When did Family Guy start to suck?

[Jester]

Hello all, Jester here, former Family Guy fan....I think. I'm watching the new episode right now and it seems to have lost something. Heck, it has lost something long ago and I don't know what it is. Anyone think they can help me out?

[XERO]

Wish I could, buddy, but I'm not great at deductive reasoning.

Family Guy is like the Bermuda Triangle of cartoons. You're curious to explore it, but at the cost of being viciously sucked into its phantom-like gravitational pull, never to return.

[Cure]

Maybe, oh, I dunno, your tastes have changed? The level of writing has gone down? It could be a number of things, but asking someone else why you don't like something anymore is a bit silly. It's all subjective.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

I don't know. For me, it just reached a point where its formula got old.

[Jester]

I guess they are right, it is hard to type sarcasm. I know why I have started disliking Family Guy. Yes, my tastes may have changed, but it seems the series that was essentially just random pop culture references has become a lot more story driven, and the stories are very weak.

I guess I'll just watch American Dad, it's becoming the beter show by leaps and bounds.

[MrPliggins]

I missed tonight's FG, but I didn't think American Dad was very good either. I did lol a few times though.

[Cipher]

A year or two ago I would've answered "When it got brought back to life on Fox." I stopped watching it a few episodes into its return. It just didn't seem funny, even though I still thought the first three seasons were great.

Now I'm more tempted to answer "It never was funny." The people who maligned it as a series of jokeless, poorly constructed pop references were mostly right. Even still, there's a marked decrease in wit between seasons three and four.

American Dad absolutely lost me after the first two episodes. I couldn't even chuckle at it, and the few I've seen since haven't changed my mind.

Futurama4life.

[XERO]

Honestly, all I really care about now is The Boondocks.

[ThirdMarioBro]

A year or two ago I would've answered "When it got brought back to life on Fox." I stopped watching it a few episodes into its return. It just didn't seem funny, even though I still thought the first three seasons were great.

The first (I think) episode played again on Adult Swim about an hour or so again. I thought it was bland and mundane, which is why I wrote the show off in 1999 when it premiered. The voices sucked, the personalities were there, but underutilized, and the show seemed to try too hard not to cross a certain line of taste. I didn't come back until the second time it got brought back. I watched all the backlog I had missed, and saw the show quickly appealed to me more the lower they sank.

Pretty much, every time somebody says that it "stopped being funny the second time they brought it back", I just think they either became more conservative within that time frame, or the show sank below their approval level because that is when they started hitting really low.

Family Guy is pretty much offensive to every kind of human on this Earth at some point or another. Gay, straight, religious, atheist, redneck, rich, fat, anorexic, aids/hiv victims--they nail everybody. They've offended me several times. Whether you can continue to find it funny as it journeys deeper into the bowels of comedy depends on how well you can laugh at yourself and laugh at life. They piss me off from time to time, but I shrug it off because something else will make me laugh a few minutes later.

Maybe it's an age thing. We all tend to take life more seriously as we age and things we laughed at before may not always make us laugh later on. Maybe I'll be posting something like this in three or four years, but I doubt it. My tastes in humor are borderline retarded--hence, why I watch Family Guy.


I guess I'll just watch American Dad, it's becoming the better show by leaps and bounds.

I have tried a zillion times to watch American Dad and like it, but I just can't. It's not funny. The show just comes off as an obnoxious, loud-mouthed blowhard of a TV series. Patrick Stewart is the only funny thing about the whole thing, and the ST:TNG reunion on Family Guy in a couple of weeks took away my last reason to attempt to like American Dad.

Honestly, all I really care about now is The Boondocks.

A show that I find it a crime that I don't watch regularly. Need to fix that.

[Anarchistguy]

Honestly, all I really care about now is The Boondocks.

That makes two of us. 8) :thumbsup:

[Cipher]

Pretty much, every time somebody says that it "stopped being funny the second time they brought it back", I just think they either became more conservative within that time frame, or the show sank below their approval level because that is when they started hitting really low.
You seem to have completely misunderstood me. I love offensive humor. The problem with Family Guy isn't that it's offensive. It's that it's just not funny. The jokes fall flat. They always have, but it got even worse when it was brought back for a fourth season on Fox.

South Park, now that's offensive and funny.

