Jokes in Family Guy You Don't Get

Pretty much. I remember Courtney Love and her band Hole getting more noticed in the time after Kurt Cobain's
death, so that Family Guy gag hit it on the nose for me.
 
I often felt a lot of the humor in Family Guy falls into the Gen-X trappings that got the show recognized in the first place. Most people in their 30's and 40's would know these things in a heartbeat, leaving the younger audience in the dust and being clueless unless they don't ask about it such as here.
 
Here's one...in the ep where Chris is the victim of a "Freshman Hunt", there's a slow-motion scene of him getting paddled by Mayor West with some 80's song playing on the soundtrack that's obviously directly rotoscoped from something...but what? :confused:
 
Originally Posted by ABrown
As I've said before, I never understood why Lois or Peter are always telling Chris to go to his room. Usually they tell him to go to his room when he hasn't even done ANYTHING wrong. What am I not getting here???



Not exactly. Chris has referenced the evil monkey without being told to go to his room, and there have been "go to your room" jokes which don't involve the evil monkey at all. Plus, I keep mentioning this but no one ever acknowledges it, in some of the earlier episodes, Peter and/or Lois have told Meg to go to her room too. (To name just one example: in "Death is a 'B'-Word", Peter thinks he's dying and tells his kids to look back and remember all of his accomplishments. Meg asks "What accomplishments?", to which Peter responds by telling Meg "Go to your room.")

I'm continually amazed by the amount of confusion this particular gag has generated; so nobody here has ever been sent to their room by their parents as a kid for some pointless reason or seemingly no reason? That's just generic family stuff, like being told to "Eat your greens".




The joke there is that both Peter and Lee Majors are sexist pigs.
 
"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles", only in that movie's case, it was John Candy and Steve Martin's car going between two semis while driving on the wrong side of the highway. And I thought I identified this for you before.
 
Yep, and the song playing is "No More Mr. Nice Guy" by Alice Cooper(1973), which was the song used in the scene from Dazed And Confused that was parodied in that episode.
 
Ah. And I think the Planes scene you identified for me earlier was Peter reciting a John Candy speech from that film verbatim in a different episode.
 
Guess if I say Stevie Austin, you'll think of only the wrestler by that name rather than the character Lee Majors played on The Six Million Dollar Man (a character which was somewhat parodied on an episode of The Venture Brothers wearing his trademark red jumpsuit). You probably never seen The Fall Guy either.

Okay. Grandpa Max in the first live-action Ben 10 movie. That's Lee Majors.
 
I've actually never seen any of those, sadly. Does that make me a terrible person?

I'm not too sad about not having seen the live action Ben 10 movie tho :p
 
I remeber one where stewie was talking about something he could hear in the attic and it cut to a woman like oh crap oh crap oh crap ohhhh crap.

Another one was when the guy that played the first green goblin came from underneath his bed and was like ya sleep yet and stewie says no. and he says just checkin'.

and another one I remember was when stewie was telling some guy to catch the ball and he did and he grabbed it and the player fall's over trying to catch it.
 
I turned on an episode a few days ago that had Peter listening to the song Surfin' Bird over and over. Stewie and Brian steal the record and destroy it in a slow motion sequence. It was probably refrencing something, but I don't know what.
 
I think the point behind that one was, as Weird Al put it, that William Dafoe is scary enough without the Green Goblin mask on.
 
It's a scene from Office Space(1999). In the film, several co-workers get angered at a copy machine that keeps jamming and just plain doesn't work, and they take it from their workspace and beat it to death with baseball bats, with the same song in the background.
 
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