Thread where I keep you up to date on Family Guy (S17 on p8)
by Cone » Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:21 pm
Family Guy Season 16 Episode 04 - Follow the Money
Holy fuck this was so bad I'm not even going to attempt to do a long writeup about it. This was the laziest episode they could have produced short of doing a clip show. At least a clip show would have had the chance of being marginally funny. This was just an excuse to showcase all the random throwaway characters of Family Guy past.
The only thing worth noting is that out of now 293 episodes of the show, this is only the second Family Guy episode to not feature a single cutaway gag. The first being the episode where Stewie and Brian get locked in a bank vault.
Also Brian the Dog gets shot again, making it two consecutive episodes in which he takes a bullet wound and survives.
Maybe I'll do some screengrabs later but man this one just isn't even worth the ironic effort.
After Chris gets a special $1 bill for his birthday and quickly loses it, the dollar gets passed from character to character throughout Quahog.
Holy fuck this was so bad I'm not even going to attempt to do a long writeup about it. This was the laziest episode they could have produced short of doing a clip show. At least a clip show would have had the chance of being marginally funny. This was just an excuse to showcase all the random throwaway characters of Family Guy past.
The only thing worth noting is that out of now 293 episodes of the show, this is only the second Family Guy episode to not feature a single cutaway gag. The first being the episode where Stewie and Brian get locked in a bank vault.
Also Brian the Dog gets shot again, making it two consecutive episodes in which he takes a bullet wound and survives.
Maybe I'll do some screengrabs later but man this one just isn't even worth the ironic effort.
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by Riverchrist » Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:32 pm
The "Jew mouse" thing has bothered me a decent amount over the past week.
I'd say please continue with this thread but I don't have to because you have no choice.
I'd say please continue with this thread but I don't have to because you have no choice.
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by Cone » Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:52 pm
Riverchrist wrote:The "Jew mouse" thing has bothered me a decent amount over the past week.
I'd say please continue with this thread but I don't have to because you have no choice.
Yeah that joke has definitely been the most quintessential Family Guy shock humor attempt so far this season.
And yeah every Monday morning when I go to watch the new episode I've been thinking "Jesus christ I really don't have to do this" because it's just so painful. But I'm a man of my word.
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by Kevin McCallister » Mon Oct 23, 2017 3:26 pm
Very fitting that in order to keep Family Guy fresh they stole the idea from the first season of South Park that aged the worst.
kranky wrote:the monster mash isn't actually halloween specific and is just a monster party that could happen at any time.
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by Cone » Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:23 am
Family Guy Season 16 Episode 05 - Three Directors
Foreword
I really don't have the energy to investigate into the timeline of staff changes in the Family Guy writer's room, but if you watch each season of the show consecutively, there are obvious trends in the lazy ass writing of this dumb shit cartoon. Recently, there has been an increasingly occurring trend of episodes that break the fourth wall with some sort of gimmick to excuse the carelessness of the writers through the guise of parody. This trend is almost certainly a direct result of the critical acclaim of Family Guy's interpretations of the original Star Wars trilogy. The premise of this episode is that a simple Simpson-esque story about Peter losing his job is portrayed in three different ways, in the styles of acclaimed Hollywood auteurs Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Michael Bay.
As I've posted before in this thread, it apparently takes roughly a year for a Family Guy episode to be produced from start to finish, yet multiple episodes are produced at the same time and then shelved to be aired wheneverthefuck. So the timing of this episode's airing seems to be an intentional half-assed attempt to pull a South Park style hot take on the current scandals within Hollywood without actually creating any commentary. Family Guy creator Seth Mcfarlane has recently been noted as a sort of modern "comedian psychic" based on his previous subtle digs at a few of Hollywood's "open secrets" and other controversies, and also having made jokes on Family Guy about both the Boston marathon massacre and natural disasters in the midwest only weeks within their occurrences. Also, he notably missed the flight for one of the 9/11 planes because he was hungover. Somebody really needs to look into this motherfucker.
Chapter I: Quentin Tarantino
Peter arrives at the Pawtucket Brewery, his canonically current place of employment, lookin all like Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs. He immediately murders one of his coworkers in the parking lot without reason. He is then immediately fired for unexplained reasons unrelated to his killing of an innocent man on company property. He returns to his home, is gunned down for some reason, and spends the rest of the act dressed as Ronald McDonald and taking revenge on his ex-boss (Carrie Fisher) in the style of Kill Bill.
Reservoir Peter
Kill Bill Peter
Act II: Wes Anderson
Peter introduces Anderson's film style as being like "if you ate a pot brownie and woke up in a greeting card". There's a lot of symmetrically composed frames and whip pans and jokes about characters using outdated and/or quirky technology. The characters continue to be outspokenly dismissive of any logical gaps in the plot (this is a running joke in Family Guy that seems to be showing up more often in recent seasons as a noticeable crutch for the writers).
Wes Anderson's Griffin house
Part III: Michael Bay
As expected this is just the Family Guy team just taking their impressive production budget and flushing it down the toilet as a gag without having to write any content. They like to do this a lot, mainly with the chicken fights and bullshit like that. This segment takes up the whole 2nd half of the episode's run time. They blow right through the initial prompt of "Peter gets fired" and instead focus on a story about how he has to throw a beer keg into the moon or something. It's like a Armageddon/Transformers parody mix I guess? This one was less of a film parody and just Peter running around as a buff Michael Bay caricature checking off different action movie cliches.
