New low: FOX uses kids to promote Planned Parenthood, homosexuality, transgenderism in obscene comedy
A new FOX comedy, The Mick,
takes edgy, crude and inappropriate to a whole new low by including young
children in heavily sexualized plot lines, crude sexual humor, all-around
rotten morals, and a gratuitous plug for Planned Parenthood.
The Mick is
about an irresponsible, poor, crass sister (Kaitlin Olson as Aunt Mickey)
forced by circumstances to babysit the three children of her rich sister (the
parents are dragged off in an FBI raid). Based on several Fox promotional
YouTube snippets, the show is a smorgasbord of the crude one-liners, immature
sexual humor, vulgarity, promiscuity, binge drinking, perversion, and left-wing
social activism — much of it involving children.
That includes an awkward, free commercial
for Planned Parenthood, the world’s largest abortion
provider, uttered in one scene by the The
Mick’s snotty
teenager, Sabrina (Sofia Black-D’Elia).
Writes Lindsay Kornick with the Media Research
Center’s NewsBusters: “There is nothing decent about The Mick.
Not the topic, not the characters, and most definitely not the humor.”
A small sample of videos for The Mick contains
an incredible array of inappropriate sexual banter, nastiness, deceit,
over-the-top snark, and smut, including:
·
A
YouTube spoof for the show has Olson pitching the hashtag “#KidsAreDicks” to promote the show on Twitter. Her teenage niece,
sitting next to her, agrees that it’s a great idea. A faux marketing guy in the
video responds, “Calling kids ‘dicks’ — that’s not very appropriate!” (Get it?
The entire show is “inappropriate.”) A subsequent #KidsAreDicks “Snapchat promotion” appeared on the Fox website. Snapchat is a video and
photo-story app used widely by children.
·
Apparently,
the youngest child, Ben (Jack Stanton), has severe gender confusion issues,
which of course are more fodder for shock-humor on the show. See the 1:50 mark
in this “Teaser
Trailer #4”
video where Aunt Mickey tells Ben (wearing a dress and apparently on their way
to school), “You look really good in that dress, by the way.” He responds,
“Thanks. It kind of breezes on my vagina.” Then Aunt Mickey responds, “Yeah,
maybe don’t mention that, though.”
·
The
teenage daughter and disrespectful, spoiled brat Sabrina tells Aunt Mickey that
she is busy and can’t stay home as requested, saying, “I’m going to go to a
fundraiser for Planned Parenthood.” Then this twisted dialogue ensues:
Sabrina: Maybe you don't know this, but Planned Parenthood
provides healthcare to over three million women in this country.
Mick: Oh, sweetie, I know all about Planned Parenthood. I
should have one of those punch cards that gets you a free sub every 10 visits.
Sabrina: Gross.
Mick: No, I just meant ... I-I never got, like ... Uh ... I
just had a bunch of bacterial infect — you know what?
Sabrina: Ew.
·
Aunt
Mickey is walking with Ben on a trail near an ice cream stand. She asks the boy
if he is hungry, then is shown starting
a fire in
a nearby garbage can as a diversion so she can steal two ice creams. When the
boy asks, “Why didn’t we pay for it?” she answers: “I didn’t have any money.”
·
Young
Ben, hearing lots of noise upstairs: "What the heck is going on up
there?" Aunt Mickey: "Your sister's getting f-u-u-u-r-urniture
delivered."
·
Sitting
at a Japanese restaurant, older nephew Chip (Thomas Barbusca) tells brother Ben
that he’ll pay him $1,000 to lick the grill at the table. (They’re rich, so
Chip has the money on him.) Ben accepts and burns his tongue badly. The next
scene shows Ben with what is ostensibly a protective mouth harness--but critics
of The Mick say it is a “kinky” sexual joke as it resembles a mouth gag used in
sadomasochistic perversion.
·
When
Aunt Mickey is dropping off Chip at school and sees a bigger classmate bully
him by swatting
him on the head, she
tells Chad, “Next time he gives you crap, yank his pants down and point at his
tiny pecker.” Later the boy apparently takes her advice and gets beaten up,
with his face badly bloodied. (There is a lot of violence and blood spilled in
The Mick.)
·
Aunt
Mickey secretly puts drugs in the beer of the family maid to get her to go
partying with her. It works, and in 10 minutes the maid is wildly intoxicated.
Aunt Mickey apparently also slips sleeping
pills into her niece’s drink to put her to sleep in another scene.
Liberal critics are heaping praise upon The Mick and
comparing it with the similarly edgy It’s
Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which also stars Olson.
