Yeah, the Meg-bashing was over the top. This was the episode where I finally realized that my least favorite character on this show is Lois, by a lot. In fact, I wish this was the Brian & Stewie Show.
I thought the Iraq joke was great.
I thought that was one of the best bits in the episode. Most people would have been able to make a heroin addiction joke out of Cookie Monster, but this was unexpected and well-done.
And the chicken, although the chicken is funnier. I laughed on the episode where Quagmire had to be monitored because it was such an unexpected interruption with over-the-top drama that suddenly ended when the rest of the story resumed, but I was still waiting for the fight to end.
I usually like Lois, she’s a good foil, but not in this one. She just seemed obnoxious and starved for attention (which makes sense…)
So did I :). When I watched American Dad after I realized just how anti-Bush/anti-Republican/Democrat Seth MacFarlane’s shows are.
Yeah, when Lois finds him in the stall with cookie dough heating it up on a spoon with the lighter . . . I laughed my ass off!
The Iraq joke was great, the red light/green light was funny (brought back some good memories), and the Peter quartet was too funny. Great episode!!!
This was the first “new” episode I’ve seen. It was actually a little disorienting (but enjoyable) to see an episode of Family Guy set in 2005, with jokes about the Iraq war, etc. .
The Peter on X gag made me laugh harder than anything in recent memory. At first I found the joke kinda funny, but when he started rolling around on the carpet I lauged my ass off.
I didn’t say it wasn’t funny. I liked it.
Chris: “He wasn’t alway mean”
Flashback to Monkey: “Hi Honey I’m Home” ::Puts on evil face and points and wife::
As for the long jokes, I think the funniest one I ever saw was when Peter tripped and hurt his knee. It was almost awkwardly long, but it worked.
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I agree that Stewie’s “company” didn’t have the big payoff, but overall it kept me giggling. I thought it was the best thing about the episode. Sometimes the series of small payoffs work best for me. Especially Rupert as the security guard. I am a sucker for Rupert scenes.
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The “X” joke missed with me. Even if it IS like an ecstasy reaction, what’s funny about it? It approached “Homer Simpson” territory where they basically just have him do something odd and hope that laughs follow.
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Now that I think about it, a LOT of drug references last night. Diet Pills, X, pot, Cookie Dough.
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I love the Meg bashing. This week made me think back to Joe last week and laugh all over again.
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The Iraq joke was funny. The zing was at the blue bloods, not the troops.
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Paraphrase- “Yes. Yes. It is very hot, but I’ll deal with it in the morning.”
Who else but Quagmire? 
They’ve been using him very well lately.
I agree with those who think a lot of the jokes went on too long. (The 4 Peters, Peter on X)
The greased up deaf guy is boring me. Also, a lot of the jokes just didn’t make me laugh this week. I was quite disappointed.
“Need some more seamen on your poopdeck?”
“Heads is Rhode Island, tails is Cacapoopoopeepeeshire”
“Your farts smell like dog farts”
I don’t remember ANY Meg-bashing this week, let alone over the top Meg bashing.
Oh god, it so doesn’t work. The only FG gag that compels me to change the channel when it comes on.
They have to lighten the load in the yacht race so they throw Meg overboard, and she ends up in a fishing net being called a “sea cow.” Later she gets ordered out of the house for saying she’d pleasure herself to Lois’ modeling pictures, whereas Chris says the same thing and suffers no consequences.
Having her period announced to the neighborhood might also constitute bashing, depending on how liberally you care to define it.
And when they went into Lois’ old room, Meg said, “Wow, it’s just like my room at home.”
Lois: “Yeah, except for all my trophies and pictures of friends.”
That’s been a consistent problems on the show: dragging out jokes loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong after they stopped being funny.
The thing with Family Guy, is that a couple of times in the past, it worked. The joke went from funny, to “wow, this is going on for a while” to funny again. The first chicken fight is an axample of this (the second one is not as good. Only saved because theending of it is a shot for shot homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark.) Another good example of a joke going on to benig un-funny, then funny again is when Stewie questions Brian about his book.
However, there are numerous times where they go on too long, and it seems the writers just couldn’t fit actual content, examples include:
Peter hurting his knee
The SECOND time Stewie questions Brian about his book
Peter on X was almost, not quite, too long, IMO. I think maybe a little less tiem feeling Brian and Stewie and more writhing on the floor striping would have been a funnier mix.
No so. The chicken fight was funny start to finish!
“Chicken…huff…puff…gave me a bad coupon…”
HA!
I don’t think either of those is ‘Meg Bashing’ so much as ‘Peter is an idiot’.
I missed the other gags mentioned, though. >_>
Out of everyone on the show, I think Lois hates Meg most of all. I mean, actually hates her. Everyone else is just stupid.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah…
The period thing is “Peter is an idiot.” The first is “everyone hates Meg.”