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Kurt Iswarienko/The CWUs Magazine
A group of parents don't plan on watching the next episode of Gossip Girl -- and they don't want anyone else to, either!
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After on-air promos for Monday's upcoming show hinted at a sexual threesome, the Parents Television Council has asked affiliates of the CW network not to air the episode.
(Next week's threesome involves three main characters in the show, but they are not identified in the promos.)
Airing the teen tryst, which is being teased in an ad as a "3SOME," is "reckless and irresponsible," the nonpartisan education group's president, Tim Winter, said in a statement Wednesday.
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"Will you now be complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage in behaviors heretofore associated primarily with adult films?" Winter said, adding that it is "expressly targeted to impressionable teenagers."
Although a CW spokesperson told the Associated Press that the median viewer age of the series is 27 years old, Winter said in his statement that "such a claim doesn't even pass the 'laugh test.'"
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This isn't the first time the Parents Television Council has fought Gossip Girl over morality issues.
Last year, the group complained about ads promoting its new season that had castmembers including Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick in what they considered to be morally questionable scenarios -- in bed or apparently skinny-dipping. The ads themselves included headlines such as "A Nasty Piece of Work" and "Mind-Blowingly Inappropriate."
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Future Mrs Redmoni'm sure the median age for the show is 27 years. if they don't want their little teenie bopper children to watch the show, then don't let them watch it. plain & simple. however, i think that the show should be moved to a different network. the cw has quite a few family shows, & i wouldn't consider gossip girl a family show. but the show shouldn&report abuseposted November 10, 2009 8:05 PM PST
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Use a coupon OR ELSE!Why not put a threesome on TV... as Americans threw out their morals long ago.report abuseposted November 7, 2009 11:21 PM PST
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optimistic.smilesI wish some people would get off their high horses and accept the fact that they cant censor everything.report abuseposted November 7, 2009 4:46 AM PST
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optimistic.smilesI wish some people would get off their high horses and accept the fact that they cant censor everything.report abuseposted November 7, 2009 4:46 AM PST
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ridiculousKids do whatever they want anyways, it doesn't matter if they see it on televisionreport abuseposted November 6, 2009 5:24 AM PST
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ridiculousKids do whatever they want anyways, it doesn't matter if they see it on televisionreport abuseposted November 6, 2009 5:24 AM PST
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ridiculousKids do whatever they want anyways, it doesn't matter if they see it on televisionreport abuseposted November 6, 2009 5:24 AM PST
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RandiI agree that parents should monitor their kids tv but it is still kinda icky that they would air this. And that their median age of viewers is 27? It's pretty sick that 27 year old adults are sitting around watching teenagers play out sexual fantasies on prime time tv. And also some teens will do anything they think looks cool on tv. Everyone has become so %@!*#y these days.report abuseposted November 6, 2009 1:19 AM PST
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__A_YAHOO_USER__I kinda agree that the show shouldn't have threesomes in it,but face it some of their kids are not innocent anywayreport abuseposted November 6, 2009 12:40 AM PST
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Debbie CDo what other people do when they do not like what they see or hear, contact the FCC and complain, complain, complain!report abuseposted November 5, 2009 9:38 PM PST
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