And the age thing? Dude, you're older than me by five years.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Hmm...then I really have no clue what to tell you dude. I really don't.

[XERO]

It's not all age. There are some 62-year-olds who probably still watch Muppet Babies for all we know.

In the long run, I guess it's all on how you view comedy and the art of laughter, whether it's offensive, racist, clean, or even sexual.

Which, again, is why I only care for The Boondocks. It's all of the above. :lol:

[Peanut]

Family Guy got popular, that's why it isn't considered as funny anymore. Family Guy got so blown out of proportion when it was aborted that everyone thought it was some under-appreciated masterpiece of comedy when it was canned, but it really wasn't. It comes back, with the same retarded jokes, suddenly has a ton of fans, and then it isn't funny. That's how this sh*t works, kids.

I'm not even defending Family Guy. I don't watch it, and I've never been a big fan, but I remember when the show was being passed around the internet like some comical interweb doobie, and everyone thought Stewie wanting to kill Lois was comic genius. Sh*t gets old, the pop-media regurgitates the same tired shtick for a couple years and the anti-pop kids whine about how much it sucks, despite the fact they were blowing it when you had to torrent episodes of the show to even find it.

South Park, now that's offensive and funny.

See, I f*cking love South Park, but I can't say I've ever genuinely laughed at a joke they've made...ever. Everything they do is so lowest common denominator, wrapped in their typical right-wing, "we're so clever" message. I may have laughed at an immature joke or two when I was 15, but as the years moved on, South Park has become one of those shows where I'll sometimes vaguely think "that was funny" but never actually laugh. And is it really even offensive anymore? I mean, they've gone so far in so many directions that nothing they do strikes me as super offensive. It's kinda like "Oh, it's just South Park. No one really cares anymore."

Honestly, all I really care about now is The Boondocks.

God. What a f*cking terrible show.

[The Stryker]

I agree, Boondocks is horrible.

[ZariusTwo]

It's fluxuated here and there, but Stewie's reendition of Brian Adams reminded me of the old fire.

"I'm not following the story arc here"

"SHUT UP"

[Cowabunga Kiefer]

Family Guy kinda seems to have lost its edge to me too. It still is funny, but perhaps it's that every single line they have or Peter has just HAS to be funny/stupid/completely exaggerated. It's just the same thing for every episode you watch is just them doing the silliest things for no apparent reason. Given it was very funny for the past __ years, but do we honestly think we will still be laughing on the floor for the next __ years if they keep pushing these overly exaggerated skits and events?...I'm still a fan though! "At Wilkin's Hyundai and Subaru, We have Hyundais and Subarus!"

[Prowler]

I never liked Family Guy, anyone can do that kind of humor.

Cleveland: I'm afraid I don't have enough money to pay the check.
Peter: This reminds me of the time when me and Jabba Jabba went to a whore house in China.

*Flashback*

I never felt offended, I just felt less intelligent.

[ZariusTwo]

Half of FG's art is that it knows it's a slacker series...it KNOWS it's unorginal, it KNOWS it's a reference comedy, it's just a bunch of fraternity boys hanging out and treating it's audience like there in the room smoking and laughing with them

[Jester]

Half of FG's art is that it knows it's a slacker series...it KNOWS it's unorginal, it KNOWS it's a reference comedy, it's just a bunch of fraternity boys hanging out and treating it's audience like there in the room smoking and laughing with them
Maybe that's just it. I feel it's stopped being that and is trying way to hard to be political satire in the vein of South Park, just from the other side, and it fails miserably at it.

[Spike Spiegel]

It has completely lost its humor to me....I mean, seriously, what's the point of this kind of humor in the first place? What central truth about humanity and human nature is it bringing to light, besides our shared potential to act like fools?

I loved the show when I was twelve, but I think my tastes and maturity level have greatly changed...and maybe that's a good thing.

[Candy Kappa]

I like family guy, I enjoy watching the weird non-humorous yet funny jokes

[ThirdMarioBro]

It has completely lost its humor to me....I mean, seriously, what's the point of this kind of humor in the first place? What central truth about humanity and human nature is it bringing to light, besides our shared potential to act like fools?

I loved the show when I was twelve, but I think my tastes and maturity level have greatly changed...and maybe that's a good thing.

