Family Guy - C or D?

"Awww! If you take away the grease all you can taste is the hog's anus"

Anyway, it's hysterical. Stewie the baby is my hero. Odd that they have both a talking baby and a talking dog, but I suppose they can't backtrack now. I guess the joke is that they're the only intelligent and rational members of the family

(this has multiple meanings)

Also, in the episode where the daughter joins a cult:

"I miss my mom." "I miss my nads!" Ha, ha, ha!

I gotta go with classic.

Me too! I never really thought much of it til I started seeing the reruns on the Cartoon Network.

And Arthur is otm re: Stewie.

Finding a gateway to Narnia in the dryer = priceless the funny.

What I want to know is WHERE ARE THE NEW HOME MOVIES EPISODES? (Or is this a dream of the pipe variety?)

also i want proof

"I hope Osama Bin Laden doesn't know any showtunes"

FG, on the other hand, has so many moments of sheer random genius. The Superman 2 thing in the Lois-knows-kung-fu episode and all the Shatner appearances come to mind immediately.

I thought it was mostly terrible back when it was on Fox, but I used to think that about Futurama and now that I've started watching the reruns on Cartoon Network I think it's brilliant, so maybe FG deserves another shot.

The majority of South Park episodes nowadays are just them playing Devil's Advocate with everything. anything that's made a big enough deal out of itself to become a target (hence the "Butt Out" episode, I really don't think Parker and Stone are pro-smoking). Often this lines up with a Libertarian viewpoint and I can see why some people find that obnoxious. I think they just find more humor in bashing those who are loud and argumentative.

I think they just find more humor in bashing those who are loud and argumentative.

While this is true, they've been quoted many times on record as saying they "fucking hate liberals", sooooo....

I blame ds9 and enterprise for Seth mcfarlane's comic insensitivity

A bunch of Team America's negative reviews were from people who were hardcore liberal that were expecting it to be this big satire on Bush and the War on Terror, and when it wasn't, they slammed it. That's the reaction they seem to want to provoke. They dislike liberals because they're the loudest. Especially in the world of animated TV shows.

they dislike experts telling them what to do with their learning, hence the kids on the show are the mouthpieces for common sense against meddling adults,
But they also think people need to be civilized by some authority, namely them.

oh ya liberals are way louder than fox news and conservative talk radio

also they are big original series Star Trek fans which puts them ideologically right of Seth's tng boosterism

you can rationalize it how you want frogs, thing is it still comes out as pissy Libertarian minority bashing so who cares why they do it?

South park is toxic but often hilarious

Family guy is waste

oh ya liberals are way louder than fox news and conservative talk radio

well South Park airs on Comedy Central so

if tng/tos is a left/right dichotomy i'd like to be referred to going forward as "generalissimo"

probably even if it isn't

team america was so awful.

b-b-b-but SO RONERY

both these shows suck

star trek did it!
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110327221513/memoryalpha/en/images/f/f0/Tracey_and_Wu.jpg

The worst of South Park is definitely the for-gamestop-nerds-style trilogy of "The Coon" and everything they do that is similar to that imo.

South Park either needs to be cancelled or have its output way reduced (to say, 10 episodes a year) - that "six days to air" mini-documentary made it clear how burnt out these dudes are

Yeah it's fun to see news make it into an episode from a week prior but it doesn't seem worth that headache.

there's lots more stuff i appreciate about SP than FG. i kind of roll my eyes at parker and stone's Big Message Episodes but at their best they really nail the way kids talk and think about the world and relate to each other. there are a ton of SP episodes that are funny in a way that i've never seen on any other show, whereas even at its rare best i feel like FG isn't doing anything that other animated shows haven't already done better.

all of these shows are better than drawn together

surgery footage is better than Drawn Together

Bringing drawn together into the conversation is insulting to the worst of family guy

