Family Guy - General Discussion

[Soobs]

I always like seeing the love/ hate relationship between Quagmire and Brian. Did I mishear the last line of the episode? Peter said something like, "4 years later Lois and I were divorced and Stewie was dead."

[xander874]

Yeah, I thought this episode was stinky. Peter was and is awful to Brian (not that Brian is a saint either) but leaving him to die in the car is unforgivable. I just thought it was boring and was screaming at Lois to just go buy some chicken and cook that. People will deal!

[ganesh]

I don't know why Lois would rely on Peter to order the turkey in the first place. It seems like something she could have taken care of on her own.

[Galileo908]

My favorite bits in no particular order:

 

1) The giant bee. All of the animals with Bruce's voice were great, but that one was my favorite. I still crack up at "Bye, world."

2) The ipecac scene. So very disgusting, but it's the obviously over the top vomiting sounds they all make that makes it all work for me.

3) The cutaway with Peter turning the house into a giant puppet. I don't think I've laughed harder at any moment from this show than that one.

4) The first appearance of the Kool-Aid Man. Such perfect timing.

5) This bit from Ollie Williams:

 

Ollie: "Bring me some soup!"

Tom Tucker: "What kind?"

Ollie: "Chunky!"

 

6) Essentially, anything Adam West does, but my favorite has to either be "Nobody messes with Adam We," or him eating taffy.

 

ETA: The part from "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington," where the CEO chooses Peter to be "That Guy," and it immediately cuts to Peter about to stick his tongue into a fan.

Edited November 20, 2014 by Galileo908

[OnceSane]

After running into Jesus at the Quahog Mall, Peter is stunned to discover that the Son of God is still a virgin. So, he enlists Quagmire and Cleveland to help him throw Jesus the best birthday ever by finding a way to help him become a man.

[Ubiquitous]

That sounds correct.

[cpcathy]

I think the clever has left this series and they are relying more on gross-out humor than ever before (and we know it was always a staple). I think it may be time to wrap up the show for good.

[ganesh]

They're not going to end the show while it's still getting good ratings. It's never really been clever. It's still very popular enough to warrant a huge spread in EW for the crossover episode. 

[cpcathy]

There have always been moments of cleverness--the alternate universe episode (including Stewie and Brian as an actual baby and dog), the Star Wars episodes, when Peter gets placed in classic sitcoms' opening titles.

[Ubiquitous]

Oooooh, how edgey!

[maplebrew]

"A Bag of Weed" was good but, honestly, I find their musical numbers self-indulgent and dull for the most part.

[Galileo908]

Girls turning 30...I've been seeing that cutaway in action lately.

 

"Let's see what's under Christmas...ugh, another puckered anus." Peter must've gotten his Erotic Advent Calendar from r/GoneWild. Also, they implied that he looked at child porn. Ugh.

 

I liked seeing Jesus speed date. But that was about it for his plot, especially when it turned out that he was a jerk, a liar, and an adulterer.

 

"Our marriage is too important." Lois cheated several times, and she drew the line at Jesus?

 

So that ending with Adam West was...weird.

[ganesh]

The best part about the speed date was the last one: Where you from? Israel. Bzzzzz!

[M. Darcy]

I liked the Love Actually homage.  Other than that...eh. 

[BooksRule]

I don't watch a lot of 'Family Guy', but there are moments that I like (I don't like to see cartoon characters throw up, so I avoid those scenes when possible).  Anyway, I always have to watch the episode where Stewie kidnaps the cast of 'Star Trek:  The Next Generation'. (it's on right now) I love all of their scenes, especially the one where they are all bickering at the McDonald's drive-through ('I want a McBLT'. You could ask. Sometimes it's a regional thing'. 'Are they still serving breakfast?' Sometimes they serve breakfast all day'. 'Wil:  I want a hamburger. No, a cheeseburger.  And a hot dog!'  Patrick:  'Shut up!' and smacks him.)  And the fact that those were the actual actors and not sound-alikes made it even funnier).

Edited December 11, 2014 by BooksRule

[Ubiquitous]

2) The ipecac scene. So very disgusting, but it's the obviously over the top vomiting sounds they all make that makes it all work for me.

The part that does it for me is Lois entering the room, saying "Who wants clam chowder?".

[OnceSane]

To help Chris ace his ninth grade history class, Stewie and Brian employ the time travel machine for educational purposes. Not surprisingly, all three get stuck in the past.

[Galileo908]

Yes, Chris is that dumb that the first thing he does in a dream is to slice off his own hand. Thankfully the episode got much better once the time travel started.

 

Yeah, we really needed to see Brian beat Pavlov to death with his own bell. And everyone farting with Jane Austen. But I liked seeing Vinny's VO appear, even for a brief moment. And yes, that was pretty much the 1990's in a nutshell.

[Ubiquitous]

I was wondering why they were worried about getting on the Titanic in England when I was sure it had departed from America, then laughed at the epilog saying all the history came from Wikipedia.

Edited January 5, 2015 by Ubiquitous

[Ubiquitous]

Yeah, we really needed to see Brian beat Pavlov to death with his own bell.

I figured it would be that and the other guy Brian killed that would change history.

[ganesh]

The 90s gag was great. This wasn't much of an episode and more of a collection of gags. Which is fine. I don't expect that much out of family guy. I think they could have actually built a while episode around the titanic though.

[maplebrew]

"Our marriage is too important." Lois cheated several times, and she drew the line at Jesus?

 

 

Yes. This is the couple in which both Peter and Lois separately had sex with President Clinton. 

[OnceSane]

Meg convinces Brian to take the SAT's for her, but when he tests poorly, they start to suspect that Brian might not be that smart after all. Peter decides to spend the day showing Brian the joys of being stupid and the benefits of having a low IQ.

