Family Guy - "Family Gay" - Talkback [3/8]

Which is big problem for a show like this or Simpsons, American Dad, Futurama, etc. The animation is not the hook of these shows, The Critic even made a joke about it in one episode. As for this episode. It had its moments but very mediocre overall, almost everything after the horse just fell flat.
 
And once again it's shown how far outside the mainstream rabroad is. Tonight's American Dad was okay. It had a few good laughs, but Family Guy was a lot funnier, and I know I'm not alone in thinking so. I've never met anybody in real life who likes American Dad better than Family Guy. I've met people who like American Dad, but it's generally agreed that Family Guy is a much better show.
 
Yea I remember having a conversation with a group of people at my old job and not one of them liked American Dad. In fact they out right hated the show while Family Guy was like gospel.
 
This.

I don't know anyone in real life that likes American Dad much if at all. The friends that I know who watch it simply check it out because they leave the TV on after Family Guy. On the other hand most of my friends like Family Guy. Some of them love it.

In the real world there is no contest. Family Guy is the preferred show.
 
The thing about that is most people watch Family Guy to experience cheap laughs and random references. Most of the audience isn't concerned with continuity or strong character developments. They want to see Peter or Stewie create a wacky scheme and then compare it to old movies or shows.

It's only us who analyze the show and realize its faults. That's not to say you shouldn't enjoy it, or prefer American Dad, it just won't hold water outside Toon Zone because the public doesn't care enough about those aspects.
 
When did anyone in this thread assert that people in the "mainstream" do care about what we're discussing about, because I must have overlooked that.

Furthermore, what's the point of discussing these shows online at all if we have to use the opinions of Joe Sixpack as a guideline of how we can and can't talk about them? There might as well not be such a thing as internet fandoms, or TOON Zone FORUMS for that matter. We might as well just log off forever and not discuss these shows ever again, because the same "mainstream" that absorbs mass media almost unthinkingly doesn't analyze shows as much as we do.

And if you don't happen to have a Nielsen ratings box, then your opinion is pretty much as irrelevant to these networks as the ones you so vehemently deride.
 
Annoying Comment Guy: "Ha ha ha! That's a thing from the 80's and I'm familiar with it!"

I never got why people find these kinds of jokes funny, and I actually grew up in the 80's. Where's the humor in referncing something just for the sake of referencing it!
 
That was a great episode. The horse was sure freaky everytime with it not blinking.

I enjoyed how Peter got rid of the horse and how Mort returned it back to him in the end. "Take your f&$%ing horse back!." :D
 
I'm not one of the "Family Guy sucks" people, but I also don't get the appeal of the 'pop-culture references made just for the same of making a pop-culture reference' gags. I have no problem with pop-culture jokes when there's an actual joke attached to them, but when a show just basically says, "Hey, look. We're referencing another TV show, movie or video game. Go laugh.", that's when it just comes as fodder to me.
 
They bank on a lot of the FG audience to just be children of the 70s, 80s and 90s and just be nostalgic and say, "dude, I thought I was the only one that remembered this stuff." That's basically it. I was born in 78 so I am a kid of the 80s and 90s and while it's cool that there are other guys that grew up aware of these things it still comes off lazy at times.
 
in their defense, that was possibly the single most disgusting thing I've ever seen on FG, and that's saying something. It is funny, but extremely disgusting.
 
Man, I must've either zoned out during that horse gag or blocked it from my memory. What exactly happened again? Like, what was the context setting up the joke?
 
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