Poll: Family Guy, yay or nay?

[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.

 

[NicholasT33]

Yup !

 

[NicholasT33]

Eh. It has it's moments, but it's not something I would normally watch. Usually a bit too low-brow for my tastes.

I agree.

 

[^=ash=^]

Yay! It has some exceptional moments and it's reliably funny. My only issue is that bbc3 repeats too many of the same episodes over short periods of time so they lose their edge, but oh well.

xxx

 

[The Mehster]

I never liked it. I've always preferred the British comedy over American. I guess it's 'cause I'm Canadian by birth. I still don't understand why Americans 'don't understand' British comedy. And Canadian comedy sucks. There's no denying it.

 

[Vykrel]

i prefer the old episodes, and some of the newer ones make me uncomfortable, especially the one where Meg becomes a hardcore Christian.

overall, id say Yay. the older seasons are still hilarious

 

[Charisma]

Voted Nay, watching a Family Guy episode (especially a newer one) really just feels like watching Seth MacFarlane masturbate for twenty minutes. It's just so charged with his own self-indulgent personal philosophies, and even if I agree with him philosophically it feels so dirty, he doesn't represent his opposition well at all. It amounts to a debate where one side gets up and says, "My opponent is a DOODY HEAD HAHA HAHA"

I don't even have a problem with crassness or low-brow humor. I'll laugh at anything, as long as it's clever. That said, Family Guy relies way too often on that thing where it's basically just filler - i.e. the infamous "MOM MOM MOMMY" bit or when Peter bashes his knee and sits there for upwards of a full minute and a half just rocking back and forth cradling it. How is that at all funny? The first time I saw a gag like that I was like "roflol hehe" but it loses its humor value pretty quickly.

I won't say it's garbage though, it's done plenty of really clever jokes/episodes. And Adam West is always awesome. But especially when Seth made American Dad and that series with Cleveland and both of them had pretty much exactly the same basic structure as Family Guy... I dunno, I've grown very weary of Seth MacFarlane in general.

 

[unicron44]

I love the first couple of seasons before it was cancelled. Now I find it so unfunny it hurts. Gay Stewie got old so fast and the show just has horrible, obscure 80s references that are just unfunny.

http://www.eatmyshorts.com/files/family.guy.comparison.-1255583100.jpg

 

[Figmangairie]

My biggest problem with Family Guy is that none of the characters actually have a personality now. This seems to be a theme with Seth Macfarlane's current projects. Instead of actually having depth, the characters have a basic flat layout as to how they can act (usually they're all assholes), with the finer points of how they are being based on the "plot" of the current episode. Imagine an episode that starts out with a certain character having a certain personality trait. We've never seen this trait before, and the episode will rid them of this trait, but for the duration of the episode the trait colors every interaction they have with other characters.

 

[marscentral]

I'm going to echo a lot of people it seems, but I used to love it and now I don't. I like low-brow humour, when it's done right, which Family Guy nailed. South Park got on it's soap box and the show got better, because it never got in the way of the comedy and shots were taken at every one. With Family Guy, it really got in the way, with Brian becoming increasingly unlike-able and Stewie's character being derailed. The 1999 - 2009 comparison above is pretty accurate.

 

[mysecondlife]

I don't hate Family Guy. but it gets unavoidable to compare it to American Dad (which I think is a better show)

My main problem is when they do "this reminds me of the time when someone..." because they go stale fast.

But they can really shine if they want to. that one episode in recent season where Stewie and Brian time travels (yet again) to the time of renaissance was quite enjoyable.

and the animations in stewie brian roadtrips are topnotch.

 

[Ziggy the wolf]

i do like some of the episodes but i will have to say nay. now if i miss a simpsons or a south park im going to go back and watch, FG on the other hand, i will just wait for the rerun cause it is syndicated on plenty of channels and SP has its own website. its like me and lady gaga, if i see/hear a song i like i wont seek it out but i will stop and listen. if not, eh no sweat off my back

 

[Nexus4]

It's aged about as well as Duke Nukem has. Loved it when I was younger and it was fresh, but now it just feels so old...like it is out of steam to do anything worthwhile anymore.

 

[Maxtro]

I just saw the "it's a trap" star wars spoof.

Horrible.

Some, sorry most, of the "jokes" were so bad I wondered if anybody actually laughed at them.