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** Tropers/InfinityLeague: Honestly, this episode seemed like an attempt by the writers to apologize for the hard-left shift the show took in recent years (a shift I never really minded because I mostly agreed with them, but I understand why others wouldn't like it)... only thing is, [[ALessonLearnedTooWell they went too far in the other direction]] and created a 22-minute anti-liberal PropagandaPiece. The worst scene in this episode has to be the one where Stewie and Brian go to the college and they see the students holding a mass protest. Stewie then remarks that [[WriterOnBoard protesting is the only thing keeping Millennials from staring at their cell phones all day]]. Wow, NeverHeardThatOneBefore. Stewie then slowly turns toward the camera with a smug grin on his face and the scene just pauses for a few seconds, as if the writers thought that joke was so goddamned clever that [[ViewersAreMorons the audience needed a break just to get it and laugh.]] Brian then talks to the lead protester, who explains that they are demanding that two professors be fired: one because he "didn't immediately overreact" (their words, not mine) to a transphobic comment, and the other because he told his students to "Have a nice day", which the student explains is a [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "microaggression"]] because something something systemic oppression blah blah blah white male privilege. [[StrawCharacter Seriously, who the hell talks like this? I've been going to college for three years, and I've never met anyone who actually talks like this.]] The camera then zooms in on Brian and Stewie, who talk for a moment before the camera pans out to reveal that the entire student body had disappeared.[[DontExplainTheJoke "Lol, geddit? It's funny 'cuz Millennials are lazy."]] As for the rest of the episode, it's a grotesque exaggeration of actual events of which the writers didn't even try to gain a clear understanding beforehand. random lefties on the Internet just aren't organized or motivated enough to pull off such a thing. Sure, they vehemently criticize people, but they don't harass them in the streets - and most of the time, it's because that person has actually done or said something legitimately racist (WebVideo/JonTron and LetsPlay/PewDiePie are recent examples, and Creator/MichaelRichards is an older one.) All too often, genuine racists try to justify themselves by saying that everyone else is at fault for being too sensitive, and this episode is dedicated to enabling that line of thinking. It's quite frankly disgusting.

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** Tropers/InfinityLeague: Honestly, this episode seemed like an attempt by the writers to apologize for the hard-left shift the show took in recent years (a shift I never really minded because I mostly agreed with them, but I understand why others wouldn't like it)... only thing is, [[ALessonLearnedTooWell they went too far in the other direction]] and created a 22-minute anti-liberal PropagandaPiece. The worst scene in this episode has to be the one where Stewie and Brian go to the college and they see the students holding a mass protest. Stewie then remarks that [[WriterOnBoard protesting is the only thing keeping Millennials from staring at their cell phones all day]]. Wow, NeverHeardThatOneBefore. Stewie then slowly turns toward the camera with a smug grin on his face and the scene just pauses for a few seconds, as if the writers thought that joke was so goddamned clever that [[ViewersAreMorons the audience needed a break just to get it and laugh.]] Brian then talks to the lead protester, who explains that they are demanding that two professors be fired: one because he "didn't immediately overreact" (their words, not mine) to a transphobic comment, and the other because he told his students to "Have a nice day", which the student explains is a [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "microaggression"]] because something something systemic oppression blah blah blah white male privilege. [[StrawCharacter Seriously, who the hell talks like this? I've been going to college for three years, and I've never met anyone who actually talks like this.]] The camera then zooms in on Brian and Stewie, who talk for a moment before the camera pans out to reveal that the entire student body had disappeared.[[DontExplainTheJoke "Lol, geddit? It's funny 'cuz Millennials are lazy."]] As for the rest of the episode, it's a grotesque exaggeration of actual events of which the writers didn't even try to gain a clear understanding beforehand. random lefties on the Internet just aren't organized or motivated enough to pull off such a thing. Sure, they vehemently criticize people, but they don't harass them in the streets - and most of the time, it's because that person has actually done or said something legitimately racist (WebVideo/JonTron and LetsPlay/PewDiePie WebVideo/PewDiePie are recent examples, and Creator/MichaelRichards is an older one.) All too often, genuine racists try to justify themselves by saying that everyone else is at fault for being too sensitive, and this episode is dedicated to enabling that line of thinking. It's quite frankly disgusting.

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** Tropers/MisterToodleoo: Personally, I think there is some good humor in this episode, but one cutaway, to me, symbolizes the worst aspects of the show. Peter says that he will make schools drug-free "like the good old days". We then get a representation of said days where a girl answers a math problem, causing her teacher and fellow students to freak out and call her a witch. In real life, the reasons for such moral panics were complicated, but this cutaway makes it look like America's Christian society of the past killed girls for learning math, which is utterly false! Even worse, I've seen a Twitter account in real life that appeared to take this "joke" seriously! In my opinion, "Mean Past World Syndrome" stuff like this is what gives power to the blasphemous humor found in other episodes.



