maplebrew February 16, 2015 Share February 16, 2015 Peter Griffin is basically like Homer Simpson's even dumber brother that can often be even more of an asshole. This is true. There is at least one major difference. Homer actually has affection for his family. The Simpsons/Family Guy cross over episode highlighted the remarkably different experience daughters have in their respectively families. That's only one example. Another is that that affection means that Homer sometimes feels the tug of family responsibility. Homer sometimes gets that he has a family to support. Link to comment
immortalfrieza February 17, 2015 Share February 17, 2015 I really hate it when a Family Guy episode makes me think this and only this, but what. the. fuck?!? They spend about 5 minutes on 4 guys becoming a detective agency, something that both could have been very interesting and had endless potential for taking hilarious stabs at detective books and shows (and which is actually related to the title of the episode) and the rest of the episode is spent on Chris' fixation on a homemade sex doll which was already incredibly bizarre from the outset and only got more bizarre as the episode wore on, especially the treatment of it by characters that are otherwise much more rational and intelligent than Chris is. Peter falling in love with and subsequently killing a cardboard cutout of a woman made more sense than this and didn't overstay it's welcome either. The words "what the fuck" are the only words I can think of that adequately describe this episode. I actually like Family Guy generally and I usually have a pretty high threshold of tolerance when it comes to insanity in cartoons, but when a show goes from simply insane to beyond nuts like this while squandering great opportunities as this episode does is when I crack. Link to comment
OnceSane February 17, 2015 Share February 17, 2015 Ugh. Once again, Lois puts her wants ahead of the emotional well-being of her children. I'd like to say I'm surprised, but I'd be lying. Link to comment
OnceSane February 19, 2015 Share February 19, 2015 Brian decides he doesn't want to hang out with Stewie anymore, so Stewie tries to save their relationship by having a baby…or seven…by using Brian's DNA to impregnate himself. Meanwhile, Peter, Joe, Quagmire and Cleveland attempt to make a viral video. Link to comment
OnceSane February 23, 2015 Share February 23, 2015 Meg gets a new job at the airport, where she's instantly popular for being the hottest employee there. Meanwhile, Cleveland becomes a therapist and starts giving Peter and Lois relationship advice, but Peter quickly becomes frustrated and threatens to tell Donna a big secret about what went down at Cleveland's bachelor party. Link to comment
Galileo908 March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 So yeah, that happened. "What kind of monster hits a pregnant toddler?!" Uhhh...Yeah. So we got an answer to where the babies came out: Everywhere. Yeah. At least Adam West was around to say something funny to diffuse that. Also, most of those babies were creepy looking, and no shock that most of them died. The plot with the guys trying to make a viral video was better. I liked Joe trying to do impressions, I enjoy references to Patrick Warburton only having one voice. Well, they were on point about Ron Livingston. He was the main guy in Office Space, and, umm... 1 Link to comment
Latverian Diplomat March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 (edited) Well, they were on point about Ron Livingston. He was the main guy in Office Space, and, umm... Band of Brothers was a pretty big deal. They did mention Sex in the City and he was recently on Boardwalk Empire. IMDB shows he's been working steadily, but I admit, mostly stuff I haven't seen. Oddly enough, one of his credits is a voice for Family Guy. It seemed a little off target to me, but then, if a terrible episode like this one takes a swipe at you, maybe it should be taken as a compliment. The show's weakness for mistaking gross for funny was in full force in this one. Edited March 9, 2015 by Latverian Diplomat 1 Link to comment
OnceSane March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 The show's weakness for mistaking gross for funny was in full force in this one. THIS. I found this episode utterly too try-hard. 3 Link to comment
