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I’m not sure if it was by bizarre coincidence or divine — by which I mean Seth MacFarlane — intervention, but all three MacFarlane episodes this week were mired in illegal activities. ‘Family Guy’ saw Meg go from a sweet innocent teenaged girl into a hardened criminal, Cleveland Brown inadvertently became a drug trafficker, while Stan Smith found himself overwhelmed with a drug problem of his own.

And in both ‘The Cleveland Show’ and ‘American Dad,’ we got reminders that marijuana isn’t really a drug. ‘The Cleveland Show’ listed for us where we can get it legally (with a prescription), while ‘American Dad’ mocked the notion of someone becoming addicted to pot to the point they would need rehab.

At least ‘Family Guy’ kept it simple. Drugs weren’t an issue throughout the entire episode, though Meg was certainly acting like she was on drugs. What she was really doing, though, was acting out over years of abuse by everyone around her.

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