SFist loves (loves!) the cartoon Family Guy and is ecstatic that Fox has brought it back for the umpteenth time. While watching last week's rerun, we got a chuckle out of the fact that Stewie’s (the diabolically scheming baby) bare behind was shown with a bit of a blur. Oh, that whacky Seth MacFarlane, tweaking the FCC like that. Funny little thing about the blurred bottom, though- it wasn’t meant to be a joke. Instead, a gun-shy Fox decided to blur the baby’s bum so as to avoid any possible post-Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” FCC fine.

Where do we even begin with this one? Like how when the episode aired years ago, it aired with an unblurry bottom. Or that the plot of one of the episodes that aired last week concerned Peter (the father) envying the size of his sons’ penis and yet it was the baby’s butt that raised alarms (which reminds us of the fact that the new Daily Show book, America: The Book got banned by Wal-Mart for it’s pictures depicting members of the Supreme Court naked but not for all the “tasteless” comments about political leaders, ethnic groups, historical figures, entire countires, and religious icons). Or that one of the episodes also showed Peter’s unblurred butt (does that mean that it’s okay to show adult butts, but not okay baby butts? And if so, huh?) And finally, we should also note that the ass we’re talking about is, umm, how shall we put this, animated ass. In other words, Stewie is a CARTOON CHARACTER.

Several months ago, Chronicle TV columnist Tim Goodman got a campaign started against the FCC. According to Media Week, it turned out that most (like 99.8%) of the supposed complaints made to the FCC concerning “indecent” broadcasting came from one group, the Parents TV Council. Somehow, we envision a bunch of old ladies basically sitting around in some room full of TV screens doing nothing but watching TV and the moment Dennis Franz’s butt appeared on the screen, to the FCC Phone! Goodman’s thought was that if a small group of people could change what we watch by doggedly bugging the FCC, a small group of people could fight back by complaining to the FCC about the complaining to the FCC. Or complain about things like the sheer suckitude of 7th Heaven or According to Jim. Just think of the possibilities.

To get a list of places to contact, go to Tim’s column here. Comments to the FCC can be made here.