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Boogie Nights star Mark Wahlberg has told how he thinks Seth MacFarlane is on a quest to offend more people with his cuddly character Ted than he has already with TV hit Family Guy.
Ted is currently leaving cinema audiences in stitches as Marky Mark’s furry friend gets into a series of pot-fuelled scrapes and encounters with hookers.
Mark admitted that he hadn’t seen the outrageous TV cartoon until recently, when he sat down to watch it with his young kids and got a surprise.
The Fighter star said: “I’d never seen Family Guy… but I had figured as it was a cartoon, I could sit down and watch it with my two eldest kids; the oldest is eight.
“We watched the 150th episode.”
The episode in question thrusts the fan favourite characters, Stewie (a talking baby) and Brian (a talking dog) into the spotlight as they get locked in a bank vault and things get out of control.
Mark continues: “The baby is locked in with the dog; the dog eats poo out of the baby’s diaper, then they are drinking alcohol, then they get this gun out of a safety deposit box…
“All this crazy stuff is going on and my wife comes barging in from the other room because she hears all this laughter and she immediately turns the TV off and yells at me for letting the kids watch it.
“But my kids and I were like, ‘Okay, we want to see that again’. It was really funny stuff.”
“The humour in Ted is similar to Family Guy, but Seth is pushing things a little farther in this movie.
“I think it is going to offend more people than Family Guy does but, hey I didn’t write it.
“I told them I want that as a disclaimer!”