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    What are everyone's thoughts regarding Family Guy?

    Is it

    1. the shining future for scripted television comedies/animated shows with exciting stories, hilarious moments, empathic characters and clever social commentary that is the future television and of humor itself?

    or....

    2. Is it an overrated sludgepile of disjointed and cliche comedic gags stapled onto a contrived storyline into a sputtering, IQ-reducing and sleep-inducing 22 minutes?

    or maybe somewhere in-between all that?

    Personally, I thought the first 3 seasons before it's cancellation were brilliant. The humor relied less on non-sequiturs and "Goes on for so long it's funny" gags and more on cut-aways that were either directly, or closely related to what was happening in the story.

    After their renewal, they had what every canceled TV show dreams of: a fanbase that was so loyal, so numerous and so dedicated to the series, that it RESURRECTED THE SHOW FROM THE DEAD
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    they gave their fans what they thought they desired...
    and in my opinion at least, it turned the series into the 2nd description above.

    I cite Family Guy as precedent for my arguments that sometimes (though not always) a show's best option is to go out in a blaze of cancellation glory, leaving it's fanbase mildly disappointed, but at the same time hopeful in the anticipation for new content staring their beloved characters...*cough* *cough* FUTURAMA *cough* *cough*
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    I predict that this thread will devolve into a flame war within 10 posts. that said, I like Family Guy well enough, but its not one of my favorites. I prefer the first three seasons, but I don't think the new seasons are terrible.

    Bottom line is, it's just a cartoon.
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    I think the first three seasons are good with the fourth and fifth being okay but not great and the newer ones are much funnier but it's in a complete different way, either way I enjoy the show.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WinterSolstice View Post

    Personally, I thought the first 3 seasons before it's cancellation were brilliant. The humor relied less on non-sequiturs and "Goes on for so long it's funny" gags and more on cut-aways that were either directly, or closely related to what was happening in the story.
    The first couple of seasons really pushed the envelope at the time. I remember episodes where my jaw would just drop.

    I don't think the shock value is there anymore and probably people watching those episodes for the first time wouldn't be shocked due to shifts in our culture. For example, The Simpsons was incredibly controversial when it came out. However, if you look back at the first season, you'd wonder what the big deal was about.

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    I enjoy it, but I'd be between the two options mentioned above.

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    I like it. I don't love it. I did for a while.

    It's not so much that the show has dropped in quality, as I've found better things to occupy my time with. I still watch it whenever I happen to catch it, but it's not something I go out of my way to see anymore.

    But yeah, it's just a show. There's much worse on television. Every now and then they show a burst of brilliance, like Blue Harvest. But for the most part it is better than the recent seasons of Simpsons, but not as good as the older ones.
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    I love it even if it's only for the cliches XD

    it seriously needs more puns though :(

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    I like it. It's not great. But like The Simpsons there actually is some stuff to think about buried in beneath the surface. There's a lot of stupidity, but there's too much actually smart stuff in there to call it dumb.
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    Can't it be both 1 and 2? 'Cause I know I've had some eps which I really enjoyed, others which I like the first time I saw them, and some real stinkers. Generally speaking I find that putting musical numbers in an episode kills it for me immediately.

    The one where Peter becomes a Patriot just died the second he started doing his gawdawful patootie song or whatever the hell it was. Schmoopy? Floozy? Something I just wanted to smack the writers for anyway.

    Some of their gags run just a little too long, like they desperately wish they could just come out of the tv and bludgeon the viewer between the eyes with a frozen salmon or something.

    But yeah, I like the show well enough, though I'm not a rabid fan.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter_Wolf View Post
    The one where Peter becomes a Patriot just died the second he started doing his gawdawful patootie song or whatever the hell it was. Schmoopy? Floozy? Something I just wanted to smack the writers for anyway.
    It's Shipoopi from The Music Man. Seth McFarlane is a musical nut, and includes lots of this sort of thing. It tends to be funny if you get the reference, tedious if you do not.

    My favorite was the shot by shot re-creation of "Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop of Horrors. I had seen that movie and thought it was hilarious. My brother (a huge FG fan is ever there was one) had not and just wanted it to end.
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    I like the ones with the more obscure, intellectual references.

    I also find EVIL!Stewie better than Not-Quite-Ambiguously-Gay-Stewie. Because crazy evil schemes are fun.

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    Two.

    I just don't think it's funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mechafox View Post
    I predict that this thread will devolve into a flame war within 10 posts. that said, I like Family Guy well enough, but its not one of my favorites. I prefer the first three seasons, but I don't think the new seasons are terrible.

