I think Family Guy has run out of ideas.

[Drunken Irishman]

Seriously, four or so minutes of Conway Twitty?

It's the same shit with that lame Chicken versus Peter skit.

[no name no slogan]

1. I've thought that for several years

Once they finished ripping off the Simpsons (but with potty humor), there really wasn't a whole lot left. :shrug:

[Lex]

2. I never found The Family Guy funny.

But that's just me.

[AlCzervik]

3. American Dad is the better show imo.

[DS1]

9. Yes

Roger is one of my favorite current television characters

[AlCzervik]

10. I love Roger so much, the episodes that revolve around him are my favorites.

The one episode that wasn't about him that i thought was particularly good was the Stanexerica one, the end of that was brilliant when they showed how painfully thin he had become.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. You see, I disagreed with that...

At first, but now I like it way more.

Family Guy has gone down hill ever since it started again a few years ago.

[Deja Q]

4. Seasons 1 and 2 were good, but season 3 onward were flat and unfunny.

I did like the hour long spoof 'Blue Harvest', amazing how funny it was given it was made only last year...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Problem about Family Guy was....

...when they brought it back after cancellation, Seth McFarland basically let it get to his head, and he just got lazy.

Pre-cancellation the show was classic. Post cancellation, not so much.

[bbernardini]

6. Well, they've done the Conway Twitty gag before, and why I like it.

Personally, I like that gag for two reasons:

1. It screws with the heads of the people who watch the show just for the potty humor.

2. It's Conway Freakin' Twitty on national television for at least 2-3 minutes. That's AWESOME. The man had *43* #1 country hits, back when country music was actually country music, not leftover backing tracks from a 1980s Mutt Lange session with fiddle and pedal steel thrown on top. If Seth McFarlane is going to use the show's popularity to give the kids a little bit of music education, that's fine with me.

[RoyGBiv]

7. Win!

Precisely.

:thumbsup:

[Drunken Irishman]

13. Yes, I'm sure kids are running to the music store to buy Conway Twitty CDs! :D

[TrogL]

17. "country music" is not music

Music implies musicianship which country music lacks.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. I agree with about 98% of your statement.

I hate whiny singers who sing about depressing shit and commit pedal steel guitar abuse.

However, Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson don't whine.

There were country musicians in the past who were quite good, but now I don't think there are any. I am thinking of Chet Atkins and Roy Clark, who are both superb musicians.


98% of your statement is TRUE. :yourock:

I'm a lifelong musician.

[bbernardini]

22. Jerry Reed is pretty awesome as well. nt

[Mojambo]

8. I love when they do that stuff.

And the longer and more drawn out the better.

[Drunken Irishman]

12. It just tells me they don't have enough to fill up the entire 30 minutes.

So they have to throw something like that in there as filler.

It's stupid and not funny.

[RoyGBiv]

14. To each his own ...

... but they don't do that because they don't have something else to fill the 30 minutes. The extended segues are part of "the joke."

There's a theory in comedy, especially televised comedy, that one can't draw out a joke past a certain length of time. Family Guy is one among a few shows that test this theory. In your view, the theory is valid and, thus, Family Guy fails. Others think differently.

What it boils down to is that McFarlen is messing with the audience's comfort zones in several ways, some of them less obvious than others. That a joke only goes so long or that it only deals with certain subjects is one comfort zone that he breaks continually.

I know some people don't like it. It boils down to personal taste. I do like it. I don't think there's an objective measurement for this.

[Mojambo]

16. Well said. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

19. I guess you're right, to each their own.

Family Guy can be extremely funny and other times, it feels like they're trying a bit too hard or just recycle jokes over and over again.

[Lost in CT]

15. I thought DU archived posts from 2006?

[quakerboy]

18. it would certaintly seem so

[Danger Mouse]

21. They ran out of ideas years ago. The first two seasons were the best.

[Deep13]

23. Conway Twitty and O.J. jokes.

Yeah, that's pretty cutting edge.
:wtf:

[Shell Beau]

24. It still cracks me up. I never understood the Conway Twitty

bit, but that is kinda what makes it funny. It is just random.

The chicken fights I don't like so much. They are way too drawn out for me. But they do that a lot. Like when Peter gets hurt, he says "ow" forever.