I think Daniel Tosh's animated show may be even worse

oh lol I didn't realize Tosh was involved in Brickleberry, I just looked at the promos and got massive Drawn Together premonitions

(one of my most shameful admissions is spending a season and a half watching Drawn Together and trying to like it because I wanted Cree Summer to continue to get work)

(although the fairy princess having an enraged tentacle monster for a vagina is still making me giggle so perhaps there's more shame to be found)

lol can't believe this is a debate

go and watch The Book Of Mormon then report back to me. also watch the Cash For Gold SP episode (maybe close your eyes/ears for the minute of bad Asian accent). those two things alone completely kill MacFarlane

i didn't see book of mormon but is it basically the same as orgazmo + cannibal the musical?

Book of Mormon was really fuckin funny, but I wouldn't really compare it to those as it's more of a 'traditional' musical with SP irreverence thrown in throughout.

shpadoinkle vs shmapoopie

schpadoinkle is never not funny

Book Of Mormon was genuinely great & also dealt with a whole load of potentially thorny issues (i.e. the ongoing problems in Africa) better than any other piece of fictional entertainment I've ever seen

I have maggots in my scrotummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Well, any piece of fictional entertainment made by white ppl (i.e. really, REALLY could have been problematic but managed to dodge almost every pitfall and with some grace at that)

well then. not sure what the point of a soap-operaesque killing of a major character on a cartoon show that isn't rooted in continuity or reality was, other than "HEY WE DID THIS".

I can't see this sticking at all

Stewie will find a way to make another time machine, don't worry.

how many more years is this show going to run anyway?

which one ends first: simpsons, south park, family guy?

http://i.imgur.com/9EvN5Nj.jpg

I can't see this sticking at all

― deX! (DJP), Monday, November 25, 2013 4:54 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guess what!

http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/06/back-from-the-dead-is-family-guys-brian-griffin-set-to-return-from-beyond-the-grave-4221309/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAWOpaLArYM

shame on you for ever dudding this, right?

this show has been on for 20 seasons now. American Dad for 19. who is still watching this? what kind of jokes are they doing? is it just constant references to Pete Davison and the Will Smith slap? is Seth Macfarlane in his own private hell right now?

hard to believe a show that I considered one of my fav turned into the show I probably detest the most on the air.

some of it is changing taste, but the first three seasons are still damn funny to me. then Seth decided to take it in a more troll/edgelord direction after it was brought back, gradually until I couldn't take it anymore.

why would MacFarlane be in a private hell? i think he mostly just cashes the checks, goes in the recording studio here and there. probably doesn't even write the shows anymore. directs the odd films, records a great american songbook album, whatever he wants to do.

i think it takes at least 18 months to produce an episode, so expect "the slap" jokes in 2024

tuned in a couple recent episodes and its still generally bad, but he did get an All About Eve parody episode a few weeks ago and that was amusing and who else would even care to do this besides Seth McFarlane

should try American Dad again, that show got really weird and good at times

seth mcfarlane is absolutely in his own private hell right now. i'm guessing it has something to do with his father and catholicism.

what am i missing?

It's crazy that this show is still on. I'm only really aware of it whenever I'm on vacation with my kids and we're at a hotel. Since it's vacation time, we let the kids stay up late, which mostly means watching cable TV late at night and this is what is inevitably on at 10pm on whatever cartoon channel they watch.

idk how his sci-fi show "The Orville" is doing but it definitely seemed like there was a period where he was set to become a big star - he had a few heavily promoted films & hosted the Oscars, but it never really panned out.

I guess in retrospect Family Guy was pretty ahead of its time, it presages Twitter/TikTok/YouTube culture where half the humor is either edgelord shit or "hey remember this", and every bit sort of stands on its own. like I could see being into the show via just watching 30 second clips and never even bothering to watch a full episode.

funny how big a deal it seemed at the time when public pressure caused it to be picked up for a third season after being cancelled for a year. I remember watching a few and thinking they were shit even back then.