I feel sorry for you sir. Welcome to that period in life where we begin to refer to you as an "old fart".

[Peanut]

It has completely lost its humor to me....I mean, seriously, what's the point of this kind of humor in the first place? What central truth about humanity and human nature is it bringing to light, besides our shared potential to act like fools?

Yeah, cause there has to be a meaning behind everything. Something can't be entertaining just for the sake of it.

[GK Punk]

I still enjoy family guy.

[Candy Kappa]

YES! I'm not alone:D

[ThirdMarioBro]

I still enjoy family guy.

High five brother. Let's meet in a couple of hours in the VG forum, then we can slap five there.

[Cure]

It has completely lost its humor to me....I mean, seriously, what's the point of this kind of humor in the first place? What central truth about humanity and human nature is it bringing to light, besides our shared potential to act like fools?

I loved the show when I was twelve, but I think my tastes and maturity level have greatly changed...and maybe that's a good thing.

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[Jester]

High five brother. Let's meet in a couple of hours in the VG forum, then we can slap five there.
So that's what they call it now-a-days.

Man I should write for Family Guy. :P

[ZariusTwo]

I loved the show when I was twelve, but I think my tastes and maturity level have greatly changed...and maybe that's a good thing.

Implying FG's humour and appeal only applies to "immature people with s*it tastes" is well...an immature thought to begin with, so it can't be a case of growing out of it

No mate, your tastes didnt get better, you didnt mature more, you just got very boring.

[Drtooth]

Half of FG's art is that it knows it's a slacker series...it KNOWS it's unorginal, it KNOWS it's a reference comedy, it's just a bunch of fraternity boys hanging out and treating it's audience like there in the room smoking and laughing with them

I think that's the problem... right there. It just became more and more of a pander to slacker Frat boys type thing, and we got less and less plot line... this season started off good, especially that Road to Berlin one, but then they fell back into the same habits of characters being over the top nasty, cut scenes that were poorly set up, and pushing envelopes that were already pushed years ago. But the show REALLY started to suck when it became "Adventure time with Stewie and Brian." I'm sorry, but Stewie was a much better character when he was an evil little Anti-Christ type... not when he was effeminate and said funny things in an effeminate voice. The one where Brian and Stewie refurbished the house, and they did lame jokes about not saying over and "Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "Two friends builing a house together."

But I still can enjoy the show. I liked last week's episode... first one I saw in a while (no thanks to my Fox affiliate). But American Dad is still the tops in my book. The show evolved while this one devolved.

[VaughnMichael]

I still dig the show very much and while this past weeks episode made me laugh out loud a few times I found some parts to be a bit much like the bloody dead horse even if Mort being so funny softend the blow.

[ThirdMarioBro]

But the show REALLY started to suck when it became "Adventure time with Stewie and Brian." I'm sorry, but Stewie was a much better character when he was an evil little Anti-Christ type...

That's one of the reasons it got canceled the first time. There's only so things you could do with "generic Antichrist matricidal baby". It got old after a few episodes. The writers transformed Stewie into a more multi-faceted character so that they would have more things to do with him. Besides, the little bastard still comes out of retirement from time to time.

The point here is, you liked the show better when it was more tame. American Dad is five times more tame than Family Guy. The simple fact is that you do not approve of Family Guy's record levels of vulgarity and are not willing to admit it for the fear of being called a prude.

[Hannah]

I like the Stewie and Brian relationship!

[Jester]

As do I. I've always like the "Road to..." episodes.

[Gordo]

The cutaway gags went from 2 seconds long to some being over a minute long. I couldn't take it after season 4.

[Raven]

I still love this show, but its appeal does tire on me from time to time. I find myself having more fun quoteing FG then sometimes watching it though.

[Zachatello00]

Maybe that's just it. I feel it's stopped being that and is trying way to hard to be political satire in the vein of South Park, just from the other side, and it fails miserably at it.

That's my biggest problem with it. I do have to admit I really enjoy parts of it, but for the most part, I'm all about South Park now. I don't think I'd get along with Seth McFarlene in real life.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Its fun to try to guess people's political beliefs based on what shows they like, and what shows they don't.

[Jester]

Ok....guess...:P
I like:
South Park and American Dad

I (have grown to) dislike:
Family Guy

What am I?

