Poll: Family Guy, yay or nay?
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As others have said, Family Guy is very hit-and-miss for me.
Many jokes fall flat, but occasionally I do find one hilarious. Like the Street Fighter parody that had Peter jumping around pulling off Hadoukens.
I guess it's ok, but I'd probably look for something else if it came on.
Many jokes fall flat, but occasionally I do find one hilarious. Like the Street Fighter parody that had Peter jumping around pulling off Hadoukens.
I guess it's ok, but I'd probably look for something else if it came on.
You stole the words out of my mind. "Guilty pleasure" is exactly how I'd describe my position on family guy. It's crude and immature, but hey, so am I!
I liked it when it was more focused on it's original goal. Remember how it came out? The whole show was geared to be a subversion and a nod/homage to all the great (and awful) sitcoms of yesteryear making references to them and playing off some of the moments that made those shows wholesome by dirtying it up a little for comedic effect. It was great and well written but after a few seasons it became unfocused and randomly references whatever in an attempt to be funny while the show as a whole doesn't really have anything weighing it down anymore and it just degrades itself to be entertaining.
This really does happen to everything though I mean you can enjoy certain things like family guy even after it's lost it's prime strength but to be honest any show willing to keep there dignity intact should close there doors the second the star talent goes away or at least after the mandatory 3 to four seasons most cartoon shows get anyhow.
This really does happen to everything though I mean you can enjoy certain things like family guy even after it's lost it's prime strength but to be honest any show willing to keep there dignity intact should close there doors the second the star talent goes away or at least after the mandatory 3 to four seasons most cartoon shows get anyhow.
I've seen more people than I have blood cells say "Oh, Family Guy used to be good, now it's gotten dim and sucks", but I've only met one other person, my ladyfriend (whom you'd be on the right track to assume that was one main reason she became my ladyfriend), besides myself, who thought it was a steaming pile of shite from the very beginning.
So nay. I say nay.
So nay. I say nay.
Somewhere in between. It's a bit of a roller coaster. Family Guy's good episodes are great. The bad ones suck worse than DNF. And the really good ones are few and far between...
The Simpsons is better, overall. The good episodes might not top the best episodes of Family Guy, but it's more consistently entertaining. And the bad episodes aren't as bad as bad Family Guy episodes.
The Simpsons is better, overall. The good episodes might not top the best episodes of Family Guy, but it's more consistently entertaining. And the bad episodes aren't as bad as bad Family Guy episodes.
the older series are the best.
some of the new episodes and approach they've taken i really dislike ie unsubtly implying stewie is a homosexual, louis is now a condescending *****, everyone makes fun of brians intelligence, peter griffins characters stupidity has gotten to the point where i want to stab something. overall a lot of the stuff in more recent series have turned into seth macfarlane just dissing on celebrities he doesnt like in the most unfunny way possible
some of the new episodes and approach they've taken i really dislike ie unsubtly implying stewie is a homosexual, louis is now a condescending *****, everyone makes fun of brians intelligence, peter griffins characters stupidity has gotten to the point where i want to stab something. overall a lot of the stuff in more recent series have turned into seth macfarlane just dissing on celebrities he doesnt like in the most unfunny way possible
It was much better when it first started i find, i liked it much more back then. But i find it to be more hit and miss now but with more misses seems like they are just running out of good things and are just being stupid
It's hit or miss with me, mostly a miss. I feel like it's been going downhill for a little bit, and some of the jokes are just plain boring. I'm not a fan of the whole "Stewie is gay" bit either, it's just silly. That being said, it's still better than most of the Cleveland Show, or Bob's Burger's
I still like it, but the latest eps are not as good as the old episodes. Like the Simpsons, it has run its course.
Now it's just a vehicle for Seth McFarlane's political and religious ideology.
Now it's just a vehicle for Seth McFarlane's political and religious ideology.
It's gone from Yay to Meh for me. But since there's no Meh option, I'll say Yay I guess.
The old episodes were great [small](the most repeated statement here, but it's true)[/small], but the new episodes are hit and miss. If it's on, I'll still watch them, but I know they won't be like they used to.
The old episodes were great [small](the most repeated statement here, but it's true)[/small], but the new episodes are hit and miss. If it's on, I'll still watch them, but I know they won't be like they used to.
Observe the evolution of Family Guy.
Funnily enough, this pretty much sums up why I don't like it anymore. I never thought it'd come to pass, but I like American Dad more these days.
Funnily enough, this pretty much sums up why I don't like it anymore. I never thought it'd come to pass, but I like American Dad more these days.
The earlier seasons were great in my opinion, they were clever and their cut-away stuff was more integrated into the actual events happening around them, making it seem like these cut-away scenes are actually part of that world rather than another one all together. They started to go down-hill though roughly around the time the writer's strike ended, my guess being that the Family Guy staff was thus required to hire a writing staff that didn't realize why the stuff in the past worked and simply thought repeating it would work this time. Ever since then it's just become unbearable to watch, so unfunny and no longer even cleaver. It's pretentious without anything to actually be pretentious about. The only funny or clever thing from that show in the past few years was when Quagmire called out Brian for all his negative attributes that somehow managed to become front and center points of each episode, but if only because it felt like the show was trying to callout the writing staff for their incompetence.