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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jan 31, 2024 12:56:22 GMT -5
On January 31, 1999 after the Super Bowl this debuted on Fox
Pretty f***ing crazy that this show is still going 25 years later, I distinctly remember watching the debut and thinking "It was okay". And didn't we just have a thread about "things that make you feel old?"
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Post by tirtefaa on Jan 31, 2024 13:04:07 GMT -5
Clever spin on the standard adult cartoon at the time.
However it's amazing it's staying power after it returned in the mid 2000's with what I consider some of the worst writing I've ever seen in a show. You can almost see how the concept of a joke can be funny, but the execution is almost always mistimed, overwritten,underwritten, goes on too long, or flat out just trying to be edgy. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic when I say it's probably the worst written show I've ever seen, and even worse as an "animated show", which calling it that is a gross injustice to animation when most of the show is flat shots of characters talking with very little animation actually occurring. I know the show has an audience, but man... whatever is drawing those people, there is probably a dozen good alternatives for that item they crave.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Jan 31, 2024 13:12:01 GMT -5
25 years and tons of funny moments. I know the show as not aged as well anymore but man those first couple of seasons are gold.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 31, 2024 13:12:35 GMT -5
The pre cancellation years were absolutely brilliant television. The first few seasons post comeback were really solid, but there was a point around season 9 where the writing just got really lazy and the characters, all of 'em, just became dickheads.
Also, the anniversary of the Critic's premiere just passed and upon rewatching some of it, it's amazing how much the style of humor was a proto-Family guy but with characters you actually enjoyed.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jan 31, 2024 14:05:18 GMT -5
I still like it for what it is. Even though watching Ted shows me a MacFarlane production can be even BETTER when he steps away from the FG formula.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Jan 31, 2024 15:31:55 GMT -5
Good for a chuckle or a meme every now and then, but it’s no American Dad.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Jan 31, 2024 16:07:56 GMT -5
Me in my teens: OMG Family Guy is the funniest show ever!
Me in my twenties: OMG I can't believe I even liked that shit! F**k Seth McFarlane!
Me now at age 31: *laughs at all the stupid jokes again*
Not sure what this trajectory says about me. Maybe I've just become more accepting of things as they are, both good and bad.
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Post by salz4life on Jan 31, 2024 16:49:21 GMT -5
I still like it for what it is. Even though watching Ted shows me a MacFarlane production can be even BETTER when he steps away from the FG formula. Hasn't he basically said the only reason he's still doing Family Guy is the paycheck? I mean not specifically, but he's basically said things that would lead you to think that. |
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Post by salz4life on Jan 31, 2024 16:51:03 GMT -5
Me in my teens: OMG Family Guy is the funniest show ever! Me in my twenties: OMG I can't believe I even liked that shit! F**k Seth McFarlane! Me now at age 31: *laughs at all the stupid jokes again* Not sure what this trajectory says about me. Maybe I've just become more accepting of things as they are, both good and bad. I've never not enjoyed Family Guy. There are episodes I like more than others and it's definitely not "hitting" the same as it did in its hay day... but it's still gives me a few laughs (and an occasional full belly laugh) each week and for that I continue to watch. |
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Post by tafkaga on Jan 31, 2024 17:07:28 GMT -5
Me in my teens: OMG Family Guy is the funniest show ever! Me in my twenties: OMG I can't believe I even liked that shit! F**k Seth McFarlane! Me now at age 31: *laughs at all the stupid jokes again* Not sure what this trajectory says about me. Maybe I've just become more accepting of things as they are, both good and bad. Similar to me with Beavis & Butthead. I didn't love it when I was that age and all the dudes my age were quoting it. Now at 40+ it's like one of my comfort shows. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 31, 2024 19:22:49 GMT -5
Still the best show of Animation Domination. Only a few episodes are outright bad that I don’t enjoy.
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Post by cjh on Jan 31, 2024 19:28:14 GMT -5
I still like it for what it is. Even though watching Ted shows me a MacFarlane production can be even BETTER when he steps away from the FG formula. Hasn't he basically said the only reason he's still doing Family Guy is the paycheck? I mean not specifically, but he's basically said things that would lead you to think that. For the last 10 years or so, his only involvement with FG has been recording his lines. He no longer has any other role in the show. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 31, 2024 19:56:27 GMT -5
Hasn't he basically said the only reason he's still doing Family Guy is the paycheck? I mean not specifically, but he's basically said things that would lead you to think that. For the last 10 years or so, his only involvement with FG has been recording his lines. He no longer has any other role in the show. Yeah, he’s just a voice actor now. It’s been Alec Sulkin’s show for quite a while. There was even a joke about Seth being away from the show in one episode. |
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Post by wildojinx on Feb 1, 2024 14:32:48 GMT -5
For the last 10 years or so, his only involvement with FG has been recording his lines. He no longer has any other role in the show. Yeah, he’s just a voice actor now. It’s been Alec Sulkin’s show for quite a while. There was even a joke about Seth being away from the show in one episode. I wouldnt be surprised if they sent him all of the scripts from a said season and he records all his lines at once, and then they splice said lines into the episode. |
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Post by crowley1986 on Feb 1, 2024 15:09:05 GMT -5
Yeah, he’s just a voice actor now. It’s been Alec Sulkin’s show for quite a while. There was even a joke about Seth being away from the show in one episode. I wouldnt be surprised if they sent him all of the scripts from a said season and he records all his lines at once, and then they splice said lines into the episode. Supposedly they're relaxing his characters as there are issues with his voice and other characters in FG/AD are being more prominent to cover Its a silly comfort show, after a long work day, something easy/silly to watch to switch your brain off , American Dad too |
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Feb 1, 2024 15:14:04 GMT -5
I never saw a show that both loved and hated it's initial fanbase so much.
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Post by BRV on Feb 1, 2024 15:18:53 GMT -5
"Family Guy" hasn't been appointment viewing for me since Season 10 (2011-12) but I cannot emphasize how much that show mattered when it was in its prime when it returned from hiatus in 2005. It was the definition of appointment viewing. I'd put it on over Sunday Night Football (hell, even Patriots Sunday Night games) and flip back to the football during "Family Guy" commercials.
But as the quality declined around Season 7 - specifically with how mean-spirited, preachy, and pretentious it had become - my interest waned very quickly.
That being the case, when I do catch a newer episode, I'm surprised at how funny it can occasionally be. It seems like much of the humor is built around Peter and Lois and their marriage, and it has a heart again. Sure, it's still crass on occasion, but it's not the incessant soapbox diatribes that it was 15 years ago.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Feb 1, 2024 16:51:17 GMT -5
Family Guy is honestly one of those shows I don't really go out my way to watch anymore but let's say I'm channel flicking and it's on I'll be like "Eh, why not."
When done right the show has had me in stitches laughing. But a good majority of the time the jokes are a bit meh..
That said I do like to occasionally watch random clips on Youtube.
Much like The Simpsons and South Park. I liked them more in my teens/early 20's.. But now they are just there.
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Post by unc40 on Feb 3, 2024 23:59:10 GMT -5
I haven't watched The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, or American Dad in years. Time for the shows to end.
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Post by cosmo on Feb 4, 2024 2:11:46 GMT -5
I always preferred American Dad, personally. Granted, it was rough the first couple of years when was running with the "All in the Family if it were set during the War on Terror" gimmick, because I just plain didn't think that was very funny. And Roger evolving from a one-note ALF ripoff to now having so many personas that he's practically the entire town's population feels like it's wearing itself thin. But I still enjoy it more than I ever enjoyed Family Guy.
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