Poll: Family Guy, yay or nay?
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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.
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.
And other times, it's pretty funny. Ironically, I find American Dad more awesome than Family Guy.
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.
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.
It sometimes has moments of atheist propaganda and it can be hit and miss, but I think it's aged better than the simpsons
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.
Edit: This also sums it up quite nicely.
captaincabbage said: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.
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.
tl;dr: Nay.
