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3/3/2013 11:26:11 PM
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Family Guy has evolved as a show, not degraded.
Please, before you read this, throw away everything you've seen or heard about Family Guy and just read this.
Family Guy has recently gotten much hate and disapproval from the fans, saying that it "sold out", or that it's "preachy", or whatever. I disagree. The show's tone, characters, and overall message has changed. It's not a slapstick, pop-culture based humor show anymore. That was the first few seasons, when the humor and show had a much more "innocent" feel.
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That was the first three or so seasons - the "innocent" phase. McFarlane tried to structure the show like the 80's sitcoms he grew up with, with a colorful cast of recurring neighbors and a lesson at the end of each episode. It was essentially social satire, which isn't really a bad thing. But my point is that the show was more tame. Peter was an oaf, but not retarded. He was a bumbling father, but not abusive. Lois was a stern mom, but not a sociopath. Meg was a bratty teenager, not an emotionally disturbed wreck. The obvious exception here is Stewie, but even his world-domination schemes were a bit more Roadrunner-eque, with no one getting seriously hurt.
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This is the Family Guy that a lot of people I know grew up with, Seasons 4-7. You had a lot more celebrity voices, a lot more cutaways, and more developed characters (Stewie as a homosexual, Brian as an atheist). Surprisingly, there was also a good bit of drama. Remember "Stewie Kill Lois"? This was the phase when Family Guy really started to grow its beard, and when the overall tone changed. 9/11 jokes, rape jokes, incest jokes, and many more racist jokes were thrown in. The show was more like an episode of The Simpsons.
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Seasons 8-11 are what most people hate about Family Guy. People don't like preachy Brian, they don't like gay Stewie, they don't like physically abusive father Peter. But I disagree. If [b]1[/b] was a comedic retelling of 80's sitcoms and [b]2[/b] was akin to a Simpsons episode, then [b]3[/b] is like the movie [i]Sideways[/i]. There's humor, yes, but most of the humor is character-based, not plot-based, and the humor itself is dark and morbid. You'd want to be part of the Griffin family in [b]1[/b] and [b]2[/b], but in [b]3[/b]? Hell no. The Griffins are extremely flawed, to the point of being evil beyond no return. I mean, look at [url=http://video.adultswim.com/family-guy/meg-hates-her-life.html]this clip[/url]. Holy fucking shit. Lois has always been a bit mean to Meg, but she just pretty much implied that Meg should kill herself, and even gave Meg the tools to do it. Her own daughter. That's not how Lois was in the earlier seasons.
Now, some people may see this as a bad thing. I don't. The family has gotten psychotic and evil, that much is understood, but why? Well, look at the character's lives. Peter was diagnosed with mental retardation, Brian was planning to commit suicide (as seen in the episode "Stewie & Brian", which you should really see if you haven't), Lois is stuck in a dead-end marriage that proves her parents right, and Stewie, Meg, and Chris are neglected as a result. The fourth wall jokes are so common it's insane, which shows that even the characters are sick and depressed of the lives they live. Every single flaw that the characters ever did are coming down in phase [b]3[/b]. Little things that you thought were forgotten are resurfacing. You can see it in [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X49Oi2gZLR4]Quagmire's detailed explanation of why Brian is a terrible person.[/url] Quagmire mentions things in that speech that Brian did in Season 2. And we thought that the Griffin family was going to be somehow immune to everything wrong they've done? No.
Probably the best episode that sums up the mood of this new era of Family Guy is "Seahorse Seashell Party", which could've acted as the series finale for the whole show. I would give you a clip, but you really should just watch the episode. It's the most dramatic, tearjerking, heartwarming thing I've ever seen, and it's on fucking Family Guy. If that's not a symbol that the show has become darker and more dramatic, I don't know what is.
Thoughts?
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Family guy has always been a shit show though.
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Family Guy sucks in comparison to American Dad.
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I think 4-8 are the best seasons. And that episode "Brian & Stewie" is actually my favorite episode. It really hits me hard. It helps me appreciate the friends and family I have.
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Family guy for me just stopped being funny.
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1 ReplyFamily Guy is not now, not ever was, good.
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2 RepliesStop trying to be SecondClass
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The show has way too much filler in the form of songs
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2 RepliesIt wasn't funny when it started, and it isn't funny now.
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Edited by Pfhortnite: 3/4/2013 1:51:24 AMNah, it's not of the same quality as before. I miss the good old days . . . The Simpsons, on the other-hand, flat-out suck.
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The new seasons are simply not that funny anymore. I think the producers rely too much on the 3D animation bullshit that everyone seems to be doing these days. Plus I want to watch a show, not watch Stewie fly in his spaceship and have 13 minute long bullshit fights. I don't want to watch a movie.
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4 RepliesEdited by Seggi: 3/4/2013 1:39:48 AMThe Family Guy of its early seasons was practically a straight rip of The Simpsons: a sit-com style animated show that subverted the expectations and standards of contemporary sit-coms, the main difference being that it was much more outlandish, and much less intelligent. The progression of the characters wasn't character development, it was Flanderisation: Brian was a fairly innocuous, socially aware and intelligent character who developed into a two-dimensional parody of militant, pseudo-intellectual liberal atheism; Meg was a troubled teen with self-esteem issues whose only participation in the show any more is as the butt of a humiliating joke now and then; and Stewie's been completely enveloped by the writers' needs for an outlet for gay jokes. The show originally struggled to be both intelligent and funny, but it just became a bland mess of repetitive low brow humour populated exclusively by cardboard cut-outs.
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2 RepliesIt's just a -blam!-ing cartoon show like seriously why the shit did you create a wall for this. Who gives a shit.
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1 ReplyStewie is gay? Huh, I seem to have missed a lot of the newer episodes....didn't know he made him gay.
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The reason why I don't like Family Guy is because it's "humor" seems like it is catered to morons and teenagers instead of using any real wit.
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2 RepliesI miss the fart jokes.
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1 ReplyWell alright then. You may have spent way too much time and energy on this post.
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I actually agree. I like the latest Family Guys more than the old ones. The Simpsons on the otherhand, have gotten alot worse than they used to be.
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5 RepliesOh Jesus, more obvious bait?
