britches and hose

5/14/2007 5:07:30 PM

now that was a good fucking episode

5/21/2007 1:30:15 AM

i wanted to see Brian do Johnny B. Goode

5/21/2007 2:40:53 AM

I thought it sucked. Didn't nearly live up to its potential.

5/21/2007 10:10:14 AM

Those guys fucking LOVE Back to the Future. That's the second time they've done the dance.

5/22/2007 3:48:44 PM

Cleveland in his Rick James suit had me loling

5/22/2007 3:58:19 PM

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"Cleveland in his Rick James suit had me loling"

That was the Micheal jackson thriller shit mayne.

5/22/2007 4:28:09 PM

haha

5/22/2007 6:10:08 PM

ttt

9/23/2007 4:43:46 PM

Star Wars episode TONIGHT!!!!

9/23/2007 4:44:21 PM

i'm actually wanting to watch this...i got a feeling family guy can make starwars good

9/23/2007 4:49:58 PM

growing tired of the show, but i am interested in seeing how they do the star wars thing.

better than robot chicken?

9/23/2007 6:39:06 PM

new metalocalypse too. gonna be a good night.

9/23/2007 6:40:37 PM

what time is the star wars episode, like 930 right?

and what time/channel for metalocalypse?

9/23/2007 8:20:36 PM

9pm for Family guy (one hour)

9/23/2007 8:24:27 PM

But I digest...

9/23/2007 9:03:44 PM

haha "bush/cheney" bumper sticker

9/23/2007 9:04:17 PM

HAHAHA decapitated Elfman

9/23/2007 9:28:29 PM

oh peoples court

9/23/2007 9:28:57 PM

"Uuummm, isn't a parsec a measure of distance?"

9/23/2007 9:29:13 PM

I think that was actually Rush Limbaugh's voice too... on the radio.

oh and

"I'm Han Solo, the only actor who's career wasn't ruined by this movie."

[Edited on September 23, 2007 at 9:31 PM. Reason : .]

9/23/2007 9:30:58 PM

"Well stay here and rot you stuck up bitch."

9/23/2007 9:39:14 PM

the couch was killin me

9/23/2007 9:57:36 PM

lol at the argument about Robot Chicken already doing a Star Wars tribute.

9/23/2007 9:57:45 PM

2 more airplane references

9/23/2007 10:00:06 PM

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"I think that was actually Rush Limbaugh's voice too... on the radio."

Yeah Rush was credited at the end of the show.

9/23/2007 10:01:32 PM

"Red October, standing by!"

9/23/2007 10:01:41 PM

red october had me laughing the hardest.

9/23/2007 10:11:17 PM

im not big into family guy, but that was funny

9/24/2007 12:28:18 AM

that was one of the best family guy's i've seen in a while

9/24/2007 12:41:31 AM

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"im not big into family guy, but that was funny"

9/24/2007 12:46:16 AM

[Edited on September 24, 2007 at 1:07 AM. Reason : .]

9/24/2007 12:56:32 AM

hahahaha funny episode

9/30/2007 9:31:45 PM

I chuckled when Stewie tried to talk Brian into having sex with him, but the conversation between Chris and the store manager dragged on for too long. I think that's about the only aspect of Seth McFarlane's comedy that I can't get into. It's one thing for him to use recurring gags such as the old pervert guy, but having jokes that run for 30 seconds or longer just really ruin the funny for me.

And poor Brian. Dude can't seem to win at life.

[Edited on September 30, 2007 at 9:39 PM. Reason : blah]

9/30/2007 9:36:08 PM

The Cruel Intentions/Jennifer Connelly bit was funny IMO, the second part not as much.

The no-armed baseball player was the worse though.

9/30/2007 9:38:34 PM

just left the cobbler, on my way to the apothocary

9/30/2007 10:38:08 PM

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"the conversation between Chris and the store manager dragged on for too long."

that was the best part. i couldn't stop laughing, my wife thought i was crazy. that's one of those "it's funny because it's true" conversations that Family Guy captures so well.

10/1/2007 7:33:19 AM

not very impressed last night. family guy is going downhill

10/1/2007 10:16:00 AM

^^I'm not denying that the things that were said in the joke are true, I just feel like they strung out the joke for too long. Like that one episode where Stewie spends an entire minute asking Brian if he'll finish that novel. I'm sitting there thinking "just get to the point already!" On this show those kinds of jokes run for so long with so little humor along the way that when they finally get to the punchline, it's not nearly as effective. Maybe I'm just impatient or too accustomed to sarcastic quips and zany one-liners, but when I have to sit around and wait longer than 30 seconds for the joke to finish, they've already lost my interest.

10/1/2007 11:11:00 AM

^^I'm starting to feel this way. They're really relying too much on completely random shit for their gags.

The greatest offender is Peter since he's suppose to be a moron. I liked him a lot more in the first season when he wasn't so much a fucking idiot as he was just not very bright but was at least trying to get things right. But I guess that would mean that the show takes itself too seriously, and so he's basically written as a retard who does randomly retarded things. The Simpsons has been doing this for much longer, but I digress, half of the show is either Peter or somebody else doing completely random shit. Instead of writing real jokes, the writers just throw a bunch of gibberish out there and hope that some of it sticks. That's not comedy, that's laziness.

