Family Guy

[DarkCORN!]

I love family guy. There was a thread for it, but it is in the dead topic repository. Anyone else have thoughts about it?

Edit: Found something you all might like. Peter sings "Can't touch me" http://www.newsfly.org/humormedia/touch.htm

[Leon-the-Dark-Knight]

I love Family Guy, especially Stewie and Brian. Peter gets on my nerves sometimes, which is unfortunate since the show mostly focuses on him. Still love the show though.:cool:

[Novasol]

Eh... I can derive some humor out of it the first or second time I watch it... but it has no staying power for me, at ALL.

[UrbanSpaceman]

I'm a huge Family Guy fan, but I do think the show has gone downhill somewhat in the last couple of episodes. For those of you who saw it, the "Cartoon Wars" episode of South Park was right on the money with its criticisms of FG's "random, interchangeable jokes that have nothing to do with the plot", but I still love the show despite that.

[Donomni]

Did anyone lese die laughing when Brian did the Peanut Butter Banana Dance? :D I thought it was funny... TO THE MAX!

Or maybe not, who knows?

[Red Fighter 1073]

I gotta say that I really like this show. I believe that I've seen all of the old Family Guy episodes that aren't being shown on Fox. I would have to say that I thought all of those were really funny. Though, sometimes the episodes that are shown on Fox aren't as good as the previous ones.

It is true that a lot of the jokes are interchangeable, but then again, that's where the Family Guy people can derive their humor from. With the jokes mostly happening in memories, the creators really have no constraint on where their joke comes from. I also appreciate how the creators come up with some of the stuff for the show. Many times I kinda wonder how the hell they thought to bring a joke into the episode that seemed really off topic.

Like the one episode where Joe is in a helicopter in the sewers and the screen shows an X-Wing type of first person view of Joe shooting Tie Fighters. Seriously, how the hell do you even think of that??

[Mondt]

Like the one episode where spoiler deleted. Seriously, how the hell do you even think of that??That's nothing compared to some stuff in Robots. Namely, the Brittney Spears thing...

Family Guy is good for laughs. I watch it when I remember it's on, but it's nothing super-special. The jokes are perfect for me, though.

[Azisien]

It's good, I own the first, second, and third DVD set, but I haven't watched the new season at all, with the exception of the first episode's chicken fight (genious). The humor fits my style nicely: chaotic. It's not gold all the time, I generally dislike the songs, but I still use lines from the show to this day.

That's right...all the tea....

[CallmePrismatic]

I'm a huge Family Guy fan, but I do think the show has gone downhill somewhat in the last couple of episodes. For those of you who saw it, the "Cartoon Wars" episode of South Park was right on the money with its criticisms of FG's "random, interchangeable jokes that have nothing to do with the plot", but I still love the show despite that.
Really I think that Trey and Matt...well, they probably do hate the show, but I think that they hate more the fact that they're compared to it so often, when they're really in two different spectrums of comedy-approach.

Still, Family Guy is a good show, if only for the constant-deluge strategy they use. You might think a few parts are dull or overplayed out or whatnot, but the sheer influx of jokes means that, simply due to the law of averages, a few to a lot of gold is coming out.

[Darth SS]

I usually do like Family Guy's completely random humor, especially the second chicken man fighter, but lately...it just doesn't do it. It seems like, in the last season at least, they've been trying so hard to go "Hey! Look how controversial we can be! Look what we can get away with saying!" instead of actually making jokes. Almost like they care more about being offensive than being funny.

[UrbanSpaceman]

I usually do like Family Guy's completely random humor, especially the second chicken man fighter, but lately...it just doesn't do it. It seems like, in the last season at least, they've been trying so hard to go "Hey! Look how controversial we can be! Look what we can get away with saying!" instead of actually making jokes. Almost like they care more about being offensive than being funny.

Actually, I always liked the "offensive for the sake of it" jokes on Family Guy, but I think that in the last few episodes they've lost their ability to shock. Since the episode with the(spoiler) "You Have AIDS" barbershop quartet" there haven't really been any "holy crap did they just say that" moments for me.

One thing I think people overlook when they talk about Family Guy is the fact that for all the random and crude jokes, it actually has a few deep and well thought-out extended metaphors running through it. Brian and Stewie are a good example of this: whilst both characters are intelligent and driven, they are consistently held back by their identities as a dog and a baby respectively. However, it is also when they give in to their basic nature that they seem the most happy and free: Brian, for example, is frustrated by his inability to stand up in a moving car, but is at his happiest when chasing a ball or frisbee. The essential message is that whilst our roots can hold us back, we are often at our happiest and, paradoxically, our most free when we acknowledge and celebrate those roots. This philosophy can be applied to many aspects of human existence, such as race/ethnicity and the conflict between our "animal" and "civilized" natures.

So yeah, in my opinion whilst the bulk of Family Guy DOES consist of crude, offensive and bizarre jokes, a number of underlying metaphors ARE present, and it is these which keep me coming back to the show time and again.

[DarkCORN!]

I loved the "You've got AIDS" song. That was awesome.
YOUUU'VVEEEE GOT THE AIIIIIDDDSSS! I'm sorry I wish it was something less serious!

[magnus]

I am constantly shocked and amazed at the versatility of what in retrospect seems to be the utmost simplistic of humors, the sheer brilliance of the take on the deep roots of curiousity and desire, good and evil, and basic underlying nature and exagerated dream stuff of mankind, hitting a jet engine of the writer's mind on what must be an od of alchahol never ceizes to entertain, uplift, inspire, empower, and elate me, to me it never gets old, can't beleave it hasn't, and won't beleave it will.

[Shishio]

I used to really like the show, now I don't particularly care for it. I like Stewie, Death, Brian, and Quagmire, but no one else is all that interesting.

The problem with the humour that Family Guy employs is that it gets old really fast.

[magnus]

I respect that, but being anti-social, and not a part of the major religion in my area, ect. I feel very releaved at the substance to the nonsence, and in general the method to the madness, it makes me feel safe for others to take risks on their beleafs, and it's a balance of forces in my opinion. South park and the simpsons ect. the same, if you can say it, I feel better about it. And if I feel better, I don't shoot at random at expensive cars :whee:

[King_black_mage]

I like the espisode when Brian got thrown in jail and he was in court and the judge found him guilty and everybody was like "oh no Oh no" and this went on for a minute then out of no where the koolaid man burst through brick of the court house and says "OH YEA" and every body was looking at him all weird so he beging to slowely begain to back off and then he run off.

That was a really really funny one.

KBM

[Dagx]

Personnally i liked these three skits on family guy the most
A. ding fries are done ((peters part time job))
2. The big bang
D. Can't touch me