In this clip from an episode of Family Guy, the main character's wife, Louis Griffin, is running in an election and must make speeches and answer questions to win over undecided voters in her neighborhood. She realizes that her opponent is not answering the questions properly and the crowd is going wild for his answers. In order to beat her opponent, Mrs. Griffin answers the questions with irrelevant, short answers that the crowd wants to hear. With every random answer, she wins over the undecided voters even more. Satire is being used in this scene especially because it is criticizing the voting system in an entertaining and playful way. There are two types of satirical techniques being used: exaggeration and parody.
There is exaggeration to prove that people running for elections do use responses to avoid the true question but are not as random as the ones said in the clip. The exaggeration is just used to let the viewer understand the situation while being amused. There is parody used to show how funny it is that voters actually fall for the sweet nothings they hear runners say. Both these types of satire are successfully used to prove a point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOh-rpvjYg&list=PL1C74535C1D3EABE0&index=3
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