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I think FG is a bad show, and i thought that from the first season!! But we these new episodes first and second seasons r much better!!!
I say the show's never jumped. I actually like a lot of the episodes that have come up since the show was revived, and didn't really find the very early ones that funny. Of course, I haven't seen this really bad Pirate one everyone else is complaining about...
I do have one complaint about the new episodes, though: Way too much Meg bashing. I don't think she's a great character, nor do I even like her, but the jokes about her have crossed the line from being funny to just plain cruel.
I do have one complaint about the new episodes, though: Way too much Meg bashing. I don't think she's a great character, nor do I even like her, but the jokes about her have crossed the line from being funny to just plain cruel.
Look, Family Guy is a very solid show, but recently they have started to take on the "hit or miss" quality that has already taken over the other big two animated comedies (The Simpson's and South Park.
Season 6 produced some absolute gems (blue harvest, Stewie kills Lois) but also some terrible episodes ( Back to the Woods and Long John Peter)
This started mainly after the movie, which was simply awful and felt as if someone had take a decent episode and stuffed it full of an hour or so of total crap.
Finally, South park, in one of it's best episodes, absolutely nailed FG. They are absolutely right. The Peter as a Pirate sequence convinced me that Seth Macfarlane has simply run out of good ideas and is now simply doing crappy little what if scenarios.
He even manage to turn Brian in to a character that now just annoys me!
I hope we can get something of a return to form in season 7.
Can't wait for the second FG Star Wars rip off!
Season 6 produced some absolute gems (blue harvest, Stewie kills Lois) but also some terrible episodes ( Back to the Woods and Long John Peter)
This started mainly after the movie, which was simply awful and felt as if someone had take a decent episode and stuffed it full of an hour or so of total crap.
Finally, South park, in one of it's best episodes, absolutely nailed FG. They are absolutely right. The Peter as a Pirate sequence convinced me that Seth Macfarlane has simply run out of good ideas and is now simply doing crappy little what if scenarios.
He even manage to turn Brian in to a character that now just annoys me!
I hope we can get something of a return to form in season 7.
Can't wait for the second FG Star Wars rip off!
You don't HAVE to be easily offended by Jesus jokes when it comes to Family Guy...they do it so much they practically FORCE you to become offended by Jesus jokes. Here's how it went:
A little after Season 3 first aired:
Writer: Hey, Seth! The Christians and other religious groups aren't getting too offended by our religion bashing jokes! What do we do?
Seth MacFarlane: Well, we'll just have to keep doing the jokes until the religious groups finally ARE offended. And when they complain that we're offending them, we'll point out how they're easily offended by all our little jokes.
Writer: We're going to complain how they're easily offended? But you're PUSHING to offend them on purpose!
Seth: Yes, and then, we'll make out like WE are the victims of evil censorship! Whether or not we're being censored. Understand?
Writer: I guess. This is almost as confusing as the time that Julia Roberts mistook Meg for Chris and wanted her to act out a scene from Greg the Bunny!
And let's not forget that Seth MacFarlane is an ATHEIST, so it all makes sense why has so little respect for religion.
A little after Season 3 first aired:
Writer: Hey, Seth! The Christians and other religious groups aren't getting too offended by our religion bashing jokes! What do we do?
Seth MacFarlane: Well, we'll just have to keep doing the jokes until the religious groups finally ARE offended. And when they complain that we're offending them, we'll point out how they're easily offended by all our little jokes.
Writer: We're going to complain how they're easily offended? But you're PUSHING to offend them on purpose!
Seth: Yes, and then, we'll make out like WE are the victims of evil censorship! Whether or not we're being censored. Understand?
Writer: I guess. This is almost as confusing as the time that Julia Roberts mistook Meg for Chris and wanted her to act out a scene from Greg the Bunny!
And let's not forget that Seth MacFarlane is an ATHEIST, so it all makes sense why has so little respect for religion.
Great prediction about Psych and Monk spelling the end for Family Guy, Stealth. The ratings were so low they've already been pulled and replaced with repeats of "The Office."
This show is still funny. True, not nearly as funny as the early stuff, but still better than the current Simpsons by miles. Plus, when I tune in, I EXPECT it to be offensive and pointless - the show never pretended to be anything else. And kiki, if you're easily offended by Jesus jokes, then you're clearly not the type of person who should be watching this show.
