History DethroningMoment / FamilyGuy

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* Tropers/justakawaiigirl: I really, really didn't like "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E8BarelyLegal Barely Legal]]". It was funny, and I liked the "cool hwip" joke, but Meg's CharacterDerailment irritated me. She went from straightlaced NiceGirl to {{Yandere}} attempted rapist. What the fuck?

* Tropers/justakawaiigirl: I really, really didn't like "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E8BarelyLegal Barely Legal]]". It was funny, and I liked the "cool hwip" joke, but Meg's CharacterDerailment irritated me. She went from straightlaced NiceGirl to {{Yandere}} attempted rapist. What the fuck?
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** Tropers/{{ElliottPak}}: Personally, Quagmire's whole speech is one of the very few moments where this show has managed to genuinely piss me off (yes, very surprising), but the part I especially hate is when Quagmire says "I date women for their bodies, but at least I'm honest about it!" 1. Brian is morally repugnant, yes, but Quagmire is at least ten times worse than Brian, and to see Quagmire try to use the "at least I'm honest" argument to try and make himself look better is cringe-inducing at best, and honestly goes against his personality. 2. Yes, Brian is absolute shit when interacting with women in any way, shape or form, but Quagmire has done much, much worse than just dating women for their bodies, so I really didn't like seeing him try to downplay him own atrocities. If Quagmire really was 100% honest and shameless, he wouldn't have felt the need to do so and would have just straight up said something like "Yeah, I'm a rapist who doesn't care about women in any way whatsoever aside from their bodies, but at least I'm honest about it!" 3. Quagmire isn't even really all that honest about his problems. As the troper above points out, Quagmire has no problem lying about his STDs. 4. Ever since he spat that god-damned line out of his foul mouth, millions of people had been using that "at least he's honest" thing to deflect any criticism thrown at him. I'm dead serious. Post a comment on any family guy video saying that Quagmire is an awful person, and someone is gonna reply saying something like "at least he's honest, herrr de deerrr", like as if him being "honest" makes him a fucking saint. This whole episode is just rancid for kicking off one of the most insufferable rivalries in television history! Anyway, rant over, should probably get some sleep right now. Bye, tropers.

*** Baronobeefdip: The episode where Stewie cracks his head open and spends the entire episode with a coma and [[NauseaFuel his brains falling out]]. Ok, people, there's BlackComedy, and then there's this. It's not funny; it's just cruel and disgusting. Remember, BlackComedy only works when it's so ridiculously over-the-top that it becomes hilarious. Stewie being seriously injured and/or dying is not ridiculously over the top and therefore is not hilarious. It'd be like someone stabbing a puppy and ripping out its intestines. That's just sick, man.

** Tropers/ElRodrigo: This episode easily demonstrates the worst ''Family Guy'' has to offer. Grossout humor that disgusts rather than entertains? Check. Characters suffering BadassDecay? Check. Brian [[TyphoidMary being]] [[BloodBrothers a]] [[ThePlague douche]] by knowingly spreading an incurable disease to Chris and Stewie, and trying to pass it off as no big deal? Check. [[KarmaHoudini Complete assholes who get away with being dicks]] just because they're soldiers? Check. The [[OverlyLongGag typical long drawn out gag]] that wastes two minutes of your time and rides on your patience? Check! You know, people regret that Vinny got retconned out of the show, but judging from the way this show is going, I'd say that he was the lucky one.

** Tropers/GuardianEnigma: Brian intentionally giving herpes to Stewie and Chris when they become BloodBrothers with him. That's disgusting and a horrible thing to do to anyone, let alone a friend who trusts you, and serves as a [[MoralEventHorizon point of no return]] for Brian in my eyes.