[Drtooth]

The point here is, you liked the show better when it was more tame. American Dad is five times more tame than Family Guy. The simple fact is that you do not approve of Family Guy's record levels of vulgarity and are not willing to admit it for the fear of being called a prude.

No, I want to see a plot. A Plot carefully thought out, carefully executed, and not something becoming more and more a sketch show with a plot-like linking device. Something American Dad does wonderfully. They are just as offensive as Family Guy, but they use it in a more co-hesive way.

Plus, when you keep pushing envelopes, and everything loses it's shock value, how do you do shock? Nothing's shocking or surprising anymore, that's my point. You just expect "oh yeah... dirty joke." I love it when they do those things, don't get me wrong, but what ground is there left to cover? It's all been done. They really could have paced themselves and saved the jokes for future episodes, but when you've made you're fifth AIDS or Holocaust joke, it just doesn't seem to have the sting that it used to, and it feels pasted in.

The cutaway gags went from 2 seconds long to some being over a minute long. I couldn't take it after season 4.

That's another thing that killed it. And the poorly set up non-sequitors like Sneakers O'Toole or that dumb thing about Uncle Sam's Nipples. I liked it when they were actual flashbacks or something, not poorly pasted in "This is the worst farming Movie I've ever seen since I was a video tape salesman on the moon." I think the Youtube Seth McFarline Cavalcade of Comedy is a far better way to use these. I mean, there's nothing wrong with the cutscenes when they were connected to what they were saying, or when they were just used to go to another scene. The Cutscenes are what make Family Guy. But they don't just make UP Family Guy.

[Ginny]

[QUOTE=Drtooth;678805I mean, there's nothing wrong with the cutscenes when they were connected to what they were saying, or when they were just used to go to another scene. The Cutscenes are what make Family Guy. But they don't just make UP Family Guy.[/QUOTE]

Like the one a couple weeks ago with the Christian Bale tape. I actually left the room. It really didn't even fit with the episode.

They have the Cleveland spin-off in production now, and I wonder if some of the writers left to go work on it. That could account for some of the lame moments as of late.

[ZariusTwo]

I heard they even hired writers for King of the Hill for that spin-off. It depends.

Many of the earlier writers left for several other projecs in between cancelations and other things.

[Drtooth]

Actually... I know what another problem is that I'm surprised no one mentioned yet. Everyone else is doing the same type of humor. i remember I was watching a cartoon from collegehumor over a friend's back (Something about a support group for breakfast cereal mascots), and all I could say was, "Dude... Family Guy did it. And before they brought it back too." And we watched one about Scooby Doo murder Mysteries, and I said... "That was on the FIRST episode of Family Guy!" No wonder I don't find all that stuff as funny... everyone's stealing jokes from Family Guy.

Plus, I think Robot Chicken gets right what FG gets wrong, and FG gets stuff right that Robot Chicken gets wrong....

[Ninjinister]

Last night was a perfect example of a crappy Family Guy episode - in fact, it was my least favourite of all time. There was two cutaway scenes within the first two minutes, and the first one was a dead baby joke. There was like a minute and a half of a Conway Twitty music video with no storyline attachment or involvement from the characters. And the plot was horribly outdated. The only part that I thought was funny was O.J. throwing Stewie like a football.

[Ginny]

Last night was a perfect example of a crappy Family Guy episode - in fact, it was my least favourite of all time. There was two cutaway scenes within the first two minutes, and the first one was a dead baby joke. There was like a minute and a half of a Conway Twitty music video with no storyline attachment or involvement from the characters. And the plot was horribly outdated. The only part that I thought was funny was O.J. throwing Stewie like a football.


YES! I couldn't agree with you more. What was up with that stupid Conway Twitty video? I kind of chuckled at the Homer Simpson joke, but seriously, you are right, this was the worst ever episode.

[Ninjinister]

Yeah... the show's just basically nothing but a giant blowjob to music and popular culture geeks. There's no substance anymore. I even found that night's King of the Hill more interesting, and that usually is my least favourite program of the night.

[ThirdMarioBro]

I can understand missing the plot lines, and the Conway Twitty thing Sunday was too far. Still, I don't find my overall enjoyment of the show inhibited at all.

I will say one thing though. I don't miss "evil Stewie". They burned that out in season one, but I do miss his comedically rapid "putter putter putter" walk. Just an entrance was funny as hell with that. You barely see it now.