[Galileo908]

"Hey everyone, Brian is the new Meg!"

 

This whole episode in a nutshell. Ugh.

 

Well, they were right that being an idiot involves forwarding mildly funny emails that everyone's seen already. With twelve fonts in seven colors.

[ganesh]

I was hoping this would be more about Meg for a change. We all know Brian thinks he's a lot smarter than he is. The 1920s song and the dogs dancing were my favorites though.

[Ubiquitous]

Imissed most of the 1920's song but laughed at the Canine Cosmonaut bit.i know this is a caetoon, but how is a brain tunor that makes you stupid considered "benign"?

[Spartan Girl]

I would love for Meg to go Gone Girl on the whole family. 

[Galileo908]

The whole Russian Dog bit bothered me because wasn't Laika a female dog?

[ganesh]

I could swear the brain tumor plot was a send up from an old sitcom. 

[Ubiquitous]

The whole Russian Dog bit bothered me because wasn't Laika a female dog?

Now that you mention it...

[Spartan Girl]

Anybody else think that it's a great episode idea for Meg to pull a Gone Girl on her whole family?  After the way they've treated her, they'd definitely have it coming.

[OnceSane]

Meg is thrilled to be recruited as a model, but it turns out to be for a specific type of modeling: the foot-fetish industry. Meanwhile, Brian accompanies Stewie on an open-road adventure when Stewie decides he wants to experience life outside of preschool.

[SistaLadybug]

So ... this is just a copy of the "King of the Hill" episode where Peggy did the foot fetish modeling.  Okay, then.

[Galileo908]

Yet another "let's shit on Meg" episode. Plus the whole plot with her becoming a foot fetish model was something King of The Hill did better years ago.

[Spartan Girl]

While I did like Meg calling out Peter and Lois for claiming to care about her when they've treated her like shit for years, I so don't buy their apology and promise to be nicer to her at the end.  They'll be back to treating her like crap the next episode.  I so would love for her to pull a Gone Girl on them.

 

I was pleasantly surprised by Peter and Lois having a romantic night at home, especially when these days the show displays them as a "divorce any minute" couple.

[ganesh]

I liked Meg calling them out too. And having Joe be the model was eww but funny. 

 

Isn't Meg underage anyway? That kind of screwed with the whole concept. I actually thought it would have been better if she was an actual foot model and had recurring moderate success. 

[Eri]

Meg had an episode where Quagmire tried to seduce her on her 18th birthday so I assume she has remained that age since.

[ganesh]

I don't remember, but nbd then. 

 

Granted, the fukake is a little much, but given Meg's an adult, I don't think it's a big deal that someone is taking pics of her feet. 

[OnceSane]

Lois takes Peter to open a checking account, and they discover that his first name is actually Justin, which Peter adopts as his younger "bro"-style alter ego. Then, Peter/Justin throws a party, during which Quagmire unknowingly gets into trouble with his mother.

[OnceSane]

Peter, Quagmire, Joe and Cleveland form a detective agency, and are stunned to discover that Chris is a thief. Meanwhile, Lois is worried about Chris' delusional relationship with his new girlfriend, but also sees it as opportunity for Peter to copy Chris' romantic gestures.

[Galileo908]

I only liked the parody of the General car insurance guy. It's such a crummy ad, you think it's a local ad. It isn't.

[Ubiquitous]

Was it only my station that aired this ep in the wrong ratio, resulting in everyone looking taller and skinnier?

[Ubiquitous]

The Justin plotline was a stab at Justin Beiber, right?

[Writing Wrongs]

If I got offended by tv shows, I think this episode would've offended me.

[OnceSane]

The Justin plotline was a stab at Justin Beiber, right?

I believe so. Or more likely a slam at Justin Beiber's dad.

I loved Quagmire's reaction to his mom finding God.

[Ubiquitous]

I loved Quagmire's reaction to his mom finding God.

I hated Brian's.

[OnceSane]

I hated Brian's.

Brian's default in recent season's is severe dick mode, IMO. I wasn't surprised, but I still hope and dream that he'll be killed off again. And that this time it will stick.

[immortalfrieza]

Anybody else think that it's a great episode idea for Meg to pull a Gone Girl on her whole family?  After the way they've treated her, they'd definitely have it coming.

After the way the entire world has treated her, I'd like to see an (dream, imagine spot, or Halloween episode probably) episode where she finally snaps and starts systematically killing most of the population of Quahog in hilarious ways and while mocking every horror movie cliche in the book, because they all definitely deserve it.

 

When Meg is written and treated halfway like a human being and when she grows a spine and gets back at the people that are constantly tormenting her are her best moments on the show, every other time she's filling a role that could just as easily be filled by any random John Doe the Griffins run across.

 

The writers have stated that the ONLY thing they can think of to do with Meg is torture her every single minute she's on screen. They either need to come up with something else to do with her or just write her out entirely because the treatment of the writers of ol butt monkey Meg crossed the line so many freaking times and thus stopped being even slightly funny and solely became very mean spirited and depressing a LONG time ago.

Edited February 15, 2015 by immortalfrieza

[beadgirl]

Heh.  I love that there are no other comments, because what more is there to say about him?

[immortalfrieza]

Peter Griffin is basically like Homer Simpson's even dumber brother that can often be even more of an asshole. With both the writers will make them as big of an asshole and as much of an idiot as they need to in order to make the plot or joke of the episode work, while sometimes making them much less so for the same reason. I'd say Peter is consistently much worse out of the two when it comes to both however, and the world of Family Guy as a whole is generally much more crapsack itself than that of The Simpsons, which is why Peter tends to get away with being an idiotic asshole while Homer tends to see at least some suffering for it.

Edited February 16, 2015 by immortalfrieza