In case you hadn't heard, there's a threesome going down on Gossip Girl next week. Well, at least there will be if the episode ends up making it to air.
If the Parents Television Council (PTC) has its way, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could fine the CW or yank the episode altogether.
The group has released an open letter to the CW objecting to the scene, which they have not seen, but are still calling "reckless and irresponsible."
"Gossip Girl routinely depicts teenagers engaging in promiscuous and consequence-free sexual behavior," PTC president Tim Winter wrote the CW.
He says the show is "now complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers engage in behaviors ... associated with adult films."
If Gossip Girl is bad, being right can eat it! Our intel suggests neither Leighton Meester or Blake Lively will be part of the threesome (lame!) but we're posting this pic anyway!
The PTC pleads to the show and its network to "ask yourself, how does airing this program serve your obligation to serve the public interest?"
Umm ... the public is interested in threesomes? HELLO!?
FCC rules permit the government to remove programming deemed "unsatisfactory or unsuitable or contrary to the public interest." Will it happen in this case?
Doubtful. The hype for the epsiode, "They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They," has been significant, it's still Gossip Girl, and still the CW. How racy can it really be?
It should also be noted that the CW has not publicly responded to the complaint but leaked two sneak previews from the episode with no threesome teasers.
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11 Comments
November 4th, 2009 11:27 AM
Its a tv program!! Put it into perspective, jeez. No kids are gonna be like 'oh they're having a threesome on gossip girl, i must do that too'!!
November 4th, 2009 11:42 AM
agree^^
plus its gossip girl
these things happen but its not going to be that bad
November 4th, 2009 11:44 AM
The fact is that kids are having sex earlier now adays and probably the majority of teenagers that watch this program have engaged in it themselves. This is ridiculous, what year are they living in and as if someone is so easily influenced that they would actually be persuaded to do something because they saw it on a program, get serious.
November 4th, 2009 12:19 PM
honestly...this is not the only reason kids shouldn't be watching..this show is all sleaze, if a parent is letting their little kids watch it they suck as parents
November 4th, 2009 1:41 PM
OMG!!!
whooo cares? Let them air the threesome episode, its not like teenagers these days don't have a clue about any of this stuff... There are thousand movies/tv shows that show much MORE than a threesome and no one stopped THEM from showing it... Anyone that thinks that its inappropriate should just NOT watch it!
November 4th, 2009 2:30 PM
Id fuck em.
November 4th, 2009 8:01 PM
oh wow, worse has happened on tv.
November 5th, 2009 3:00 PM
grow its a tv show!
November 5th, 2009 3:01 PM
i ment up***
November 6th, 2009 8:00 PM
Hmmm, out cry NOW ? There's been drugs, suicides, connving, bulimia, vanity, cheating, lying, undermining, sex in the back seat of limos, but hold the f*cking press - for this impending threesome scene there's an outcry ? Jesus, Joseph and Mary...