[GK Punk]

Which is funny, as I found this weeks episode to be one of my recent favorites. The Conway Twitty bit always kills me.

[VaughnMichael]

Last night was a perfect example of a crappy Family Guy episode - in fact, it was my least favourite of all time. There was two cutaway scenes within the first two minutes, and the first one was a dead baby joke. There was like a minute and a half of a Conway Twitty music video with no storyline attachment or involvement from the characters. And the plot was horribly outdated. The only part that I thought was funny was O.J. throwing Stewie like a football.
I can't lie I laughed more at the Simpsons episode that night than I did Family guy and that's rare!:o

[GK Punk]

Simpson's was pretty good this week.

[Ginny]

It sure was! I'm a conspiracy theory buff, so I loved that whole element, but there were some classic funny bits. The whole Homer with Maggie, Santa's Little Helper, and the rat poison bit cracked me up.

[Drtooth]

Last night was a perfect example of a crappy Family Guy episode - in fact, it was my least favourite of all time. There was two cutaway scenes within the first two minutes, and the first one was a dead baby joke. There was like a minute and a half of a Conway Twitty music video with no storyline attachment or involvement from the characters. And the plot was horribly outdated. The only part that I thought was funny was O.J. throwing Stewie like a football.


Oh man, good thing I skipped out on it then... (not by choice. These boxes SUCK!) I swear, If I see the Conway Twitty joke or another one of Cleveland's bathtub falling out of his house, I'm quitting it completely. There's a difference between running gag and excessive, and they've passed excessive a long time ago with those two.

[Buslady]

i didnt like when they started to joke about serious things like child abuse/spousal abuse. when stewie kept trying to get lois to clobber him...that's just wrong. the dumpster babies thing was in extremely poor taste as well

LOL aside from the story, whatever it was....oh yeah OJ...lame...

I like Conway Twitty LOL but that was pretty..misplaced.

[Drtooth]

You must be referring to the one where Stewie discovers that he's a masochist, right? I really loved that one, myself. Seems the abuse thing is the only thing left that was shocking, but now... well, they've done it... I like it when they get shocking, but they can be CLEVER with their shocks... like Peter eating chips in Anne Frank's attick, signaling the Nazis... or someone shooting the head off of a JFK Pez dispenser. It essentially went from.. "HOLY CRAP!!! They did THAT?!?! I can't believe they did that! HAHAHAHAHAHAH." to "Oh... yeah, they did that again... heh..."

But I have to say, I would tend to agree that evil Stewie was pretty flat... but to trade him for annoyingly over effeminate Stewie that says unfunny things with an accent (Simpsons territory really) is a lateral move. I mean, what made Stewie Griffen: the Untold Story so great was that we saw the character move and grow, and then discover himself. Something they've done with most of the characters until recently (last few seasons). I will say, I like how Chris actually continues to grow and become a character despite the fact the rest of the Family gets flatter and flatter.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Oh man, good thing I skipped out on it then... (not by choice. These boxes SUCK!) I swear, If I see the Conway Twitty joke or another one of Cleveland's bathtub falling out of his house, I'm quitting it completely. There's a difference between running gag and excessive, and they've passed excessive a long time ago with those two.

Oh boo-hoo. Cleveland's bathtub is one of the funniest recurring gags ever. I love how the show is so random that you only know its coming about a half second before something hits the house.

Besides, that will end when Cleveland's spin-off starts.

[VaughnMichael]

Oh boo-hoo. Cleveland's bathtub is one of the funniest recurring gags ever. I love how the show is so random that you only know its coming about a half second before something hits the house.

Besides, that will end when Cleveland's spin-off starts.
I agree it is funny, as is Cleveland but I'm not sure he warrants a spin-off series.
But I guess we'll be the judges when it airs.
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[ThirdMarioBro]

I have high hopes for it, but of course if nothing else, I'll just laugh at the sound of Arianna Huffington's voice coming out of a bear.

[CudleyCowlick]

Hello Darlin'
nice to see you
its beeeeen a looooong tiiiiime
you're just as lovely
as you used to be...


There are few gags in modern cartoon history that beat the Conway Twitty videos in Family Guy. The first time I laughed so hard I stopped breathing and blacked out and each time it only gets better, only because I never think they're gonna do it again. The longer it goes on, the funnier it gets.

