OK, big cultural differences here.
Australia's internet is expensive. If you're on dial-up, your modem will be too slow to access anything complex like youtube, with anything approaching workable rates. And on Broadband, just about everybody is too expensive (in terms of us having a monthly limit which would prohibit regular downloads from youtube).
Especially in our family. So except for really big exceptions, the kids are not permitted to download youtube at home. This goes for everybody, regardless of age. ME and husband too. We also have Uncle installed to monitor downloads, hour by hour.
"Family Guy" - the kids love it. All mine are adults except for difficult child 3. He doesn't like to watch anything, but because he's wandered past a few times when the others were watching, he's now picked up on "Family Guy" a bit.
And we let him watch it - we would ban "South Park" because it's too socially unacceptable with the language and especially the verbal abuse apparently for its own sake.
With difficult child 3, we make sure we see it as well and we talk him through it if there's anything questionable in it. We explain stuff, anything we think is perhaps a bit too confronting he usually doesn't 'get' anyway. But it does allow us to explain satire, humour, appropriateness, various aspects of sex and sexuality (and again, appropriateness) and we sometimes even role-play what he SHOULD do in a situation the characters are in. difficult child 3 is highly moral, he can be very disapproving if he feels the characters are making bad decisions. But in this way we've been able to check his level of understanding as well as use the opportunity to keep him informed about things like homosexuality, surrealism, bullying (and further social implications) etc. It provides a discussion focus for us.
Our attitude is probably fairly typical of a lot of Aussie families. Aussie TV has different standards; a lot of our TV comedy is similar in degree.
An example from days gone by - remember "Solid Gold"? and "I Dream of Jeannie"? Back when it was screening first time round, we saw it in Australia too. We also had our own pop music TV shows, first "Bandstand" and then "Countdown". On both Bandstand and Countdown, we might see dancers wearing bikinis. Low cut, with plenty of skin showing. The bottom of the bikini were hipster pants which covered the buttocks but were way below the waist. I was a teenager then and my parents let me watch Countdown. They didn't like the music but were not offended by those bikinis.
Solid Gold was a different matter - my parents took one look at the Solid Gold Dancers, whose bikinis were waist-high pants but G-string at the back. And they turned off the TV saying, "That is disgusting!"
I Dream of Jeannie, at that time, had Jeannie in a waist-high costume that did not show her navel.
It just seemed weird to us, that navels were bad, and buttocks were OK (apparently, in the US) while for us, navels were perfectly OK but rear ends had to be completely covered.
We often see US celebrities totally taken aback by what is acceptable on broadcast TV. Often the US celeb keeps on talking "dirty", confident that OF COURSE none of this is going out to air, because it sure wouldn't in the US - to find that it IS, and we're loving it. British TV is very similar to ours - we've seen some wonderful stuff on Parkinson, for example, where the visiting US celeb says, after a British comedian guest has just said something outrageous, "Surely you can't say that on television, can you?"
Don't get me wrong, our censors are very much alive and kicking, it's just that the standards are so different. We can be very prudish about some things. Just not the same things, apparently.
That's why I try to be careful on this site. I'm getting better, I don't get it wrong as often these days.
Marg