I mean it. Watching Family Guy nowadays requires a very specific mindset of "I don't care about the characters or the BS that happens to them, just show me my damn cutaway jokes."
The sad thing is, it wasn't always this way.
As many have said before, Family Guy was good in Seasons 1-3. Remember when Peter tried to convert Chris to Judaism in order to ensure him a successful future? When Lois cared so much about Meg that she was willing to have Quagmire rape a bunch of girls at a party that were mean to her? When Chris and Peter went out into the woods for a spirit journey and bonded? When Meg had legitimate social anxiety and wasn't just an obsessive psycho who cuts herself? When Brian had legitimate character points and wasn't just a mouthpiece for the liberal cause? Or when Stewie was matricidal tot who had fun character traits, instead of being shoved into an effeminate stereotype who instead of using time travel for world domination, just uses it to goof off?
What happened, Family Guy? Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
I feel it's too late now for Family Guy to turn it around, it's become a show of nothing but recycling jokes and gags from the first three seasons to the point of annoyance. The show had potential to be good once, and event though I still like it, now it's nothing more than mean spirited people being jerks to each other. And I get enough of that in real life.
Lower your Expectations.
I mean it. Watching Family Guy nowadays requires a very specific mindset of "I don't care about the characters or the BS that happens to them, just show me my damn cutaway jokes."
The sad thing is, it wasn't always this way.
As many have said before, Family Guy was good in Seasons 1-3. Remember when Peter tried to convert Chris to Judaism in order to ensure him a successful future? When Lois cared so much about Meg that she was willing to have Quagmire rape a bunch of girls at a party that were mean to her? When Chris and Peter went out into the woods for a spirit journey and bonded? When Meg had legitimate social anxiety and wasn't just an obsessive psycho who cuts herself? When Brian had legitimate character points and wasn't just a mouthpiece for the liberal cause? Or when Stewie was matricidal tot who had fun character traits, instead of being shoved into an effeminate stereotype who instead of using time travel for world domination, just uses it to goof off?
What happened, Family Guy? Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
I feel it's too late now for Family Guy to turn it around, it's become a show of nothing but recycling jokes and gags from the first three seasons to the point of annoyance. The show had potential to be good once, and event though I still like it, now it's nothing more than mean spirited people being jerks to each other. And I get enough of that in real life.