** Tropers/{{TheFlaskmo}}: Personally, Quagmire's whole speech is one of the very few moments where this show has managed to genuinely piss me off (yes, very surprising), but the part I especially hate is when Quagmire says "I date women for their bodies, but at least I'm honest about it!" 1. Brian is morally repugnant, yes, but Quagmire is at least ten times worse than Brian, and to see Quagmire try to use the "at least I'm honest" argument to try and make himself look better is cringe-inducing at best, and honestly goes against his personality. 2. Yes, Brian is absolute shit when interacting with women in any way, shape or form, but Quagmire has done much, much worse than just dating women for their bodies, so I really didn't like seeing him try to downplay him own atrocities. If Quagmire really was 100% honest and shameless, he wouldn't have felt the need to do so and would have just straight up said something like "Yeah, I'm a rapist who doesn't care about women in any way whatsoever aside from their bodies, but at least I'm honest about it!" 3. Quagmire isn't even really all that honest about his problems. As the troper above points out, Quagmire has no problem lying about his STDs. 4. Ever since he spat that god-damned line out of his foul mouth, millions of people had been using that "at least he's honest" thing to deflect any criticism thrown at him. I'm dead serious. Post a comment on any family guy video saying that Quagmire is an awful person, and someone is gonna reply saying something like "at least he's honest, herrr de deerrr", like as if him being "honest" makes him a fucking saint. This whole episode is just rancid for kicking off one of the most insufferable rivalries in television history! Anyway, rant over, should probably get some sleep right now. Bye, tropers.

* Tropers/{{Manwiththeplan}}: "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E5BackToThePilot Back to the Pilot]]". If an episode where [[CreatorsPet the obnoxious current versions of Brian and Stewie]] go back to the first episode of the show and diss everything about it (like apathetic Brian and evil genius Stewie, y'know, their past selves who were actually entertaining) wasn't bad enough, we also get some more tasteless 9/11 jokes and demonization of George W. Bush (well out of office by now!) thrown in, with time getting screwed around so that 9/11 is prevented, Bush loses re-election in 2004, starts a second Civil War which leads to a nuclear holocaust... and the only way for Brian and Stewie to fix it? Go back and cause 9/11. Which they do. And then high-five each other when they do it! Remember when this show cleverly and humorously avoided doing an atomic bomb joke? But now it's totally eager to make a mockery of 9/11 and everyone who died in it. Frankly, Seth, you have no right to make that kind of joke, especially as it's blind luck that kept you from boarding that plane and dying yourself! Seriously! It's not funny; it's just disgusting.
** Tropers/TheRealGoldenGamer: You're not alone. Not only does this episode have some extremely unfunny and unnecessary Bush bashing, but it also has some needlessly horrifying things in it, too. Why is it that they had to throw in Brian and Stewie trapped in barber poles? Was that supposed to be funny? Was there even a purpose to it? Probably not. I'm not saying that their current selves don't deserve a few days of that until they get their personalities from Season 1 back, but isn't ''Family Guy'' supposed to be funny? Well, it wasn't funny, and neither is this episode.
** Tropers/ShadowSora94: While Seth isn't on the writing team anymore, it makes it just as vile considering the fact it shows the people in charge of writing ''Family Guy'' are at the point they refuse to care about anything that won't give them a good laugh- even casually joking about and making characters high-five each other over a tragedy that almost killed Seth to begin with.
*** Tropers/Turtler: Perhaps more vile is that Seth maintains the ability to veto, and he chose to not exercise it to reject this or the rest of the crap on this page, including making a joke at something that nearly killed him. Not only 9/11, but also the needless nuclear war that is the truly lowest point in this episode for me. Because it's apparently not good enough to make your political opponents callous or evil, they have to be omnicidally so.
** Tropers/{{Mic1988}}: Shame on you Seth, shame on you for laughing and allowing jokes to be made about one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in recent memory when you yourself could've been one of the victims who died that day had you not over slept. If you ever meet someone who lost someone that tragic day, I hope you apologize for allowing this Piece of Crap to even be thought of.

