Seth MacFarlane Has Some Regret Over Family Guy's JFK Pez Dispenser Scene

One Redditor asked Seth MacFarlane, "Are there any Family Guy scenes/episodes you regret making?" With nearly 1,000 upvotes, MacFarlane's response was, "I ah... I could do without the JFK Pez dispenser scene." You can likely surmise what the scene in question entailed, but in case you need a refresher, the joke involves a kid coming out of a store with a John F. Kennedy Pez dispenser, which is promptly hit in the head by a stray bullet. The kid is then quick to pull out his Bobby Kennedy Pez dispenser.

John F. Kennedy was famously assassinated by a bullet to the head, and Bobby Kennedy was also assassinated in a similar manner, with a bullet hitting his ear and fragmenting. It's easy to see how the joke would come across as distasteful, but while MacFarlane would probably do things differently today, quite a few fans don't see eye to eye. 

The Reddit thread contains numerous comments from viewers who still get a kick out of the dark joke, such as u/PJ7, who wrote, "I'm dying with laughter right now, I feel like my upstairs neighbours will be calling the police soon enough." Surprisingly, that wasn't the only JFK assassination joke "Family Guy" has gotten away with over the years. There's a cutaway joke where Mayor McCheese is shot in a similar fashion to Kennedy, which is arguably even harder to watch.