SmithW6079 March 9, 2015 Share March 9, 2015 The show's weakness for mistaking gross for funny was in full force in this one. That's pretty much why I stopped watching this show. Also, the bestiality. 2 Link to comment
wknt3 March 10, 2015 Share March 10, 2015 THIS. I found this episode utterly too try-hard. On the bright side at least they were trying which puts it a notch above much of this season in my book. 1 Link to comment
ShadowSixx March 11, 2015 Share March 11, 2015 I found this episode to be a little much even for Family Guy standards. I really didn't laugh at all in this, and I agree that the subplot was much better than the main plot. Stewie could have found other funny ways to get Brian's attention. Link to comment
ShadowSixx March 11, 2015 Share March 11, 2015 Stewie pulls up to McDonald's Drive Thru. Marina: You know Stewie, I'm not much of a fast food eater. Stewie: Yeah, can you read my mind? Can you tell me what I'm thinking right now. I'm thinking shut and get a salad. Brent: I want some McNuggets. Stewie: We'll get to you Brent. Wil: I want a hamburger. No, a cheeseburger. I want a hot dog, I want a milkshake... [Patrick Stewart punches Wil in the back of the head] Patrick: You'll get nothing and like it! Stewie: Uh hello. Employee: Welcome to McDonald's. How may I help you? Stewie: Oh, hailing frequencies open, huh? Uh, yeah, uh, we're gonna get, uh, two McChicken sandwiches and a diet coke and...uh, uh, what do you want, Michael? Michael: A McDLT. Stewie: No, I already told you, they don't make those anymore. Michael: You know, sometimes it's a regional thing. You could ask. Stewie: No McDonald's anywhere makes a McDLT anymore. Jonathan: I'd love a shamrock shake if they got any of those. Stewie: It's September, Jonathan. LeVar: Stewie, can I take these goddamn headband off? Stewie: No LeVar, you're blind. That's the only way you can see. Michael: I'm just saying, they have all the ingredients for a McDLT... [person behind them honks their horn] Stewie: Just hang on! Alright? There's a lot of us! There's a lot of-- it's a big order! Patrick: What time do they stop serving breakfast? Stewie: It's three o'clock. Patrick: Some of them serve breakfast all day. Stewie: None of them serve breakfast all day! Michael: Do they have beer? Stewie (To Whole Star Trek Cast): This...was...exhausting. This whole experience, was absolutely...exhausting. You people have ruined Star Trek: The Next Generation for me, you are absolutely, the most insufferable group of jackasses I have ever had the misfortune of spending an extended period of time with, I hope you all fucking die. Peter: We don't need a map Brian. I got us a GPMS machine. [Peter turns on machine] GPMS: Go up! What do you think? Just go up! Peter: Sorry. GPMS: OK, could everyone just stop freaking out and just give me like two minutes! God! [starts crying] Everyone is always yelling at me! Wha..with all the questions. Peter: Alright, well maybe we'll turn you on later and see how you feel. [Peter turns off machine] Peter: She was so nice in the store. 1 Link to comment
Ubiquitous March 13, 2015 Share March 13, 2015 Grody. Did Stewie think the baies would turn out like Ted Turner's? 1 Link to comment
Galileo908 March 16, 2015 Share March 16, 2015 I don't know what's funnier: Random Humor Adam West or Sociopath Adam West? Meg as the hottest person who works for the TSA is not that far off. It seems looking like a potato really is a job requirement. "Family Guy fans went ballistic when Brian died, but you don't really miss him in this episode, do you?" Right on the money. 2 Link to comment
OnceSane March 16, 2015 Share March 16, 2015 Meg never gets even half-nice things. :( And I didn't miss Brian at all…in fact, I forgot about him until the pop-up appeared on screen. So please kill him off again, this time permanently. 1 Link to comment
ganesh March 16, 2015 Share March 16, 2015 I wish they decided to let Meg have a string of these weird jobs now. It would at least be marginal character development. She's been a foot fetish model and now TSA agent. It's not like they have her do anything else. It would be funny just to see her coming and going wearing different uniforms. Why doesn't Cleveland open a new deli too? This has been a spell of fairly bland episodes. Link to comment
