The rollout last month of screeners for fratcom auteur Seth MacFarlane's new series "Dads" prompted television writers to ask some blunt rhetorical questions.

Over at Mother Jones, Asawin Suebsaeng wondered, "Is 'Dads' the Year's Most Racist Sitcom?" At Entertainment Weekly, critic Melissa Maerz offered up a similar inquiry: "So, just how racist is Fox's 'Dads'?" (The show has a 16 out of 100 on Metacritic which means "Overwhelming dislike.")

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