Today, you've been gathered here to watch a man eat crow

Eat crow for what? You're allowed to dislike something. Just because I like Family Guy doesn't mean I care that someone else doesn't.

(though I can say with some certainty that I will never find The Cleveland Show funny, ever, even if all other comedies ceased to exist

Racist.

Same here. I've actually watched up to 3 minutes of Two and a Half Men and found myself mildly amused. Not amused enough to warrant watching the whole thing, but still.

Damn you Tivo for recording the first several minutes of the next show AFTER the Simpsons has already ended!

/hangs head in shame

Another Family Guy thread, another opportunity for me to tell everyone I stopped watching Family Guy after that horrible Brain eating Stewies poop episode.

I can't even enjoy reruns of Family Guy after that. It was just a horrible horrible episode with zero redeeming qualities that has completely spoiled the show for me.

Just thinking about Family Guy flashes me back to that episode.

The thing is, it's not like I found it that disgusting. I've worked as a CNA before in both a Nursing Home and Hospital. I'm use to poop and poop related products. It was just that unfunny.

Family Guy is two different shows.

The original three seasons were great... a select few people loved the show, we all got it, and Fox canceled it.

Then, people paid attention to the show on DVD, and Family Guy came back.

However, it isn't the same show.

The original Family Guy had a lot of cutaway gags, but there was a plot, a story, and the characters had a bit of depth to them.

The new Family Guy is a lot of cutaway gags tied together with the thinnest thread of a plot, and the characters are vaguely drawn caricatures.

New FG is still funny, IMO. But, if you expect it to be like those first three seasons you watched over and over on DVD, and can recite every line of, you're going to be disappointed.

I know I was. I quit watching the show within 6 months of the return in '05. But, I caught up on it on DVD, and I saw that the first six months of the new FG were kind of crappy, and that the show started to get better over time in its new format.

Also, I like Conway Twitty.

Oh, and Futurama? It hasn't changed, and fark you if you think so. That is all.

Family Guy? What is that? A show on television? I wouldn't know. I don't even own one.

remember when they cut away to a full conway twitty song for almost 5 minutes? or when the first 12 minutes of an episode revolved completely around peter singing surfing bird?

f*cking awful. macfarlane is laughing at you knowing that he can get away with that.

That article was drivel. He NEVER TELLS YOU WHAT CHANGED HIS MIND.

The whole article was about how he used to not like it, and how he liked another show and now he likes that other show less and this show more.

Put some f*cking thought into the article.

In other words...cool story, bro.

FirstNationalBastard: The original three seasons were great... a select few people loved the show, we all got it, and Fox canceled it.

I got it. I just thought it was a poor man's The Simpson's at a time when The Simpson's was a poor man's The Simpson's. Of course, I remember when The Simpson's went head to head with The Cosby Show and Bill Cosby went on a public rant about what a bad influence Bart Simpson was.

ignite ice: I enjoyed the "writing just seemed lazy" part -- terribly ironic ;-P

;-P indeed.

Mentat: FirstNationalBastard: The original three seasons were great... a select few people loved the show, we all got it, and Fox canceled it.

I got it. I just thought it was a poor man's The Simpson's at a time when The Simpson's was a poor man's The Simpson's. Of course, I remember when The Simpson's went head to head with The Cosby Show and Bill Cosby went on a public rant about what a bad influence Bart Simpson was.


The saddest thing is that there is a generation of ADULTS out there now, that always believed that The Simpsons has ALWAYS been on Sunday at 8.

sleeping martyr: Mentat: FirstNationalBastard: The original three seasons were great... a select few people loved the show, we all got it, and Fox canceled it.

I got it. I just thought it was a poor man's The Simpson's at a time when The Simpson's was a poor man's The Simpson's. Of course, I remember when The Simpson's went head to head with The Cosby Show and Bill Cosby went on a public rant about what a bad influence Bart Simpson was.


The saddest thing is that there is a generation of ADULTS out there now, that always believed that The Simpsons has ALWAYS been on Sunday at 8.

I'm 27, and I barely remember the Thusrdays at 8 era. However, I remember watching the "Maggie Speaks" episode on Thursday at 8, so I guess I'm old now.

What's scarier is that soon, there are people who will be old enough to drink who have never lived in a world without The Simpsons.

Mr. Cat Poop: WaltzingMathilda: remember when they cut away to a full conway twitty song for almost 5 minutes? or when the first 12 minutes of an episode revolved completely around peter singing surfing bird?

f*cking awful. macfarlane is laughing at you knowing that he can get away with that.

I'll give you the Conway Twitty, but that Surfin' Bird bit was hilarious because it was so obnoxious.

the Conway Twitty song wasn't more than three, three and a half minutes. It was 1970s country... their songs didn't get much over three minutes because radio didn't like long songs!

gayb: Hi, I'm the author of this article, and I'm amazingly self-absorbed.

Surprise, surprise.

/and I don't even have you in a pretty color

gayb: jaylectricity: /and I don't even have you in a pretty color

You're light green. Is it easy being so colored?

Well what with my martian abilities and all...

FirstNationalBastard: he original Family Guy had a lot of cutaway gags, but there was a plot, a story, and the characters had a bit of depth to them.

this thread blows my mind. To me, you could always sum up an episode of Family Guy with "hey, remember [pop culture reference]? That's the joke." There was never any depth to the show; though to the show's credit, I think that was the point.

No one has posted this?


This pretty much sums it up.

Also the cutaways and pop references used to be a little esoteric (and there were smart jokes about using words like esoteric).
Now the pop references are about things anyone with a tv in the 80's could recognize.
Translation: Dumbed down show wins Emmy because 'the audience caught up to it.'

1999 References
Surfside Six
Benjamin Disraeli

2009 References
Back to the Future (whole show)
Ripped off Star Wars gags from Robot Chicken

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bionicjoe: No one has posted this?




Is there one of those for The Simpsons?

You could make the same case for them.

Lisa became the Liberal Douche, Homer went full retard...

Although, I picked up season 13, which is the first full season between the "classic era" and season 20 that I had never seen a single episode from, and I have to admit... S13 of the Simpsons was pretty good.

Maybe it's because I went into it with low expectations.

steamingpile:
/missed the disraeli one


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