Poll: Family Guy, yay or nay?

[Strain42]

Also, just as a side note...does anyone else totally hate what they did to Brian?

Brian used to be a little bit of a intellectual snob full of wit and a bit of booze...and he was a Dog. That made it funny.

Now he's just this hardcore left wing preach who is clearly just an outlet for the writers to get their political views out there.

 

[HumpinHop]

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

Needs more clarification. Could take that either way.

 

[Flare Phoenix]

To me, Family Guy is like small diamonds embedded in about six feet of cow manure: there are some really good moments there, but the amount of crap you have to wade through to find them generally isn't worth it.

 

[Terminate421]

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.

My favorite joke from Adam West

 

[devotedsniper]

I like it but i get annoyed when they do things like peter falls over and just repeats "ahh" which is obivously just to fill some time in.

 

[AlAaraaf74]

Also, just as a side note...does anyone else totally hate what they did to Brian?

Brian used to be a little bit of a intellectual snob full of wit and a bit of booze...and he was a Dog. That made it funny.

Now he's just this hardcore left wing preach who is clearly just an outlet for the writers to get their political views out there.

Brian is voiced by Seth MacFarlane, so he's just using the character to express his personal beliefs. Basically, he's acting like the God of his Family Guy universe (though, he doesn't believe in any god)

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

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."

I could not STAND when they got up on that little soapbox. It's comedy. I don't mind if you bash me for being right-wing, I mind it when you only do that and pass us off as people who should be ignored.

I stoped watching the show because the jokes got stale and I'm tired of being told that my views are eeeevvvviiiillll. Then again, I don't watch much TV any more.

 

[Tiger Sora]

It was great for it's first 5 years. Hit and miss jokes. I think they should just end it now though. The Starwars movies of it were cool.

 

[infohippie]

Needs a "Meh" option. It has the occasional good episode, but it's mostly pretty poor these days.

 

[Christian Senne-king]

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

Needs more clarification. Could take that either way.

let's put it this way: ATHF knows what it is, and doesn't try to be anything else, but family guy is like that dude who pretends to be smart by using big words and talking about politics. it doesn't make him look smart, it just makes him look like a pompous asshole.

 

[HumpinHop]

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

Needs more clarification. Could take that either way.

let's put it this way: ATHF knows what it is, and doesn't try to be anything else, but family guy is like that dude who pretends to be smart by using big words and talking about politics. it doesn't make him look smart, it just makes him look like a pompous asshole.

Ah. I've never met anyone who just liked it, it's either been utter fandom or they completely loathe it. And yes, pompous asshole is appropriate for anyone responsible for churning out the 'Cavalcade of Comedy' on YouTube.

 

[pspman45]

I used to
the old ones were great, but the show has been stabbed in the gut and is bleeding out slowly, and you wonder if you should watch it die or put it out of its misery...

 

[coolkirb]

If people say the simpsons aged bad then family guy aged like mayonnaise left in the sun.

 

[Rule Britannia]

American Dad is better in my opinion, Family Guy is more "low brow" I guess. I prefer The Simpsons.

 

[Scorpianhead]

I really don't like. It just gets too stupid and the jokes are really nothing but the writers just giving up and ripping off anything they can get away with and extend the jokes for wwwaaaaaayyyyyy to long.

Thats everything i had to say and more.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

it honestly depends, when i was younger i didn't care for it at all but since i've been getting older i've been liking it more and more, which is odd but oh well, i don't watch it consistently but if it's on i'll enjoy it, i used to watch a whole ton of futurama but after i got done with that south park and family guy have mostly filled the void...

 

[darkovrlord]

i personally think that Family Guy used to be good up until the more recent seasons.

 

[GameGoddess101]

Nay. Big fat Nay. Early episodes were good, but it's humor has sunk to 'Portal Meme' level.... the Chicken fights, 'SSSSS....AAAAHHH', "Here's something you'll really like!", and "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty!" all get reeeaaallly old really fast. Seth's leftism is getting grating quickly (even if I am a mid-leftist myself) and his arrogance and hubris is dragging the show down with him.

My friend one time made a joke saying "The official definition of "******" isn't a derogatory term for gay person! It's a person who thinks Family Guy is better than Futurama!" The more I think on it, and the more Futurama I watch... the more I agree.

 

[AlAaraaf74]

American Dad is better in my opinion, Family Guy is more "low brow" I guess. I prefer The Simpsons.

Thank you! It seems everybody my age (17) thinks the Simpsons is a stupid cartoon. That show is a classic and such statements make me ashamed of my generation.

Capticha: taritt PRACTICES

 

[remnant_phoenix]

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."

I could not STAND when they got up on that little soapbox. It's comedy. I don't mind if you bash me for being right-wing, I mind it when you only do that and pass us off as people who should be ignored.

I stoped watching the show because the jokes got stale and I'm tired of being told that my views are eeeevvvviiiillll. Then again, I don't watch much TV any more.

Agreed and agreed.

It's one thing to poke fun at people who believe things that you don't, it's another thing entirely to overgeneralize and paint huge groups of people as "ignorant idiots" just because they believe differently than you do.

And I don't watch much TV any more either. I like your avatar by the way.