You know I used to like Family Guy. But somewhere along the way, probably once the show came back from it's ban, it changed. I could go into detail about what I hate specifically, but this thread is about the least funny joke.
Well it's hard to describe but I'll try anyways. I hadn't watched Family Guy in ages but I decided to watch a few minutes while channel surfing. No idea what was going on, but the show has no real plot in recent episodes so it doesn't matter. Suddenly there was another cut-away joke, to three guys was absurdly large newspapers sitting in chairs coughing. One of them would cough, then the other would, then the next one would. And they would do this over and over again. Just three guys sitting in chairs coughing. That's it. And it goes on for over 2 minutes.
And if I have to ask; where's the fucking joke?
I don't get it. Why is it funny? How could it be funny? Is there something I am missing? Maybe it's some obscure pop-culture reference. Maybe I was just supposed to laugh at it's absurdity. But no matter what it's intention was, nobody could look at this and say it's funny. Nobody could say it was funny to stretch it out over 2 minutes. And I don't think writers are stupid. They just don't give a shit. They looked at this joke and thought "Yeah it's not funny, but we need to pad out the episode so just stretch it out over two minutes. We can reuse the same animations and sound effects, and our viewers are to stupid to care".
I personally felt insulted by that joke. The writers must think that we are so stupid that we can find that funny. And that's when I decided to never give it another chance. That one joke convinced me that the writers did not care anymore. And if they don't care about their show, why should I?
There may be a large number of people who still like Family Guy, but I bet if they keep pulling this shit even they will abandon them.