This show is still funny. True, not nearly as funny as the early stuff, but still better than the current Simpsons by miles. Plus, when I tune in, I EXPECT it to be offensive and pointless - the show never pretended to be anything else. And kiki, if you're easily offended by Jesus jokes, then you're clearly not the type of person who should be watching this show.
The poster who commented that Family Guy rose from the grave as a zombified version of its former self is right on the money.
Watch any episode from Family Guy's BRILLIANT (yes, brilliant) third season, then watch a new episode immediately afterward. Today's FG is a completely different show. As someone with a heart and a brain, I don't think I can stomach much more of evil zombie Family Guy.
Last week's episode took a promising idea (Peter becoming a pirate) and made it into one long rude, crude gross-out fest.
The pirate car chase scene was clever and reminded me a bit of the good old Family Guy whimsy from Seasons 1-3. But of course, they had to ruin it by killing off the parrot, cracking a long drawn out "joke" about its death. And, (as the South Park parody of Peter says) if you think THAT'S bad, wait until you see the scene where Brian barfs after Peter lifts up Meg's shirt. I also died a little inside seeing Chris's character change from a lovable, awkward dunce to a disturbed maladjusted pervert.
Rather than watch FG decay any further, let's all pop in our season 3 DVDs and watch the amazing episodes "Emission Impossible", "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows", "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas, and "Road to Europe" together. Good times.
Watch any episode from Family Guy's BRILLIANT (yes, brilliant) third season, then watch a new episode immediately afterward. Today's FG is a completely different show. As someone with a heart and a brain, I don't think I can stomach much more of evil zombie Family Guy.
Last week's episode took a promising idea (Peter becoming a pirate) and made it into one long rude, crude gross-out fest.
The pirate car chase scene was clever and reminded me a bit of the good old Family Guy whimsy from Seasons 1-3. But of course, they had to ruin it by killing off the parrot, cracking a long drawn out "joke" about its death. And, (as the South Park parody of Peter says) if you think THAT'S bad, wait until you see the scene where Brian barfs after Peter lifts up Meg's shirt. I also died a little inside seeing Chris's character change from a lovable, awkward dunce to a disturbed maladjusted pervert.
Rather than watch FG decay any further, let's all pop in our season 3 DVDs and watch the amazing episodes "Emission Impossible", "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows", "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas, and "Road to Europe" together. Good times.
When the show first started I laughed at a few of the shows. (Even got the first DVD set.)
But, then I realized (especially with the post-return shows) that NOTHING happens on this show! There are no real stories, plots or anything else - only those cutaway "gags" that were funny once, but so predictable and lame now...
The tone of the show has become extremely mean as they have replaced humor with vulgarity. The creators seem to think if they shock us, we'll laugh.
And, wasn't Stewie a baby before? Now, it seems like the only baby aspect of him now is he still poops his pants - probably so the writers still have some material for lame potty humor jokes.
I'd say the next time this show is cancelled it will be the last time. I doubt anyone will mourn its passing.
But, then I realized (especially with the post-return shows) that NOTHING happens on this show! There are no real stories, plots or anything else - only those cutaway "gags" that were funny once, but so predictable and lame now...
The tone of the show has become extremely mean as they have replaced humor with vulgarity. The creators seem to think if they shock us, we'll laugh.
And, wasn't Stewie a baby before? Now, it seems like the only baby aspect of him now is he still poops his pants - probably so the writers still have some material for lame potty humor jokes.
I'd say the next time this show is cancelled it will be the last time. I doubt anyone will mourn its passing.
Family Guy is still far funnier than The Simpsons, which isn't hard, but I just wish they toned down on the amount of cut-away gags. In season one you maybe had 10 or so per episode, now you get about 30. It's just overkill.
Believe it or not, the pirate montage and the taking of the parrot was funny. I just wish they had done the whole pirate thing for the whole 30 minutes of the show. After the first commercial break, the show was not funny. Maybe they could have had Peter traveling the high seas and have the Jolly Roger jump over a shark. Nah, the show jumped way too long ago.
Family Guy was tolerable when it first aired. When it came back, well ugh! There was less of the good parts and more of the bad parts:
- Naked Peter.
- Too much shock humor.
- Racism, intolerance, etc. pretending to be jokes.
