Is it me or has Family Guy become less funny than it was in the past?
I used to love Family Guy but the newer episode which had so much potential have, in my opinion, become less funny with each episodes. The comedy seems to become lazy. Seth has also become more preachy about his views on the show. The episode with Rush Limbaugh in it ( I was surprised to see that Rush actually did the voice acting on the show) should have been great. Instead it was boring. I found the “Not All Dogs Go To Heaven” episode to be very condescending and in order for it to be comedy it has to make you laugh. The end of that episode didn’t make me laugh because it wasn’t even meant to be funny. The show has become very biased. Even Seth said that he concedes that show has a liberal bias. That is ok, I can live with that. Brian has become increasingly annoying in the recent episodes. Shows like Family Guy are not supposed to have a message. They are only meant for one thing and that is to make people laugh. The writing seems lazy. The comedy is weak and lazy. They seem to reuse the same thing over and over again. Everything they need to make a great episode is there but they seem to always fall short. The show always used shock comedy which is great but gets old when overused. The show is getting increasingly mean hearted. What happened to the creativity of older Family Guy episodes which made fun of everything equaly and not just the things that the writers disagree with. I know it is just a cartoon but it is an adult cartoon ( face it, a veiwer born 22 years old or younger usually don’t get the pop culture references that they make fun of, which I love btw). When I tune into Family Guy. I want to laugh and not get a preachy episode where Seth and his writers shove their atheist or political views down my throat. I also think they are ruining the charactors on the show. Making Brian annoying and pretentious. Making Stewie less evil and make Lois a bitch. Taking Cleveland out to make a spinoff was also a bad idea. Cleveland was a great charactor on family guy. Getting rid of the evil monkey was a bad idea. The show still has potential but I think the writers are getting very lazy and tend to recycle alot of the jokes too quickly. some of the new jokes are lame. What has happened to this show. Has the popularity gone to their heads?
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How many times was Family Guy canceled? I have the feeling the makers and Fox don’t get allong too well at all, I would not be surprised to learn that Seth is just making a dozen more episodes or so just to avoid being in breach of contract or something.
I’m with you on this one. While I will still watch a new family guy episode, it is all about American Dad for me now. The characters are much better, much more developed, and the story lines have a better potential for humor.
Family Guy has gone down hill for me since around season 6, The new 3D graphics are cool and all, the graphics let them parody movies and camera angles and what not much better, but what good is that when the core formula of the show has been messed with so much.
As for the Cleveland show… I have a long list of black comedians that I find hilarious, I really like the kind of humor that some black people tend to have, so much more outrageous, but I just don’t get the Cleveland show at all, for me it’s a total flop.
Give me more American Dad, more Stan and more Roger.
It might not be you.
I’ve never seen a whole episode, but the clips that I’ve seen annoy me.
Could those clips be from more recent episodes?
To whomever just lurved me, thanks for freeing my overall lurve count from the “mark of the beast”. ;-)
Lol….I liked the new Halloween and Christmas shows…..more or less
But ya the regular episodes are becoming more and more stale/unfunny/stupid/annoying/and so on…..
But alas it’s not about the quality of the show(shows like this have a short lifespan)......It’s about how much money they can suck out before the show dies…they need to stop beating that poor dead horse and just bury it….....they had a good run
If I see another Peter vs Giant Chicken I’m going to loose it….
I’ve never found it funny either.
@coffeenut I love the Peter vs Giant Chicken clips… And loved the Christmas show and the Star Wars episodes… I’m waiting for the prequels
I balance Family Guy with Simpsons and South Park… and I wait for new ones
What happened to Family Guy is the same thing that’s happened to all shows of it’s kind. They all become formulaic. Once the show hits upon a successful way of making the show, they stick to it. I think this is mostly due to laziness. And once a show hits this point, it loses it’s initial charm of spontaneity.
@talljasperman The first bit of the fight is great….but it goes on way, way, way too long…
Family Guy has always been stupid.
The characters don’t even really have any depth or consistency to them… There is nothing aside from a few running gags that makes Lois Lois or Peter into Peter. They are just empty shells meant to be filled with stupid flashback after stupid flashback.
@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard You are right. The charactors have no depth and are very inconsistent. They change the charactors history for a small joke. It is a very unorganized show and the charactors are quite lazy. They find one thing that is funny and then they repeated it so often that the joke is soon killed.
I used to love Family Guy but it has gotten so ridiculous that it isn’t even funny anymore!
The thing about Family Guy is that the characters are just reasons to show absurdist, almost (don’t kill me) Pythonesque non-sequitors. To me, this is just as valid as having developed characters. It’s all about differing styles.
I mean, how much consistency were in the Knights of the Round Table in the MP movie?
I agree that it isn’t as funny as it used to be. Characters have become more inconsistent and one-dimensional, even for cartoons! Also, at one time, the writers were able to strike a balance between writing jokes that were both off-color and thought-provoking at the same time, but recently, it seems that they just want to prove how shocking they can be. For example, the gratuitous violence in the Christmas show was not funny at all, at least to me. Maybe it didn’t bother some people, but for me, it was the point at which I decided I just can’t watch this show anymore. I will just watch the old episodes and relive the glory days.
Family Guy is a satire that forgot it was a satire. Now it’s just really bad and offensive.
On the plus side, my home town was mentioned in the recent Christmas episode.
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