Remember that class clown you had way back in them days? His hilarious and sometimes inappropriate outbursts often helped you struggle through untold numbers of boring and uninspiring classes, and in a way, helped you take yourself less seriously. After graduation, your ways parted, but you continued to look back on his childish antics rather fondly. Then some five years later, you meet by accident, and he's exactly the same; only, now he's become a raging alcoholic misanthrope loner that even lazy-eyed prostitutes know to keep at an arm's length. His sense of humor is still there, but it's just so goddamn mean-spirited. You intentionally try to avoid being recognized and question why the fuck you ever liked this person in any way.
That's Family Guy.
Back when it began, Family Guy was the perfect balance between the wacky pop-culture humor of The Simpsons, the sociopathic yet relatable family values of Married... with Children, with a dash of the social and political satire of South Park to boot. But far from feeling derivative, it had its very own sense of comic timing that made it stand out. Plain and simple, there probably wasn't anything else on contemporary TV with its ability to concoct fresh and unexpected laugh-out-loud situations of comedic legend.
Now... it happened gradually, but over the years, it became the very thing sensationalist newspapers called it from its humble beginnings: a mean-spirited, obnoxiously self-important show existing purely to offend anyone, and everyone. Now, okay, sure, there is a place for such a show, but that spot is kind of taken by South Park, probably for all time. And whereas South Park did so in a clever fashion (before they ironically came to suffer from much the same problems as FG), Family Guy did it for the sake of it.
I suspect it was a deliberate measure taken in the series' comparative old age as other shows were starting to do what Family Guy did, and arguably better, but they took all of the bad parts of Family Guy and turned it up to eleven. These days, I avoid it like the plague on moral grounds. Plain and simple, I owe myself better than that. And, you know, so do all the people still tuning into the mindless, zombified monster that Family Guy has become.
A sad and miserable shell of what once it was.
Remember that class clown you had way back in them days? His hilarious and sometimes inappropriate outbursts often helped you struggle through untold numbers of boring and uninspiring classes, and in a way, helped you take yourself less seriously. After graduation, your ways parted, but you continued to look back on his childish antics rather fondly. Then some five years later, you meet by accident, and he's exactly the same; only, now he's become a raging alcoholic misanthrope loner that even lazy-eyed prostitutes know to keep at an arm's length. His sense of humor is still there, but it's just so goddamn mean-spirited. You intentionally try to avoid being recognized and question why the fuck you ever liked this person in any way.
That's Family Guy.
Back when it began, Family Guy was the perfect balance between the wacky pop-culture humor of The Simpsons, the sociopathic yet relatable family values of Married... with Children, with a dash of the social and political satire of South Park to boot. But far from feeling derivative, it had its very own sense of comic timing that made it stand out. Plain and simple, there probably wasn't anything else on contemporary TV with its ability to concoct fresh and unexpected laugh-out-loud situations of comedic legend.
Now... it happened gradually, but over the years, it became the very thing sensationalist newspapers called it from its humble beginnings: a mean-spirited, obnoxiously self-important show existing purely to offend anyone, and everyone. Now, okay, sure, there is a place for such a show, but that spot is kind of taken by South Park, probably for all time. And whereas South Park did so in a clever fashion (before they ironically came to suffer from much the same problems as FG), Family Guy did it for the sake of it.
I suspect it was a deliberate measure taken in the series' comparative old age as other shows were starting to do what Family Guy did, and arguably better, but they took all of the bad parts of Family Guy and turned it up to eleven. These days, I avoid it like the plague on moral grounds. Plain and simple, I owe myself better than that. And, you know, so do all the people still tuning into the mindless, zombified monster that Family Guy has become.