A Thought About Family Guy's Cutaways

The one character I could do with less of is Herbert. Him and the gay guy (who's also been a shark and bee) are grossly overused. You can tell they're aiming the writing at frat boys who love cheap repetition.
 
Well, sort of. I'd like to think that "Cartoon Wars" disliked Family Guy's method of writing entirely, that cutaways, in and of themselves, are bad. And that's not the case for me- I say, if the cutaways relate to what's going on and are funny, I don't have a big problem with them.
 
Other good cutaways:
* Peter singing "Ding, Fries are Done" while working at a Burger King.
* The Griffins riding with the Cliff Hangers Mountain Climber.
 
I always here people whining about the cutaways in Family Guy. Sometimes they do it too often, but the thing is the cutaways is what makes Family Guy "Family Guy". They don't all make me laugh, since I don't get all the jokes and references, but those that do get I laugh out loud, and the ones I don't still make me laugh because what occurs within it.
If people have a problem want to watch Family Guy without the cutaways they should watch American Dad.
 
I don't have a problem with the cutaways on Family Guy. Many of them are stretched out to eat up time when there isn't much of a plot. I don't even mind the ones that are completely unconnected to the episode's story. But my feeling is that, irrelevant or not, there should at least be a joke. Some of FG's cutaways are just the writers waxing nostalgic over some old commercial or TV show. The gag with Peter playing the word game with another guy from The Electric Company was funny (IMO) because there was a joke (Peter couldn't keep up with the momentum and when the other guy spelled "fat", Peter thought the guy was insulting him and he attacked him), but the gag in a later episode where a news report spontaneously breaks into a reenactment of the opening title sequence for The Electric Company was not funny because there was no joke beyond the novelty of "Remember this?"

And I have to say that I too was not impressed by the scene where Stewie dances with Gene Kelly. Aside from having no bearing on the plot whatsoever, all the writers did was show the famous scene from the movie Anchors Aweigh and cut-and-pasted Stewie over Jerry Mouse. The FG team gets no points for originality or for creativity; all they did was show a scene that someone else made famous and stuck one of their own characters in it. Stewie didn't do anything different, he just did everything that Jerry did. how was this in any way creative or funny?
 
You know what else I dislike about Family Guy cutaways? The ones that don't even involve the Griffins. The ones about celebrities. I'm watching "Prick Your Ears Up" right now and there's a lot of them in this episode. Mel Gibson apologizing to the Jews, Houdini not wanting to go to a party, Britney Spears and her dietician, etc.
 
I hate those to along with the mentioned cavemen couple arguement cutaway from "Jungle Love" and the Promnight Dumpster Baby from "Airport '07". The latter made me wish it would end. The celebrity ones give no creative thought save for "LOL! CELEBRITY FTW!" and the dragged out ones nowadays feature none of the Griffins or other FG characters. Even the ones that do weren't funny in the first place, like Stewie taking a flight to Hollywood just to hit Will Ferrell.

I like my cutaways to be quick and random. Which is probably I liked the Sneakers O'Toole cutaway. It was short, random, and was quick to the point.
 
The perfect example of a bad cutaway is the Uncle Sam nipple one.

There was nothing clever or even remotely funny about it and makes no sense in the slightest.
 
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