Does anyone hate family guy

The whole random joke thing was funny during the first few seasons, but after awhile it got REAL old, and the newer seasons still can't stop doing it! I'm glad Southpark stuck it to family Guy and exploited it as the overrated show that it is! Yes, finally someone who sees the patheticness that is Family Guy. Yes, Brian and Stewie may be funny from time to time, but they're so dead in comparison to the characters in The Simpsons, which is definetly a classic compared to Family Guy.

Peter is a direct copy of Homer, just much more irritating, but generally the same guy. Family Guy has just plan stupid jokes. The jokes are often stolen the scripts are weak, the stories never led anywhere.

Why do they use those stupid random jokes that don't fit the plot. The jokes are pretty much always stupid. The same jokes are used over and over again. The show is very monotonous.

It is really starting to suck hard!! Who cares? I mean, are we supposed to stop watching it now because you posted something in your blog? Oh, we're really embarassed. Very well thought out commentary. I do laugh pretty hard occasionally at FG, but as a whole the show is relatively forgettable. South Park and The Simpsons however will both go down in history. You make good points that I mostly agree with, especially because new family guy sucks a ton.

Besides South Park stomps FG's ass beit new or old episodes. To take a soda pop analogy, Family Guy is just Diet Simpsons or better yet Simpsons Zero as in it seems to be the same but you can't help noticing that metallic aftertaste. Diet Soda is popular too. Thank you! Family Guy is quite pathetic. I can't believe they brought this back and not Futurama. Shame on anybody who supports this unoriginal crap. I think the worst part about Family Guy is having friends quote it back to me like it's funny in any other context.

I don't catch alot of South Park, but the show is genius. If it's too dry for you, it's probably because you don't get it. The plots are incredibly well constructed, the charaters have motivations, and it's political and zany at the same time. Although, I still get jackasses quoting Cartman to me.

It's simple. Futurama went off the air because it was smart, and family guy is still on because the frats of the world need to watch t. The jokes have absolutely no reasoning, nor do they move the plot forward.

Sure, I remember old commercials, too. Is this enough to rest a series on, though? Hell, can I have a show, because at least once a day I bring up the Fonz or Mr. Guess I'm a cartoon writer, too! There is an upside: It's better than American Dad. But so is Joey. I think what has not been considered is that the whole concept of using constant references throughout is what makes the show origional. There will always be critics-but if you do not like it, why are you watching it? Well said! Family Guy is a ball-sucking abortion of a show.

No wonder it has already been cancelled twice. Hopefully it gets cancelled again for good once Family Guy fans pull their heads out of their asses and the craze dies down. You want a much better, wittier show?

Watch South Park. Fuck Family Guy! I think the key point that has been neglected in your reasons is the very nature of "reference" that family guy makes. To write of all references as the same is to neglect the strain of art that builds on its past.

But further than that, the show acknowledges and incorporates the shear amount of "worthless" information we all have coursing through our heads, and give it an outlet.

The show revels in what our parents could not understand even if they experienced it. It's an acknowledgment of the past couple of generation's genuine and serious engagement with television throughout our childhood. I wasn't a baseball player, my brother wasn't in a band, my best friend wasn't pakistani. All of us are educated, but we haven't read the same books. I loved infinite jest, but have never read rings of saturn.

I've seen Annie hall, but not manhattan. But family guy's "references" acknowledge the vast sea of commaniltiy coarsing through our blood.

Further, the show recognizes and lays bare inborn stereotypes that this distinctive collective experience has left us. Look at Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa. The show rarely makes fun of her as having an accent, or not being able to drive. Her character paralells the experience of Connie Chung. Though level headed an abled, she was frankly treated shabbily by all of the networks, and though many of haven't followed her career, her presence, than absence, than altered presence, has lead to a certain representation of her plight in our head.

So in a 15 second joke about Tricia takanawa, the show addresses the plight of foreign born immigrant's. The "blackie" weather report with Ollie Williams is more obvious about this move. It acknowledges our shared stereotype of the "angry" black man or perhaps, our collective acknowledgment that many blacks in america have good reason to be angry and then shows the paradox of making him the weather man, delivering the news about the effect of god, rather than man.

President Bush can fuck a life up, but can be held accountable. Nobody can blame the weather. So let's take away his power for righteous indignation by letting him discuss only that which nobody can be blamed for.

