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Post by Avalanche Alvarez on Nov 23, 2009 11:02:19 GMT -5
{Spoiler} On tonights new episode of Family Guy, Quagmire went on an EPIC rant on Brian saying pretty much every complaint about the character the fans have. Please tell me someone else saw it! It was unrelenting and unexpected but it was definitely something to see. You feel bad for Brian but Quagmire was right the entire way across.
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Post by strykerdarksilence on Nov 23, 2009 11:04:56 GMT -5
Just watched the clip...that was freaking GOLD
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Nov 23, 2009 11:40:36 GMT -5
Upon re-watching it....He needs to take a drink of water and/or a deap breath before the rant, while I understand it's supposed to sound like an off-the-cuff browbeating, I just think it would add a bit of realism where he realizes it'll take a while and would need his breath or a quick drink beforehand.....little nitpicks I'm sure, but it's the little things that make the world go 'round.
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Post by segaz on Nov 23, 2009 13:08:27 GMT -5
{Spoiler} On tonights new episode of Family Guy, Quagmire went on an EPIC rant on Brian saying pretty much every complaint about the character the fans have. Please tell me someone else saw it! Lol, the words loaded before the spoiler did. Side note: I really love Seasons 1-4 of Family guy. I like the rest. I just saw Season 1 for the first time a week ago, and thought, this is better than current Family Guy. Megs old voice is mildly annoying, but its not bad.
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Post by FrankGotch on Nov 23, 2009 13:10:52 GMT -5
I thought the ending with Brian and Stewie was very sweet.
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Post by segaz on Nov 23, 2009 13:30:08 GMT -5
Just be glad that he ranted. People complain about everything nowadays and yet, they still watch it. I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of Seth's ribs on the audience in retaliation for FG hate. Same here. And as far as pretentious Mary Sues go, I'll take Brian over Lisa Simpson any day of the week- at least he has character flaws. Ah Lisa Simpson. I always switch from being annoyed by the character to loving her. "You're not really giving my father power of attourney are you?" She works well with Bart I feel, "Hard work made us quit", "As long as you have no follow-up questions, yes. Yes we are. Fully. We have to go now," and "Hey tubby, want another pop tart tubby?" Even "One of us" or "You love him more." I like the smarmy bratty side of her, and the lazy side of her. "Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding", or "You mean State UN-fair." although those two are made better by who the scene is with. I like the one where she tried to teach Homer that his reasoning was flawed in the Bear Patrol. And the one where she acts like a zombie in response to seeing Bart study cause he took pills for ADD. Didn't really like her in Lisa the Vegetarian, or in Lisa the Ionclast (poor examples, shes ok.). And if you listen to the commentary, Bill whines about how the Sniper shouldn't have taken a shot. They're so protective of Lisa sometimes.
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Nov 23, 2009 13:40:40 GMT -5
Also...back on topic, the Rant is actually a little weird, the beginning is mostly complaints about Brian being a dog and doing normal Dog Stuff (Aside from hitting on Lois), then generic douch-y things, before finally settling on answering Fan/Detractor omplaints about Brian being Seth's Author Avatar
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Nov 23, 2009 13:45:30 GMT -5
I kinda agree with a lot of Brian's views but to each their own. quote] I tend to as well. But I do agree with Quagmire that he tends to be preachy and pretentious about his views. With the question of Quagmire being mad at Brian for hitting on Lois while Quagmire has done the same thing. I think it boils down to the fact that while both are disrespectful to Peter and his marriage to Lois, the real problem Quagmire seems to be that Brian does this despite Peter taking him in and saving his life where as Quagmire does this without being greatly indebted to Brian (who Quagmire calls a "sponge"). I love the part about how they both date bimbos but Brian is worse because he buys them Catcher in the Rye and gives them a "7th grade interpretation about how Holden Caulfield was some deep intellectual". I also love how the character that gave this epic rant to the character seen as MacFarlan's ideological mouth piece got yelled at by another character voiced by Macfarlan.
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Post by The OP on Nov 23, 2009 17:18:28 GMT -5
That was a cool scene. It reflects what I think is my favorite thing about Seth McFarlane - he has a sense of humor about himself, his own flaws, and the flaws in his work. He'll dish it out but he can also take it, and I think that's a very respectable quality in a person and is unfortunately kind of rare especially in people who are artistic and/or intellectual.
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Post by "The Natural" Bustin Loads on Nov 23, 2009 18:06:28 GMT -5
As someone who tends to agree with Brian's views, that rant was hilarious. I don't watch new Family Guy episodes often but that one was really well-done and is among my favorites. Animation Domination as a whole was quite strong yesterday. Didn't get to see Simpsons, but The Cleveland Show was awesome as was American Dad. Roger dressed as Penny Lane had me in stitches.
