otherwise hostile joke and therefore “bribe” our senses, allowing us to laugh at what would otherwise be socially unacceptable.
Therefore, we often think we are laughing at innocuous jokes, but what really makes them funny is their socially unacceptable nature hidden below the surface. 
Humor in interpersonal relationships.
Humor in marriage.
In 2002, a study was conducted on the functions of humor in close relationships.
The study examined three types of humor:  positive humor, describing positive aspects of humor, such as humor appreciation, attractiveness, and closeness negative humor, describing humor used to express aggression, or humor used in a manipulative manner instrumental humor, measuring the extent to which the person uses humor to avoid tension or tries to smooth over negative feelings Positive humor is expected to be related to intimacy and marital satisfaction.
This relation was true for the wives, but not for the husbands.
This suggests that whether or not husbands use positive humor, it has nothing to do with how closely they feel to their partner or their marital satisfaction.
Research suggests that instrumental humor is negatively related to marital satisfaction and is an indicator of potential future marital deterioration.
Results showed that husbands acknowledged using instrumental humor in their relationship in relation to demand-withdrawal, in which the wife demands and the husband withdraws.
Wives, on the other hand, did not acknowledge the use of instrumental humor in this communication pattern.
This seems to indicate that men more often withdraw than women, in this case, with the use of humor.
Negative humor was not related to any of the other humor measure in the study.
This makes sense considering that put-downs or hurtful humor does not tend to lead to laughter or humor appreciation.
Negative humor items in the questionnaire given to the participants described expressing negative emotion.
Negative humor somewhat correlated with demand-withdrawal for husbands and wives.
This humor can be a form of passive aggressiveness where the one using the humor is not taking responsibility for the put-down or hurtful joke, and in doing so, avoiding, or withdrawing from, conflict. 
The Parents Television Council, a conservative non-profit watchdog group, has published critical views of "Family Guy".
In May 2000, in its weekly "E-Alert" email newsletter, the PTC launched a letter-writing campaign to the Fox network to persuade the network to cancel "Family Guy" following a return from a long hiatus in the , due to what the PTC claimed were "strong advertiser resistance and low ratings".
"Family Guy" made the PTC's 2000, 2005, and 2006 lists of "worst prime-time shows for family viewing", with over thirty "Family Guy" episodes having been chosen as "Worst TV Showof the Week" for reasons of profanity, animated nudity and violence.
The Council has cautioned parents that children will be attracted by the show because of its animated format while asserting that the series is suitable only for adults.
"Family Guy" was also named the worst show of the 2006–2007 season by the PTC.
The PTC has also objected to Fox scheduling "Family Guy" during early primetime hours due to their concerns of children being likely to watch the series.
Additionally, the PTC, which has generated most of the indecency complaints received by the United States Federal Communications Commission, has twice filed formal FCC complaints about "Family Guy".
The first indecency complaint, following the January 2005 rebroadcast of "And the Wiener Is...", was denied by the FCC on the grounds "that because of the absence of explicit or graphic descriptions or depictions of any sexual organ, along with the absence of shocking, pandering, and/or titillating effect, the episode ... is not patently offensive."
In November 2005, during "sweeps" period for the 2005–2006 television season, the Parents Television Council launched a campaign for its members to file indecency complaints to the FCC for "PTV", the "Family Guy" episode that satirized the FCC, for its sexually explicit humor.
However, the PTC had expressed doubt over whether they would formally complain to the FCC over that episode; the PTC has not logged any complaints filed through their website.
In fact, that episode was highlighted in the Fox special "TV's Funniest Moments" that was broadcast on June 1, 2007; a rerun of the program on August 20 that year was named "Worst of the Week" by the PTC, noting that "PTV" was among the highlights in the special.
On March 11, 2009, PTC filed complaints about the episode "Family Gay" over claims that the episode contained sexual content in violation of indecency law.
Then on December 15, 2009, PTC filed an indecency complaint about the episode "Business Guy" two days after its airdate, citing a scene including a lap dance as a possible violation of federal law regarding broadcast decency.
In 2010, PTC filed a complaint against the 150th episode of "Family Guy", "Brian & Stewie", taking offense at excretory references.
PTC president Tim Winter said: "It seems as though "Family Guy" creator, Seth MacFarlane, carefully reviewed the legal definition of broadcast indecency and set out to violate it as literally as he could."