* Tropers/{{Emmz}}: I have a lot of hated episodes, and a lot of them have already been mentioned here before, so I'm just going to add an episode that hasn't been talked about: "This Little Piggy", the episode where Meg becomes a foot fetish model. I haven't actually watched the full thing but I've seen clips of it on [=YouTube=]. It looks like a run-of-the-mill mediocre Family Guy episode in itself, but what's really rubbing me the wrong way about this episode is the BrokenAesop in obvious full effect. Peter and Lois are angry after finding out Meg is doing foot fetish modeling and forbid her from doing it. She tries to ignore them, but they eventually get her to quit with a "heartfelt speech" about how much "they love her". Maybe this would be a good moral on how you shouldn't degrade yourself to partaking in porn to make yourself beautiful, but definitely on any show other than Family Guy and any character other than Lois and Peter. Remember, this moral is coming from the woman who has tried to rape her husband on a couple of occasions and from the man who has been shown to be a pedophile, not to mention they have no problem with Meg's other acts of sexual deviancy throughout the show and don't do anything to stop her from those, and yet they have the nerve to preach about how disgusting it is for her partake in a slightly weird body part fetish? That's like having Jason Voorhees teach you about gun safety or Hannibal Lecter telling you to go vegan. Also they have no say in what is best for Meg since they've done nothing but treat her like crap throughout the previous seasons: from Lois encouraging Meg to commit suicide, to Lois eating her school lunch and leaving her with bread crusts and orange rinds, from them both laughing at her diary, to Peter farting on Meg constantly, to Peter throwing away the saxophone Lisa gave her in "The Simpsons Guy". And who's to say that they're not just going to go back to abusing her because they've always gone back to doing it after every single "heartwarming family moment" they have with her? Meg has every right to not forgive her parents and should've just told them to fuck off at this point. She even lampshades this when about to leave for the party, but [[EasilyForgiven still forgives them]] because StatusQuoIsGod. Honestly, Lois and Peter are both the reason why this show is so terrible nowadays and having them be hypocritical and manipulative only adds onto it.

* Tropers/{{Emmz}}: I have a lot of hated episodes, and a lot of them have already been mentioned here before, so I'm just going to add an episode that hasn't been talked about: "This Little Piggy", the episode where Meg becomes a foot fetish model. I haven't actually watched the full thing but I've seen clips of it on [=YouTube=]. It looks like a run-of-the-mill mediocre Family Guy episode in itself, but what's really rubbing me the wrong way about this episode is the BrokenAesop in obvious full effect. Peter and Lois are angry after finding out Meg is doing foot fetish modeling and forbid her from doing it. She tries to ignore them, but they eventually get her to quit with a "heartfelt speech" about how much "they love her". Maybe this would be a good moral on how you shouldn't degrade yourself to partaking in porn to make yourself beautiful, but definitely on any show other than Family Guy and any character other than Lois and Peter. Remember, this moral is coming from the woman who has tried to rape her husband on a couple of occasions and from the man who has been shown to be a pedophile, not to mention they have no problem with Meg's other acts of sexual deviancy throughout the show and don't do anything to stop her from those, and yet they have the nerve to preach about how disgusting it is for her partake in a slightly weird body part fetish? That's like having Jason Voorhees teach you about gun safety or Hannibal Lecter telling you to go vegan. Also they have no say in what is best for Meg since they've done nothing but treat her like shit throughout the previous seasons: from Lois encouraging Meg to commit suicide, to Lois eating her school lunch and leaving her with bread crusts and orange rinds, from them both laughing at her diary, to Peter farting on Meg constantly, to Peter throwing away the saxophone Lisa gave her in "The Simpsons Guy". And who's to say that they're not just going to go back to abusing her because they've always gone back to doing it after every single "heartwarming family moment" they have with her. Meg has every right to not forgive her parents and should've just told them to fuck off at this point. She even lampshades this when about to leave for the party, but [[EasilyForgiven still forgives them]] because StatusQuoIsGod. Honestly, fuck Lois and Peter. They're both the reason why this show is so terrible nowadays and having them be hypocritical manipulative scumbags only adds onto it.

** Bigbunny: Speaking of "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)", I hate with a passion its anti-Disney humor. Like, we get it Seth, you're angry about Dan Povenmire leaving you for much better shows like ''Phineas and Ferb'' and such, you don't have to take it out on a man who had NO history of racism or bigotry or hate in his heart. And I find it hypocritical of Seth to be making these accusations while he makes anti-semitic humor on a daily basis.