    Bottom line is, it's just a cartoon.
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    It's ok. I used to love it back in the day but lately it just doesn't appeal to me as much.

    Also...was never a big fan of Stewie. Everyone else seemed to love him but he was just meh for me. Peter was always my favorite followed by Brian.
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    That was almost as bad as the time that slowpoke guy failed to get the 50 millionth post in his message board.


    Anyway, it's... not that bad of a show, but there's a lot of times where the show just... really offends me. But that's political stuff, so I won't get into it here.

    However, I think I actually like American Dad a bit more then Family Guy, though it isn't on as often.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Enlong View Post
    13. You fail!

    That was almost as bad as the time that slowpoke guy failed to get the 50 millionth post in his message board.


    Anyway, it's... not that bad of a show, but there's a lot of times where the show just... really offends me. But that's political stuff, so I won't get into it here.

    However, I think I actually like American Dad a bit more then Family Guy, though it isn't on as often.
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    Ah well. Anyway, it's probably Peter who singlehandedly ruins the show for me. Ironic actually.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Enlong View Post
    Anyway, it's... not that bad of a show, but there's a lot of times where the show just... really offends me. But that's political stuff, so I won't get into it here.

    However, I think I actually like American Dad a bit more then Family Guy, though it isn't on as often.
    It's sad how American Dad has actually become less political than Family Guy.

    I agree with most of Seth McFarlane's views, but the anvilicious way in which he presents them in Family Guy make me cringe.
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    Brian's awesome and the only normal character on the show. Stewie is funny. Peter is a dumb jackass who should be hanged, shot and quartered.

    Basically that sums it up... Episodes that are heavy on Brian or Stewie are the first type of episodes. Episodes that are heavy on Peter (with rare exceptions like the one with the car GPS) are two.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Julio Anejo View Post
    Episodes that are heavy on Brian or Stewie are the first type of episodes.
    Especially the Brian and Stewie roadtrip episodes.

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    Especially the Brian and Stewie roadtrip episodes.
    Man, I love those. I'm a sucker for musical numbers.
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    Brian's awesome and the only normal character on the show. Stewie is funny. Peter is a dumb jackass who should be hanged, shot and quartered.

    Basically that sums it up... Episodes that are heavy on Brian or Stewie are the first type of episodes. Episodes that are heavy on Peter (with rare exceptions like the one with the car GPS) are two.
    Yeah. If Seth got rid of two-thirds of the main cast and turned it into The Brian & Stewie Show, it would probably be a lot better received. Still, at least it's not as bad as American Dad; that show reaches Carrot Top levels of unfunny.


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    I like it almost enough to watch it. I really like the clip on youtube of Stewie beating up Brian over $50, but then it got buried under a bunch of 50 Cent music videos and now I can't find it. Very annoying.
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    It's an okay show, Stewie turning gay was sorta lame though, it's not the fact that he's homosexual but he stopped being an evil mastermind, so that failed.

    There newer ones are usually not very good. Though the one were Stewie kidnaps the cast of Star Trek was pretty good.
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    [QUOTE=Blackbird97;6015316]It's an okay show, Stewie turning gay was sorta lame though, it's not the fact that he's homosexual but he stopped being an evil mastermind, so that failed.QUOTE]

    He was always homosexual....from the first episode...
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    Well, tonight's episode is the first to ever piss me off.
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    He was always homosexual....from the first episode...
    Really? Huh. The early Stewie doesn't show that nearly as much as the later Stewie. Early Stewie's mostly about the evil plans to destroy Lois and Broccoli and Get Joe's Chair, etc.

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    Really? Huh. The early Stewie doesn't show that nearly as much as the later Stewie. Early Stewie's mostly about the evil plans to destroy Lois and Broccoli and Get Joe's Chair, etc.
    Its there, even in his b-day episode. Its way overplayed as the series goes, but like all jokes from the start thats the case. Like Meg going from the families favorite and Chris being a freak to Meg being hated for -no- reason
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    Count me in as one who thinks Family Guy is ok fun, but doesn't like Peter, and thinks the show would be vastly improved w/o him. He gets to me not because he's annoying and stupid, but because he can get away with being stupid and annoying.

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    I like it... I'm not a diehard fan or anything, but I like it.


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    Well, tonight's episode is the first to ever piss me off.
    I didn't see it. What was wrong with it?

    For the record, the first Family Guy to really offend me was Boys Do Cry, where the message of the episode was basically "Texas sucks."
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