xander874 March 17, 2015 Share March 17, 2015 Why doesn't Cleveland open a new deli too? This has been a spell of fairly bland episodes. Yeah, I didn't get why they didn't tell him to reopen the deli when they were standing in it. In fact, I'm surprised Donna would let him not work for a year. Then again, I'm trying to make sense of a Family Guy episode, so shame on me. Link to comment
Spartan Girl March 17, 2015 Share March 17, 2015 Some day Meg is finally going to snap and her father (and hopefully her whole damn family) in the most horrific way. And we'll all be laughing and cheering her on as she does it. 2 Link to comment
OnceSane March 23, 2015 Share March 23, 2015 Peter stumbles upon a missing boy and is celebrated as a town hero, while Joe decides to quit his job and take a road trip to Niagara Falls with Peter, Quagmire and Cleveland. Link to comment
immortalfrieza April 2, 2015 Share April 2, 2015 (edited) Some day Meg is finally going to snap and her father (and hopefully her whole damn family) in the most horrific way. And we'll all be laughing and cheering her on as she does it. ...and then it turns out to be a dream sequence, or an imagine spot, or the end of an episode, and next episode everybody is back treating Meg like crap while she just stands there and takes it like nothing happened until they do the same thing a season or so later. They REALLY need to find something else to do with this character, because this Torture-Meg-a-Thon went WAY past funny and into horrific a half dozen seasons ago. Edited April 2, 2015 by immortalfrieza Link to comment
ganesh April 2, 2015 Share April 2, 2015 She has been doing stuff. But then it's completely forgotten when the episodes end. I don't know why they don't continue it in the background. She's 18, so she can have a whole bunch of jobs. They can just show her wearing different uniforms all the time. It would be funny to me if Meg had this whole other life going on, but no one in the family knows because they don't care about her. When the show finally ends, she could have saved up like a whole bunch of money and just moves away somewhere. Link to comment
OnceSane April 6, 2015 Share April 6, 2015 A stint in obedience school takes some of the bite out of Brian, and Peter soon realizes he liked his pal better when he was fiestier. Meanwhile, Chris is bummed when he learns his new friend only buddied up to him to get closer to Meg. Link to comment
Galileo908 April 13, 2015 Share April 13, 2015 This week we had Peter think about killing babies to make maracas. Again. Humpty Dumpty was drinking and masturbating on the wall. I have no words. I was not a fan of the "Joe trying to kill himself" plot. Peter's imagined funeral was funny if dark as all hell. Link to comment
OnceSane April 14, 2015 Share April 14, 2015 After his alleged friends hurt his feelings by roasting him, Peter takes comfort with a mean-girl clique, and ignores Lois when she warns that they may be gossiping about him behind his back. Link to comment
OnceSane April 14, 2015 Share April 14, 2015 Peter boasts that he could beat Liam Neeson in a fight, and then gets the chance to prove it. Meanwhile, Stewie turns jealous when new classroom-mom Lois pays more attention to his young schoolmates. Link to comment
ganesh April 14, 2015 Share April 14, 2015 The whole maracas inner monologue was funny. And the Back To The Future joke was out there but I liked it. Joe's action sequence was well done too. Link to comment
OnceSane April 14, 2015 Share April 14, 2015 1) We did the "butt hurt feelings over a roast" thing on AD with Roger. 2) I'm sure the "mean-girl clique" will just be another excuse to dump on Meg. I think I already hate this episode and it doesn't air for two more weeks. 1 Link to comment
wknt3 April 14, 2015 Share April 14, 2015 The whole maracas inner monologue was funny. And the Back To The Future joke was out there but I liked it. Joe's action sequence was well done too. Agreed on all, especially the action sequence. And it was nice to see they bothered to come up with an entire plot this week! Link to comment
Spartan Girl April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 (edited) I also loved it when they sang "The Rose" when they took that road trip in "Baby Not On Board" Edited April 17, 2015 by Spartan Girl 2 Link to comment
