There's kind of a dicey joke in the pilot for Fox's family sitcom "The War at Home," in which star Michael Rapaport's character asks his wife (Anita Barone), who's just mentioned that she'd dated African-Americans in the past, whether it was true "what they say" about black men.

Creator Rob Lotterstein's take (and yes, like all his main characters, he's white): "I can't imagine that black men are going to call up complaining."

Maybe, maybe not, but Lotterstein has already heard from GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) about a line in which Barone's character says of their 16-year-son: "He's not gay, he's a normal kid. "

Lotterstein, who's gay himself -- and says the kid isn't -- is still not sure what's wrong with that line, but he did acknowledge that network censors have already cut the word "fag" from the show.

"I'd rather be controversial than dull," he said, after noting that "the only way to make political correctness on television funny is to make fun of it."