* Tropers/TyeDyeWildebeest: "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E3HellComesToQuahog Hell Comes to Quahog]]" was overall a pretty decent episode, but it had quite possibly the most tasteless and unfunny cutaway gag in the history of the series. When Stewie complains about Quahog's new Superstore USA, Brian claims that he just hates department stores because of that one time a "special" boy pet him too hard in front of a UsefulNotes/{{Kmart}}. We then cut to a developmentally disabled child continually petting Brian really hard (to the point where he finds it difficult to keep his balance) until Brian snaps and bites him. Then the child starts crying, and we cut back to the story. That's it. The scene doesn't have a punchline; we're just supposed to laugh at the developmentally disabled kid [[UnfortunateImplications simply because he's developmentally disabled]]. It wasn't quite enough to ruin the episode for me, but it certainly didn't help.

** Tropers/{{Killerweinerdog}} : I'll be brutally honest: The first time I saw that scene and realized the reference, I laughed. Not so much at the scene itself (which I concede was completely tasteless), but more the sheer ''audacity'' of it all. But then when I got over it I felt absolutely ''disgusted'' with myself, and at Peter. "Just trying to make a point"? I mean, if you didn't hate Peter before, why not hate him now for literally ''threatening to shoot Lois'' if she didn't carry out her wifely duties and convert to Christianity? Oh, of course, there's the end where Seth [=MacFarlane=] (again) takes a shot at religion by having ''Jesus Himself'' say its all bullshit, because obviously you can't have a ''Family Guy'' episode these days that references religion without the creator having to have his part in insulting it.

* Tropers/{{Emmz}}: I have a lot of hated episodes, and a lot of them have already been mentioned here before, so I'm just going to add an episode that hasn't been talked about: "This Little Piggy", the episode where Meg becomes a foot fetish model. I haven't actually watched the full thing but I've seen clips of it on [=YouTube=]. It looks like a run-of-the-mill mediocre Family Guy episode in itself, but what's really rubbing me the wrong way about this episode is the BrokenAesop in obvious full effect. Peter and Lois are angry after finding out Meg is doing foot fetish modeling and forbid her from doing. She tries to ignore them, but they eventually get her to quit with a "heartfelt speech" about how much "they love her". Maybe this would be a good moral on how you shouldn't degrade yourself to partaking in porn to make yourself beautiful, but definitely on ''any'' show other than Family Guy and ''any'' character other than Lois and Peter. Remember, this moral is coming from the woman has tried to rape her husband on a couple of occasions and from the man who has been shown to be a ''pedophile'', not to mention they have no problem with Meg's other acts of sexual deviancy throughout the show and don't do anything to stop her from those, and yet they have the nerve to preach about how disgusting it is for her partake in a slightly weird body part fetish? That's like having Jason Voorhees teach you about gun safety or Hannibal Lecter telling you to go vegan. Also they have no say in what is best for Meg since they've done nothing but treat her like shit throughout the previous seasons: from Lois encouraging Meg to commit suicide, to Lois eating her school lunch and leaving her with bread crusts and orange rinds, from them both laughing at her diary, to Peter farting on Meg constantly, to Peter throwing away the saxophone Lisa gave her in "The Simpsons Guy". And who's to say that they're not just going to go back to abusing her because they've always gone back to doing it after every single "heartwarming family moment" they have with her. Meg has every right to not forgive her parents and should've just told them to fuck off at this point. She even lampshades this when about to leave for the party, but [[EasilyForgiven still forgives them]] because StatusQuoIsGod. Honestly, fuck Lois and Peter. They're both the reason why this show is so terrible nowadays and having them be hypocritical manipulative scumbags only adds onto it.

** Tropers/MelancholyUtopia: Not only that, but God not forgiving adultery doesn't make a lick of sense. In the Bible, King David committed adultery ''and'' indirect murder, but due to tearfully regretting his sins, God forgives him, on the grounds that he gets punished. If he can forgive that, why can't he forgive less? It feels less like the writers want to be legitimately reasoned with, and more like that they will pull blatant lies out of their asses just to make religion look bad.

