What is your general opinion of Family Guy?

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I recently got Family Guy Season 8 on DVD and this was the first time I'd ever seen any of the episodes on it ever (as far as I'm concerned I'd rather watch FG uncut and uncensored on DVD now than on TV) and I actually enjoyed it, sure there were still some overlong cutaway gags and the such but I still liked the show

However here's the thing, now I've not been on the forums for a long time but I can certainly remember a lot of people here just hating on Family Guy...the question I have is do people here and all around the net still hate the show because I honestly don't think anyone on the net says anything good about it anymore
 
Yeah, but who really cares? You like what you like, I like what I like, and so will other people. People will always hate certain things just because it either really IS bad, or just doesn't appeal to them. No need to make a status update thread about it. ;)
 
I don't have a problem with people hating FG, but seriously be it Herbert or a bad or overlong cutaway gag or Seth McFarlane using the show to air his views, everyone seemed to have a reason to hate the show,
 
Because, they just don't like it. A show is good to Jack while Joe hates it. No big deal. People can't really use the "THEY HATE IT BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE LIKES IT!" argument anymore in the case of this show, having about as many haters as lovers, if not more of the former.
 
Do you guys really think that a group of people got together on a forum or chatroom somewhere and conspired to hate Family Guy in public venues like this just to hate it?

I personally like Family Guy, but I can see why people could hate it, and I can't deny that episodes like Family Gay, The Juice is Loose and Not All Dogs Go to Heaven severely tax my appreciation of the show (especially when certain parties name them as the pinnacle of animated comedy).
 
Well, I don't watch FG much at all. I liked the recent Disneyesque segment - until it used that despicable Walt-was-an-anti-Semite "joke" again.

So yeah, I pretty much hate it. Its qualities can't begin to overcome its flaws.
 
I don't like Family Guy (Brian and Stewie are funny, but everything else about the show feels obnoxious/unfunny/a poor imitation of several other shows), but I don't usually post to FG threads just to complain about it. (Shrug)
 
But that's the thing. People have reasons for not liking Family Guy. Far Fewer people hate it just for the sake of hating it.
 
I may no longer be a fan of Family Guy, but I in no way hate it.

Trust me...there are shows I think blow beyond anything. Family Guy isn't one of them.

To make me despise a show, it has to make a concerted effort to be p*ss-poor awful, and pointless beyond any known means.

Family Guy to me is just another show that appeals to the lowest common denominator..like the majority of shows you'll find on TV. It just appeals to the audience that likes to watch TV shows for a quick laugh. Fine, that's not me anymore, and I seriously don't think it has any replay value. I also feel like I have to dumb myself down to really appreciate it.

Despite all that, I don't hate it.

I assure you....there are really, really, really awful shows out there that I utterly despise.
 
Thread title changed. I don't want to have to go on another thread-closing spree, but I'd REALLY like it if we could avoid phrasing these things in terms of "Things I hate" or "What I hate about X." It sort of starts things off on the wrong foot. To paraphrase Johnny Mercer, wouldn't it be better to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative?

In any case, I've honestly never understood why Family Guy, and Seth McFarlane's work in general, seems to garner such a strong response from so many people, why they seem to feel such passionate love or hate toward it. To me, it's just kind of... there. I tend to enjoy it when I watch it, but I don't go out of my way to catch every new episode or miss it when it's gone. It doesn't tend to be particularly memorable or thought-provoking. At the end of the day, it sort of blends in with the background noise of pop culture.

On the plus side, they keep on cranking out new episodes faster than I care to watch them, meaning that when I AM in the mood for an episode of FG or American Dad or whatever, there's always a new one on Hulu so I never have to watch reruns.
 
I'll watch an episode every few months and be reasonably entertained. Anything more than that is pure overkill for me.

That said, the Disney sequence was absolutely wonderful.
 
Yeah these were not their best episodes including the weed episode. I would never recommend these episodes to anyone wanting to learn more about Family Guy. These episodes were neither funny nor clever and I really hate that certain people (reviewers included) make these seem like they were on par with the older episodes. Family Guy can be funny but when they're up with their heads in.....the clouds it just ends up terrible.
But sometimes it just feels like they're being annoying on purpose kinda like they have the attitude like be careful what you wish for because once we unleash this it won't stop.
 
My general opinion of Family Guy (and all comedy for that matter) would be that after you have seen an episode once or twice it becomes less funny until it eventually becomes unwatchable. I guess I just get tired of comedy skits very easily and then move on elsewhere for entertainment, but if you see the same joke coming over and over it gets redundant.
 
My opinion: it's a show that you just need to turn off your brain to watch, and if it looks like MacFarlane is preaching his views again just turn it off and don't watch it. It can be funny, really funny at times, but you just need to not take it too seriously.
 
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