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Beat Writer  Posts: 172 Joined: 20 Jan 2009     | |
Muckraker  Posts: 254 Joined: 25 May 2009     | WHOA!!!! Family Guy was funny? When the fuck did this happen? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1426 Joined: 10 Feb 2009     | Yeah I just Youtubed it and it is pretty weak. Here's an insert so people can have a better idea of what you are talking about and you don't need that whole wall of text. Go here to learn the BBC codes so you can clog the sites with Youtube videos like me! |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 54 Joined: 29 Oct 2009    | Saw a couple of episodes but i can't say i was so pulled in by the show that i just had to hunt down everything Family Guy related. The show's humor get's old really fast... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1889 Joined: 9 Jan 2009   | I can't stand Brian, and Stewie isn't so funny anymore because he's no longer evil genius, he's just a character that uses innuendo to show that he's gay. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 549 Joined: 8 Sep 2009  | The last season of family guy has been the funniest one yet for me and yes, laura bush killed a guy. I gotta call you on this, they were purposely vague about it to screw with you. I'll quote it for you " I'm laura and I'm the guy she killed... Thats right, Laura bush killed a guy *pause*" then the scene moved on. They were just messing with you to see if youd actually have the stones to go look it up. Laura bush killed a guy in high school in a car accident. The whole thing is questionable behind it was at a 4 way country road intersection with no objects obscuring her view and he just happened to be her ex-boyfriend. So yes if you had went and looked it up it would have been damn funny. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 191 Joined: 16 Oct 2009    | Eh I still find the episodes funny, but to me, there are less hilarious moments. I still laugh just not as much. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2933 Joined: 24 Aug 2009    |
I never used to like South Park but over time their episodes have become a lot smarter and more satirical, pretty much the opposite of what is happening to Family Guy. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 102 Joined: 20 Apr 2009  | So stop watching then. Why do you need the approval of the masses before you feel validated? If you don't think it's funny, that's your opinion and you should hold to it. Don't ask "Am I alone here?" because who cares if you are? You like what you like and that's that. Don't live your life asking if it's okay to have an opinion. |
Muckraker  Posts: 261 Joined: 2 Sep 2009    |
Sorry man, I have to disagree there. I mean a joke you have to explain isn't funny, and a joke that you have to go out and research even less so. Also, if you find out that a young human life has been lost in a car accident your first thought isn't "wow, that was such pointed and satyrical humour on family guy's part!". That's just me though, like I said family guy does have some really funny moments in it. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 359 Joined: 16 Apr 2009 | THANK you, god, that show has been dead for like three seasons LET IT DIE! |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 520 Joined: 28 Aug 2009  | Welcome friend, for getting that thing across, IT has to die. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 135 Joined: 28 Aug 2009 | Same here, I used to really like it but then I realized its just flash backs and 80's jokes over and over again |
Beat Writer Posts: 138 Joined: 22 Dec 2007  | I still find it a bit funny. Admittedly not so much now as it used to be, but still enjoyable. Its inevitable though, it happened to the simpsons, the show was funny until no one would let it die, and now its just sad, and it'll happen to family guy eventually I'm sure. I will say one thing though: In recent seasons it seems that Seth has taken to using the show as a big vehicle for shoving his views down everyone's throats. The last couple seasons have barely seen a single episode without some pointless stab at Christianity, Republicans, etc. I still enjoy the show and laugh at it a lot, but there's a bit too much of Seth's opinion in it nowadays. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1417 Joined: 11 Jun 2009   | Wall o' text burnt my eyes out. I'm typing this with touch-typing. I am actually blind now OT: Yeah, I don't find them funny any more either. Partly because I've grown up, partly because I've learnt all they're doing is cultural refrences and not actual comedy (Like the Epic Movie crap) Though the chicken fights are hilarious Yeah...they suck I hardly even watch TV any more as it is |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 817 Joined: 25 Jun 2009 |
If you had distributed those two spaces throughout your post it might have been readable. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 158 Joined: 17 Oct 2009    | I liked season 2 & 3. The rest were meh, although, road to the multiverse was pretty good. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1049 Joined: 20 May 2009  |
Well said. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 109 Joined: 23 Oct 2008  | It's because as long as there are no more new futurama episodes how can you laugh at anything? At some point it will be back and the world will be a good place again, Until that day comes we must dig in and endure it. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 132 Joined: 1 Nov 2009   | I must say, I agree that the older episodes are funnier (to me) than the newer ones. I used to like Family Guy alot. But when I watch it now I only grin ocassionally. (<--- misspelled?) Now I'm more into South Park. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 539 Joined: 15 Jan 2009    |
that show and Ren and Stimpy made me think dark thoughts of murder and torture for it's creators.... then I changed the channel. in regards to the OP... this feeling you acquired will happen to all things you like. It will happen as you slowly grow older and certain things you loved before will no longer be so much fun. But then again some people have been known to fight that... so good luck? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 214 Joined: 17 Oct 2008 | Wow. ive been away for afew hours and already two pages thanks for replying.