* Tropers/jopartain: In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS14E10CandyQuahogMarshmallow Candy Quahog Marshmallow!]]", Peter and gang travel to South Korea when they find out Quagmire was a soap opera star there. Entertaining episode, all in all, but what really made it a Dethroning Moment of Suck was the way [[spoiler:the suicide of Donna's mother was handled]]. Only twice do we hear about her death from Cleveland via text, which is more than a nuisance, due to the recurring role she achieved in The Cleveland Show and the influence she has on Donna. To kill her off so carelessly wastes not only a potential A or B plot for future episodes, but leaves us hanging as to what happened to the [[spoiler:mother]]of a main character of The Cleveland Show. I enjoyed the episodes including her, but now it seems like she's dead simply to make a short joke.

*** Tropers/JadeEyes1: The second part of Brian's argument is just as bad: "[W]hat kind of God would put you in a house where no one respects or cares about you? Not even enough to get you a damn mumps shot!" Uh, no; Literature/TheBible is full of stories about people who endure horrific circumstances, yet are ultimately vindicated because of their faith in God (for those who are unaware, there's an entire [[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job book]] devoted to the story of one of them, and it addresses this very subject). One of the most basic, universally-held Christian concepts is that God permits temporary suffering to help strengthen and shape your character. Any devout Christian, even a "baby" one like Meg, could easily shoot down Bryan's argument.

** Bigbunny: Speaking of Moving out Brian’s Song, I hate with a passion it’s anti Disney humor. Like, we get it Seth, you’re angry about Dan Povenmire leaving you for much better shows like Phineas and Ferb and such, you don’t have to take it out on a man who had NO history of racism or bigotry or hate in his heart. And I find it hypocritical of Seth to be making these accusations while he makes anti semitic humor on a daily basis.

** Tropers/{{Wildstar93}}: I've been watching recent episodes of Family Guy and tolerating (but not liking or agreeing with) all of its content... but ''Stewie Is Enciente'' is what made me give up the series. What made it stand out is the birth scene. I don't have anything against birthing scenes (except in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''), but how they did it and Stewie's [[{{Squick}} pregnancy]]... no more Family Guy for me for a while.

* Tropers/{{JediMasterYusei}}: I can't be the only one who's bothered by "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E5JoesRevenge Joe's Revenge]]". Did we really need to {{Retcon}} Joe's backstory? This wouldn't be such an issue for me, except now, instead of heroically fighting off the Grinch [[NiceGuy to ensure that a group of orphans get their Merry Christmas]], he instead is crippled because he botched a drug ring bust because [[WhatAnIdiot he was talking so unconvincingly that he outted himself as wearing a wire, and then unintentionally gave the guy the idea to cripple him!]] BadassDecay doesn't even begin to describe this!

** DerangedEscargot: No one's even mentioned that Brian and Stewie weren't in the episode? They didn't appear in this episode despite a subplot involving Stewie becoming a redhead. But it was dropped in favor of Annoying Asian Stereotypes.

** Tropers/{{Maedar}}: The Elizabeth Smart joke stands out as what I believe is the most despicable thing on any animated show, but seeing as that has already been mentioned, I'll add something else. Most fans of this show think the whole "Grinds My Gears" routine was one of the best gags on the show (many wishing they'd make it into a regular segment) totally ignoring that Peter makes a racist joke and a sexist joke over the course of it. (People think the second one is funny because they think Lindsay Lohan is an {{Acceptable Target|s}}, but the message is kind of deluded coming from a character who has committed every single immoral action she's been accused of, on a far larger scale.) To paraphrase a character from a show that ''Family Guy'' is a cheap rip-off of, I am lying when I say that the "Grinds My Gears" routine was a well-plotted piece of nonclaptrap that never made me want to retch.

* {{Tropers/NolanSBurke]]: Since I only started watching ''Family Guy'' recently, and generally see it as something I pop on for a quick, cheap laugh rather than something I'm an active fan of, most of the above examples, annoying as they are, haven't put me off it. However, my patience was severely tested by the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS19E12AndThenTheresFraud And Then There's Fraud]]" when they just inserted in a completely unedited three-minute clip from ''The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show'' mid-episode. It was literally the infamous Conway Twitty joke - which, by this point, had not only been extensively criticised, but mocked by the show itself several times - all over again. The fact that they used that boring, lazy gag in the first place is bad enough, but the fact that they then used it again, fully aware of how much viewers hated it, makes it feel like there's a segment of ''Family Guy'' staff that actively despises whatever viewers haven't already given up on the show.

