Poll: Family Guy, yay or nay?

[Reaper195]

Half and half. I hate the musical pieces that are over a minute long (Christ, if I wanted funny music, I'd listen to Richard Cheese!), and fucking hate the in-america-jokes so much. You know, the ones that anyone else in the world doesn't get because it's a thing in the US only. Or the random celebrity jokes that will mention the name once, and that name is incredibly obscure....to those outside the US.

And other times, it's pretty funny. Ironically, I find American Dad more awesome than Family Guy.

 

[OpticalJunction]

I like it. It's no Simpsons or South Park, but it has its moments.

 

[CobraX]

IT varies from episode to episode. Macflarene's (is that how you spell it?) other show, American Dad, is much better. However A.D. also varies from episode to episode

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I haven't watched any of the new episodes in quite a while, but damn near every episode I've ever seen has been great.

Re the people saying it's too "low-brow", it's easily one of the more high-brow comedy shows on television. References are abundant and run the gamut from low culture to high culture, the show is one of the most distinctly post-modern things on the air, and the absurdist elements are relatively unique as adult-oriented animated sitcoms go. The only thing low-brow about it is that it doesn't cater exclusively to the high-brow crowd. So I suppose if your only metric is how exclusionary a work is, it is low-brow.

 

[sb666]

i like the first 3 seasons it started to go down hill after that

 

[Ben MacGougan]

It sometimes has moments of atheist propaganda and it can be hit and miss, but I think it's aged better than the simpsons

 

[Trololo Punk]

Yay on early seasons. Nay on the latest seasons

 

[Peteron]

Its too mainstream for me......just kidding! Ha, didn't see that coming did ya? I love Family Guy, always have, and always will!

 

[kickyourass]

More of a mah nowadays, it has it's moments, and alot of the earlier episodes I'd happily watch again, but now there's just far to many fart jokes and just general lack of humor to make me say I like it.

Edit: This also sums it up quite nicely.

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.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

Why isnt there sometimes option? It used to be good, then it became crap.

 

[floobie]

My liking of Family Guy ended when my "getting drunk is cool" phase ended (about 2006). Basically, I'd only ever really watched the show while drinking and found it hilarious. Once I stopped doing that, I realized that it was worth little more than the occasional chuckle. Other animated comedies that have been running way longer manage to keep things fresh and interesting. Family Guy is just a bunch of stupid, annoying characters that I can't even begin to relate to. There's nothing "human" about them. Homer Simpson is a good character because he actually has a real, human side to him. He may be an idiot, but he loves his wife more than anything, and they actually show it. Peter is just a fat, stupid tool. Stewie is really just evil/gay. The most interesting character in the show is a dog. Sure, the characters might say something funny here and there, or something I agree with on occasion... but the show completely lacks any substance beyond its stock, forced "random" humor and obvious, cliched observational comedy.

tl;dr: Nay.

 

[hiks89]

its so awesome...whats up with you ppl

 

[scorptatious]

I used to love it the first few seasons. But then I got bored of it later on.

 

[RatRace123]

Used to be yay, but now... eh, it's just kind of annoying. Way too preachy, the jokes are now basically about how religion and republicans are evil and destroying the world, and I'm a fairly liberal person, it just gets obnoxious after a while. Plus most of the characters have been made completely unlikeable.

The first hundred episodes were good, a little after that though, really went down hill. American Dad's way better, IMO.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

Southpark is my favorite. If you watch the two part episode of southpark "Cartoon wars" you'll understand why i prefer it. also i find it usually has something clever to say as opposed to family guy's random jokes. I do watch family guy guiltily on occasion though

 

[Drtfgf5]

Racist and homophobes...
Not for me.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

It still is funny occasionally, but it seems that every recent episode has one bit that is there just to waste time. Think Conway Twitty.

Mr. Macfarlane seems to put more effort into American Dad these days.

 

[Astoria]

I love it. It's like South Park except it knows its limits. Stewie is one of my favourite characters ever.

 

[cameron196789]

It was alright, had some good jokes, but know every joke is a toilet humor joke that not even a three year old would find funny anymore.

 

[Canid117]

I have gotten tired of Brian. And also Archer is much better.