you know what really grinds my gears?

[Jesse Pinkman]

you do know 20 minutes is basically the total runtime of an episode (minus one or two minutes), Matlock?

unless you were watching one of the star wars parodies

[Bella Drape 'er]

you do know 20 minutes is basically the total runtime of an episode (minus one or two minutes), Matlock?

he just wanted to show us all that family guy is so bad, he couldn't even finish an episode

hats off to him

[Hommer]

joe miller, you forgot this annoying youtube comment:

"(number of people who disliked video) people are (villain from video)"

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

'Hey everyone!
I know not many of you will read this, let alone care. But its worth a shot!
I'm a guy who loves music more then anything! I'm in a band and I also love making up my own guitar pieces.
My goal is to reach 50 subscribers by new years day! Which is only 10 hours away.
So if you could please spare some time to check me out and subscribe if you like what you hear, i would be so, so grateful!
OH, and happy new years!! '

Shitty Youtube spam.

[Prune Tracy]

Shitty Youtube spam.

Wow, a 3-word redundancy. You don't see that every day.

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

Shitty Youtube spam.

The simplest solution, the delete button. Nobody gets super angry about spam and people who get pissed off about spam really grinds my gears.

[Hommer]

A counterpart to all of those "Arrow to the Knee" jokes:

[Matlock]

you do know 20 minutes is basically the total runtime of an episode (minus one or two minutes), Matlock?

unless you were watching one of the star wars parodies

I think I turned it off near the end.I just really dislike outright plagiarism, it's always bothered me for some reason.

[Lionel Hutz]

The funniest part about that Family Guy clip is the fact that The Simpsons have also done it (With Lenny and Carl in Poppas Got A Brand New Badge).
Although I don't know who did it first.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

The Simpsons

[Jesse Pinkman]

i hate when a friend hacks my facebook, puts up some stupid message as a status as a joke, and people 'like' it.

it especially sucks when i myself try to make funny statuses, and no one appreciates my comedy.

i guess i should just give up. or try harder. hm...

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Seriously, that. "Hey, I hacked you! "
8 like this.

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

Could you imagine lolcats' facebook account

[Jesse Pinkman]

Seriously, that. "Hey, I hacked you! "
8 like this.

yea, luckily my friend didn't do anything like that though.

"guess who hacked me "

and i hate when people say "i am gay" on someone else's profile; you have the power to do ANYTHING on this person's facebook for a very limited time, and you resort to a fake gay thing? what, are you 5?

[Bella Drape 'er]

and you resort to a fake gay thing? what, are you 5?

no, more like they're gay themselves

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

Now Now let's not use the word 'gay' as a negative. Unless...Bella Drape 'er, you are Homer the Vigilante!

[Bella Drape 'er]

did I ever say there was anything negative about being gay?

I was just implying that people who post those comments are secretly in the closet themselves

[Jesse Pinkman]

i always figured they were just really immature

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Could you imagine lolcats' facebook account

Yeah.

It has a name, a profile picture, a decent amount of friends, and he "likes" about 35 things.

[Swoony]

I don't like when people hate a show without genuinely givining it a chance.

Or even worse, when they watch a crappy clip or one bad episode and deem the whole thing to be terrible.

Reminds me of Xbox 360 or PS3 fanboys who dislike anything that's not related to their company because change is bad.

And there's no way in hell that i'm refering to the Cleveland show here because i've taken the time and sat though a handfull of episodes and have a right to an opinion on it. Actually i'm primarily refering to those people who don't give American Dad a second glance when they think it's a crappy ripoff of Family Guy merely because it came around later and gets severely less promotion. Though this does apply to shows in general aswell. Most of my favourite shows tend to be underrated actually (Malcolm in the Middle, King of the Hill, Breaking Bad, American Dad, etc).

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

You know what grinds my gears? When a thread disappears when I was about to post something. How rude!

