Family Guy - "Jerome is the New Black" - Talkback [11/22]

I thought the joke would've been a little less tasteless had the angry husband not showed up to beat her. If they had just left it with Quagmire getting offended at Brian's initial comment about her, that wouldn't have been AS bad. Sometimes things are best left as is.
 
Yeah, that was fantastic, wasn't it? Shows the writers are aware of how much of an ass Brian is, something I've suspected for a long time now.

Quagmire is on a freakin' roll this season.
 
I liked this quite a lot. I mean, they still need to up the laugh quantity a little bit, but they're still doing a lot better than they have in the years since season 4. The laughs this episode did have were good, solid laughs and not just little "heh, I guess that's a sort of clever reference" chuckles. I laughed at the Black Jesus thing, the British party (even though it went on too long after the laughs were done), Joe's parrot, and of course Quagmire's epic burn, even though I think Brian's reaction left something to be desired.

The thing with the guy beating Quagmire's sister was really venturing into dangerous territory, and I think it could've been handled a little better, but I couldn't help laughing when they were all yelling at Brian from inside the house.
 
Uh oh. Does that mean I'm not allowed to say that it was funny?

...good! This was all right.

I'm with Speedy on the abuser joke and the gentlemen's club joke was a massive clunker, but overall it decent and I liked that Peter's behavior toward Jerome wasn't too severe. FG can be absurdly over the top sometimes but here it was funny without trying too hard, if that makes any sense. I rather liked the "ghost" costume since obviously we all get the KKK reference, but Peter is naturally either too dumb or too insensitive to understand the problem with it.

As for Quagmire's takedown of Brian, I hate Quagmire but that was dead-on. That was pretty much everything anybody's ever thought about him condensed into one monologue, and it was all true. To a very great extent Brian's supposed maturity is a farce, and it was damn nice to see him preached to instead of doing the preaching for a change.

I missed the talkback, but I was catching up to things on my DVR and I also have to say that the best gag of the season is Peter and "roadhouse!" My goodness, that had me in perpetual laughter.
 
The sub-plot was just great. Quagmire was just awesome. From his beaten sister to telling Brian of (and mocking his liberalism was just the icing on the bloody cake) was fantastic.

I'm sure that would even make anti-Family Guy fans happy.
 
The more I keep sitting on it, the the more I find the bash uncalled for. There were too many things that were brought up that in the bash that are now suppose to be taken into consideration. Brian lets someone else pay for drinks. Quagmire worked in a soup kitchen. Come on.


What buttons? How was Brian supposed to know that the woman was Quagmire's sister, or that Quagmire is the way he is because of his old girlfriend. What really got me was how angry he got for being asked how a plane works. Isn't the idea that even though Brian acts human, he's still a dog and is confused by certain aspects of human life.

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Are you guys talking about when Peter causes Quagmire to lose his job. Because I don't remember Peter making Quagmire pay for anything. Also, Quagmire was still acting like himself while staying there.

I don't know why but it just ticks me off so much. I really want to see some sort of justice done.
 
Well Quagmire did bring that up. He mentioned how yes he's a pervert but he's honest and open about it. And brain hides behind morals and values but that he's pretty much just as bad as Quagmire only while lying to himself that he's a good person.

anime_guru Peter is no longer part black as Nate Griffin is just that a Griffin and Peter is no longer a Griffin. A couple seasons ago Peter learned of his real father, because of this all those Griffins Peter use to bring up, well dispite the fact that they look just like Peter they actually are not blood related.

In a sense it was a massive retcon.
 
As funny as a lot of people think it was, I personally didn't like Quagmire's rant that much.

Yeah, he made a couple valid points, but considering he's a convicted sex offender, a pedophile, a necrophiliac, he's tried to score with Lois as well, he's knocked up countless women, he caused Cleveland's marriage to break.....

He doesn't really have a leg to stand on in his preaching......

and the fact it made Brian actually CRY made it less funny than it was more just hurtful.... and like Naruto D.Luffy previously mentioned, how was Brian to know about Quagmire's sister or his history with Cheryl Tiegs???

Although the "black jesus" gag did make me laugh.​
 
Maybe this is just me, but I really don't find it to be important who's delivering the rant against Brian. Hypocritical of the character or not, it was hilarious. Part of the humor was the surprise of hearing someone like Quagmire say all that, I think.
 
As previously mentioned Quagmire said he has no problem hiding or talking about that unlike Brian.

I don't remember anything about necrophila but Quagmire hasn't done anything pedophilic.

In a past episode he asked Meg if she was 18 but since she said no he just walked away.


He wasn't. Similar situations happen in real life.
 
I liked this a lot more than I expected to. This season continues to be amazing.

And Quagmire's rant about Brian was pitch-perfect.
 
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