And if the show is still around in 6 years, people will be posting in the "Why American Dad isn't funny anymore" threads.
It's how these things generally work.
Things You USED TO Like About 'Family Guy'
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And if the show is still around in 6 years, people will be posting in the "Why American Dad isn't funny anymore" threads.
It's how these things generally work.
No, it's how it works when a show is GENUINALLY not funny anymore.
The show has been garbage since it's revival. Fox pays Seth MacFarlene to produce garbage for them (I haven't watched American Dad so I'm not judging that show). Between the running jokes and focusing the show on Peter's increasingly stupider adventures, there's very little to like in this show. Peter is annoying and the producers of The Simpsons seem to be making Homer Simpson like him, another reason why that show has become unwatchable.
Family Guy is a third-rate South Park.
Family Guy is a third-rate South Park.
Hey, it's entirely possible. Maybe by then we'll be saying "The Cleveland Show is what Family Guy and American Dad used to be."
I liked Family Guy for about one season. But gradually - and I'll admit this isn't even the fault of the show itself - I have grown to HATE the show with a passion I reserve for little else. In my world, it seems like people below the age of 40 are becoming incapable of speaking for very long without referencing something that happened on Family Guy.
It is becoming our "Darmok and Jilahd at Tenagra", and if an alien race blew us up for it, I couldn't blame them!
It is becoming our "Darmok and Jilahd at Tenagra", and if an alien race blew us up for it, I couldn't blame them!
I really have to disagree that the show hasn't changed. The same old jokes have gotten tired and unfunny. The writing has become specifically formulaic. Even the non sequiturs seem formulaic somehow. I may have gotten bored with it, but the show's joke quality has also declined from what it was and fallen into repetition.
Watching a new(?) epsiode where Bonnie finally gives birth to the kid.
I haven't laughed yet. Nothing has been funny, and even Stewie's guitar paying and commentary was not cute as intended, but rather annoying. I want to turn the channel, but there's nothing else to watch. They arent' even showing "American Dad"m but rather two episodes of the terrible current "The Simpsons", and two crappy FG's.
I may just turn off the TV. If the show gets cancelled this time, it'll be because it deserved it.
EDIT: The joke with Bill Gates and the iPod was good.
I haven't laughed yet. Nothing has been funny, and even Stewie's guitar paying and commentary was not cute as intended, but rather annoying. I want to turn the channel, but there's nothing else to watch. They arent' even showing "American Dad"m but rather two episodes of the terrible current "The Simpsons", and two crappy FG's.
I may just turn off the TV. If the show gets cancelled this time, it'll be because it deserved it.
EDIT: The joke with Bill Gates and the iPod was good.
"Stewie and Brian on the road."
I really wouldn't blame an alien race for blowing us up anyway. All they would need to do is look at some of the shite we produce...
(it would be a bit of an overreaction, but hey they are aliens after all)
The 8:30 (EST) episode tonight featured, among other things:
- Peter Griffin being reminded that he'd killed one of their previous infant children by shaking it too violently.
- Stewie getting trapped on the roof and then, when Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly shows up, cracking a joke about his Parkinson's disease.
- Another Conway Twitty video that seemed to drag on FOREVER. Did a lot of channel surfing during that segment.
- Peter, after befriending O.J. Simpson, being told he should go on a walk set to the tune of "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas, to think about the fact that O.J. is a killer. He does this, and almost the entire song is played during that segment. Okay, we get it. Move on.
- O.J., after finally being accepted by the lynch mob, promptly kills three people.
How the hell is ANY of this supposed to be FUNNY?!!
- Peter Griffin being reminded that he'd killed one of their previous infant children by shaking it too violently.
- Stewie getting trapped on the roof and then, when Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly shows up, cracking a joke about his Parkinson's disease.
- Another Conway Twitty video that seemed to drag on FOREVER. Did a lot of channel surfing during that segment.
- Peter, after befriending O.J. Simpson, being told he should go on a walk set to the tune of "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas, to think about the fact that O.J. is a killer. He does this, and almost the entire song is played during that segment. Okay, we get it. Move on.
- O.J., after finally being accepted by the lynch mob, promptly kills three people.
How the hell is ANY of this supposed to be FUNNY?!!
The 8:30 (EST) episode tonight featured, among other things:
- Peter Griffin being reminded that he'd killed one of their previous infant children by shaking it too violently.
- Stewie getting trapped on the roof and then, when Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly shows up, cracking a joke about his Parkinson's disease.
- Another Conway Twitty video that seemed to drag on FOREVER. Did a lot of channel surfing during that segment.
- Peter, after befriending O.J. Simpson, being told he should go on a walk set to the tune of "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas, to think about the fact that O.J. is a killer. He does this, and almost the entire song is played during that segment. Okay, we get it. Move on.
- O.J., after finally being accepted by the lynch mob, promptly kills three people.
How the hell is ANY of this supposed to be FUNNY?!!
Ah yes the infamous 'the juice is loose'. God that sucked worst than...erm.
Ladies and Gentleman, Mr Conway Twitty.
Lets teat it like 'Threshold' and never speak of it again.
Hey ''Praetor'' GREAT TOPIC!
I can't argue there! I used to love Family guy, but lately, WOW! this show just SUCKS now!
W T F Indeed!
I first started watching AD when AS was airing the re-runs, the first cupple of seasons were really ''Hit & Miss'' But! lately I have really come to love this show!
I can't argue there! I used to love Family guy, but lately, WOW! this show just SUCKS now! W T F Indeed!
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I disagree. I can watch Seasons 1, 2, & 3 and laugh riotously, but anything after that is not as sharp and usually at best evokes a chuckle or two from me.
J.
I actualy liked the episode tonight where Bonnie gave birth, you had a wacky, but not over the top "A" plot with the guys trying to help out Joe (and screw over that jackass Carter), and the B plot was Stewie & Brian, so it went well, save for the full length music video, which was allright in it's own right, but it was just more pointless filler
Oh, the writing's definitely deteriorated. I only watch the show intermittently, so I don't see how I can be merely bored with it, and yet it's really, really boring. And mean spirited - usually the mean stuff was done with enough of a wink that it didn't bother me, but not any more.
If a joke has been used so often that I'm familiar with it, trust me, it has been overused.
If a joke has been used so often that I'm familiar with it, trust me, it has been overused.
You sound like you have a great sense of humor JustKate after all you can tell that FG's gotten stale!(and now the obligatory laughing Romulan!)
Well, that happens.
I generally like the very early episodes the least. They imitated the structure of old situation comedies the most closely and Peter is just a somewhat clumsier version of Homer Simpson - basically good-hearted and interested in his family but completely immature and incapable. As time went by the "immature and incapable" became more emphasized along with "shamelessly and completely self-indulgent and lacking in empathy" and he became funnier. Likewise, carrying the "anthropomorphized pet" to a greater extreme than other cartoon series made Brian funnier, and evolving Stewie beyond the "rule the world" schtick has made him funnier as well.
The fifth season episode where Quagmire and Loretta have an affair is one of the funniest things they've ever done.
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