Much like Peter Pan, Seth McFarlane doesn’t want to grow up. For an entertainment producer, that can be a good thing.
But instead of transporting his audience to Never Never Land, McFarlane’s TV shows “Family Guy” and “American Dad” take viewers on a tour of a pubescent boys’ locker room: gross-out contests, twisted sex jokes, vicious taunting. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes not, but it’s all as fresh as old gym socks. 
Now, McFarlane has graduated to
“Ted” is a living teddy bear that’s been John’s (Mark Wahlberg) best friend since he was little. John is now in his 30s, and the two share a bachelor pad. Ted’s tastes, according to the trailer [1], run to bong hits, cocaine, multiple hookers, humping inanimate objects, voyeurism and brawling.
The Kansas City Star [2] thinks all that is just awesome. “There are feverishly inappropriate jokes that will live on in dorm-room bull sessions forever. When skirt-chasing Ted lands a job as a grocery clerk, he and a busty co-worker, make the stockroom their love nest. You may never look at parsnips again without snickering.” Wow. You can pay $10 (plus popcorn) for sex jokes involving parsnips.
The New York Times, perhaps mindful that its high-brow readers tend to approve of sex with root vegetables only when it occurs in art museums at taxpayer-expense, was more measured [3]. “Sexual and flatulence-based gags are accompanied by the usual side dishes: warmed-over pop-cultural references and cheap-shot jabs at celebrities and ethnic minorities,” the Times warned. But, “There are some genuinely, wildly funny bits in the movie — a brutal motel-room fistfight between Ted and John; a cocaine-fueled talking binge; a few choice insults and smutty riffs.”
So it’s pretty much “Family Guy” in theatrical release. McFarlane, a strident liberal, has never taken the high road with that cartoon. In addition to babies drinking horse semen, the comedy is known for trashing the Tea Party, [4] abortion jokes [5], portraying Jesus as a lying, smoking slacker [6], and even received an Emmy nod for a song titled "Down Syndrome Girl," [7] which alluded to Sarah Palin and her daughter who suffers from Down’s Syndrome.
So the “Family Guy” is a real Norman Rockwell painting, and McFarlane heralds "Ted" [8] as a “family comedy for families whose parents don't mind swearing around their kids.”
As the preview states “Everyone has to grow up.” Everyone that is, except Seth McFarlane.