Folks, don’t get angry at "Family Guy." It’s easy to ignore. If you have a friend who likes it just keep on saying "Yes!" and "I know!" and they will think you watched the show. And then the conversation can end and you can go home and get new friends! #familyguy
@SpyMagician: I feel slightly guilty for despising FG (and the entire MacFarlane catalog) because some people I really like really like it. It's a weird outlier where our tastes are very compatible, except for FG. Which they love, and I hate.
Luckily, there's Robot Chicken, Venture Bros, South Park, and most of Adult Swim to balance MacFarlanitis out. It doesn't look like he'll be the only game in town anytime soon. So peace on TV and goodwill to all men, etc. #familyguy
I think the show has become an imitation of itself - I feel like in earlier seasons, there was always a cultural wit that was stitched into the brutality of it, and now when I'm watching, it feels forced and phoned in. The show's detailed attention to cruelty has for the most part gotten stale. I also think the Simpsons is boring but mostly because it's old and they've done everything under the sun. #familyguy
I am so sick of people calling Family Guy "non-sequitur humor" as if that distinguished it from other comedies! Everyone (I bet even Seth MacFarlane) says FG is full of non-sequiturs, but they are wrong, WRONG!
Let's get this straight people:
non-sequitur means "it does not follow", as in, the conclusion does not follow logically from the premises. It does not mean "I did not expect Peter to get into a fight with a giant chicken over an expired coupon". If we laugh when Peter gets into a fight with the giant chicken, we laugh precisely because it is NOT a non-sequitur. Rather, we laugh because Peter fighting the giant chicken DOES follow from our premises (i.e., the cutaway's set-up) but it DOES NOT meet our expectations. In this sense, Family Guy is no different from other comedies: comedy is nothing but the tension between what we expect to follow from the set up of a joke and what actually does follow. When we expect the first base player to be named Lou and he turns out to be called Who we laugh at our upended expectations, but we don't call Abbott & Costello "non sequitur humor" because of it.
Sorry for the outburst, but I just had to get that off my chest. #familyguy
@EatMyKant: Peter fighting a giant chicken is a non sequiter when it is a flashback inserted into a conversation about Meg going to the prom. #familyguy
@onebadclam: No, again it is only unexpected. If it was a non-sequitur it would be a flashback about Meg not going to the prom inserted into a conversation about Meg going to the prom (or something likewise logically impossible). Logically possible does not mean likely (or funny, or tasteful, etc.) #familyguy
I'm a 31 y.o. female and I LOVE Family Guy. I think it's funny, I love the New England humor (I'm a CT yankee myself) and I love that things that are so f'd up in real life are presented in a way that you can laugh at it in a cartoon medium. Besides not everyone wants to live a politically correct, stick-up-the-ass life 24/7. Let Family Guy be Family Guy. South Park is funny too but they need to get over themselves.
P.S. When did it become a crime for movies, TV shows and books to just be entertaining instead of thought provoking? Enough with the over analysis, I just want to be entertained for an hour or two so I can forget the crap that's going on elsewhere in the world and my life. #familyguy
I have to watch FG since my husband loves it. I also have to watch American Dad. AD actually makes me laugh, which pisses me off on principle, but FG no longer does. I just yell at the TV, "Yes, we get it. You grew up in the 80's. I did, too. Move on. And please kill off that damn chicken."
The other thing that pisses me off is I kind of think Seth MacFarlane is hot, and that is not acceptable to me either, on principle.
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Luckily, there's Robot Chicken, Venture Bros, South Park, and most of Adult Swim to balance MacFarlanitis out. It doesn't look like he'll be the only game in town anytime soon. So peace on TV and goodwill to all men, etc. #familyguy
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Let's get this straight people:
non-sequitur means "it does not follow", as in, the conclusion does not follow logically from the premises. It does not mean "I did not expect Peter to get into a fight with a giant chicken over an expired coupon". If we laugh when Peter gets into a fight with the giant chicken, we laugh precisely because it is NOT a non-sequitur. Rather, we laugh because Peter fighting the giant chicken DOES follow from our premises (i.e., the cutaway's set-up) but it DOES NOT meet our expectations. In this sense, Family Guy is no different from other comedies: comedy is nothing but the tension between what we expect to follow from the set up of a joke and what actually does follow. When we expect the first base player to be named Lou and he turns out to be called Who we laugh at our upended expectations, but we don't call Abbott & Costello "non sequitur humor" because of it.
Sorry for the outburst, but I just had to get that off my chest. #familyguy
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P.S. When did it become a crime for movies, TV shows and books to just be entertaining instead of thought provoking? Enough with the over analysis, I just want to be entertained for an hour or two so I can forget the crap that's going on elsewhere in the world and my life. #familyguy
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I would say I am not ashamed, but I am. Slightly. #familyguy
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The other thing that pisses me off is I kind of think Seth MacFarlane is hot, and that is not acceptable to me either, on principle.
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