When Peter tells them that they cannot prevent people from being who they are even after they censor television, they decide to take on the challenge. Although impressed with the song, the arriving FCC representatives shut down PTV. This prompts Peter, along with Brian and Stewie, to perform an elaborate musical number lampooning the FCC's regulations. Regardless, Lois calls the FCC to have PTV switched off for good.
Brian comes to Peter's defense by arguing that parents and legal guardians are the ones who should ultimately take responsibility for what their kids watch-he also notes that there are much worse influences for kids besides what they see in pop culture. PTV is successful, but Lois is furious about everyone's interest in perverted TV, as she is concerned over how children will be influenced by Peter's programming (in the DVD release, Peter and Cleveland, in a parody of Jackass, defecate on top of Lois' car the theme to the Jackass parody would later be used in the episode " The Man with Two Brians" while the Griffins are actually watching Jackass). He also includes original programming, such as Brian and Stewie's sitcom Cheeky Bastard, Quagmire's Playboy After Dark-esque Midnight Q, Dogs Humping, and The Peter Griffin Sideboob Hour.
Peter is outraged, and on advice from Tom Tucker, starts his own TV network, PTV, on which he broadcasts classic shows unedited. The censorship is applied to such content as Chrissy Snow's cleavage from Three's Company, Ralph Kramden’s threats of spousal abuse on The Honeymooners and even Dick Van Dyke's name.
After David Hyde Pierce's wardrobe malfunction during the ceremony, the FCC, led by Cobra Commander, receives an insignificant volume of phone calls concerning the incident, and decides to censor any content from television that could be even slightly harmful to viewers. In the episode itself, Peter awakens Lois by noisily installing a red carpet in their bedroom, anticipating watching the Emmy Awards, but Lois forces him to go to Meg's school play (which resembles the musical Godspell) instead. Upon seeing Homer on the ground, Peter asks "Who the hell is that?" He eventually arrives at his house and runs over Homer Simpson. In a sequence unconnected to the remainder of the episode, Stewie prevents Osama bin Laden from sending a hostile message to the United States by attacking him and killing several of his henchmen, and (in a parody of the opening scene from The Naked Gun) rides off on his Big Wheel, cycling through scenes from various films and video games. The episode gained mostly positive responses from critics, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) as well as an Annie Award nomination for directing. With a Nielsen rating of 4.4, "PTV" was the nineteenth most-watched episode of the week in which it was broadcast. Many of the scenes were cut from the episodes they were originally made for owing to Fox's internal censors. The episode contains a sequence of various scenes from different previous episodes. Show creator Seth MacFarlane commented that the episode's plot was inspired by the rage of the Family Guy crew towards the strict rules that the FCC made after the controversy. The episode is a response to the FCC's measures to the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy. The episode was written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild and was directed by Dan Povenmire. and convince the Congress to have the FCC's rules reversed. Not only do the FCC close down the network, but they also start censoring the citizens of Quahog, so the Griffin family travels to Washington, D.C. Lois calls the FCC to close PTV as she is concerned over the issue of how children will be influenced by Peter's programming. PTV is a big success and Stewie and Brian join him creating shows for the network. Peter starts to create his own TV network which he calls PTV, broadcasting classic shows unedited and uncut, as well as original programming. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) censor the shows on television after a controversial wardrobe malfunction at the Emmy Awards. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 6, 2005.
" PTV" is the fourteenth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series Family Guy.