None of this mentions the shows keen sense of the abuse of tone that is inherent in our media culture. The news goes from murder to squirell snowboarder. Our sitcoms warn us of child molestation. One things the family guy fans have to admit I know when a show has jumped the shark, and it wouldn't surprise me if Family Guy is buried again after another season or two if things don't shape up around there.

The episode I saw last night, Brian's gay cousin wants to marry in the Griffin house, but Adam West tries to outlaw gay marriage to drag attention away from the fact that he spent the city's entire budget on a gold statue of Dig 'em, the Smacks cereal mascot. I think it's sad that the new Family Guy is possibly the highest rated show on TV right now I guess it's all some people got for the cable-less masses. Trey Parker and his sidekick Matt Stone have been listening to the adoration of their fans for too long.

I honestly feel they think their on some kind of sacred mission to save American pop culture from itself. That's one great thing about "The Family Guy. If you're going to be a bigot, at least try to be creative. Making some dumbfuck reference to the Holocaust is worse than sad. I appreciate the ideology of South Park , but I am almost completely against the ideology of Calvin and Hobbes. I would say that Bill Watterson is a stark-raving ideologist who's only satisfied if he achieves his anti-commercialist utopia, but that's another subject, and I agree with some of Watterson's views.

Personally, if anything, it's Seth MacFarlane whose ego is too inflated. In the blog that links to this one or some other one I found but can't find anymore , there are firsthand accounts from animators and character designers working on the show who complain that MacFarlane is being too pushy and picky about his show, that it has to be exactly as he imagines it, or off to the cutting room floor. Parker and Stone probably made "Cartoon Wars" because they've reached their breaking point with the success of Family Guy.

Family Guy and South Park are approached completely different in terms of story writing, so it's reasonable to see a deep conflict between the two shows. I'll except FG to extensively lampoon SP in the near future.

Knowing them, they'll probably just non-sequitur it instead of making a real satire. I'm actually surprised no one has mentioned "Cartoon Wars" here yet.

Family Guy and American Dad only keep the myth alive that television is an intelligence-sucking activity. All the efforts of The Simpsons has failed. I'm talking about its entire history: Bring up the episode "Bart vs. Australia," and you're far more likely to encounter a quote of Homer calling Uruguay "U-R-Gay" than someone to comment about the episode's messages of cultural tolerance and ecological fragility, two traits of "the ugly American.

That's why an intellectually stagnant show like Family Guy can continue to get great ratings well past its prime while a show that's truly deep, Futurama , is shoved aside. Or maybe it's because the show is too liberal for Rupert Murdoch and his cronies.

I wouldn't be surprised one bit if someone is going to attack my thoughts, something like "omg go back 2 nerdville ur gay. Unless it's from someone living outside America, which is unlikely, since FG doesn't lend itself well to internationalization. It's a sad point in time we live in when anti-intellectualism is waved high with pride. It is amazing how eloquently bashing something from our era all trash anyway Don't waste time bashing just one show.

I completely agree. The auther points valid arugments, and those of you who stoop to names are just arrogant. Your lack of intelligence and respect is athunderous, and it is clear you have no debate skills. Bravo old boy! Your riposte was splendiferous!

On a serious note, I don't like when FG T-balls all their jokes by setting them up as flashbacks-if I guess what is going to happen in the next skit, its not funny, say sorry. How amusing And how comical I actually took the time to comment on this pointless dribble. I think you have many points but think - Why watch it? If you dont like something, dont watch it. It's very simple. Of coarse Family Guy has flaws. Saying "people who like this are 'name'" are stupid themselevs and have no intelligance.

They cannot comprehend the fact that people like something they do not. We all have to have tolerance for something someone else watches. I think your entry is spot-on correct. I agree with pretty much every point. It is gratifying to see that I am not the only one. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Finally, not only is someone able to say why they hate Family Guy , but explain themselves as well. I tried to watch the show twice None of the jokes were funny outside one or two, I hate Stewie and all the other characters, the cut-aways are pointless and not funny, etc. I am sick and tired of hearing about everyone saying its the greatest show or such Hello, Although I completely respect your opinion You have done a great job of defining it in this article I do however disagree with you because I personally love the show, The jokes may not be orignial but I still find them hilarious everytime.

