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'Family Guy' Emmys ad pokes fun at college admissions scandal

"Family Guy" is using the college admissions scandal for a laugh.

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Marianne Garvey
CNN — "Family Guy" is using the college admissions scandal for a laugh.

The animated show's new Emmys For Your Consideration ad features the faces of the entire Griffin family -- Stewie, Peter, Lois, Brian, Chris and Meg -- photoshopped over human bodies of a crew team in action. They even used University of Southern California school colors and a font that resembles the university's.

"For Your Emmy Consideration," the ad reads. "We've earned this. Family Guy Class of 2019."

The advert is a play on the recent college admissions scandal, in which actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, allegedly paid $500,000 to get their daughters into USC as rowers, even though neither row crew.

The couple has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Each of the charges is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Mailers sent to Emmy voters by the "Family Guy" also reportedly reference "Game of Thrones" and current politics.

"Family Guy" has been nominated for 25 Emmy Awards since it first aired in 1999.

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