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Post by Threadkiller [Classic] on Nov 23, 2009 18:25:39 GMT -5
Yeah, the mid-part of the episode just becoming an out-and-out parody of "Almost Famous" was incredible, and Roger is solid platinum and easily the best part of that show.
And as far as The Simpsons went, it wasn't a particularly funny episode, but it was simply a really well-written half-hour of television. It was a strong story more than a funny one, and so I appreciated it on that level. This has been a pretty strong season for The Simpsons, actually.
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Post by Bullhead on Nov 23, 2009 18:27:53 GMT -5
Awesome stuff. I hope we get to see more SRS Quagmire in the future.
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Post by Millie D on Nov 24, 2009 14:53:04 GMT -5
WIN BIG TIME!
I loved the rant..i actually clapped as well! I believe its one of the BEST things to come out of FG in a long time!
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Post by El Hijo del Havoc on Nov 24, 2009 15:15:01 GMT -5
I liked it. But it wasnt the most EPIC AND GREATEST PIECE OF TV IN HISTORY!!!
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Post by Millie D on Nov 24, 2009 15:24:09 GMT -5
"HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE ME?"
"ok I'll tell you. You are the worst person I know. You constantly hit on your best friend's wife, the man pays for your food and rescued you from certain death and this is how you repay him and to add insult to injury , you deficate all over his yard and your such a sponge. You pay for nothing, you always says "ooh i'll get ya later" BUT later never comes. and what really bothers me is you pretend your this deep guy who loves women for their souls when all you do is date bimbos, yeah i date women for their bodies but at least I'm honest about it. I don't buy them a copy of "catcher in the rye" and then lecture them with some 7th grade interpretation of how Holden Caulfield is some profound intellectual. HE WASN'T! HE WAS A SPOILED BRAT! and that's why you like him so much..He's YOU..GOD..your pretentious and you delude yourself by thinking your some great writer even though your terrible. You know I shoulda known Cheryl Tiegs didn't write me that note.. she woulda known there was no a in the word definete.. and i think what i hate most about you is your textbook liberal agenda ..how we should "legalize pot, man" , how big business is crushing the underclass, how homelessness is the biggest tragedy in America, well, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HELP? I work down at the soup kitchen, Brian ..never seen YOU down there! You wanna help..GRAB A LADLE! and by the way, driving a Prius doesn't make you Jesus Christ..OH wait you don't beileve in jesus Christ or any religion for that matter because" religion is for idiots" Well WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO TALK DOWN TO ANYONE? You failed college TWICE which isn't nearly as bad as your failure as a father, How's that son of yours you never see?But you know what? I can forgive all of that , ALL of it if you weren't such a BORE..That's the worst of it , Brian . you're just a BIG SAD ALCOHOLIC BORE! >>( sigh)
throws napkin on table and finishes with " well see you Brian, thanks for the #%$&^%* steak"
( wow that took me 40 minutes to get right!)
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Post by bob on Nov 24, 2009 16:37:34 GMT -5
that rant was amazing but Quagmire is no saint himself
let's see....he's also hit in Luis, starting the obvious he's a huge pervert, and last week he said that he'd even do it with his daughter 18 years down the road which truely disgusts me
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Nov 24, 2009 17:39:26 GMT -5
that rant was amazing but Quagmire is no saint himself let's see....he's also hit in Luis, starting the obvious he's a huge pervert, and last week he said that he'd even do it with his daughter 18 years down the road which truely disgusts me Well that's the thing, like Quagmire said in his rant. At least he's honest about what he does.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Nov 24, 2009 21:21:40 GMT -5
The only thing Quagmire got wrong was that Brian's son did straighten himself out at the end of that episode.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Nov 24, 2009 21:38:19 GMT -5
that rant was amazing but Quagmire is no saint himself let's see....he's also hit in Luis, starting the obvious he's a huge pervert, and last week he said that he'd even do it with his daughter 18 years down the road which truely disgusts me Well that's the thing, like Quagmire said in his rant. At least he's honest about what he does. But really so has Brian. He only dated one bimbo for extended period, Jillian, and he admited he was only in the relationship for the physical aspects. Then he ended it. Sure he was upset when she was gettting married but that was because it re-enforced the fact that it was really over, something he didn't like. The other woman we've seen him date, the woman he loses to Cleveland and the 50 year old mother, were both portrayed as intelligent. That what I meant when I said the rant didn't come from the story. Not the plot of that episode, though that itself was pretty flimsy, but the over all story of the Family Guy universe. Never before had we seen any evidence that Quagmire hated Brain. In fact that had all hung out before. You would think that if Glenn hated Brain that much he wouldn't have driven him cross country with Stewie, or hung out with him at the Drunken Clam. Plus the whole pot kettle black thing, as mentioned in the OP about Quagmire saying he would sleep with his daughter and all the other things he said makes him a horrible person to make this rant. In the end what bothered me about the whole thing was that it was simply a rant to appease fans rather than something that worked within the confines of Family Guy.
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