- Too much zaniness
- Peter getting to be too stupid.
- Too much Meg bashing.
- Stewie going from Matricidal to Brian's lover.
- Brian becoming a whiner instead of the voice of reason.
- Brian doing it with women. (That son of his...)
- Lois becoming a whore.
- Too much pop culture references. (If plagiarism laws became more strict and too many parodies constituted plagiarism, Family Guy would be officially out of ideas or going broke from settlements.)
Though South Park jumped the shark, they did that anti-Family Guy two-parter...thank you, Trey and Matt! And Seth MacFarlane took pride in being called a show written by manatees instead of realizing Matt and Trey just tore him a new one.
- Naked Peter.
- Too much shock humor.
- Racism, intolerance, etc. pretending to be jokes.
- Too much zaniness
- Peter getting to be too stupid.
- Too much Meg bashing.
- Stewie going from Matricidal to Brian's lover.
- Brian becoming a whiner instead of the voice of reason.
- Brian doing it with women. (That son of his...)
- Lois becoming a whore.
- Too much pop culture references. (If plagiarism laws became more strict and too many parodies constituted plagiarism, Family Guy would be officially out of ideas or going broke from settlements.)
Though South Park jumped the shark, they did that anti-Family Guy two-parter...thank you, Trey and Matt! And Seth MacFarlane took pride in being called a show written by manatees instead of realizing Matt and Trey just tore him a new one.
What a sad decline for what was once a clever and fun show.
Two weeks ago, I realized that the cruel jokes only served to depress me, so I turned it off. I'm not going back.
Although its move to that other tragic train wreck, Adult Swim, was instrumental to Family Guy's return, it also contributed to the slide in quality. It's somewhat frustrating that now "adult" in the entertainment industry largely means "don't let little kids watch", as opposed to mature in the classic sense.
I miss the days when characters in Family Guy acted in a consistent manner at least for the duration of an episode. (If they can't do that,it's too much to ask the writers to remember what happened in another episode.)
When the episodes were more than just a collection of offensive jokes and uber-obscure pop culture references, it was a really funny show.
The anti-Family Guy episode of South Park was, alas, stunningly accurate, as painful as it is to admit.
It was raised from the dead like a zombie: A poor imitation of its former life. Instead of making an attempt at a joke, the writers just mention what celebrity has cancer, or who's been murdered or raped.
I interviewed Seth McFarlane during Family Guy's early, struggling, and hysterically funny first year. He told me that the writers never made jokes just to shock. They just kicked around ideas, and if everybody in the room cracked up, it made it into the show.
If that's still how it works, I'm truly afraid.
And, with respect for the times he made me laugh in the old days, I hope there are no skeletons in Seth's closet.
There's a long line of people who'd jump on it in a heartbeat. And it would be hard to criticize them for it.
Two weeks ago, I realized that the cruel jokes only served to depress me, so I turned it off. I'm not going back.
Although its move to that other tragic train wreck, Adult Swim, was instrumental to Family Guy's return, it also contributed to the slide in quality. It's somewhat frustrating that now "adult" in the entertainment industry largely means "don't let little kids watch", as opposed to mature in the classic sense.
I miss the days when characters in Family Guy acted in a consistent manner at least for the duration of an episode. (If they can't do that,it's too much to ask the writers to remember what happened in another episode.)
When the episodes were more than just a collection of offensive jokes and uber-obscure pop culture references, it was a really funny show.
The anti-Family Guy episode of South Park was, alas, stunningly accurate, as painful as it is to admit.
It was raised from the dead like a zombie: A poor imitation of its former life. Instead of making an attempt at a joke, the writers just mention what celebrity has cancer, or who's been murdered or raped.
I interviewed Seth McFarlane during Family Guy's early, struggling, and hysterically funny first year. He told me that the writers never made jokes just to shock. They just kicked around ideas, and if everybody in the room cracked up, it made it into the show.
If that's still how it works, I'm truly afraid.
And, with respect for the times he made me laugh in the old days, I hope there are no skeletons in Seth's closet.
There's a long line of people who'd jump on it in a heartbeat. And it would be hard to criticize them for it.
Maybe for the season finale, the writer's can save time and write a jump the shark moment by rick rolling the viewers at the end of the show and just replay the Meet The Quagmires episode where Brian sang Never Gonna Give You Up.
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