Family Guy

One major plot sees Brian ejected from the family after he is 'canceled' for a racially insensitive tweet, leading to the entire Griffin family being ostracized by the community. This narrative highlights and satirizes the destructive power of social media mobs and 'sensitivity brigades,' but the plot exists to engage directly with the vocabulary and mechanics of identity politics. Peter’s storyline involving adopting the 'millennial lifestyle' to be cool also serves to lampoon contemporary progressive culture, yet the focus on identity-based social dynamics is central to the season.

The 'Family Guy Through the Years' episode critically re-examines 20th-century American life (the 1950s, '60s, and '70s). The show frames the 1950s as a time of pervasive sexism, with women portrayed as 'brainwashed' to solely please their husbands, and the culture at large depicted as generally foolish and fear-driven. This approach deconstructs past generations of Western civilization by emphasizing the negative and framing historical norms as fundamentally corrupt. An episode where Peter and the guys are punished for faking military service critiques respect for institutions but in a way that ultimately reinforces civic responsibility.

Lois is consistently portrayed as the intelligent, competent figure who holds the family together, a common trope that diminishes the male figure. Peter remains the bumbling, foolish patriarch, an emasculating depiction of masculinity. The retrospective episode's critique of the 1950s focuses heavily on gender disparity, highlighting the historical oppression of women and depicting 1950s femininity as a 'prison.'

The season features episodes where alternative sexualities are explicitly addressed. The mention of '101 Asexual Uses for a Condom' in an episode list directly references a non-traditional sexual identity. The show's ongoing narrative includes the character Ida (Quagmire’s transgender father), and commentary from the time suggests the writers are actively trying to portray trans characters in a more accepting light to 'make up for' past jokes, centering sexual identity as a subject for ideological correction.

The episode 'Are You There God? It's Me, Peter' features Peter meeting God after a coma. The show's long-standing depiction of God is irreverent and often suggests He is incompetent or neglectful, viewing faith as a source of arbitrary chaos rather than transcendent morality. Another episode is a parody of the religiously significant story 'A Christmas Carol,' continuing the show's tradition of deconstructing Christian holiday traditions through satire.