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

And there's no way in hell that i'm refering to the Cleveland show here because i've taken the time and sat though a handfull of episodes and have a right to an opinion on it. Actually i'm primarily refering to those people who don't give American Dad a second glance when they think it's a crappy ripoff of Family Guy merely because it came around later and gets severely less promotion.

Yup. This happens all the time around here. My father himself never even gave it a chance because he hates Family Guy, but it truly is his style of comedy. He just can't look past that Seth animation or something.

[Homer Defined]

"Family Guy" and "The Simpsons" are pretty similar, only it took "The Simpsons" 8 and a half seasons before it started to suck and it took "Family Guy" only 4 and a half. That means "The Simpsons" has twice as many good episodes. What a terrible 'comeback' "Family Guy" made. I actually became a fan of the show during its cancellation and was so excited about it coming back. Then it didn't take long after the return before I wished it had stayed cancelled.

Also, I've been re-watching "Family Guy" from the beginning, and while I still like the old episodes, I've noticed (as had been pointed out before, I'm sure), one thing that makes it different from "The Simpsons" is that it tends to lack heart. That didn't matter for awhile because the effectiveness of the humour made up for its shallowness, but a little more substance wouldn't have hurt. There were a few sweet moments (mostly coming through Lois, of all people), but they tended to be defused with punchlines.

The only time the series ever came close to the emotional depth of the most emotionally resonant Simpsons episodes was in the single episode "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows", which was not surprisingly written by a writer who never wrote another episode of the series after it. That's too bad because it was one the best things the show ever did (won it an Emmy for best song, even), and an example of how much better the show could be with some heart. Pity the series never took that ball and ran with it, because "Family Guy" wore sentimentality well, at least for one episode.

But back on topic (kinda?), that "grinds my gears" thing was one of the funnier jokes in "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story". Especially when Peter goes, "You know what really grinds my gears? You, America. FAHK YOU! Diane?". The first few times I watched that, I kept missing the "Diane" part of the line because I was laughing so hard.

This.

I felt the same way when I heard FG would be making a comeback. It didn't take long for the disappointment to kick in. I guess one of the reasons FG took a more radical turn than it had the first 3 seasons was because it still being called a Simpsons copycat eventhough as you said it never really carried the same emotional depth or smart, clever jokes as The Simpsons did.

[Mozy]

When people use "like" in every damn sentence. "Well, I was, like, at the store and, like, there was this movie, and like, it totally stunk"

Tell me about it! Especially when you read "UMAD BRO" , "I took an arrow to the knee" and "That's a paddlin" over and over and over and over...

AMEN TO THAT!

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

I felt the same way when I heard FG would be making a comeback. It didn't take long for the disappointment to kick in. I guess one of the reasons FG took a more radical turn than it had the first 3 seasons was because it still being called a Simpsons copycat eventhough as you said it never really carried the same emotional depth or smart, clever jokes as The Simpsons did.

Well I guess the comparison was one that defined the show as a whole. Even though Seth and Matt are alleged friends, Seth was probably so annoyed at having the show be called a Simpsons ripoff so he did like everything in his ability to make it look less like a Simpsons ripoff and more like a 80's sitcom (more specifically All in the Family) ripoff. That caused the show to change in the most radical ways possible...

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

I agree, Brian Griffin used to be my favourite character but now...he's not the same.

[Mozy]

It really grinds my gears when people nag, nag, nag, nag. I mean, sure, at times people need to nag but at the same time, why the hell doesn't anything positive come out of the nagging?

[Financial Panther]

This has really been pissing me off lately, and I need somewhere to vent about it. It's about how mods (or perhaps one specific mod) are now constantly deleting posts. Although nobody admits it, I think we all like seeing big fights break out in threads. Case in point: Apparently something happened in that latest Al Jean thread, but I wasn't online at that time, and now all the posts are gone. In the good old days, those posts would've stayed up there for all to see and appreciate. It feels a bit like Communism to me, how a higher authority is controlling what we can and can't see.

Okay, rant over. I feel a bit better now.

[Dobbie]

Financial Panther, two words: Hakuna Matata.

[Dark Homer]

which al jean thread are you talking about?