I do ask one question for those on this forum who have posted and agreed with you "How did you come across a Family Guy Blog if you don't like the show? Hello and i do agree family guy can be pretty stupid but i dont watch a lot of it so i wouldnt know for sure but i must say FUTURAMA is the best show ever even better then family guy and all other shows. Great post. I pity the sheep that watch FG. Almost all of them complain that it's gotten terrible though in reality it sucked from the get-go , yet they keep watching in hopes that the next episode won't suck.

LOL at Family Guy fans. Wow, you really changed my mind about this show. I used to be addicted to it, but ever since reading this article, I just don't enjoy it anymore. I feel like you've really done us all a favor - my tastes in comedy have matured because of this blog post as I'm sure have tens of thousands of your other readers.

I really do appreciate writers like you who make a difference in people's lives on the issues that really define who we are as Americans. Thank you and God Bless America. If you don't like it, you don't watch. But to have all these opinions that is what they are about a show you hate means that you've spent a lot of time watching it, analyzing it. So, we're the pathetic ones who like the show, but you spend your spare time watching something you don't like?

Figure that out. I don't like South Park. I don't watch it. I certainly don't sit around watching it, making fun of all the "idiots" who are also watching it at the same time. So, while everyone is applauding this person for his supposed brilliance, let's take a moment to think about how pathetic the writer truly is. Family Guy is garbage. I'll admit that it has a good joke every now-and-then but it's so painful to watch it try and fail over-and-over again in between. And no one can hear the baby, except the dog- who everyone can hear?

I love cartoon logic but I love you for this. I really do. I love futurama, and I hope it comes back soon, like this crappy show did. You want to find family guy funny? Yeah Family Guy sucks! I mean come on, I never ever seen more booooooooring characters, and what's so funny about that Stewie anyway??

Kill him and monotone-Cleveland off oh and Chris who makes my ears bleed and the show might be watchable fr a few minutes. Also, how about an actual plot? Family Guy is all random and one of the worst things ever. And not only TV-show. It's the worst. You must not have actually watched the show.

It's probably the best show that Cartoon Network's got right now! It's funny I just started reading Jimmy Corrigan. Anyway if Jimmy was written in , I'm not sure but I think that Family guy was created in college by Seth and I'm pretty sure that it was before Jimmy Corrigan. And The Brain? Come on the spin off show was the same crap over and over again. And the Brain was voiced after Orson Welles. I mean you are ranting about it not being innovated and making it personal by saying the voice acting sucks.

I mean you are an idiot. You sir, are a god and nothing less. Ive felt the exactly same way about family guy and people always say "whats wrong with you, your crazy" so finaly i googled familguy sucks and BAM your blog pops up.

Thankyou for saying all the things I've had inside my head for so long. Family Guy has to be the worst and most unfunny shows ever to be shown on TV. Good call's there. I think most of you guys are looking into the show way too much. Sure, alot of unintellegent people watch the show to see Peter fall down and Quagmire make a sex joke, but it is full of intellectually rich humor as well.

However, this humor is very very dry and sometimes unnoticeable unless you are paying close attention. It is actually very simillar to Monty Python's in many way. You can take it for some of the cheap jokes, or for some of the suttle intellectual jokes as well. It all depends on perspective. An example I can think of off of the top my head would be in "Breaking Out Is Hard To Do" where Peter discusses "doing the thing [Lois] used to do every Thurday night", and he is stanging in the room trying to bend over and then falls down the stairs.

Alot of the South Park fans will go on about how the show is so current, and the jokes are better. Seth Green was exactly right when he mentioned the fact that South Park has a one week turnaround. This means if something happened on friday, next friday they can make a joke about it.

A show like Family Guy and most other cartoons have a much longer turnaround time, so by the time it would have come out, the current event joke would be Sure there are alot of "old timer jokes", but from the begining the people behind Family Guy have stated that was ment for adults ALSO, everyone complains that the gags have gotten old The joke is not in the fact that it is a flash back, but what the flashback is about.

Although, I do agree they use way too many of these in this last season especially. Apperently Eric Cartman calling Kyle a "stupid jew" is not repetitive whatsoever.

