When did Family Guy start to suck?

**Jester** · 03-08-2009, 08:08 PM

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* · 03-08-2009, 08:15 PM

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* · 03-08-2009, 08:32 PM

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* · 03-08-2009, 08:34 PM

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

**Jester** · 03-08-2009, 08:48 PM

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* · 03-08-2009, 10:06 PM

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

*Cipher* · 03-08-2009, 10:10 PM

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* · 03-08-2009, 10:56 PM

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

**ThirdMarioBro** · 03-08-2009, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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.

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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.

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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* · 03-09-2009, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Benvenuto

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

That makes two of us.

*Cipher* · 03-09-2009, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by 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 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** · 03-09-2009, 01:02 AM

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

*XERO* · 03-09-2009, 01:25 AM

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.

Peanut · 03-09-2009, 06:18 AM

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.

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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."

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

God. What a f*cking terrible show.

*The Stryker* · 03-09-2009, 06:34 AM

I agree, Boondocks is horrible.

*ZariusTwo* · 03-09-2009, 04:01 PM

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 · 03-09-2009, 04:39 PM

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* · 03-09-2009, 04:47 PM

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* · 03-09-2009, 05:12 PM

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** · 03-09-2009, 05:29 PM

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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.

03-08-2009, 08:08 PM	#1
Jester Rat-faced Dude-guy Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Arkansas Posts: 26,301	When did Family Guy start to suck? 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? __________________ "Clearly, you're Ninja Turtling incorrectly." - Leo656

03-08-2009, 08:15 PM	#2
XERO Hybrid Theorist Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Alamo City Posts: 8,185	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. __________________ "Travel at the speed of light... then hit the nitro!"

03-08-2009, 08:32 PM	#3
Cure Y'all need Jesus Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 8,938	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. __________________

03-08-2009, 08:48 PM	#5
Jester Rat-faced Dude-guy Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Arkansas Posts: 26,301	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. __________________ "Clearly, you're Ninja Turtling incorrectly." - Leo656

03-08-2009, 10:56 PM	#8
XERO Hybrid Theorist Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Alamo City Posts: 8,185	Honestly, all I really care about now is The Boondocks. __________________ "Travel at the speed of light... then hit the nitro!"

03-08-2009, 08:34 PM	#4
Mr._Mutant_Man Mad Scientist Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,340	I don't know. For me, it just reached a point where its formula got old.

03-08-2009, 10:06 PM	#6
MrPliggins Foot Elite Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3,051	I missed tonight's FG, but I didn't think American Dad was very good either. I did lol a few times though.

03-08-2009, 10:10 PM	#7
Cipher Foot Elite Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 3,454	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.

03-09-2009, 01:02 AM	#12
ThirdMarioBro Tea Time! Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 8,905	Hmm...then I really have no clue what to tell you dude. I really don't. __________________

03-09-2009, 01:25 AM	#13
XERO Hybrid Theorist Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Alamo City Posts: 8,185	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. __________________ "Travel at the speed of light... then hit the nitro!"

03-09-2009, 06:34 AM	#15
The Stryker Stupid Rich Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Room 237 Posts: 11,152	I agree, Boondocks is horrible. __________________ @~<3 Mom~@

03-09-2009, 04:01 PM	#16
ZariusTwo Overlord Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Britain, DINO THUNDER...POWER UP! Posts: 22,494	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" __________________ Spider-Man: The Rescue Spider-Man: The Galloping Cat Spider-Man: Scarlet Mirror Doctor Who: Child of the Daleks

03-09-2009, 04:39 PM	#17
Cowabunga Kiefer Hench Mutant Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Born in Nashville, now I live in NYC. No TMNT sightings yet... Posts: 303	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!"

03-09-2009, 05:12 PM	#19
ZariusTwo Overlord Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Britain, DINO THUNDER...POWER UP! Posts: 22,494	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 __________________ Spider-Man: The Rescue Spider-Man: The Galloping Cat Spider-Man: Scarlet Mirror Doctor Who: Child of the Daleks