Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-12343352-20170716212429/@comment-28396600-20170811024618

I just have to get this out and this the thread to do it *sighs* I can't believe I'm even talking about such a disgrace to television.........modern Family Guy. As you can tell, I am a Family Guy fan (I even have Brian as my avatar to prove it) but, I only enjoy the first 4 seasons of the show. After season 5, the once hilarious show went to complete and utter shit. Here are the 5 problems I have with the show in recent years that I'd like to adress:

-The constant attempts to shock and offend the viewers aren't the least bit creative or original. They had a little bit of offensive stuff here and there in the older seasons (Hitler as a late night TV host, Peter's infamous I Need a Jew song, a few Jesus jokes here and there, etc.) but they used that kind of content in moderation. I actually thought it was funny when they would occasionally branch out and do something offensive, because it had that

"I can't believe they went there!" feel to it. But now, they do offensive so often that it feels repetive and boring. Instead of laughing out of pure shock like I did with the old seasons, I just roll my eyes at the 50th suicide and rape jokes that's basically the writer saying,

"Can you believe we went there? Even though we've made fun of the same offensive topics over 100 fucking times!". Also, some of these jokes are absolutely horrible, sometimes borderline evil! How do the writers even SAY some of this stuff with a clear conscience? Making fun of the handicapped, suicide jokes, domestic violence jokes, school shooting jokes, making light of Autism, treating women like objects, freaking abortion jokes. Yeah, all of those extremely taboo topics have been mocked on Family Guy. Not once, not twice, but as many times as the human mind could process! Some of this stuff makes the writers seem like heartless jerks. For example, The Terri Schiavo skit. That one was the first one in the series' entire run to offend me to the point of making my blood boil! I think it's highly disrespectful to make fun of a man's wife dying from a stroke. If I was Mr. Schiavo and I saw that on TV, I would have been furious! Is it really considered "funny" to mock the death of a real person on primetime TV of all things! I mean it's one thing to see crap like that on those Internet trolling sites, but this isn't even fucking cable we're talking about here. That Terri Schiavo joke alone made me lose the little bit of respect I still had for Seth MacFarlane. Seriously dude, that's as low as you can go!

-The constant reference to obscure 70s and 80s stuff gets very tedious at times. I understand that the writers are all "80s kids" who grew up watching Thundercats, He-Man, Star Trek, and all the other stuff they constantly reference, but they could AT LEAST branch out and parody a couple of more recent shows, right!? Considering 90s nostalgia has been the big thing for years, I'm surprised MacFarlane hasn't made the switch to the current retro decade everybody's talking about. If I was him, I'd jump on that 90s bandwagon as soon as possible. If Family Guy ever did that, at this rate:we'd be onto 00s nostalgia by then. Plenty of shows try to widen their range with retro references. Take one of my favorite shows, Robot Chicken for example. Robot Chicken is one of the best shows on television in my opinion. The show used to be obsessed with the 80s, but once the 90s started coming back:Seth Green started doing 90s skits as soon as possible. Since he knows that his audience mostly consists of younger people, you'll get a bunch of Rugrats, Hey Arnold, and Homestar Runner skits. Considering I was born in the late 90s, I think that's a breath of fresh air for a once 80s centric show!

-Conway freaking Twitty! The cutaways used to be funny, but the whole Conway Twitty thing just shows how lazy the writers really are. They throw in a WHOLE live action video of some old country singer (who the majority of Family Guy viewers probably don't even know) right in the middle of a cartoon. The first time they didn't it wasn't funny, but now they made it a RUNNING GAG!? I was dumbfounded when I saw that "joke" the FIRST time, but then some jackass writer decided to make it a recurring thing. Seriously, at least pretend you care about your own work, writers!?

-The constant Meg bashing is fucking stupid! I've never had a problem with Meg, I actually kinda liked her in the earlier seasons (I'm a huge fan of That 70s Show, so the fact that she's voiced by Mila Kunis was probably part of the reason why). But anyway, now a good decent, teenage girl character has become a punching bag for no apparent reason. Meg has barely done anything bad over the entirety of the series, so why do they treat her like dirt? I just don't get it! If the writers hate her stinking guts, why did they even MAKE the character in the first place! If I hated one of my own characters, I wouldn't have even put him/her IN the show. Also a little side note:her real name is MEGATRON!? Really.....you've gotta be kidding me! I always assumed it was Megan, but noooo, they had to throw in another half-assed Transformers reference for no apparent reason. Yeah, like they think we'll laugh at the fact that your character has the same name as a Transformer. Really, your better than that Family Guy!

-The long winded, preachy atheist rants by Brian have been becoming a reccuring feature as of the past few seasons. Because I'm a Christian, I've never really liked the religious jokes on Family Guy. Whenever I watched an otherwise good episode, I had a tendency to fast forward through those parts because of how obnoxious I found them to be. Some shows at least attempt to do religious comedy in a respectful way. Again, let's use Robot Chicken as an example! The religious jokes on that show are just silly. Their simply just goofing around with Jesus rather than actually making fun of him. Even the Everybody Hates Christ one didn't bother me because I saw it as a comment modern culture rather than an insult towards Jesus. They were basically making fun of how networks will use historical events as marketing ploys. Considering the real world TV show Of Kings and Prophets was advertized as "The Bible meets Game of Thrones", I wouldn't put it past certain channels to do pull a stunt like that. Family Guy on the other hand, is outright blasphemous! There's no other way to describe it! Where cartoons like Robot Chicken simply take Biblical stories and exaggerate them in silly ways, Family Guy spreads borderline hate speech about religion. They get SO brutal with their depictions of Jesus that one episode showed him calling his dad a "dick". Seriously MacFarlane, you know that you just bashed the entirety of the Holy Trinity, right!? Don't even get me started on that stupid "Star Trek reunion" bullshit episode. They advertized the episode as "the entire cast of Star Trek:The Next Generation will be reunited in Family Guy". I'm not a Trekkie myself, but I'm sure many Star Trek fans we're hyped about the episode. Every clip shown in the advertizement was pretty much Star Trek related but when the episode aired......it was actually about the joys of being an atheist! Many people, Trekkies and non-Trekkies alike found that to be outright ridiculous. I mean, that is practically the Urban Dictionary definition of trolling right there. We go into the episode expecting it to be some exciting parody of a classic Star Trek show, but we end up with some stupid episode that spends almost the entire time bashing religion. The "crossover" only lasted a few minutes and contained another stupid "cool hwhip" joke about the name Will Wheaton. That's it.....nothing to see here, now onto a bunch of atheist rants that we never even mentioned in the commercials for this "crossover" episode. Yeah, that was one of the dumbest tricks I've ever seen a TV network pull in my life, and it wasn't even April Fool's Day for crying out loud.