Family Guy - "The Former Life of Brian" - Talkback [4/27]

So far, the funniest thing in this whole episode was Brain being a parent.

The Canadian Alcatraz was pretty good. But so far, this episode showed that the characters can hold up the show themselves without the need of cutscenes.
 
Family Guy - "The Former Life of Brian" - Talkback [4/27]

Pretty meh when compared to tonight's Simpsons. The highlights of the episode are the following:

-Mexican funeral
-Dylan beating up the Evil Monkey
-Stewie?s naked tea party
-Escaping from Canadian Alcatraz
 
Writers, it's time to retire the "wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men" joke. You've used a variant of it three times now. It was OK the first time but enough already.
 
Yeah, this one was pretty bad. A couple of chuckles here and there but, for the most part, pretty lame. I too am tired of the "Brian gets it on with human women" plotlines. They just come off as creepy when you remember that he's a dog.
 
I agree, the whole bit on brian gets a bit old sometimes. but seriously? Stewie's gay? haha, i like him better as an infant mad scientist plotting to kill his mother lol.
 
Pretty bad but unfortunately par for the course this season.

The worst part for me was the Monty Python joke. Yeah I know women don't like it, but Peter's comment about the "other 178 hours of Monty Python that isn't really funny or memorable" really pissed me off.

Seriously, Seth? Not only is that factually incorrect (there is little to no unfunny or unmemorable Monty Python, at MOST you could say the 6 episodes without John Cleese), not only have you not even come CLOSE to earning the right to dis Monty Python (take your own advice from the Jimmy Fallon/Carol Burnett joke a couple seasons back), not only do you probably owe an OVERWHELMING majority of your jokes and comedic style to Monty Python, but to make fun of another show for a large chunk of it being unfunny? My god, George Lucas saying Spiderman 3 had "very little story" (credit to GregX) even thinks that's the pot calling the kettle black.
 
Yeah, that actually rubbed me the wrong way, because it wasn't really a joke.

But hey, let's just file that with the other 178 hours of Family Guy that isn't really funny or memorable. :p
 
I really don't get all the complaints about the cutaways. I mean, by now, you know that this is what you're going to get when you watch a Family Guy episode. I really don't understand why people still come into this show expecting it to be anything more than what it's been since day one.



I laughed at it because it's actually true. I remember watching through the entire Monty Python TV series when I was in high school and dreading it because of how much of a chore it was to sit through (the only reason I toughed it out is because I promised a friend that I would). "A hundred and seventy-eight hours of Monty Python that isn't really funny or memorable" sounds just about right to me.

My favorite cutaway of the night was the two foreigners who have been in the U.S. long enough to almost sound American. Whoever wrote that scene really did their research.
 
Well okay, that's your opinion. But there's still something very, very wrong about Family Guy making fun of another show, especially a classic that's probably inspired most of the people on Family Guy's writing staff, for being unfunny and unmemorable for a large portion of it's run.
 
Well, if you were to ask someone what their favorite Python sketches are, you'd probably get: dead parrot, Spam, Ministry of Silly Walks, Spanish Inquisition, lumberjack song, wink wink nudge nudge, and a few others I can't think of. I don't think they're saying 90% of MP is crap.
 
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