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BY AMY WILLMOTT

ANCHOR ANA COMPAIN-ROMERO

Family Guy might have taken a dark turn this Halloween. After an episode that features domestic abuse, many viewers are saying the show crossed the line.

CNN’s Showbiz Tonight’s asked Doctor of Psychology, Wendy Walsh, who says the writers, who are normally some of the best satirists out there, didn’t follow the rules of good comedy.

“They made fun of the victim more than they made fun of the assailant. Yes, they did allude that he was uneducated and without a job, and in the end, they killed him. But the main theme of the show was about this poor stupid woman who was too dumb to leave her relationship, her abusive relationship. And domestic violence is far more complicated than that.”

In a review of the episode, a writer for AOL said - subject matter or no - the episode achieved something.

“So while it may not have had nearly the extent of laughs we're used to, the episode still managed to leave us satisfied ... if a little uncomfortable at the same time. Plus, it left us thinking. And that's saying something.”

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“There are times to push the envelope creatively … But centering an episode around how hilarious it is that Quagmire's sister is being abused is not the right way to get us to say ‘Wow, they went there.’”

Although Family Guy didn’t quite follow the ‘Halloween Special’ trend this October, their dark episode on domestic violence scared some viewers, including one writer from Jezebel.

“Personally, I'm way beyond being offended by the show — I've long been numbed to shock-value offensiveness — and had stopped watching years ago anyhow. But being a sucker for a Halloween-themed episodes, I tuned in to Fox's ‘animation domination’ comedy block last night. What I saw was seriously awful.”

Meanwhile, in one review of the episode, a writer from tvfanatic think that the show’s portrayal of domestic abuse showed a new side to the sitcom..

“I was afraid that Family Guy would go too far with its jokes. Fortunately, it didn’t. At least not to me. But it did take the alternate route of simply not being very funny.”

Mediaite reports FOX has refused to air only two episodes of Family Guy in the past, because of the content; an episode about abortion and another that relied to heavily on Jewish themes for jokes.