The other half of their jokes are usually cultural references, which I don't mind (although some of them will fly completely over my head, such as all the Airplane! references because I've never seen that movie). But while cultural references are all and good, there's more to good comedy than that.

Personally, I like it when they use sarcastic and dark humor. For example, I find all of the arguments between Brian and Stewie to be funny. They're both really intelligent, and they're both angry at the world in their own way, but Stewie deals with it via matricidal fantasies (or at least he used to, now he just acts gay/effeminate, which can be funny in its own way) and Brian usually just shrugs everything off with a dry martini and even dryer remarks. But despite the fact that they can't always get along and that they can even hate each other at times, deep down they're best friends. And there's a lot of funny moments to go along with that character development.

Damn, I need to remind myself that I'm not a professional tv critic.

10/1/2007 11:28:44 AM

Last night was fucking gold compared to half of last season. I didn't even bother to pick up the DVD set for that one.

10/1/2007 1:06:51 PM

I love the voice of the guy from Home Movies(the c-store manager). That whole show was just him talking about random stuff without a script for 30 minutes.

10/1/2007 2:39:50 PM

^H Jon Benjamin is hilarious <3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Jon_Benjamin

10/1/2007 9:29:52 PM

i like how ppl are complaining about the strung out 2 minute long jokes. THATS THE WHOLE POINT.

[Edited on October 1, 2007 at 9:46 PM. Reason : you're supposed to get tired of it, then laugh at yourself cuz they got you.]

10/1/2007 9:46:05 PM

^I'm sorry but I don't see why them getting me by wasting my time is funny.

10/2/2007 2:08:25 AM

They got me?

They successfully got me to watch a 2 minute clip of unfunny without changing the channel, so joke's on me?

Is that where comedy is going now?

10/2/2007 2:40:18 AM

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"They're really relying too much on completely random shit for their gags."

have you ever seen Family Guy? This is nothing new. It's been exactly like this for years.


and with dragging jokes out for minutes - the options are 1) make a joke and get on with it, 2) create an inherently non-funny scene but drag it out to the breaking point, making the absurdity of it funny. They can't do a middle ground - with the scene in the store talking about Elizabeth Shue or whatever, they could have made it 4 seconds long and a non-funny passing cultural reference, or taken it all the way and talked about nothing for 2 minutes. A 30-second conversation wouldn't have cut it. I liken the scene talking about movies to most of the movie Clerks. That scene and Clerks (when they're sitting around talking about movies) is how actual people talk, sometimes. When you're bored or in college you can get into ridiculously long and detailed conversations about nothing - about whatever happened to Elizabeth Shue after Adventures in Babysitting, or how to destroy the DeathStar or whatever.

The joke is, why would anyone ever want to film/animate such a banal conversation? There's nothing inherently funny about those conversations, until you capture them on screen, let them play out in full, and allow people to watch them and realize how stupid they really are. If you watched the Elizabeth Shue scene and didn't think to yourself "jesus, i've had this exact conversation a dozen times before", then you're just not the target audience for the joke. (and please no inferences about being a stoner or whatever. people talk about this kind of stuff all the time with their friends when bored, stoned or not)

10/2/2007 7:57:52 AM

"Do you have any idea what it's like?! Everywhere I go, 'Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?' 'Hey, your sense of humor reminds me of Family Guy, Cartman.' I am NOTHING like Family Guy! When I make jokes, they are inherent to a story! Deep, situational and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT! Not just one interchangeable joke after another!"

10/2/2007 8:05:43 AM

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"have you ever seen Family Guy? This is nothing new. It's been exactly like this for years."

I've been watching the show for years just like everybody else, so I guess I'm only pointing out the obvious.

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"and with dragging jokes out for minutes - the options are 1) make a joke and get on with it, 2) create an inherently non-funny scene but drag it out to the breaking point, making the absurdity of it funny. They can't do a middle ground - with the scene in the store talking about Elizabeth Shue or whatever, they could have made it 4 seconds long and a non-funny passing cultural reference, or taken it all the way and talked about nothing for 2 minutes. A 30-second conversation wouldn't have cut it. I liken the scene talking about movies to most of the movie Clerks. That scene and Clerks (when they're sitting around talking about movies) is how actual people talk, sometimes. When you're bored or in college you can get into ridiculously long and detailed conversations about nothing - about whatever happened to Elizabeth Shue after Adventures in Babysitting, or how to destroy the DeathStar or whatever."

Well when you put it that way, the joke does seem better. Some of the funniest conversations I've had have been talking about absolutely mundane shit. I guess that that sort of humor is a little more subtle and slower to get to the pay-off, though, and I'm just more accustomed to comedy shows being a lot quicker with their deliveries.

10/2/2007 11:28:44 AM

OMG I changed a mind on the interweb!

10/2/2007 1:27:40 PM