If you like them, watch them. If you don't Putting someone down for liking a show is ignorant. I bet most of you don't realize that Trey and Matt are Republicans. Oh and another thing, if the show is so god-awful and Americans know nothing about telivision and quality then why is it such a big show, and why is South Park such a big show?

Most people who watch one show, watch the other. To call all viwers of one show stupid or whatever it may be, you are most likely isnulting people who enjoy the same shows as you do. Once again, do not look so deeply into a cartoon. Oh yea, and American Dad is not that great Look at some of the television "greats" like The Flintstones and The Jetsons You seen the simpsons episode where homers looking at a book of crimes and sees peter Griffen under Plagerysm.

Great Article South Park rules, waaaaay more edgy, risky, etc. Takes no risks, only easy shots at satire Everything is repetition in some respect. It's almost impossible to come up with something new, just contexts that change. For example, the flintstones were a rip-off of The Honeymooners. That being said, not every cartoon needs to be edgy risque. Sometimes it's nice to have a cartoon that is comical and satirical, yet brushes the edge delicately for the adults. Then you have the others, like South Park which push the envelope.

It was interesting reading the comments here, and the article Because no one else "gets it". Family Guy Fucking Rox and you guys need to suck dick cause Family Guy is the best show and this blog is so gay that when i get older i will personally come over and kick you stupid Faggoty asses myself Bitches!!!

Oh and Finally if you hate family guy why talk about it!!!!! Personly i think that the first three sessons of Family Guy were briliant. There had been much more effort in writing a plot, and the refferences didn't dominate the whole episode as they do in the newest episodes.

You say that the show dosen't challenge you, because it does not provoke you in the same way that South Park does. But still you say that Futurama is superior? I'm not saying Futurama isn't a great show, but it certainly does not provoke. Family Guy was never mend to do so either, but just be intertaining. In a way i agree with you, because after the show went back on it became crap, but it defantly had its moments in the first three sesons. For example when Brian gets adicted to cokain, Peter becomes Death and the family guy chrismas special where we get introduced to the show "KISS saves chrismas".

However i respect your opinions. Im not going to try to argue, but all of this article is pointless. This article of steriotyping and Myths about Family Guy only make the ones who like it, like it better, and hate South Park more, and the same the opposite, some people even like both.

This Article is completely pointless. He is fucking talented as hell, he makes all his voices unique and I never even knew it was him doing all of those voices.

He is amazing as hell and so is the CAST. OH and Seths real voice is to die for How can someone say that continous sex jokes are funny? Good work. I was here before saying how this thread was completely pointless, something you said really pissed me off.

And what a joke someone cleverly put 10 simple quips about how they hate family guy For someone who hates FG they sure know a hell of a lot about it. Here's an idea: Pick up that crude device called the remote, change the channel, and leave the show to the true fans like myself. Dude, I think YOU are the pathetic one. You spent all that time thinking up reasons that the show sucks.. Wow, everything the original poster ever said is nullified by the fact that he compares it to South Park.

South Park is by far the shittiest most unfunny horribly animated horrible voice acted shit shows out there. I can't believe you called Seth MacFarlane a bad voice actor when comparing to the lame ass same in every god damn episode shit filth that are the creators of south park. South Park blows. Nuff said. I find both South Park and Family Guy to be dull. I have tried watching both only because they have become so popular amongst my peers.

I have laughed at some of SP's political jabs, but found the show to be tasteless overall. However, the footage used to represent the characters playing Double Dribble was lifted off of YouTube without the person who recorded and uploaded the video being compensated.

The styles and sensibilities of Family Guy are pretty well known at this point. American Dad is a fantastic examination and satire of American institutions and social issues. Likewise, The Orville is a wonderful Star Trek parody that recognizes that the original was advocating for a more progressive society since its inception.

This discrepancy is so noticeable that it has even become a running meta-joke in the show. Actor James Woods appears frequently in Family Guy. This makes Family Guy the only franchise that gives Woods steady work in a significant role, as his promotion of conservative political views and advocation of conspiracy theories have made most production studios hesitant to work with him.

The progression of time is weird in Family Guy. Furthermore, Peter holds different jobs for numerous episodes and Brian dates other characters for numerous episodes at a time. However, these cutaways stopped being surprising after a while, and instead became more formulaic. As Family Guy continued to rely on this style of humor, and as the novelty of cutaways wore off, the overall quality of Family Guy decreased. There are plenty of ways to innovate this style of humor, but Family Guy has yet to try to do that.

