Line up the people who don’t like Family Guy and you have a bunch of people who don’t “get it”. I don’t mean they don’t understand it, but they don’t “get it”.
Family Guy is refreshing because it lets me know someone out there has a healthy perspective.
At the polar end of the Family Guy field is those dumb ass Olsen twins and their dribble they call T.V.
Why Family Guy? Because it is as rewarding as “Full House” was insulting. If you don’t find it funny, that’s my litmus test for calling you a dope.
The sexual harrassment episode? You need a cartoon show to pull that off - regular TV could never approach that. See, that’s the whole point - it’s sort of ironic. A cartoon is almost the only way to be that irreverant.
I know people who don’t watch the show because they don’t understand Stewie and the dog. They discount the whole show because those two “characters” aren’t real. Duh.
Hate me, boyo, because Family Glop is a lame, disagreeable ripoff of The Simpsons and Pinky and the Brain. Any show that’s been cancelled three times deserves oblivion. This and Fox News Network prove Rupert Murdoch hates the United States and will stop at nothing to see it destroyed.
Fie on you, Uncle Beer, fie, fie! You had a golden opportunity to move this to the Pit where I could really tear Stewie and Co. ten or twelve new ones, and you blew it! Fie! Fie!
Sky One was showing FG years ago, about the same time they started showing Futurama. Unless you mean the new stuff, in which case I don’t know. Channel 4 shows it occasionally, but I know they’ve edited out some material, including this one:
BASEBALL PLAYER: “Ha, ha – it’s joke gum! Now you’re addicted to heroin!”
OTHER BASEBALL PLAYER: “Ha ha! <pause> I feel cold…”
I didn’t like the family guy. I got it. I just didn’t like it.
The early round of publicity featrured the baby and I thought the show was going to be about the kid. Kind of a look who’s talking but, you know, funny. When I watched the show the baby and the dog were the only funny parts but the show concentrated on a cheep rip off of Homer Simpson but with none of Homers redeeming qualitites.
Just to nitpick, but it hasn’t been cancelled three times. After the first season, Fox picked it up as a midseason replacement for the second and now the third.
I loved the episode referred above where Stewie is packing to leave home (It’s his first birthday and he fears that the “men in white” are going to put him back into Lois’ “uterine gulag”.) He’s packing all the essentials for his trip - C4 plastic explosives, machine gun, extra ammo, baggie of O’s cereal.
**Did anyone tape Wed.'s part 2 episode? I thought I had taped it. ** :mad:
Post here or e-mail me and let me know! (10Q-BDBD much)
No matter what you think of Family Guy, you have to admit it’s one of the fastest-paced shows ever created. It’s great for people with short attention spans. I have a short attention span, which I blame on
This show has it’s brief moments of originality here and there. However, I’d say it was about as funny as, say, The Critic (RIP).
As much as people whine, bitch, and moan about the Simpsons, it’s still about the best thing on TV and the standard by which all other prime-time cartoons are judged. And by that comparison, Family Guy sucks ass.
If you REALLY want to see a funny cartoon, keep yer eyes peeled for “Home Movies” on Comedy Central this fall. From the makers of Dr Katz and Squigglevision. It is ridiculously funny. Only thing that might hold it back? Paula Poundstone voices the Mom of the main character. And in light of current events, this might be a bit of a public relations nightmare.
“I’m Nudes on Ice!” from Wednesday’s show was perhaps the most brilliantly funny bizarre thing I have ever seen. I laughed so hard I literally feared for my life from loss of breath.
Like I said before, I love this show for it’s irreverent scenes and flashbacks. Take the one where the news crew gets nutty:
Stewie does have some of the best lines, though:
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“Ah, the breakfast thing. Yes, it wasn’t about the eggs really, frankly I like the yolks, I…I don’t…I have no problem, it’s, there’s always been a lot of tension between Lois and me and it’s not so much that I want to kill her. It’s just that I want her not to be alive anymore. I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult, and then I think to myself, by god wouldn’t it be marvellous if I turned out to be a homosexual.” and
Look, we’ve all a fun time here today, but one thing isn’t funny…and that’s killing strippers.
“Family Guy” has the best dick jokes on television, too:
“Huh – so that’s what Peter’s penis looks like.”
“That’s not a growth, Mr. Griffin, that’s your penis.”
“Oh. (pause) And th . . .”
“Testicles”
“Well, Lois, I tried finding my creativity like you said, first I took an art class… Am…Am I supposed to draw the penis?
Then I tried sculpting… Am…Am I supposed to sculpt the penis?
Then I tried music…
*Am…Am I supposed to conduct with my penis? *”
D-d-d-don’t hurt me! I just haven’t seen it yet! I will! I will!
Seriously, though, it looks hilarious.
Although pldennsion’s post makes me think twice. Funny, yet disturbing. Which character said that last one, anyway? (I assume that the others were different, although I doubt it. Were those quotes from the same character?) I need to condemn him as the Official Scariest Character on Television ™.