The show has never been my favorite but I don't think it's going downhill, every season has had its winners and losers. I'll keep watching (and waiting for another Conway Twitty video)

[ThirdMarioBro]

I still think the last one went way too long, but damn if the Twitty cuts aren't funny as hell. The randomness is the fun of it. You never know when something like that is coming.

[GK Punk]

I agree. I think that's what I like about it so much, is out of no where, It's an episode of Hee-Haw.

[Drtooth]

I still think the last one went way too long, but damn if the Twitty cuts aren't funny as hell. The randomness is the fun of it. You never know when something like that is coming.

The Conway things and the Cleveland bathtub bits WERE funny and random...the first 30 times... but you don't do them in EVERY third episode. When a show recycles that many jokes, they need to sit down and actually write new ones. It's not clever anymore, and it just shows laziness.

[VaughnMichael]

The Conway things and the Cleveland bathtub bits WERE funny and random...the first 30 times... but you don't do them in EVERY third episode. When a show recycles that many jokes, they need to sit down and actually write new ones. It's not clever anymore, and it just shows laziness.
I only remember them doing both those jokes 2 times now.:-?

[GK Punk]

The Conway things and the Cleveland bathtub bits WERE funny and random...the first 30 times... but you don't do them in EVERY third episode. When a show recycles that many jokes, they need to sit down and actually write new ones. It's not clever anymore, and it just shows laziness.

The Conway Twitty thing has only been in two or three episodes over the last 2 years. I'm not sure how that = Every Third Episode. They don't even do the Bathtub gimmick that often either.

[Jester]

Ok, so I'm wondering if Family Guy is the same and my sensibilities and sense of humor is changing. Because aside from the Adam West getting the A's outta his body, I felt this episode was a steaming load of cameraman or Commissioner Gordon doo.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Family Guy has been like this since 2004, so its probably you. I just hope I never suffer a similar chance in taste. I like being entertained by the most retarded little things.......like poop jokes. As bad as they can get, nothing beats a good sh*t joke.

The whole Faux News had me laughing like a crazy man.

The Conway Twitty thing has only been in two or three episodes over the last 2 years. I'm not sure how that = Every Third Episode. They don't even do the Bathtub gimmick that often either.

He's probably counting all the out of order Adult Swim reruns where they played all the Twitty gag episode within a couple of weeks. On the original airings, those were spread out--like you said, over a couple of years/seasons.

[Drtooth]

Ok, so I'm wondering if Family Guy is the same and my sensibilities and sense of humor is changing. Because aside from the Adam West getting the A's outta his body, I felt this episode was a steaming load of cameraman or Commissioner Gordon doo.


Hey, I missed the beginning, but I thought this episode was great. Back to the track the show was on at the beginning of the season with that Jesus/Bird is the Word episode and "Road to Germany" worked so hard to get back into the groove that made the show great.

2 cut scenes in between the 2nd and 3rd act (strategically placed and short at that!), all the jokes actually happening in the context of the show... and that great inside humor about Peter making a cartoon. Not to mention a wacky twist ending that NO ONE could have predicted. I guess the last couple episodes musta just been a slump. I was watching it and just saying to myself, "That's more like it"

I can't wait for the Star Trek TNG "reunion" episode I've heard so much about. And when the hell are they going to release "Something Something Something Darkside?" :thyper:

[Peanut]

I like how you're one of those people who completely ignores what people post when they make you look like an idiot, and continues the conversation as if nothing ever happened.

[Drtooth]

I like how you're one of those people who completely ignores what people post when they make you look like an idiot, and continues the conversation as if nothing ever happened.

And I like how you can turn anything into a flame war for no reason whatsoever.

[VaughnMichael]

& I like how I didn't like lastnights episode of Family guy.:lol:

[Drtooth]

Aw, how could you not like the Ann Coulter joke? That was just classic Family Guy to me.

[Peanut]

And I like how you can turn anything into a flame war for no reason whatsoever.

Yeah, cause a comment about you being a pussy constitutes as a flame war. It's not like everyone else here doesn't just lambaste you all the time, anyways.

[Drtooth]

Yeah, cause a comment about you being a pussy constitutes as a flame war. It's not like everyone else here doesn't just lambaste you all the time, anyways.

