J. Jeremy Wisnewski is Assistant Professor at Hartwick College. He is the author of Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry: A Defense of Ethics as Clarification (2007) and The Politics of Agency: Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology (2008). He is also the editor of The Office and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2008).

Acknowledgments: These People Are Freakin' Sweet viii You Better Not Read This, Pal: An Introduction to Family Guy and Philosophy 1
J. Jeremy Wisnewski Part I Those Good Ole' Fashion Values on Which We Used to Rely 3 1 Killing the Griffins: A Murderous Exposition of Postmodernism 5
J. Jeremy Wisnewski 2 Family Guy and God: Should Believers Take Offense? 16
Raymond J. VanArragon 3 Quagmire: Virtue and Perversity 27
Shaun Miller 4 Francis Griffin and the Church of the Holy Fonz: Religious Exclusivism and "Real" Religion 36David Kyle Johnson Part II Lucky There's a Family Guy! (And What a Family!) 49 5 Let Us Now Praise Clueless Men: Peter Griffin and Philosophy 51
Jerry Samet 6 Lois: Portrait of a Mother (Or, Nevermind Death, Motherhood is a Bitch) 59
Stephanie Empey 7 Mmmyez: Stewie and the Seven Deadly Sins 74
Sharon M. Kaye 8 The Other Children: The Importance of Meg and Chris 87
P. Sue Dohnimm 9 He Thinks He's People: How Brian Made Personhood for the Dogs 99Daniel Malloy Part III He-He-He-He-He. You Expected More Lyrics, But You're Getting Logic, Comedy, and The Logic of Comedy 113 10 The Logic of Expectation: Family Guy and the Non Sequitur 115
Jonah P. B. Goldwater 11 What Are You Laughing At (And Why)? Exploring the Humor of Family Guy 128
Andrew Terjesen 12 Thinkin' is Freakin' Sweet: Family Guy and Fallacies 139
Robert Arp 13 The Simpsons Already Did It! This Show is a Freakin' Rip-Off! 149Shai Biderman and William J. Devlin Part #F1 Family Problems 161 14 Is Brian More of a "Person" than Peter? Of Wills, Wantons, and Wives 163
Mark D. White 15 The Ego is a Housewife Named Lois 175
Robert Sharp 16 The Lives and Times of Stewie Griffin 186
Tuomas Manninen 17 Kierkegaard and the Norm (MacDonald) of Death 198Adam Buben Appendix: Everything You Ever Needed to Know about Meg Griffin, as Compiled by the Contributors 209 Notes on Contributors: What the Deuce!?! They're Real! (Most of Them, Anyway) 210 Index: He-He-He-He-He-He .You Read Books 214 1 That's right, freakin' #F. What are you, some kind of mathematician?