Family Guy - "Baby Not On Board" - Talkback [11/2]

Huh... why would Stewie say Meg's name first. I thought he would say Brain first. I don't know, I just thought that was werid.

Ground zero. That was quite the explanation Brain.
 
I need to try that technique on my mother so she can stop asking me to help her with the Comcast remote.



No that was a good joke. I can name a few of the cutaways more pointless than that.
 
"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles". Specifically, the scene where John Candy's character, Del, stands up for himself after being chewed out by Steve Martin's character, Neal.
 
"Bordered" on disturbing? It was flat-out revolting. Just like EVERY joke on this witless compendium of pilferred pop-culture references.

Back To The Future reference? NO JOKE, just a straight-out recreation of the exact scene!!! :mad:
 
Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The exact same piece of music, too.

I clapped when I heard the shower curtain rings bit...but then they lost me with the 'Peter doing Del Griffith's "I like me" speech' bit. It's not too big a stretch to say that Peter did not earn that. At all.

And, since no one else mentioned it..."Operation Dumbo Sex". W...T...F?!
 
Ah.

Yet another reason this show stinks...if you haven't seen the 70's/80's TV show/movie that being copy --- uh, "parodied" -- then there IS NO JOKE, just an odd non-sequitir that'll leave anyone born after 1990 (i.e. 90% of the show's audience) going "Huh?"

And 9/11 jokes are NEVER FUNNY. :mad:
 
True, but the same can be said about the Stewie and Gene Kelly dance number in "Road to Rupert"; there was no joke there, just the exact same scene, only with Stewie cut and pastsed over Jerry Mouse.
 
That doesn't make any sense, man. Seriously. Anyone born in the late `80s and early `90s grew up with stuff from the `70s and `80s. Movies and TV shows from those decades were on syndication, basic cable, and premium channels all the time. So, a better statement would be "anyone born after 1995."
 
"Did I tell you I'm getting a spin-off?" :D

And I don't like the word rubbish either.

Anyway I really liked this one! Simple plot with a lot of great jokes like the Directv scenes, Peter in space, all the scenes with Stewie at home and only a few bad cutaways like the Aquaman thing. The singing sequence was cool but went on just a tad bit too long. Overall not that many complaints, great episode!
 
The Fozzie Bear joke was actually a reference to a scene in the Muppet Movie.

In the original version he's at a bar telling jokes to some bikers. He says "I once knew a biker who was SOOOO fat."

A fat biker stands up, and says "How fat was he?!", threatening Fozzie with a broken beer bottle.
 
I hate when Family Guy does a straight re-enactment of a scene, with no joke... Like that Fozzie Bear scene. Substituting "arab" for "sailor" isn't clever, or funny, at all. The original scene in the Muppet Movie always makes me laugh out loud, but here I just rolled my eyes at the lazy 'writing'. When a so-called 'parody' is less funny than its source material, there's clearly something wrong.

I also really didn't like the repeat of Chris's conversation with H. Jon Benjamin. Mr. Benjamin is hilarious in all the other stuff I've seen him in, so why did they give him a boring, one-note character who's always shown in the same excruciatingly dull scenes?

And that song in the car... Ugh. I don't see how that's supposed to be funny enough to sustain itself for two minutes.
 
It's just there to S-T-R-E-T-C-H 12 minutes' worth of material to a 22-minute programming block. How easy to just say "Have the Griffin clan sing an entire song" to kill a few minutes. No undue effort in the writing room is required, just...have 'em sing.
 
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