When did Family Guy start to suck?

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

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.