I really have had it with your f**king attitude... What the f*** is your God damn problem? This has nothing to even do with the damn conversation! I'm immature? At least I'm not a gamer troll that has NOTHING better to do than piss all over EVERY one on the board except your little gamer friends.

[ThirdMarioBro]

He pisses on us too (and rightfully so, most of the time). You're not special.

I like how you're one of those people who completely ignores what people post when they make you look like an idiot, and continues the conversation as if nothing ever happened.

He probably learned that from me. I'm the freaking master.

[Peanut]

I really have had it with your f**king attitude... What the f*** is your God damn problem? This has nothing to even do with the damn conversation! I'm immature? At least I'm not a gamer troll that has NOTHING better to do than piss all over EVERY one on the board except your little gamer friends.

lawl. So easy.

And nothing better to do compared to what? Complaining about kids TV shows and kids celebrities I can easily avoid? rofl

You're right!

[Jester]

So, another week another episode....and it's the ST:TNG reunion episode. The B Story was fun, but the A story with Meg and Brian was sad. Peter passing me (and the rest of the viewing audience) the clicker before the commercial was a great touch though.

[Ninjinister]

How could Brian completely disbelieve in God when he had met Jesus earlier this season?

[Jester]

*shrugs*
I'm almost to the point of "You don't like it stop watching." but it's Family Guy and I still give it he benefit of the doubt, like SNL or the Simpsons.

[GK Punk]

How could Brian completely disbelieve in God when he had met Jesus earlier this season?

Because it's funny.

That's it, no real reason.

[Jester]

But that's just it....it wasn't funny. Darned Christian Conservative bias.

[GK Punk]

I found it funny, but it's more of a to each their own kind of thing. I also know several Christian's that found it funny.

[Jester]

I guess it's just building, you know. Week after week, more of what I believe is being is being made the butt of lousy jokes on a show I used to like...*shrugs* Maybe I'm taking a TV comedy way to seriously....or maybe I've been watching so much garbage (read: terrible movies)that the real funny stuff is lost on me.

[GK Punk]

I just wouldn't take it personal, they make fun of everything on that show. that's how me and my friend's look at it.

[Hannah]

Religion is just really easy to make fun of.

[Jester]

I know, but lately like I've said before it seems FG is trying to be the more political show which was the original role of AD, and AD was better at it balancing the left/right stuff by having Stan and Hallie both be extremes in one way or another. When FG gets political it's always left leaning...though I guess it's only fair, since South Park leans pretty hard on the left in it's satire...but then again, SP's jokes are far more often related to the story.

*thinks of the manatee tank.*

[ThirdMarioBro]

Pretty much, every time somebody says that it "stopped being funny the second time they brought it back", I just think they either became more conservative within that time frame, or the show sank below their approval level.

I guess it's just building, you know. Week after week, more of what I believe is being is being made the butt of lousy jokes on a show I used to like...*shrugs*

It's like I said on page one. Not that I'm faulting you for it or anything. It's just that some people get older, and harder set in their beliefs while they keep telling themselves that they aren't and that it's media's fault. Then eventually they stop trying and shun all the stuff that annoys them because they tire of fighting it.


The only way to fight that old man inside you is to embrace your sense of humor alongside your beliefs and learn to laugh at yourself, lest you turn into my friends who live in the same area as you. They quit watching TV years ago and won't watch any movie with a political reference or that is rated PG-13. That's called letting your beliefs consume your life.

Heck, remember that episode of Family Guy where Quagmire tries to get death to whack his wife so he can get out of that marriage? I hated that. I found it completely distasteful, then forgot about it an hour later and moved on. Comedy is comedy. As long as you keep laughing, you'll never grow old inside. If you quit laughing, you turn into Glenn Beck. Nobody wants to turn into Glenn Beck.




Nobody.

[Jester]

It's like I said on page one. Not that I'm faulting you for it or anything. It's just that some people get older, and harder set in their beliefs while they keep telling themselves that they aren't and that it's media's fault. Then eventually they stop trying and shun all the stuff that annoys them because they tire of fighting it.


The only way to fight that old man inside you is to embrace your sense of humor alongside your beliefs and learn to laugh at yourself, lest you turn into my friends who live in the same area as you. They quit watching TV years ago and won't watch any movie with a political reference or that is rated PG-13. That's called letting your beliefs consume your life.

