Justice Kennedy also sought to clear up a misprint in Tuesday's edition of The Daltonian: The cafeteria will be serving tater tots on Thursday, not tater tits.
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.
Does no one else watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force? Or Robot Chicken? Or Metalocolypse? Sure, they're only 15 minutes each, but they cram more funny into those 15 minutes than Family Guy has in multiple seasons. #familyguy
@RubiksPube: I watched Robot Chicken once or twice, but the little I saw was uniformly hilarious. A perfect blend of silliness and clever satire. Seth Green is the exec producer on this show, which made him skip a few notches upward in my view. Alas, it's a cable show. You can't honestly compare it to a network show. #familyguy
@snugbug: It may not be fair to compare something created for the relative freedom of late-night cable (Adult Swim) with something that's broadcast on Sunday nights. But if that's the case, why do so many people do just that with South Park and Family Guy?
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
@FriendlyFloyd: TGTTM is one of those things you either get or you don't and there is NO gray area. Same for Tim & Eric Awesome Show. I've been pretty unapologetic about being a fan of Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim for a while now. I guess it's creepy boys in the back of the classroom humor, but that's sort of how I roll. #familyguy
Richard, O Richard the Lawson! You nailed it. The Simpsons is the superior animated satire forevermore because it has consistently maintained a wholesome emotional core through the decades. You believe that this fictitious family fundamentally operates on mutual love.
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
I can't really sit through an entire episode any longer (too much DVRing to do), but I'll still defend it. I've had the most embarrassing mouth-to-nose blasts of unattractive bark/bray/coalesced hyena laugh-tourettes, ever, watching this show. It has literally ripped amusement from my insides unexpectedly, without warning, and with near ninj-a-tastic precision. One of the greats. Hands down. #familyguy
The South Park episode completely changed the way I view the show. In my adolescence, I saw Family Guy as the Jesus to The Simpsons' John the Baptist, the fulfillment of all that was promised. Then Parker & Stone turned their satire cannon on the show, and I remembered why I wore South Park shirts all through middle school. It was like I was going back to my abusive ex-boyfriend after he beat the shit out of my newer, more sensitive guy---I know he might be bad for me, but yeesh, who wants to date a wuss?
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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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