Poll: Family Guy, yay or nay?
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Family Guy never reached the level of the Early Simpsons episodes, but during the first 3 or 4 seasons, it was reasonably funny at times.
Now it's a mess of increasingly random pop culture references and sheer nastiness for the sake of being nasty and mean. With South Park, there is often a political or social edge to the jibes and the mean jokes - when South Park is cruel, it's often highlighting an absurdity of modern life - not always, but sometimes.
With Family Guy, however, they're often crass for the sake of being crass. And I find nothing of value in that.
Now it's a mess of increasingly random pop culture references and sheer nastiness for the sake of being nasty and mean. With South Park, there is often a political or social edge to the jibes and the mean jokes - when South Park is cruel, it's often highlighting an absurdity of modern life - not always, but sometimes.
With Family Guy, however, they're often crass for the sake of being crass. And I find nothing of value in that.
It's not great, but I do enjoy it from time to time. It's very random, the plot is clearly too uninspired to last through a whole episode so random clips are shown to drag out the time and whenever they're in real need of dragging out the clock they add a fight with a giant chicken. I have watched most of the episodes, and I consider it a good show and I will keep watching it in the future. It doesn't always make me laugh, but there are always bits I consider funny in it.
Family Guy was a funny and entertaining show in the original seasons (i.e. 1, 2 and 3) however once it was canceled one too many times, Seth Mcfarlane lost the plot and the continuing seasons have just been him floundering around purveying his ridiculous idea of humor, which consists of nothing more than him arguing why he is the most intelligent person out, and if your religious, conservative or against legalizing his precious marijuana your are and idiot and do not deserve to live.
I voted Yay! but, while I'd rather watch it a lot more than South Park any day, I'd much rather watch American Dad! or Futurama
Add me to the list of people that found earlier seasons hilarious but the later ones hit-or-miss
Add me to the list of people that found earlier seasons hilarious but the later ones hit-or-miss
I liked every episode of Family Guy from the first one to the last and hope that they will continue making more.
*Shrugs* I still enjoy it from time-to-time.
Also will second this. I enjoy it, but I have a few other shows I'd watch over it, which include either of the ones mentioned above.Andy Shandy said:
It became just... Stupid, the main issue with me is that they tried to make Quagmire relatable, like hes not a womanizing prick, he's only doing it because he was rejected by 2 woman, seriously, what the hell? They even made several episodes dedicated to trying to play this off, it happened to Stewie, Peter and then him, its more or less just a very bad drama show then a comedy show. Thats what shows start to do if they run out of ideas, or they try to make it SEEM funny, but really its just repeated. Family Guy is doing what Simpson's is doing, because they have gone on for too long, seriously, American Dad is better BECAUSE its new, but Family Guy, Clevand Show, the Simpsons, are all dead series with the burial reception taking a few decades because they can't remember what the dead series was ABOUT to begin with.
I like it to a certain extent. Seth MacFarlane is a funny talented guy but a lot of his jokes miss the mark and others are just plain stupid or annoying. He can be a good satirist but it is dumb humour, and sometimes far too dumb to even be enjoyable.
That being said I do watch Family Guy and it's worth a bit of entertainment. I don't think ever really laugh out loud but some things are worth a titter.
That being said I do watch Family Guy and it's worth a bit of entertainment. I don't think ever really laugh out loud but some things are worth a titter.
I love Family Guy although there is some bits I don't particularly like, like the long drawn out jokes.
I'm not too keen on the new episodes too, especially the one with Evil Stewie. I think that one was going way too far and seemed a bit, 'hurr hurr, loads of violence is bad, look what we can get away with!' I just didn't think it was funny.
Also, Bryan used to be 'the voice of reason' so to speak, now I think he just seems like the character with the interchangeable personality Seth MacFarlene uses to mock other people. When Bryan became Republican, for example.
I'm not too keen on the new episodes too, especially the one with Evil Stewie. I think that one was going way too far and seemed a bit, 'hurr hurr, loads of violence is bad, look what we can get away with!' I just didn't think it was funny.
Also, Bryan used to be 'the voice of reason' so to speak, now I think he just seems like the character with the interchangeable personality Seth MacFarlene uses to mock other people. When Bryan became Republican, for example.
Gah, yes! That's what annoys me about BBC3 showing it. You'd assume they had the rights to show all of the seasons, and there's been about 10 years worth of them, yet they show the same six episodes in a circle! D:^=ash=^ said:
Wow I must say I'm quite surprised. As I type this there's actually more of the "Nay" option - including me.
I hate it. I don't understand why it's so popular at all. If it's one thing I have going for me it's a good sense of humour, but FG just doesn't make me laugh at all.
I hate it. I don't understand why it's so popular at all. If it's one thing I have going for me it's a good sense of humour, but FG just doesn't make me laugh at all.
Before it was cancelled, it was pretty good to be honest. I legitimately enjoyed it. The later seasons? I'll have them on as background noise if nothing else. I'll tolerate it on while I'm in the room. So ya, I just won't answer the poll. It was never a GREAT show, but it was decent enough for a couple seasons.