Heck, remember that episode of Family Guy where Quagmire tries to get death to whack his wife so he can get out of that marriage? I hated that. I found it completely distasteful, then forgot about it an hour later and moved on. Comedy is comedy. As long as you keep laughing, you'll never grow old inside. If you quit laughing, you turn into Glenn Beck. Nobody wants to turn into Glenn Beck.




Nobody.
Oh, crap....I like Glenn Beck!

[The Stryker]

Big Surprise.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Oh, crap....I like Glenn Beck!

Crap. Well, looks like you're doomed then. Sorry.

[Jester]

Big Surprise.
As was that post...:roll:

Just so everyone knows, and it's not to surprise the brainless few, I am a conservative Southern Christian. Contrary to popular belief, I hold no ill will to homosexuals or other minority groups. Why? Because they are freaking human beings and I'm no better or worse than they are.

I've discovered a long time ago that they are plenty of idiotic bigoted white conservatives, BUT there are just as many bigoted white liberals or bigoted black conservatives or bigoted black liberals. There are idiots, freaks, douche bags, and creeps of every ethnicity, skin color, and sexual orientation. Any one who claims their race is superior is probably the greatest example of how it isn't.

There. I've said my peace (or is it piece). Krang, feel free to remove this post if you deem it necessary, I just really needed to vent.

[The Stryker]

Someone's alittle touchy today.

Go back to talking about how much Family Guy "sucks" you're slightly less annoying when you're doing that.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Just so everyone knows, and it's not to surprise the brainless few, I am a conservative Southern Christian. Contrary to popular belief, I hold no ill will to homosexuals or other minority groups. Why? Because they are freaking human beings and I'm no better or worse than they are.

...which is why I respect you and your opinion. I know from experience there aren't so many in that region with their head screwed on as straight as you, which is why I only visit....occasionally (lol).

It's true that Family Guy has gotten really political lately, but it doesn't bother me because I don't have any personal allegiances to anything beyond family and friends. I found the book burning gag funny as hell because I remember back when I lived in Arkansas and the Channel 7 news was covering local Churchs that had an organized Harry Potter book burning. Maybe not so funny then, but it sure is now.

[GK Punk]

You think that's bad, the church my aunt goes to once told her that if her son ever turns up with a Harry Potter book, they'd slap sense in to both of them for reading satanic material.

[VaughnMichael]

Don't worry Jester I happen to Like Glen also.
I just happen to like hearing all sides of what people have to say on things.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Heh, I remember when they were teaching the parents in 1991 that Splinter teaches children strange Hindu beliefs that lead you away from God. Funny stuff.

[Jester]

Heck, if I could find the TMNT=The DEVIL!!! book from the 90' (http://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Exposed/dp/0914984314)s I'd buy it for a good laugh.

EDIT: It'll soooo be mine on pay day!!

[ThirdMarioBro]

Honestly, I don't know why, but to date no thing on TV has ever made me laugh so hard as that episode--I think it's the one where Peter kidnaps the Pope. Anyway, there's a cutaway gag where Peter pulls the pressurized door release in an airliner and just goes flying out the window, falling through the sky while giggling all the way down. That just kills me, and I've seen it like 20 times. It's just the stupidest little retard joke, but I can't take it. Too damn funny.

[Ninjinister]

Honestly, I don't know why, but to date no thing on TV has ever made me laugh so hard as that episode--I think it's the one where Peter kidnaps the Pope. Anyway, there's a cutaway gag where Peter pulls the pressurized door release in an airliner and just goes flying out the window, falling through the sky while giggling all the way down. That just kills me, and I've seen it like 20 times. It's just the stupidest little retard joke, but I can't take it. Too damn funny.

That episode also has the best title for an episode...

"Holy Crap"

I don't know why, but those two words always make me chuckle.

[ThirdMarioBro]

I'd kill for a gif of Peter rolling out of that plane.

[XERO]

I got 2 words for ya:

'Cool W-hip.'

[ThirdMarioBro]

Watching Patrick Stewart get into that with Stewie killed me. Hysterical.

[VaughnMichael]

I got 2 words for ya:

'Cool W-hip.'
hah! that's one of my faves :):lol: