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When did Family Guy become completely unfunny?
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I made an effort to watch one of the new Family Guys on Sunday night (as opposed to one of the repeats that I usually catch during the week) and whilst I don't often laugh out loud at the show, the new one seemed totally devoid of humour or jokes.
Flat gags, a prolonged chicken fight scene (only funny the first time guys), and just really boring.
Flat gags, a prolonged chicken fight scene (only funny the first time guys), and just really boring.
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The last couple of seasons (9 and 10) have been outstanding IMO. Some absolutely brilliant episodes.
It did go through a very poor patch though and I even considered ditching it, but i'm certainly glad i stuck with it.
Unfortunately I have to disagree. I thought the last season in particular was, on the whole, pretty lazy. There were a couple of great episodes (Back to the Pilot was pretty good) but mostly it tends to rely on thinner and thinner plots and lazy toilet/shock value humour.
There's usually a couple of great moments per episode still but that never makes up for the ropey and inconsistent writing IMO.
I'm a recent convert to American Dad which I think is now vastly superior to Family Guy in every single way. I only got into it in the last year but it's brilliant, brilliant television. And unlike FG which has declined in recent years AD just gets better and better.
Same reason Bart Simpson is 10, Lisa is 8 and Maggie is a baby after 20 odd years, ITS A CARTOON not real life :rolleyes:
Clearly you don't get irony! I love people like you who bite like that. As if I needed telling,
Exactly the same for me! Took me a long time to come around to American Dad, but it's tied with South Park for me.
Roger is one of the great comedy characters.
FG has gone stale, hopefully these series can see a return to form. Can't agree that the last two seasons have been outstanding at all.
Funny you should say that because when I thought FG was very poor, I was enjoying American Dad a great deal. When FG started to improve, American Dad got a lot worse, to the point where I actually thought they'd switched writing teams ..
The Taken episode was great:D
It was never funny to begin with.
Seemed to be a sign that they lacked in ideas so filled up 3 of the 20 minutes with crap like that.
I remember those episodes. There was also a song and dance number that went on for nearly half of the entire episode which was just painful.
How I didn't drop it then I don't know, but i'm certainly glad I stuck it out. That said, the season 11 opener on sunday wasn't the best episode i've ever seen
For people who are so dismissive, I wonder what their favourite comedies are at the moment. People just like different things, doesn't make it either great tv or rubbish, really.
The US to conservative, especially with male nudity. To my knowledge FG has never even tried but AD had to blur Stan's backside outside out from the episode where he becomes addicted to masturbation, and Steve's penis was blurred in 20000 candles...
South Park has shown a penis or two uncut/blurred though...