Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-12343352-20170716212429/@comment-28396600-20180708063728

This is a message to all the haters of Family Guy,

First things first I would like to say that I used to be a lot like you at one point in my life. There was a time when I outright despised Family Guy. The show's content offended me to an almost personal level and it's overuse of pop cultural references drove me batshit insane. But looking back at those times, I'm starting to think that I was only following the crowd because hating Family Guy seems to be what "all the cool kids are doing" so why not join in. But now that I've watched the entire series (counting all the specials and the direct-to-DVD movie, Stewie Griffin:The Untold Story), I can safely say that I had absolutely no idea how great the show back when I hated on it. I had just seen a few bits and pieces of the show and assumed it was garbage from the small chunks of content I'd seen. But I failed to realize how clever and witty the show actually was. Family Guy is unlike anything on television, that's for damn sure! The sense of humor is diverse and appeals to a wide audience of all ages. I mean, what other TV show goes from to a scene of the entire family projectile vomiting to a lighthearted tribute to Bob Hope and other classic actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Seth and the writers have an incredibly vast pop culture knowledge and aren't afraid to get obscure with the show's parodies. For millennials such as myself you'll get parodies of more recent things like The Avengers and Gamme of Thrones, people in their 40s and 50s can enjoy their parodies of the classic shows of yesteryear such as The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island (Stewie GILLIGAN Griffin, anyone? I see what they did there! lol). Hell, even senior citizens have pop culture jokes they can relate to on Family Guy thanks to Seth MacFarlane's passion for classic movies, music, and radio programs that his parents grew up on. Sure the show's offensive, but that's what gives it it's charm. People who simply see the show as a compilation of offensive filth fail to realize how downright creative some of the show's offensive jokes really are. The show tackles EVERYTHING including (but certainly not limited to) race, religion, politics, suicide, domestic violence, rape, abortion, 9/11, The Holocaust, school shootings, cancer, AIDS, people with disabilities (both mental and physical), drug abuse, drunk driving, O.J. Simpson, terrorism, the Bill Cosby scandal and so on. But that's what gives Family Guy it's charm. No other show in the history of television would have the balls to joke about some of the things that Family Guy puts out every episode. Just because they joke about sensitive subject matter DOES NOT mean that the writers are heartless jerks, it just means that they have a cruder sense of humor than most people. But is that really a bad thing!? It's obvious that the show's jokes are done in a kidding, upbeat way rather than a dark, shallow, grim way. I'm a Christian redneck with Autism who has red hair. Does it offend me when Family Guy makes fun of Christianity, redneck culture, Autistic people, or folks with my hair color? No! I think those jokes are nothing short of funny and refreshing to see I an era where most of the television landscape is politically correct to an almost annoying level. So yeah, Family Guy is what I consider to be the best breath of fresh in the current "dark ages" of modern sitcoms. Not only is the show mindbogglingly un-PC in the best way possible but it also appeals to nerds such as myself with it's constant references to all kinds of obscure pop culture. For example, whenever I'm hanging out with my 30-year-old cousin who loves his He-Man and the Masters of the Universe figures while he's fallen asleep on the couch and I accidentally step on what (to me) is basically just a piece of plastic. I shout,

"Dammit! Teela!". And my almost half asleep cousin says,

"That's not Teela! That's Evil-Lyn!".

Family Guy is a show people like him could appreciate because it is one of the few things in the history of television comedy that actually gives a shit about knowing the difference between Teela and Evil-Lyn.