On November 15, 2013, PTC filed an indecency enforcement over the episode "A Fistful of Meg" five days after its airdate, citing lewd sexual content and what it considered profane jokes on subjects such as child molestation, exploitation, rape, sexualized use of food; and the main plot of a boy bullying and physically attacking a female classmate.
The PTC has also accused Fox of failing to include "S" (sexual content) and "V" (violence) descriptors in content ratings for some "Family Guy" episodes.
Additionally, the Council has asked "Family Guy" sponsors such as Wrigley Company and Burger King, among others to stop advertising for the show and has frequently accused the Fox network of marketing the show to children.
"Family Guy" executive producer David Goodman responded to the PTC's criticisms by claiming that "Family Guy" is "absolutely for teenagers and adults" and he does not allow his two children to watch the show. 
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Although the series uses a wide range of styles of humor, including self-deprecation, black comedy, off-color humor, slapstick, and surreal humor, its primary source of comedy is its satirical depiction of everyday life in the future and its parodical comparisons to the present.
Groening notes that, from the show's conception, his goal was to make what was, on the surface, a goofy comedy that would have underlying "legitimate literary science fiction concepts."
The series contrasted "low culture" and "high culture" comedy; for example, Bender's catchphrase is the insult "Bite my shiny metal ass" while his most terrifying nightmare is a vision of the number "2", a joke referring to the binary numeral system (Fry assures him, "there's no such thing as two.
The series developed a cult following partially due to the large number of in-jokes it contains, most of which are aimed at "nerds."
In commentary on the DVD releases, David X. Cohen points out and sometimes explains his "nerdiest joke."
These included mathematical jokes — such as "Loew's formula_1-plex" (aleph-null-plex) movie theater, — as well as various forms of science humor — for example, Professor Farnsworth, at a racetrack, complains about the use of a quantum finish to decide the winner "No fair!
You changed the outcome by measuring it," a reference to the observer effect in quantum mechanics.
In the season six episode "Law and Oracle", Fry and the robot peace officer URL track down a traffic violator who turns out to be Erwin Schrödinger, the 20th century quantum physicist.
On the front seat of the car is a box, and when questioned about the contents, Schrödinger replies "A cat, some poison, and a cesium atom."
Fry asks if the cat is alive or dead, and Schrodinger answers "It's a superposition of both states until you open the box and collapse the wave function."
The run is a reference to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment of quantum mechanics.
The series makes passing references to quantum chromodynamics (the appearance of Strong Force-brand glue), computer science (two separate books in a closet labeled "P" and "NP" respectively, referring to the possibility that P and NP-complete problem classes are distinct), electronics (an X-ray — or more accurately, an "F-ray" — of Bender's head reveals a 6502 microprocessor), and genetics (a mention of Bender's "robo- or R-NA").
The show often features subtle references to classic science fiction.
These are most often to "Star Trek" — many soundbites are used in homage — but also include the reference to the origin of the word "robot" made in the name of the robot-dominated planet Chapek 9, and the black rectangular monolith labeled "Out of Order" in orbit around Jupiter (a reference to Arthur C. Clarke's "Space Odyssey" series).
Bender and Fry sometimes watch a television show called "The Scary Door", a humorous parody of "The Twilight Zone".
Journalist/critic Frank Lovece in "Newsday" contrasted the humor tradition of Groening's two series, finding that, ""The Simpsons" echoes the strains of American-Irish vaudeville humor — the beer-soaked, sneaking-in-late-while-the-wife's-asleep comedy of Harrigan and Hart, McNulty and Murray, the Four Cohans (which, yes, included George M.) and countless others: knockabout yet sentimental, and ultimately about the bonds of blood family.
"Futurama", conversely, stems from Jewish-American humor, and not just in the obvious archetype of Dr. Zoidberg.
From vaudeville to the Catskills to Woody Allen, it's that distinctly rueful humor built to ward away everything from despair to petty annoyance — the 'You gotta do what you gotta do' philosophy that helps the 'Futurama' characters cope in a mega-corporate world where the little guy is essentially powerless".
Animation maven Jerry Beck concurred: "I'm Jewish, and I know what you're saying.
Fry has that of humor, Dr. Zoidberg, all the artist Billy West characters.
I see it.
The bottom line is, the producers are trying to make sure the shows are completely different entities".