Family Guy - "Love, Blactually" - Talkback [9/28]

Yeah. I really liked that.

The Pinocchio nose bit was taken from a joke on 'Airplane!' It happened when Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nelson) was telling the passangers that everything was okay.

I thought it was interesting that Stewie mentioned that few adults on the show actually listen to him while he's ignored by the main cast for the most part. (Brian being the exception there.)

It's true that they should have at least mentioned something about Cleveland Jr. It was assumed that Loretta had custody of him so why wasn't she with her in the hotel? Did she leave him by himself? That's weird.

It was a bit disappointing that Chris and Meg were absent but hopefully we'll see more of them this season. As for Herbert, well they've been doing a better job of not putting him in every ep. After all, he wasn't in the past few episodes last season. They might lay off on him now that Chris discovered he was a pedophile.

About Brian being an atheist, I think that's a continuity error. After all, it was established that he believed in God in 'If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'.'

In all honesty though, I think this episode was a little better than the last few. It helps that they didn't have too many extended cutaways.
 
Well that bullfrog scene only went on for two minutes and I thought it was quite funny. For this gag to be the longest one ever it has to be at least 6 minutes long but I'll wait to see how it is. I also heard it got huge laughs from the people at Comic Con.
 
Well, the episode did establish that Cleveland will never get back together with Loretta, thus eliminating the question of where she is once the new show starts. Although I have a feeling there'll be a followup episode in TCS showing Loretta's found a new man.
 
Actually, I don't believe that it was specifically stated in that episode that Brian "believed" in God. Acknowledging the Ten Commandmants or the Bible doesn't mean one believes in God. It means they are familiar with the subject.

Didn't find the episode to be funny. Most jokes fell flat, and I'm tired of Brian in love scenarios. FG hasn't been funny for some time now. I'm still going to watch, but my expectations haved been really lowered for the last 2-3 seasons.
 
Being a die-hard liberal myself I find it refreshing to hear some left wing views on certain subjects and mockery of conservative views...but Family Guy has become over kill on the subject almost fueling the hate that religious right wing crazy people have for even the moderate of liberals. Brian as an atheist is not a big deal to me but 1) men say things to get a girl to like them 2) not all atheists are that anti-god and it's just running on stereotypes. A lot of this ep was just all in bad taist.

Then going to watch American Dad I enjoyed that ep more then FG. It's hard to me belive that Seth really writes anything for FG anymore, seeing how AD has more thought put into it then FG has had in a long time. Sure he does the voices and has to aproove of this stuff, but there is a quality in the 1st 3 seasons that are gone totally in the 6th (4th and 5th were good but trickling down as he was working on AD). Plus I think Fox encourages a lot of this, they could step up and put in some quality control (outside of cencoring the sex, swears, and violance) but if what's the kids like and it sells DVDs then what's the point.
 
I'm a liberal myself, but this show's liberalism is starting to get on my nerves.

Also, how can anyone be an atheist on this show when God and Jesus have already made themselves present on more than one occasion? Or is it just the "believers" who notice them?

This was a boring episode. They were going to show this back in March, but then decided to take a six week break, only for the returning episodes to be worse. Never did I buy into the excuse that the writers' strike screwed them up. Family Guy is suffering, because people are making it okay to write CRAP.

Brian's constant failures with dating had some potential (except I can't figure out why he doesn't just find a DOG to go out with, if it's the humans that are letting him down). But in what was probably a stepping stone for the upcoming Cleveland Show, almost every joke dropped like dead flies. Somehow, FG is no good at making 4th wall jokes. There were only one or two cutaways that were actually funny. (Is it wrong to laugh when the word "Jew" is used as an insult? :o)

Regardless, this is going to be another long and terrible season. :sad:
 
Well, in next week's episode
Peter finds Jesus working in a record store and tries to convince him to go public
, so that should settle any and all arguments on this topic then.
 
I'm not one of those "Family Guy sucks" people, and I try not to nitpick, but one FG shtick that I'd really like to see laid to rest is the recurring motif of Brian dating human women. Whenever I read a synopsis that starts with "Brian dates a woman who...", I groan and roll my eyes. I realize it's just a cartoon, but come on. I guess I can see why Brian doesn't seem to be interested in forging relationships with other dogs (the exception being "Screwed the Pooch"), since most of the other animals on FG don't possess his intelligence (except for the occasional cutaway), but you really have to wonder about these ladies; why are so many human women willing to date a dog? I guess the joke is supposed to be that Brian always strikes out because he's too liberal or too sensitive, not because he's a flipping dog. I can carry a suspension of disbelief, but only so far; if Brian's going to continually attempt to mate with humans, then he should stop being considered a pet on the show, just a single guy living in the Griffins' house. Giving Brian a human son and an ex-lover while he still eats from the garbage is just plain weird, even by animation standards. JMPO, though.
 
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