** O_Zone: I've deleted my previous entry in favor of adding "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS17E8ConHeiress Con Heiress]]" to this list which felt like one of the, if not THE, laziest episode of FG to date, as amazing as that sounds. I could talk about both plots to this episode but I'll stick to the B plot which involves Herbert, everyone's [[SarcasmMode favorite pedo]], getting Chris and Peter to do yardwork for him since he thinks Peter's a friend of Chris and thus wants to try and seduce both. OK, Herbert, you've MET AND INTERACTED with Peter before so surely you have to know he's not only NOT a young boy but Chris' dad to boot. Hell, just LOOKING at him should have given you the hint alone (and no I can't believe I'm saying these words either). And then, while Chris and Peter are fighting shirtless (ugh...) and Chris does indeed reveal the fact Peter is his father, Herbert gets so shocked by something he should already know that he...explodes into pieces...[[FlatWhat wait what?]]. Sadly that was really one of the only funny parts about this plot and only because of how out-of-nowhere it was. And in case if you're wondering whether or not that was done as a way to kill Herbert off, that doesn't seem to be since his weird dog puts a piece of him into a flower pot and thus regrows him into [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Groot]] because...pop culture references??? I don't even wanna get into the lazy A-Plot.

* Shadsie: I think, like many, my [=DMOS=] would be "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", but I actually watched a few FG episodes after that and even found some humor in "Road to the Multiverse". No, the moment that really tore it for me was a subplot at the beginning of "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E8DogGone Dog Gone]]" where Brian runs over a dog and joins PETA. At the start of the episode, Brain learns he is to receive a "Special Reward" for his book. He goes to the location to find out that his book is beloved by developmentally disabled adults because of the "simplistic" nature of the writing. While this was meant to poke fun at his "I'm the best writer ever!" attitude, the fact that he [[{{Wangst}} whined about it endlessly and decided his life had no meaning]] really ground my gears. I mean, I've been trying to get original work published for years to no avail. I'd be happy just to get published. I'd be overjoyed if my work found a small audience - even an audience I did not expect. I'd feel privileged if my work helped the mentally challenged even though it wasn't written "for" them! I'm freakin' overjoyed that people like my fan fiction! The fact that Brian was being such a douchenozzle about his work having an audience that was apparently "beneath" him to the point of feeling his life was utterly meaningless solidified him as a complete {{Jerkass}} for me (yes, even beyond taking away the one thing that made Meg feel worthwhile because he thinks she's ugly).

** 45xxx: "Quagmire's Dad". I cannot, for the life of me, pinpoint one moment in this episode that was the worst of that piece of shit. The unfunny way it talked about sex change, the fact that Peter and Lois find it funny that Brain slept with Quagmire's "mom", even the end where Quagmire beats up Brian within an inch of his life. All of it was horrid, tasteless, and made me entirely give up on the series, especially Quagmire.

** Calamity2007: Not to mention Brian's treatment of Stewie in this episode. Stewie helps promote Brian's book, and in thanks, Brain becomes a horrible {{Jerkass}}, even getting pissed when Stewie couldn't prevent Brian from sitting next to an Asian guy on a plane (which in itself makes Brian look like a horrible racist). At the end when Brian suffers the aforementioned humiliation, he still fucking blames Stewie and learns nothing from the experience! And no, [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] it does not fucking help it!

** ExarchofSechrima: My friends are all fans of ''Family Guy'' and I usually am too, but for Christmas a few years ago we decided to watch this episode without any of us having seen it (big mistake) and while we watched the episode and laughed at some of the jokes, when it got to Brain and Stewie killing a guy and tormenting his family, it grew so uncomfortable that one of my friends actually began crying. That entire plotline was disturbing and unnecessary.

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