What Happend to Family Guy?

[JP]

Aliens In America is one the best shows on TV.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

HEY HEY..DONT PUT "LOST" THERE...BITE YOUR TONGUE

If I want a show about people on an island I'll watch Gilligan's Island.

Aliens In America is one the best shows on TV.

and yet nobody watches it, I think people were expecting another ALF style show from the title.

 

[JP]

No one watches it because it's on a network that no one watches. Doesn't mean it isn't a good show. It's a great show.

 

[Go Web Go!]

So...is anyone watching this crap? Absolutely terrible.

 

[Docker2.0]

Last week's episode was actually funny but yeah........tonight's episode sucked. I don't know what their obsession is with making fun of God and Jesus.

 

[Go Web Go!]

Well, as unfunny as that was to me, it was at least part of the story. But seriously? The stupid "Bird, bird, bird" throughout the entire episode just shows that they couldn't think of anything smart or funny to fill an extra 10-15 minutes with. Probably the worst episode I've ever seen, and I'm a FG snob.

 

[WolfCypher]

EDIT: Stupid me.

 

[The Lizard]

I'm normally not one to bother offering an opinion on "Family Guy", since I've admittedly hated it since day one.


But I actually watched tonight's episode for some stupid reason, and I have to point out that any past episode of South Park that featured Jesus was vastly, VASTLY superior to that crappy Family Guy episode.

So now that I know it's still crap, I can go back to ignoring it.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

That last episode had the laziest writing I've ever seen on Family Guy and that's saying alot.

 

[Milu]

A meh episode.

Spoiler

The Heath Ledger reference was a bit much, as was most of the Jesus stuff.

The Office Space bit was nice though.

 

[Phatman]

A meh episode.

Spoiler

The Heath Ledger reference was a bit much, as was most of the Jesus stuff.

The Office Space bit was nice though.

It was Meh for me too. I see the writing meltdown hasn't ended in spite of Fox's $100 million cash infusiuon to seth's bank account. The Bird gag got really tired really fast. It's like he's reaching and trying to be funny instead of letting jokes flow naturally.

I also wish Seth would tone down the Liberal Agenda. Last week was Brian's atheism, This week Jesus Bashing Bush. Just let the chararacters be themselves. Save the Political stuff for American Dad! and let FG be FG.

 

[04nbod]

jeez I just saw the latest episode. Awful. Actually more annoying than Meh. Even the sacrilege wasn't funny

 

[Spider-Fan83]

What Happend to Family Guy?

havn't you heard....

 

[Matt]

It seems to me like they are trying to become South Park and failing horribly at it.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Sometimes Family Guy episodes are either hit or misses but once you see repeated reruns of them then it starts to grow on you.

 

[Incrediblejeff]

Call me crazy,but I thought the whole Surfin Bird bit was hilarious.I thought the Jesus plot was dull though.

 

[ttotheusher]

Edit.

 

[ttotheusher]

Edit.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Did anyone think the heath ledger bit was too much, too soon?

 

[MagicPrime]

There are no bad episodes of Futurama.

 

[Obi-Ron]

Call me crazy,but I thought the whole Surfin Bird bit was hilarious.

Me too, although one of my favorite high school memories involves that song so I am kind of biased.

 

[DeaDheaD]

Me too, although one of my favorite high school memories involves that song so I am kind of biased.

I hear it was a real hit with the "Liberal, Atheist, senior" crowd......

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Family Guy has become too dependent on time wasting jokes. Things like Stewie ranting about or saying the same thing for 2 to 3 minutes, and the giant chicken...oh lord, it was funny the first time, now it is lame as hell, especially since it literally takes up 10 minutes of the episode. The writers need to focus on the plot.

This past week's episode was proof enough. They spent a solid 10 minutes with Peter singing and dancing to "Surfin' Bird!" It wasn't until the half-way mark 'till he meets Jesus...which was supposedly the main plot of the episode(!?!) But you wouldn't know that with the constant use of that damn song.

It also suffers from what I call "liberal ********" - i.e. they'll literally go out of their way in any given episode just to shove their political views down everyone's throats and basically say, "If you don't agree with us on this issue, you're a ****ing moron!" If said gags were funny and/or had anything worthwhile to do with the episode's plot, then it'd be fine.

But they just come off as insanely mean-spirited/hateful and irrelevant to the episode. That kind of crap stops the episode(s) cold.

Speaking of the Giant Chicken, don't even get me started on Herbert...

 

[SouLeSS]

Well, to be fair, since it came back family guy has always followed the Plot A to Plot B with subplot C every so often. Family Guy's been chief on the "cause and effect" principle for years now, and it's pretty shoved in our faces this last episode where peter says none of this would of happened if his record didn't disappear.

Shows like Futurama, South Park, American Dad, basically just have Plot A with Subplot B, more often than not they don't even have a Subplot B.

Also, it's pretty apparant that Seth McFarline doesn't give a **** about the show, since he got paid like 100 million to extend it, and American Dad for another 3 seasons. Once you're getting that kind of cake, you can just throw whatever the hell you want in there and call it genius, because in some way it is.

 

[Obi-Ron]

I hear it was a real hit with the "Liberal, Atheist, senior" crowd......

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