Family Guy is written almost entirely by men. While the contributions of women to the show are notable and substantial, especially that of writer and co-producer Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, a show as established as Family Guy can now easily have a more diverse pool of writers behind it. However, it seems like the show is more than likely going to keep telling the same kinds of jokes with similar people driving it forward. Unintentionally, it furthered the trend started by The Simpsons and strengthened the idea that animation geared towards adults grown-ups to focus on comedy.

The almost universal success of Family Guy really slowed down the expansion and experimentation in this medium. Family Guy has a terrific pool of voice actors that continue to bring their A-game to the show more than a dozen seasons later. The animation in Family Guy is pretty rudimentary. There are numerous scenes where several characters are poised identically to each other and most characters have an incredibly limited range of movement and expression. The only time Family Guy ever fully utilizes the potential of animation is in it zanier moments, which is a waste of the many affordances of the medium.

Family Guy contains a wealth of meta jokes and fourth wall breaking gags that made it feel different than a lot of the other television sitcoms in the early s. American Dad is just bad all around. Created to fill the void of Family Guy when it was briefly cancelled, American Dad is a poorly made clone of an already poorly executed show.

The alien guy just makes no sense. He is just an unfunny bufoon I take that back. A bufoon is supposed to be funny. The alien is just annoying. It seems to me several cartoons have come out in recent years all suffering from the same issues I list above. Take a bunch of cartoon concepts First problem I just didn't see the reason for that character except to have a dirty pig.

They needed to be more clever. Just such a let down in comparison with the rest of the concept. But then the show suffers the same problems as Family Guy; poor delivery, random scenes, nothing really interesting about it. After trying that series, it seems to suffer from others issues. First, the jokes just are not funny. This has little to do with delivery actually. The material just is not funny.

The voice actors seem to have some personlity, but they have lousy material with which to work. But in addition the main character Chode is just trite in personality and would be the one voice I don't like because it too is trite. I can't stand how they have their little monologue moments at the end of each episode.

Its as if they aren't good enough to get thier point across in the thread of the narrative, so they gotta step aside and have a dumbass speech explaining it all just in case. I was going to say the exact same thing as MichaelC, but he said it better then I would have.

I hoenstly found the first few episodes of Family Guy hillarious. My personal favorite is the Petoria episode. However, all of the new material just down right sucks.

Yeah, they do that WAY too much. It's funny a couple times as sort of a meta-joke ie, "haha this is funny because it is so not-funny" , but it gets old REALLY fast. This is what I was trying to say, but failed horribly. This is my main problem with FG. The plot is never ever funny anymore, and always is just a background element that serves as a vehicle for pop culture gags and "remember when I dunno, I've always been a big fan, and I still watch, but the formula is getting tiring.

Pop culture gags can be funny, but they at least used to be somewhat contextual. Now they're just random, and they're the focus of the show instead of the real plot. I've never had the opportunity to watch The Family Guy. Like "Family of Five" I so wanted to watch that.. Oh and I don't hate it. So then you agree that it deserves it's title of "hilarious" since tons and tons of people love it?

Where's the fan love bringing Futurama back on the air, again? It's hilarious. But there's a lot more fan support behind Family Guy, I'd guess. Those of you who don't like family guy aren't ADHD enough. Adult Swim got that shit right. Family Guy kicks ass. All the othres are just jealous. As for the "shoddy animation" crack I'll grant you that the first series of Family Guys had better plot than this season but I look at it this way: Family Guy is a comedy, right?

What do comedies do? They make you laugh. With this season, Family Guy has mostly dispensed with the plot and just throws a lot of jokes around very loosely held together with a flimsy story.

Why is this a problem? When you go to see a comedian do you want a well developed plot around all of his jokes? Does that make them better? Well then why is it such a sin when a TV show does the exact same thing? To me, Family Guy has just become stand up. Think about it, how many times have you seen comedians start a set of jokes with "My wife just had a baby" or "So my girlfriend and I just broke up. Family Guy does this too, only they use "It's like that time when That's all the show is about.

The voices are funny, the animation It's not trying to be a breakthrough show, it's just trying to make you laugh. It's humor, some people like it, some people don't.