Do people just sit on episodes like this and wait for bad things to happen so they can edit together the next big controversy? Just don't. Source: Supplied
FAMILY Guy has become involved in a conspiracy theory hoax that "stands alone in its batshittiness", Gawker reports.
Because people are the absolute worst, someone edited together two separate scenes from the adult-rated comedy to make it appear as though protagonist Peter Griffin used a mobile phone to remotely detonate two devices in order to win the Boston Marathon.
The clip begins with Griffin being interviewed on the news after winning the Boston Marathon. The newsreader asks: "Peter, how did you do it?"
The video then flashes to a scene of Griffin sitting in a bar, dialling a number on his mobile phone. A sound of an explosion can be heard off camera as he raises the phone to his ear.
"Damn phone's busted," he says. "Maybe I dialled wrong."
He then proceeds to dial the phone a second time, when a second explosion is heard.
The two scenes featured in the video actually occur many minutes apart and are part of two completely separate jokes.
The offensive clip was shared online by conspiracy nuts such as Alex Jones, founder of conspiracy website InfoWars. Jones completely failed to inform his audience that the clip was doctored in order to advance his theory that the explosions at the Boston Marathon was all part of a government scheme to "take our civil liberties and promote homeland security".
It wasn't long before creator of Family Guy Seth MacFarlane weighed in on the video, calling it "abhorrent" on Twitter.
Fox has also pulled the episode which aired a month ago in the US from all digital outlets such as Fox.com and Hulu.
However the video is still on YouTube and has been viewed almost 200,000 times.
The video comes less than 24 hours after the internet got all hot and bothered over a picture of a man on a roof taken during the explosion. Apparently being male, dressed in black, on a roof was enough evidence the web needed to convince themselves that he was somehow involved in the tragedy. There are reports the man was a Boston Marathon security guard that was clearing the area. But that hasn't stopped people jumping on the bandwagon.
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