Actually when I first started watching it I was, but that was high school.
Thank you. Im not writeing this for a magazine guys, if i was ide take that much attention to detail.
Ok...now that i know what they mean it still isent funny.
This is the review section right!
Thanks for the compliment. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 428 Joined: 13 Apr 2009 | I stopped watching around that time, honestly it seems like the recent seasons have had some of the worst episodes in the show's history (the O. J. Simpson episode). |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1688 Joined: 28 Nov 2007 | It's like this, the media is increasingly becoming full of cowards who are unable or unwilling to fight censors. Especially seeing as the media as a whole (including games, TV, etc...) is left wing and the left wing is in power and pushing a lot of the changes. It won't really fight it's own side on a lot of levels. Your right, Family Guy chilled out a lot. I used to sit down and watch it and go "wow, I can't believe they just went there" and think to myself about how this is going further than "Beavis and Butthead" ever did on a lot of levels, and being shown on a mainstream network to boot. But at the same time, look at video games and other media and how they have changed since the wind started blowing in a leftward direction. People talk about stuff like "why can't you kill children", and "why does Morrigan put on a bra for sex when she normally doesn't wear a bra", yet games have already shown breast nudity and featured child killing and such in the past even if people don't (or choose not to) remember it. Things that were allowed at a T level previously are being hit with "OMG that must be AO". This is one of the reasons why I go railing against censorship. Also Family Guy is not alone really. I mean consider that both Beavis and Butthead, and South Park wound up doing the same thing, being forced to chill out, while remaining on the air, and then it just ceased to be as funny as before, and eventually not funny at all to a lot of the original audience. Truth be told, while this stuff happens in all administrations, I think your seeing a *LOT* more of it now, and will probably wind up having to deal with it for years to come. Companies are pretty much unwilling to fight for free expression anymore it seems, and really, even those who complain just wind up in political denial when they realize what's going on. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 702 Joined: 20 Nov 2007     |
i hate you so much, max. i just wasted an hour on that damn trope site. xkcd sums it up best, as usual |
Beat Writer Posts: 214 Joined: 17 Oct 2008 |
I agree 100% I believe that no one should censer creativity or comedy. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 794 Joined: 8 May 2009  | Actually, I was just having a conversation about this today. Yeah, it has gotten almost unbelievably stupid and one-sided, in my opinion. Edit: I was stuck on TVTropes for nearly two hours. Thanks. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 469 Joined: 18 Feb 2009   | It has its moments, yet, when I think about the Conway Twitty segment I feel like screaming in horror for like half an hour straight. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 379 Joined: 26 Oct 2008 | Meh... Almost everything turns to shit eventually... It's not because the creators run out of ideas or that the show just desensitizing you from the impact of swearing, nudity, violence etc. It's that as soon as the creators realize what they made is now popular... Stuff happens like they go in a different direction, they go too far or not far enough just like with sequels. They just have to think not to let it go to their heads... And you just have to remember the good times. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 587 Joined: 17 May 2009  | The older episodes were funnier I guess. They were slightly more clever than the jokes nowadays but it's still entertaining to watch it on occasion. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 535 Joined: 11 Aug 2008  |
Agreed. Being offensive or shocking for hilarity's sake can be pretty damn funny, see: Borat. But being offensive or shocking simply for the sake of being offensive/ or shocking rarely ends up being funny, see: Bruno. But yeah, Family Guy jumped the shark a while ago for me. Not, as many of the TV tropes lads would have you believe, when the show took on religion, I didn't really see that as going overboard. For me, the random, nonsensical "remember that time" segments just started happening too often and became entirely to bizarre to tolerate. |
On the Record  Posts: 7152 Joined: 31 Dec 2008    | I like the episodes about Brian, but the completely gay Stewie is annoying. Anyway, that Atheism episode sucks, its not even funny. Its like the jokes people make on the forums about religion and think that they're being funny |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 435 Joined: 24 Jun 2009 | the new stuff sucks, yeah, but i still find it funny, just not as good as it used to be. |
Beat Writer Posts: 214 Joined: 17 Oct 2008 |
It reminds me more of David Cross's standup. |
On the Record Posts: 7152 Joined: 31 Dec 2008 |
I doubt even Atheists can find that funny, most of the Atheists that I've met on here had actual senses of humor. Thats like me going up to another Christian and saying, "Why did the Atheist cross the road.... to spend his life in eternal damnation" See, that's not funny. Its just stupid. So is the "Who would listen" I've seen some hilarious "anti"-religious jokes on the Escapist, Hell, I've even chuckled at most of them. |
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I think I would respect Family Guy more if they just broke down and made their show more like Robot Chicken... no story ... just quick jokes and gags... their main "story line" consists of probably 5 minutes... just fill that 5 minutes with another joke that has nothing to do with the story