Family Guy Thread (Ladies and Gentleman, Mr Conway Twitty!)

[Andrew]

Road to Germany

Better than I expected I have to say, though they really are reaching for story ideas with the "Road to..." episodes if they're resorting to time travel. Some fun action sequences and laughs here and there. Pretty good episode, more tasteful then I thought they'd be.

[benji]

Everything Andrew said.

Except the complete opposite.

[Andrew]

So worse than you expected but you thought it was a good premise, ruined by boring action sequences and a lack of jokes, making it a pretty poor episode that was more tasteless than you thought it would be?

[shadowgrin]

Everything Andrew said.

Except the complete opposite.

benji is now getting lazy.

[benji]

So worse than you expected but you thought it was a good premise, ruined by boring action sequences and a lack of jokes, making it a pretty poor episode that was more tasteless than you thought it would be?

Except for the tasteless part (because Family Guy as a concept is pretty tasteless) then yes.

I didn't know they were investing in 3D modelers though.

[cyanide]

I was hoping for more laughs from Road to Germany, but there was too much action/adventure/musical involved, and not enough Peter/Meg/Lois/Quagmire/etc.

[Andrew]

That's usually how the "Road To..." episodes go though, however I liked the fakeout with musical in this one.

[Fcuk Orlando]

BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE

[ixcuincle]

Hehehe...movie references.

[el badman]

I thought this was a boring episode. Yes, plenty of movie references, but some were just dragging on, and in the end it just felt uninspired to me.

[benji]

I can't believe this stuff stays on, and King of the Hill gets walking papers. This week just emphasized how much objectively better King of the Hill is in the rest of the "Animation Domination" trash. (The start of the Charlie Brown Simpsons one was cute though...the rest of it was terrible, but the start was nice.)

[Andrew]

There was probably about three minutes of new material in that episode. Another Robin Williams swipe (how fresh!), a few minutes taken up with the family singing a song, a Planes, Trains & Automobiles reference (which I admit I kind of enjoyed because I love the movie) and a predictable homage to Home Alone. How can someone with so little creativity and so few new ideas get three shows?

I guess it continues to appeal to the "lolololol they burned robin williams!@1!11" demographic though. There's nothing wrong with pop cultures and trying to zing other shows, comedians, actors etc but if you do, you better make sure your product is getting the job done. Maybe that's the done thing now, bash someone else's material instead of coming up with your own.

[Andrew]

I thought the latest ep was better than the previous two. A Jackass parody/referencing people trying Jackass-style stuff at home isn't exactly fresh but it wasn't too bad, Johnny Knoxville making a brief guest appearance as himself was better than one of them doing a bad impersonation as well. The absence of overly long cutaways and unnecessary/unfunny swipes at their usual targets was refreshing as well. By Family Guy's standards, a pretty good episode.

[el badman]

It was okay, but I couldn't help feeling like deja vu with Brian deciding to leave (once again). I liked that nothing was shown about how Stewie dealt with the "new Brian" at the end, it was better than if they had shown him going on his typical rampage.
But I thought the story itself was quite mediocre...

[Andrew]

The ending was very much a rushed deus ex machina job; the family loves New Brian so it's all wrapped up in about two minutes because new Brian "rapes" Rupert. I agree that th immediate cut to Stewie dragging the garbage bag out was better than filling a couple of minutes with a brutal scene though.

[benji]

[el badman]

Pretty weak episode once again. Everything felt half-assed, the celeb references were mostly annoying and both side stories were predictable and boring. Come on, FG people, you can do better than that!

[Andrew]

Like the Family Guy Bingo image that's out there in cyberspace, that hit the nail on the head.

A very ordinary episode indeed. Seriously, references to Michael Jackson, Prince, and that video of the reporter hurting herself stomping grapes? A little late on those, though I have to admit Michael Jackson shooting himself in the crotch punctuated that cutaway nicely and gave me a chuckle. Both stories were pretty bland, the show is really stale these days.

[ixcuincle]

This music video makes no sense , which is why it is so funny. They also put in the Christian Bale reference...lol

[Andrew]

One of the better episodes of the past two seasons but then that's not saying very much. The shot at Two and a Half Men was better than their recent swipes thanks to the randomness of the ostrich and an actual attempt at a parody, instead of a two minute cutaway that makes its point in the first fifteen seconds. Alright ep all around, but nothing special.

[el badman]

I thought the Bale reference was very undermining, but this episode was indeed one of the best ones I've seen in the last couple of seasons.I thought Stewie's music video would be a letdown, but it was so absurd that it really was hysterical. And Quagmire completing the penile identification test was a classic. Much much better episode overall.

[benji]

I thought the Bale reference was very undermining

You mean a four minute shot of tape recorder might not be the best idea on a TV show? When combined with three seperate extended music related segments (Stewie guitar, Stewie music video, Safety Dance)?

American Dad feels like an hour long show at its best because it has a plot you can invest in, Family Guy feels like ten minutes of random jokes.

[Andrew]

I thought the Bale reference was very undermining, but this episode was indeed one of the best ones I've seen in the last couple of seasons.I thought Stewie's music video would be a letdown, but it was so absurd that it really was hysterical. And Quagmire completing the penile identification test was a classic. Much much better episode overall.

Yeah they milked that for way too long. I guess it was appropriate given the incident itself and the length of Bale's tirade but like a lot of their long cutaways - if not all of them - it lost its impact long before it was over.

[el badman]

Well, that one certainly hit rock bottom.
A couple of jokes were somewhat decent, the rest was downright embarrassing. I feel like Comic Book Guy after watching the Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie episode: worst.episode.ever!
The initial premise could have actually been written by the writing staff that South Park depicted Family Guy to have, and the story itself was just so full of unfunny stereotypes and weak unrelated gags, it was just unbearable to watch. Even Brian and Stewie had terrible lines.
The last episode had given me some hopes that the series hadn't gone down the drain after all, but this episode was simply pathetic.

[JaoSming]

was there an episode released last week? Nascar ran long and they didn't show any Family Guy here.