I enjoy being a ... hmmm

As long as there are human beings - particularly boys and overgrown boys - around to fart, and make fart jokes, there will be cartoons. Of that you can be sure. This is not at all a criticism of boys or what they turn into; it just happens to be a fact, and a diamond hard one, that boys aren't subject to the depredations of the Four Horsemen of Appropriateness:

• Received Notions About Femininity
• Fear of Not Being Perceived as Nice
• No Boy Will Ever Want You If You Act/Look/Talk Like That, and
• Caring Too Much What Other People Think of You

These soul killers, having been loosed on the world by all the manufacturers of pink toys and spaghetti strap toddlerwear, and sometimes by well-meaning, anxious mothers, come after girls before they even start elementary school and turn them into polite (if sometimes mean) little beings.

From Nancy Franklin's article on 'Family Guy' in The New Yorker, January 16, '06.

Kind of makes the Nazgul seem like less of a big deal.