* Tropers/MisterToodleoo: I enjoyed the episode "Bend or Blockbuster" except for one scene. In it, the Griffins try to make a pitstop, but leave when they see a bunch of people wearing MAGA hats. As they leave, the MAGA crowd stares at them and acts like a murder of crows, complete with saying the word "Trump" instead of cawing. I feel that this scene, along with the Texas stuff mentioned on this page, are not jokes and are what Hollywood elites actually think the outside world is like. I really wish they wouldn't spread their "Mean World Syndrome" to impressionable viewers. (And by the way, I'm afraid of crow attacks.)
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* Tropers/Chilliwack: "Faith No More": I could give the usual spiel about how Seth has the most extreme hate-boner for religion bordering on evangelical himself, but what makes this episode suck so much is that it's just the same old "What if Christianity never happened" tirade we've come to expect. I personally am not much of a believer anymore, so this didn't really offend any sensibilities of mine. But this episode didn't even have the most cursory of counter-arguments about positive aspects of Christianity, especially during Jesus' time, when Roman brutality was the norm, and basic human kindness was considered weakness. Just idiot strawmen. And even with Christianity removed, the world seems almost exactly the same, except everyone is Jewish. They didn't even bother to establish any "there is no more war" conditions. And how does the status quo get restored in the end? God just beats Brian and Stewie up until they change the timeline back. The end. No lesson was learned, no point was made, it was just a boring, unfunny waste of time.

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* Tropers/Chilliwack: {{Tropers/Chilliwack}}: "Faith No More": I could give the usual spiel about how Seth has the most extreme hate-boner for religion bordering on evangelical himself, but what makes this episode suck so much is that it's just the same old "What if Christianity never happened" tirade we've come to expect. I personally am not much of a believer anymore, so this didn't really offend any sensibilities of mine. But this episode didn't even have the most cursory of counter-arguments about positive aspects of Christianity, especially during Jesus' time, when Roman brutality was the norm, and basic human kindness was considered weakness. Just idiot strawmen. And even with Christianity removed, the world seems almost exactly the same, except everyone is Jewish. They didn't even bother to establish any "there is no more war" conditions. And how does the status quo get restored in the end? God just beats Brian and Stewie up until they change the timeline back. The end. No lesson was learned, no point was made, it was just a boring, unfunny waste of time.

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* Tropers/Chilliwack: "Faith No More": I could give the usual spiel about how Seth has the most extreme hate-boner for religion bordering on evangelical himself, but what makes this episode suck so much is that it's just the same old "What if Christianity never happened" tirade we've come to expect. I personally am not much of a believer anymore, so this didn't really offend any sensibilities of mine. But this episode didn't even have the most cursory of counter-arguments about positive aspects of Christianity, especially during Jesus' time, when Roman brutality was the norm, and basic human kindness was considered weakness. Just idiot strawmen. And even with Christianity removed, the world seems almost exactly the same, except everyone is Jewish. They didn't even bother to establish any "there is no more war" conditions. And how does the status quo get restored in the end? God just beats Brian and Stewie up until they change the timeline back. The end. No lesson was learned, no point was made, it was just a boring, unfunny waste of time.



* Chilliwack: "Faith No More": I could give the usual spiel about how Seth has the most extreme hate-boner for religion bordering on evangelical himself, but what makes this episode suck so much is that it's just the same old "What if Christianity never happened" tirade we've come to expect. I personally am not much of a believer anymore, so this didn't really offend any sensibilities of mine. But this episode didn't even have the most cursory of counter-arguments about positive aspects of Christianity, especially during Jesus' time, when Roman brutality was the norm, and basic human kindness was considered weakness. Just idiot strawmen. And even with Christianity removed, the world seems almost exactly the same, except everyone is Jewish. They didn't even bother to establish any "there is no more war" conditions. And how does the status quo get restored in the end? God just beats Brian and Stewie up until they change the timeline back. The end. No lesson was learned, no point was made, it was just a boring, unfunny waste of time.


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* Chilliwack: "Faith No More": I could give the usual spiel about how Seth has the most extreme hate-boner for religion bordering on evangelical himself, but what makes this episode suck so much is that it's just the same old "What if Christianity never happened" tirade we've come to expect. I personally am not much of a believer anymore, so this didn't really offend any sensibilities of mine. But this episode didn't even have the most cursory of counter-arguments about positive aspects of Christianity, especially during Jesus' time, when Roman brutality was the norm, and basic human kindness was considered weakness. Just idiot strawmen. And even with Christianity removed, the world seems almost exactly the same, except everyone is Jewish. They didn't even bother to establish any "there is no more war" conditions. And how does the status quo get restored in the end? God just beats Brian and Stewie up until they change the timeline back. The end. No lesson was learned, no point was made, it was just a boring, unfunny waste of time.


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\n\n* Chilliwack: "Faith No More": I could give the usual spiel about how Seth has the most extreme hate-boner for religion bordering on evangelical himself, but what makes this episode suck so much is that it's just the same old "What if Christianity never happened" tirade we've come to expect. I personally am not much of a believer anymore, so this didn't really offend any sensibilities of mine. But this episode didn't even have the most cursory of counter-arguments about positive aspects of Christianity, especially during Jesus' time, when Roman brutality was the norm, and basic human kindness was considered weakness. Just idiot strawmen. And even with Christianity removed, the world seems almost exactly the same, except everyone is Jewish. They didn't even bother to establish any "there is no more war" conditions. And how does the status quo get restored in the end? God just beats Brian and Stewie up until they change the timeline back. The end. No lesson was learned, no point was made, it was just a boring, unfunny waste of time.

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** Rosebud64: The writers seemed to give Meg the love she deserved. So much for that. They could have give her a little more respect since that episode, but no, she had to go back to herself by the end. Because StatusQuoIsGod. And before you say "but that episode had AnAesop with BeYourself!" remember that this is just a lame excuse to put the character through shit.

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** Rosebud64: The writers seemed to give Meg the love she deserved. So much for that. They could have give her a little more respect since that episode, but no, she had to go back to herself by the end. Because StatusQuoIsGod. And before you say "but that episode had AnAesop a lesson with BeYourself!" remember that this is just a lame excuse to put the character through shit.

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