Galileo908 April 20, 2015 Share April 20, 2015 Hey, it's the return of Neil Goldman. And yeah, no surprise he only befriended Chris to get closer to Meg. It's really hard to care about Brian. With his liver problems, he might die. Again. So yeah, they did a "Let's all go to the lobby" parody referencing the Aurora shooting. Yeah. Link to comment
Ubiquitous April 20, 2015 Share April 20, 2015 Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that theatre shooting. I heard a throwaway line about a one-shot char but can't recall who it was now. Link to comment
OnceSane April 20, 2015 Share April 20, 2015 I should have known the writers wouldn't let anyone except Neil want Meg (aside from the sheik's son Brian and Stewie murdered). And fuck submissive Brian and regular Brian, I still want Vinnie back. Link to comment
Galileo908 April 27, 2015 Share April 27, 2015 Well, that bit with Jiminy Cricket got dark real quick. And that cutaway with the wolf pack got dark, and weird, then kinda funny when it turns out the one wolf was played by Quagmire (drugged). 1) We did the "butt hurt feelings over a roast" thing on AD with Roger.2) I'm sure the "mean-girl clique" will just be another excuse to dump on Meg.I think I already hate this episode and it doesn't air for two more weeks. 1) So did the Simpsons (although that was more of a half-hearted excuse for a clip show) 2) They ended up going after Lois. Being mean to Meg would've been too easy for them. Mean Girls are also a bit that the show has gone to many, many times before. Link to comment
Spartan Girl April 27, 2015 Share April 27, 2015 Seth, on behalf of women everywhere, go fuck yourself. 6 Link to comment
SmithW6079 April 27, 2015 Share April 27, 2015 I liked the AA song -- Don't Mess With Mr Booze, I think it was called. 1 Link to comment
Maharincess April 27, 2015 Share April 27, 2015 I will always and forever love Bag Of Weed the best! Its this pot head grandma's anthem! 2 Link to comment
Ubiquitous April 27, 2015 Share April 27, 2015 I must admit I laughed at Quagmire's line about Peter giving him a funny-tasting beer and suddenly finding himself dressed like a wolf-hooker, followed by Peter saying that he lost his train of thouvht because the cutaway was too long. 2 Link to comment
OnceSane April 27, 2015 Share April 27, 2015 Simpson's did it! [/south Park] The roast was the only funny part of the episode. Link to comment
ganesh April 27, 2015 Share April 27, 2015 I actually thought the cutaways were funny. I do like when Lois and Peter kind of team up because you're reminded why they like each other. Seth, on behalf of women everywhere, go fuck yourself. Well, the writer for this was a woman as they showed in the end credits. 1 Link to comment
OnceSane April 27, 2015 Share April 27, 2015 I thought the show was pointing out that only one woman wrote for the episode while the rest of the writers were men. 2 Link to comment
ganesh April 28, 2015 Share April 28, 2015 I thought they showed the credits to indicate it was her idea. Typically an episode only has one writer, even though I know there's a writers room where they pitch ideas. Link to comment
OnceSane May 1, 2015 Share May 1, 2015 In the Season 13 finale, Peter is surprised to discover the Bahamas vacation Lois booked is actually a marriage-counseling retreat. While back at home, Carter watches the kids and is flustered over the fact that they would rather play electronic games than ones that would require actual old-fashioned participation. Link to comment
Galileo908 May 4, 2015 Share May 4, 2015 That cutaway with Peter tossing everything in the dumpster was one that we could've seen in the original run. 1,000 sexual conquests seems a little low for Quagmire, don't you think? I also wasn't expecting a large mouth bass to be #1000. Liam Neeson at least was enjoyable. He really likes to kill wolves. I liked how a Mrs. Potato Head disguise instantly attracted Irish actors, but Colin Farrell...yeah. Link to comment
Spartan Girl May 4, 2015 Share May 4, 2015 Watching Liam Neeson beat the shit out of Peter was incredibly satisfying. Not quite as good as Meg curb-stomping his ass, but he still had it coming. 2 Link to comment
Galileo908 May 4, 2015 Share May 4, 2015 So for the record, Peter can hold his own against yellow people (Ernie the Giant Chicken, Homer), but not Liam Neeson. But then again, who could? Link to comment
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