# Family Guy 7/10 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909 "2005-07-11T00:58:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/1 "2005-07-11T00:58:44Z")
Yep, you can’t go wrong with excessive animated vomiting. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/2 "2005-07-11T01:01:29Z")
I missed the first half. ☹ JUst got in for Kramer v. Predator and Stewies rant about Downloaded Simpsons episodes. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/3 "2005-07-11T01:03:32Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Yep, you can’t go wrong with excessive animated vomiting. Not always the best if you have a phobia of vomiting. _shudders_ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/4 "2005-07-11T01:06:09Z")
Isn’t it a fairly lame sitcom standard for a girl to be chased by an annoying boy, who then loses interest, and is then compelled to chase _him_? I thought these were supposed to be _new_ episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/5 "2005-07-11T01:45:34Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Isn’t it a fairly lame sitcom standard for a girl to be chased by an annoying boy, who then loses interest, and is then compelled to chase _him_? Yes, but one of Family Guy’s thinks is the way it takes traditional sitcom standards and _butchers_ them. You won’t see the girl yoked to a plow like a draft mule or indulging a 15 year old’s creepy incestual infantalism fetish in another sitcom. And the vomitting scene had me laughing out loud. I’m so unsophisticated. ☹ Oooh, I also really loved the Pee Wee’s Big Adventure breakfast-machine spoof. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/6 "2005-07-11T01:47:00Z")
I normally hate gross-out comedy, but I thought the vomiting scene was hilarious. The rest of the episode was mostly just okay. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/7 "2005-07-11T01:49:59Z")
The vomitting scene made me laugh till I cried. “Call 9-1-blarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!” ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/8 "2005-07-11T02:00:39Z")
I thought the vomiting thing was pretty lame. The set up (the contest) was kind of funny. But the payoff was pretty generic. There were some funny bits (Deborah IS a “bitch” on _Raymond_), but overall, the show is still misfiring. [sub](Though, Lois as Mystique was nice)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/9 "2005-07-11T02:20:47Z")
“It’s Saturday, and I could be out, having fun” “If you don’t want to babysit, that’s fine, but don’t lie to me” “That’s what I like about high school girls. I get older, they stay the same. Yes they do, yes they do” ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/10 "2005-07-11T02:21:12Z")
I thought the first half of the show was pretty good, the second half not so much. Put me in the camp with: > [@Loopus](#): > > I normally hate gross-out comedy, but I thought the vomiting scene was hilarious. The rest of the episode was mostly just okay. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/11 "2005-07-11T02:28:47Z")
I didn’t find the vomiting bit funny, but the rest of the episode was hilarious. A LOT of inappropriate jokes, just the way I like it. “Alright, get undressed and in the showers and bounce around for me!” ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/12 "2005-07-11T02:33:51Z")
> [@Larry Borgia](#): > > JUst got in for Kramer v. Predator and Stewies rant about Downloaded Simpsons episodes. Stewie’s rant was HILARIOUS! As someone who just spent four years in college it’s so true. Luckily, I don’t fall vicitm so all of his things (the stuff about what the guy wears didn’t apply to me…but the stuff about the D/Led Simpsons stuff did.) “Oh God, he’s still in the trunk! How long as it been? One…two weeks…yup, he’s dead.” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/13 "2005-07-11T02:48:48Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > Oooh, I also really loved the Pee Wee’s Big Adventure breakfast-machine spoof. I thought it was a spoof of the breakfast machine in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/14 "2005-07-11T02:57:25Z")
It was based on an old Sesame Street bit, with a Rube Goldberg Machine just like that, which ended up producing the number of the day. The Crazy Mel Gibson was funnier when South Park did it. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/15 "2005-07-11T03:06:12Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I thought it was a spoof of the breakfast machine in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. As someone who was 4 when Pee Wee’s Big Adventure came out, and thus spent a large chunk of his childhood watching it over, and over, and over on VHS, I’m nearly positive it was a spoof of that breakfast machine. So many elements seemed very similiar to that one… Or was Pee Wee’s breakfast machine itself a spoof on one in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (which was before my time)? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/16 "2005-07-11T03:13:37Z")
I don’t recall the breakfast machine in PeeWee, so I dunno if it was a spoof of Chitty. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/17 "2005-07-11T03:14:27Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > As someone who was 4 when Pee Wee’s Big Adventure came out, and thus spent a large chunk of his childhood watching it over, and over, and over on VHS, I’m nearly positive it was a spoof of that breakfast machine. So many elements seemed very similiar to that one… > > Or was Pee Wee’s breakfast machine itself a spoof on one in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (which was before my time)? Not to mention the “suicide machine”, which I can’t place but know I have seen it before. A cartoon, I believe, that ultimately culminated in the firing of a gun. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/18 "2005-07-11T03:14:39Z")
It was 100% positively a spoof of Pee-Wee’s breakfast machine, complete with the Abe Lincoln statue and the “Breakfast Machine” musical score by Danny Elfman. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/19 "2005-07-11T04:58:34Z")
Loved the Breakfast machine bit “What is the point of this? All it does is shoot you!” I don’t remember a gun in the original, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie. I recognized the rest of it. Was stewie always that evil? I don’t remember him just murdering someone like that before. Well, the cult leader, but he deserved it. In fact, up until now, pretty much everyone I remember him doing something too deserved it. But yeah, it was average. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909/20 "2005-07-11T05:26:56Z")
I, too, was in hysterics over the vomiting scene; I had just popped a handful of popcorn into my mouth when it started, and I nearly choked on my popcorn. That’s what I call great comedy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-10/311909.md?page=2)