# Family Guy Tonight: Entire "Video" Of Conway Twitty Inserted **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577 "2009-03-16T01:11:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/21 "2009-03-16T15:19:04Z")
It’s amazing how much more tightly and intelligently written American Dad typically is. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/22 "2009-03-16T15:32:52Z")
> [@Gadarene](#): > > It’s amazing how much more tightly and intelligently written American Dad typically is. I was actually thinking that while reading this thread. The Overly Long Gag doesn’t appear anywhere near as often in AD as it does in FG. Is someone other than McFarlane producing or headwriting, or is it just that AD isn’t in the FG “brand” and therefore McFarlane is capable of treating it differently? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/23 "2009-03-16T15:42:02Z")
> [@Mr.Slant](#): > > Is this proof of jump-sharking? Don’t be silly, Family Guy jumped the shark years ago. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/24 "2009-03-16T15:42:11Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I was actually thinking that while reading this thread. The Overly Long Gag doesn’t appear anywhere near as often in AD as it does in FG. Is someone other than McFarlane producing or headwriting, or is it just that AD isn’t in the FG “brand” and therefore McFarlane is capable of treating it differently? I don’t know the exact answer, but I was thinking that, too. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/25 "2009-03-16T15:46:04Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > If there’s one thing McFarlane has never had, it’s the sense of when to end a joke. _Family Guy_ has more gags that just…die…through unnecessary extension than any show I’ve ever watched. Bingo. It’s the biggest flaw in the show – a good joke gets draaaaaged out until it stops being funny. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/26 "2009-03-16T15:49:18Z")
It is kind of funny how different the two shows are. Understand that I listen to both of them more often than I watch, since I’m usually at the computer while **supervenusfreak** has them on in the living room, but my usual reactions to the gags in each of them is completely different. To wit: Family Guy - I’ll laugh, then feel like I need to go to Confession for laughing. American Dad - I’ll laugh. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/27 "2009-03-16T15:51:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Bingo. It’s the biggest flaw in the show – a good joke gets draaaaaged out until it stops being funny. It’s like watching a fish flop around on the dock. Flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop…it’s dying but it just won’t stop. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/28 "2009-03-16T15:53:26Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > He has long been a fan of the [Overly Long Gag](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyLongGag) (see the twenty second long “Peter is in pain” bit from season one or two). Overly Long Gags crack me up. Every time. I don’t know why. But I am definitely the target demographic here. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/29 "2009-03-16T15:54:55Z")
> [@Yossarian](#): > > As the father of an eleven year-old son with whom I share an obnoxious sense of humor (ask my wife), I’m a fan of the “overly long gag”, too. So much so that, upon realizing that they were going to play the entire clip, I hoped that they would close out the entire episode with Conway Twitty. > > I admit that I am probably the only one (besides my son) that would have enjoyed that. I think I would have found that entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/30 "2009-03-16T15:55:26Z")
Too long, yes, but that’s what the Fast Forward button on my VCR remote is for (Conway and I even share a birthday!). Funny episode anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/31 "2009-03-16T15:57:23Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Don’t be silly, Family Guy jumped the shark years ago. Sorry, hastily composed post; I typed that all during the commercial, while trying to get my wife to believe what I’d just seen [she was in the other room]. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/32 "2009-03-16T17:03:30Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > I think I would have found that entertaining. I shall consider your comment validation of my beliefs, and question them no longer. (Not surprisingly, my son and I also find ATHF to represent the pinnacle of comedy…) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/33 "2009-03-16T17:10:23Z")
The problem is that the writers miss that humor needs both good conception and good execution. I can see how the idea of doing something absurd like switching to a Conway Twitty video sounds funny when you think of it around the writers table - it’s a good concept. But it’s almost impossible to execute that same idea and make it funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/34 "2009-03-16T17:11:12Z")
I liked the Conway Twitty segment, but I knew it was coming because I peaked into the Dope before watching. It was fascinating like watching a car wreck. None of the musicians moved any more than was necessary to play their instruments. Conway just stared in the camera with a passive face and sang like a statue. Did these guys ever learn that TV is a visual medium? ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/35 "2009-03-16T17:46:55Z")
Working on that novel = funny Chicken fight = sorta funny, but entertaining 30 sec of Conway Twitty = funny Entire Conway Twitty song = stupid and a waste of viewer’s time. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/36 "2009-03-16T18:24:48Z")
After a little while we just decided to pretend it was a pre-cable 70’s Sunday evening and we were watching Hee Haw. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/37 "2009-03-16T18:28:20Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > After a little while we just decided to pretend it was a pre-cable 70’s Sunday evening and we were watching Hee Haw. Yep, 7:00 every Sunday night. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/38 "2009-03-16T19:10:46Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Overly Long Gags crack me up. Every time. > > I don’t know why. But I am definitely the target demographic here. Me too. I thought it was hysterical. More generally, what was up with a whole episode about OJ? OJ’s in jail now, right? Did they make this episode last summer and gamble that he’d get off? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/39 "2009-03-16T19:21:28Z")
There was a title card at the very beginning saying that this was a “lost episode” from March 2007, found in Peter Griffin’s attic. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577/40 "2009-03-16T19:23:11Z")
But didn’t they also reference Jimmy Kimmel hosting Late Night in this episode? How long ago was that decided? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-tonight-entire-video-of-conway-twitty-inserted/489577.md?page=3)