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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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I've never understood the hate between the rabid fanbases of each show. Get a life, people. There's a lot of stuff on TV that I can't stand, but if it makes someone else happy and it's not replacing a show I like, I don't see the problem.
(That said, the people at Adult Swim who decided to cancel Lucy, Daughter of the Devil and order more episodes of Xavier need to DIAF. I have the matches and the lighter fluid right here.) #familyguy
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Family Guy is just snarky, cheap nihilism. No redeeming message whatsoever. Also, dropping four-letter words does not equal "edgy." It equals lazy writers. #familyguy
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