does anyone else find this really annoying about family guy?

[Revolver]

family guy is on comedy central now?

[prince jafar allah]

you tink dats baad? remember the time i almost boarded that flight to los angeles etc etc

[DotheBartman]

family guy is on comedy central now?

I believe in the Netherlands they do in fact play it (along with The Simpsons and Futurama) on the local Comedy Central.

[sacrelicious]

conway titty

I actually want to see that episode

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

"You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try."

With the most recent episodes, I think they are trying...

Uh... wouldn't it being a cartoon be more of a reason to have strong characterizations? Since everything is amplified?

There are moments when the characterization is strong, such as when Loretta and Cleveland broke up, or when Bonnie had that baby.
There are slight hints of characterization if you look past the awfulness in your words.

But when the show started, it actually WAS supposed to be that type of show. I really don't know what it's supposed to be now; everyone says "it's just a gag show now!" but every time I tune into a new episode it seems like they're supposed to be telling a serious story.

With Season 9, they have been trying to tell serious forms of stories, hell there are less cutaway gags then there were before.

[NoOneFamous]

I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT CHRIS'S PERSONALITY IS SUPPOSED TO BE.

Uh, a "slow", socially awkward teenager who means generally means well? FG is liberal with its' character traits, but the main characters DO have established personalities.

Seriously what the hell, this family guy discussion is like 5 years out of date.

Yeah, sorry Family Guy bandwagon haters, but the show this season has been consistently better than The Simpsons has. Yeah, its still by no means perfect, we know. At least it can actually make me laugh more than once or twice an episode.

[The Sovereign]

does it actually count now as an accomplishment to be better than the Simpsons though?

[Semaj]

I actually want to see that episode

No you don't.

[Flimpson Tide]

Besides the fact I have been grossed out and enraged at least three times this season, Family Guy has also been performing better in my book. I suppose the fact that it can get strong emotion out of me at all compared to The Simpsons doing little to nothing is remarkable in itself. Sticking to the same formats and "innocence" over the course of 15 years just doesn't help a show progress.

[Mt. Doom]

I'm not a fan of Family Guy

[Old painty-can Ned]

.Yeah, sorry Family Guy bandwagon haters, but the show this season has been consistently better than The Simpsons has. Yeah, its still by no means perfect, we know. At least it can actually make me laugh more than once or twice an episode.

Yeah I don't think Postmaster is a boarder who watches all the new Simpsons episodes and is comparing it to that.

[Dr. Fishopolis]

"You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try."



The sad thing is, that's how the show has come across for you to think that. lol.



Uh... wouldn't it being a cartoon be more of a reason to have strong characterizations? Since everything is amplified?



But when the show started, it actually WAS supposed to be that type of show. I really don't know what it's supposed to be now; everyone says "it's just a gag show now!" but every time I tune into a new episode it seems like they're supposed to be telling a serious story.

Saving Christmas, murder mysteries, Brian finding and losing love, Lois getting an abortion, Stewie and Brian locked in a bank, etc.

I hate how Seth thinks he's invented these brilliant supporting characters as well. He wants to create a town of secondaries like The Simpsons, but they're all less than one dimensional.

Family Guy is like a fucking fanfiction, I swear.

Kinda off topic, but weren't you Racist Pumpkin in 2008 and left, then came back?

[Postmaster]

I meant the discussion in general is out of date, like something you would have seen on the internet after the first season of Family Guy's revival.

Though season 9 of family guy and maybe the tail end of season 8 has been a real change of pace. I watched The Simpsons for the first time in a while recently and I remember it being ok, but right now I honestly can't remember off the top of my head what it was about.

[General Jack D. Ripper]

Robot Chicken may not be genius, but it's a lot funnier than Family Guy. Even if Family Guy was a sketch show, it still wouldn't be funny, except for maybe once or twice an episode (for proof see: Seth Macfarlane's Cavalcade of Comedy.)

[Little Nellie Kelly]

One thing that particularly annoys me about FG and MacFarlane shows in general is their portrayal of women who are even slightly overweight. In Family Guy alone, we get Meg jokes out the wazoo, and she's a girl of average build and looks pretty much just like Lois. I guess you could argue that that's the joke, but it's never presented in a way that even suggests as much. And anytime you see a younger girl who's kinda fat, she always has this husky mouth-full-of-food voice, is portrayed as unappealing to everyone else, typically eats/farts a lot (or talks about eating/farting), and is a constant subject of ridicule. The premiere of this season did it with Quagmire's date. This misogynistic approach to all his shows makes me not even want to watch most of the time. At least American Dad's Debbie actually acts like a human being and not a disgusting food monster.

I agree completely. Their approach to fat people (fat women in general, really) is appalling; American Dad's Debbie (even created by Seth MacFarlane himself) is a much better presentation of a fat women, not completely accurate but not a food monster (as you said).

[Neptune]

This is somewhat off topic.
Family guy has had a few recent episodes where they've tried to portray their characters as "real'. There's one episode in particular where they've done this. I may have it a bit wrong, but brian is trying to get quagmire to like him. Quagmire keeps pushing him away, but brian doesn't stop. Quagmire eventually tells him why he didn't like him, and I thought his explanation was really stupid. I don't remember exactly what all he said, but most of them didn't even make sense. I think there was one line about how he poops on the lawn even though peter takes care of him. Isn't he the family dog? I guess some times he's not, though. Sometimes he drives his own car.He's more of a prop than a character. Most of fg's characters seem to be that way. It's annoying when they try to have "real" moments with these characters. They usually come out of nowhere and make no sense. At least the simpson's writers don't try to make real moments with the crazy cat lady or the bumble bee man. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

[Dr. Fishopolis]

It's a cartoon.

[Neptune]

It's a cartoon.

Yep, an inconsistent one.

[Dark Homer]

It's annoying when they try to have "real" moments with these characters. They usually come out of nowhere and make no sense. At least the simpson's writers don't try to make real moments with the crazy cat lady or the bumble bee man. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

isn't quagmire like a major character? a more apt simpsons comparison would be someone like nelson or moe, both of whom have received an excess amount of "real" moments

[NoOneFamous]

^Yeah, while that scene in particular is not a favorite of mine, I liked that they actually gave some real moments to Quagmire, who was by far the most "one note" of the main characters.

[Semaj]

Quagmire's extended rant against Brian was somewhat unusual for Quagmire, since he's not the one you'd expect to take people so seriously. It was a huge relief to finally hear someone take Brian to task for his liberalism/atheism, both of which have chipped away at who was once the smartest character on the show.

[Redem]

Well the quagmire rant I think announced the show the show being becoming somewhat more reasonage after a string of bad seasons and Quagmire if you take all the insane/criminal stuff he did overtime just for the sake of a joke would come up has reasonable enough to be allowed some room (still think they could have made an interesting spin-off with him)

(amusingly in Quebec Family Guy first 3 seasons were shown in their france-made dubbing but skipped all the way to season 8 before showing new one with a Quebec made dub, so weirdly enough no one who bases themselves on just what teletoon show would get why Quagmire would rant like this)

Still while commendable for improving itself, I think Family Guy bipolar in its approach to really convey the emotion it seem to train to give its viewers because its simply unable to make something like a build up