Poll: Family Guy, yay or nay?

[viranimus]

Its long since humped the shark.

It wouldnt be so bad if he was concentrated on one show, but now with 3, Family guy has basically become the repository of memes Seth found on the internet, and pointless filler material to cover 1/5th of the shows total run time.

So unfortunately, nae.

 

[OutcastBOS]

I don't. I liked a few of the old episodes, but I really, REALLY hate the new episodes...I figured it aged more like milk than fine wine.

Yeah, pretty much that. The old stuff was funny, but the new stuff sucks...kinda like the Simpsons, but worse.

Right, but the Simpsons has an excuse to run out of ideas, it's been around for 20 years. Family Guy (amazingly) has been around for a little over ten (how?!) and already ran out.

 

[HumpinHop]

Absolutely loved it.

Then season 5 or so rolled around and as of now I despise it.

I hate it primarily on a technical level, which is difficult to try and explain to people as a valid argument. With the newer seasons, I am bored senseless watching it. Try muting the show as you watch, and see if the animation makes it entertaining even in the slightest. Everyone is the same stock height, same five expressions and blocky expressive hand motions, and because of that it's just gross for me to watch. There's also the four different voice actors they use for every background character, and it's been years since I could remember a subtle joke.

And there's no excuse whatsoever to play a three minute music video to eat up time. They've done it three times.

 

[samaugsch]

I'm starting to prefer American Dad over Family Guy so nay.

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

I liked the first 3, maybe 4 seasons, but I can't stand anything after that. It's gotten to the point that if you cut out all the random asides that have nothing to do with the plot the episode would run less than 5 minutes.

 

[McMarbles]

I hate it because it's not only bad on its own, but its lazy, pop-culture-refeerencing humor has begun infecting shows I DO like, like Futurama.

 

[Terminate421]

Depends on what it does for its jokes. Sometimes they will make fun of the audience, and then thats when I hate them.

The rest can be funny.

 

[Doti]

It is INCREDIBLY hit and miss nowadays, missing more often than not. I liked earlier seasons but now I find myself groaning more often than actually laughing.

 

[Davey Woo]

I don't usually watch TV that often, but if I'm flicking through and see it's on I'll watch it. (We don't get much Family Guy broadcast in the UK as far as I'm aware)

It's pretty funny and good to pass the time, but I wouldn't buy a box-set DVD or anything.

 

[Sariteiya]

I won't say every episode is gold, but they're pretty reliably hilarious. They're one of the few shows that can genuinely make me laugh until I cry.

 

[vamp rocks]

I voted yay because family guy has its moments and can be very funny at points but its kind of been going downhill and i find now im a bit older some of the jokes that used to make me wet myself laughing just arent funny anymore. Also some of the cutaway gags and the long drawn out jokes and conway twitty... just arent funny.

i also find the storytelling to be quite lazy as the plot of an average episode doesnt usually get started until about 5-10 mins into the episode, after which time they still fill time with cutaways and drawn out jokes, I think for this reason i prefer American Dad at times.. but each series has their ups and downs

 

[Lazier Than Thou]

It got very very boring. I just couldn't watch after the first few seasons. Stewie was by far the best character back when he was a evil genius, but when he just turned gay it stopped being at all funny. Some of the later stuff was kinda good, I guess, and Adam West still cracks me up, but I'm going with nay. Now it's just so predictable.

 

[Strain42]

I used to like it. This is my description of the Family Guy timeline.

Original three seasons - Took them a bit to find the shows voice but had some pretty good episodes
Getting Picked Back Up - They brought out the big guns here and did a lot of great episodes and experimented with a lot of new things. To me the first season or 2 after they first got brought back were very funny.
Everything Afterward - Very hit and miss. Occasionally jokes are funny but usually the stories are kinda flat, they do WAY too many obscure callback jokes, and some attempts at humor go on much longer than they should (If I have to watch one more "and now Mr. Conway Twitty" I'm going to break something)

I used to like the show, and when I watch it I do usually chuckle here and there, which is I suppose what you want in a show.

Of course I'm one of those "weirdos" that thinks American Dad is a lot better than Family Guy, so most FG fans don't care what I think because apparently I'm just wrong.

 

[TheTim]

Its my absolute favorite show, never fails to make me and my friends laugh

 

[OutcastBOS]

Of course I'm one of those "weirdos" that thinks American Dad is a lot better than Family Guy.

Greetings fellow weirdo!

 

[Baneat]

Pretty much this, South Park's soapboxing is good and I like it, but Family guy's just gone down the shitter after about when there was that cannabis episode.

If I see one more Aahh sssss or "Here's something you'll really like"

I will not watch the show again. It's just good enough to watch, by a sliver. American Dad surpasses it easily by this point.

Seth's leftism is pretty grating.

South Park actually makes sense though. It got to the beautiful stage of "we take the piss out of everything" so everything was sentrist and the underlying message was almost always about rationality and moderation.

Family Guy, on the other hand, says you should be an atheist because "If God existed, you would be beautiful, but since you're ugly, he clearly doesn't." Does having your ideology boiled down to such a vain and self-obsessed notion offend atheists? It would me.

Most of Seth's views are full of shit. Here's one that he expressed in a talk-show:

My argument against the Tea Party is that they are poor, yet they vote the tea party. Clearly, they are disjointed and clueless because they vote for a party which does not give them self benefit (Tea Party are righty-tighty) - Thus since they are stupid enough to be voting out of self-interest they are not worth listening to.

Now, Mr. McFarlane, you are a hardcore Liberal are you not (Think of Brian)? Oh indeed you are, and you are obscenely rich, are you not (He *totally* is)?

Now, the Liberal party are left-socialists, meaning they hit the rich hard to aid the poor in a "For the Greater Good" sense. This means he himself votes right out of his self-interest because he loses so much money from socialist schemes. If he were Republican ultimately he'd have more cash in his bank. Contradiction, retard.

The fact that my conclusions are often the same on things concerning which side I'll lie with appears to be completely coincidental. His reasoning for stuff is full of shit, Atheism and all.

 

[Tsaba]

I say nay, it used to be awesome, it just ran out of steam which everything that is awesome generally does.

 

[remnant_phoenix]

Voted "Nay" here.

Loved it in its original running: Seasons 1-3 when it was syndicated on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim (a late night cable cartoon block, for those of you outside the States).

Lost interest fast after it got picked up again by FOX. The humor became less random and more topical, and I started to get the feeling that Seth Macfarlane was using the show as a political platform to occasionally jump up and say, "If you are not a left-wing, atheistic, secular humanist then you are, without question, a self-righteous, closed-minded, ignorant, hatemonger."

Compare that to, say, South Park, where, even when they're mocking things that I believe in, I walk away with the sense that Trey Parker and Matt Stone respect everyone's beliefs, even they think those beliefs are stupid. Not that I'm a huge South Park fan, I'm just using this as a counter-point illustration.

 

[Strain42]

Of course I'm one of those "weirdos" that thinks American Dad is a lot better than Family Guy.

Greetings fellow weirdo!

And a fine "How do you do?" to you as well.

 

[Christian Senne-king]

i'll tell you this: it's no aqua teen hunger force