Peter Griffin is a celebrated alcoholic
Freakin' sweet
In a special anthology-style episode, Peter gets fired from his job at the brewery in the signature styles of three famous Hollywood film directors.
Foreword
I really don't have the energy to investigate into the timeline of staff changes in the Family Guy writer's room, but if you watch each season of the show consecutively, there are obvious trends in the lazy ass writing of this dumb shit cartoon. Recently, there has been an increasingly occurring trend of episodes that break the fourth wall with some sort of gimmick to excuse the carelessness of the writers through the guise of parody. This trend is almost certainly a direct result of the critical acclaim of Family Guy's interpretations of the original Star Wars trilogy. The premise of this episode is that a simple Simpson-esque story about Peter losing his job is portrayed in three different ways, in the styles of acclaimed Hollywood auteurs Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Michael Bay.
As I've posted before in this thread, it apparently takes roughly a year for a Family Guy episode to be produced from start to finish, yet multiple episodes are produced at the same time and then shelved to be aired wheneverthefuck. So the timing of this episode's airing seems to be an intentional half-assed attempt to pull a South Park style hot take on the current scandals within Hollywood without actually creating any commentary. Family Guy creator Seth Mcfarlane has recently been noted as a sort of modern "comedian psychic" based on his previous subtle digs at a few of Hollywood's "open secrets" and other controversies, and also having made jokes on Family Guy about both the Boston marathon massacre and natural disasters in the midwest only weeks within their occurrences. Also, he notably missed the flight for one of the 9/11 planes because he was hungover. Somebody really needs to look into this motherfucker.
Chapter I: Quentin Tarantino
Peter arrives at the Pawtucket Brewery, his canonically current place of employment, lookin all like Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs. He immediately murders one of his coworkers in the parking lot without reason. He is then immediately fired for unexplained reasons unrelated to his killing of an innocent man on company property. He returns to his home, is gunned down for some reason, and spends the rest of the act dressed as Ronald McDonald and taking revenge on his ex-boss (Carrie Fisher) in the style of Kill Bill.
Reservoir Peter
Kill Bill Peter
Act II: Wes Anderson
Peter introduces Anderson's film style as being like "if you ate a pot brownie and woke up in a greeting card". There's a lot of symmetrically composed frames and whip pans and jokes about characters using outdated and/or quirky technology. The characters continue to be outspokenly dismissive of any logical gaps in the plot (this is a running joke in Family Guy that seems to be showing up more often in recent seasons as a noticeable crutch for the writers).
Wes Anderson's Griffin house
Part III: Michael Bay
As expected this is just the Family Guy team just taking their impressive production budget and flushing it down the toilet as a gag without having to write any content. They like to do this a lot, mainly with the chicken fights and bullshit like that. This segment takes up the whole 2nd half of the episode's run time. They blow right through the initial prompt of "Peter gets fired" and instead focus on a story about how he has to throw a beer keg into the moon or something. It's like a Armageddon/Transformers parody mix I guess? This one was less of a film parody and just Peter running around as a buff Michael Bay caricature checking off different action movie cliches.
Peter Griffin is a celebrated alcoholic
Freakin' sweet
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by Riverchrist » Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:55 am
Peter arrives at the Pawtucket Brewery, his canonically current place of employment
I'm sure I'll hate myself for asking but didn't he change jobs pretty often in the older seasons? Or is it just a "joke" that he's been fired a bunch of times and still works there?
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by Eyeball Kid » Mon Nov 06, 2017 2:26 pm
How creatively bankrupt must you be to do a Tarantino pastiche at this point in time
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by digital friday » Mon Nov 06, 2017 2:57 pm
I stopped watching this show when there was a joke about Peter having an art show and someone at the show was like "these are photos of naked kids" and Peter says "You know, you're right. I have a problem." It was like a four minute scene and it didn't have a joke and the guys has three kids and it made me want to puke. I might have missed something but I'm sure as shit not going to google it to look it up.
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by Cone » Mon Nov 06, 2017 6:32 pm
Riverchrist wrote:Peter arrives at the Pawtucket Brewery, his canonically current place of employment
I'm sure I'll hate myself for asking but didn't he change jobs pretty often in the older seasons? Or is it just a "joke" that he's been fired a bunch of times and still works there?
Yeah he changed jobs frequently in the early seasons but he’s been a brewery employee consistently for the past like 10 seasons at least even though he often gets fired/quits takes other jobs for the purpose of an episode.
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by mariavesperi » Mon Nov 13, 2017 1:33 am
looking forward to the recap of tonights ep
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by mellowgold » Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:12 am
iconic thread omg
the twitter episode last night was soooo bad and somehow one of the better episodes from this ssn
the twitter episode last night was soooo bad and somehow one of the better episodes from this ssn
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by ASH NERVE » Mon Nov 13, 2017 12:44 pm
catching up on this thread and
is a really good sentence
Fans of the show will recall that Peter and Lois' marriage is built upon an incredibly mutually abusive relationship, both mentally and physically.
is a really good sentence
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