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  • Fridge Horror: Regarding Jolly Farm, imagine the abuse that the young children on set were subjected to when the cameras aren't rolling.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: More-so to UK viewers, but when Stewie arrives at The BBC, he quickly learns, amongst other things, that the cast of Jolly Farm are a bunch of sadistic, depraved TV hosts; Pengrove Pig was not reading stories, but rather, looking at pornography on the set while in front of children, and Mother Maggie callously and harshly kicks a stunned and depressed Stewie to the side after screaming at him. (Literally; she kicks him. "PISS OFF, YA GROTTY LITTLE WANKER!") Ten years after the episode aired, Jimmy Savile, a once-beloved BBC DJ and TV Host (Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It), was posthumously accused of being a sex offender whose victims were mostly (although not exclusively) teenage girls, and who treated the people who he didn't molest with contempt off screen. (Savile even stated in interviews aired before this episode was produced that he hated children, then recalled that statement by saying that he only said that to get the press off his back). Making matters worse were reports noting that the BBC sat by and did almost nothing until the abuse reports went public.

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