I hate family guy.
The last time I tried to watch it, the show seemed to just be bad references. It had become the manatee joke. I’ve got no problem if you like Family Guy. I watched it for a while. I really liked The Cleveland Show and American Dad much more
They’re wrong. I’m sure family guy has been on for 23 seasons because it sucks. LOL
Not because it’s still good, but because it’s easy money.
True, but if people aren’t watching, it’s not making money!
I thought it was a pretty good critique by South Park but I still liked the first 5-6 seasons of Family Guy back in the day, random joke structure and all. It was a funny show.
It just never really innovated much on that formulas and went on for way too long. I don’t understand why it wasn’t cancelled a long time ago.
Yeah the first three seasons of Family Guy hold a special place in my heart and life. I used to stay up late to watch them on Adult Swim back in like 2002-2003. Those initial seasons (before they were cancelled and brought back for a 4th season) actually told stories and the characters weren’t one note vessels for jokes. The show has fallen so far, everyone is so mean spirited and there’s no characterization, Lois is the best example of this. She actually used to love her kids and act like a mother, now she’s just as mean as Peter is to Chris and Meg and basically hates her children. South Park definitely called out the show on its awful writing and it was so glorious to see it when it first happened.
It was canceled. Twice. It keeps coming back like the undead.
When was the second time? I thought it was just after season 1.
It really is a show that continued to rest on its laurels.m, rather than innovating.
Even Seth doesn’t understand why it’s still running. He wants it to end. Hell his only contribution to the show for the last decade is voices
The first 5 seasons of Family Guy are full of bust out laughing jokes. It feels like hating to hate to deny it.
“If you look closely at the writing in ‘Family Guy’, you will see that the jokes never derive from the plot, and I think that’s totally gay.”
-Osama bin Laden
True, seth mcfarlane’s other shows are WAY BETTER like the orville
If the jokes can’t be written into the story, then they shouldn’t be interrupting the story.
Macfarlane has a very distinct type of humor that is very in-your-face, and it’s in everything he does. Ted, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and especially Ted 2, just feel like a live-action Family Guy and it’s not great.
I’ve always said that Family Guy’s humor is for those people that tell jokes you politely laugh at.
I watch every adult cartoon going, multiple times. Family guy is not my least favourite (that honour goes to Big Mouth/Human Resources) but it’s nowhere near the top or even middle of my favourite cartoon shows.
First couple of seasons were alright, but it soon ran out of ideas, the last time I tried to watch an episode, I didn’t laugh once. It can also be unnecessary cruel, whereas there’s always a point to Trey and Matt’s jokes
Family Guy hasn’t been good since season four. Season 5 was the start of the noticeable decline, anything after that is basically unwatchable.
I think the problem is the format. Watching random clips without context is fucking hilarious, even clever sometimes. But the full episodes drag too long.
I feel like the show would have been way better and would have played its strengths if instead of full 20 min episodes they should separate it into 7 min episodes, like the old looney tunes. Or something like that.
When I’ve had a long week and gets stoned out of my mind it’s my favorite thing to put on. The manatees just know good vibes.
I like family guy
Early Family Guy was much more clever.