Family Guy and some social commentary

[Puffi]

What do you think about that TV series Family Guy? I think it's the most shocking piece of television I've ever seen!

I heard so much praise and that they've made many seasons of it and so on, so I thought I'd check it out. I did. And I literally watched it with my mouth open for the first 10 minutes. I'm not kidding. I was literally that shocked. Why? Because it's a comedy show that is in no shape or form funny. At all. Most comedy shows have at least one OK joke in an episode. Not this one. So I want to know if other INTJ's have been shocked by it as well.

If you haven't seen it I really encourage you to! Either you'll like it, or you'll get into a discussion with yourself about the nature of society and how you've managed to disconnect yourself from it so effectively that you can't understand this phenomenon at all.

[Kfbr]

Meh, I like the show most of the time. Anything that makes fun of everyone else is OK in my book

[Rohsiph]

I'll keep it on sometimes when I'm doing something else, but I stopped making a point of focusing on watching it a number of years ago. There are occasionally good jokes, but the problem is they are jokes that really only work once--after you've seen it, it's no longer funny. Unlike, perhaps, Futurama, which has a level of depth where you can pull things out of most episodes even if you've seen it two or three times before.

I generally dislike the kind of person who ranks Family Guy as one of their favorite programs--particularly because a rather vocal population of these types were largely responsible for convincing Cartoon Network to pull the short-lived 12oz. Mouse show about a year ago. 12oz. Mouse, although catering many times too strongly to drug-use/alcohol-consumption humor, built a surreal world that I've yet to see rivaled in its abstract consistency on modern television.

Goddamned Family Guy jerks couldn't keep their mouths shut and let the few of us who saw "OzMo" (as it's endearingly called by its fans) for what it was have our fun. Much rage, there.

[Puffi]

Futurama is very close to the top of my all-time favorite programs for sure. And what did they make that for, barely 5 seasons? Bastards. Well at least we'll get the movies soon!

Family Guy is too arbitrary. I mean I feel like I could write that kind of show. Just make the fat guy say something like "Yeah, just like the time I was a coke bottle and Liza Minelli drank from me." That's equally funny to all the jokes in Family Guy.

At least Futurama has good stuff like:
"You're too picky!"
"Yeah, if you reject every guy with a lizard tongue or a low IQ or an explosive violent temper, of course you're gonna be lonely."

[MichaelH]

Family Guy was funny for the first season or two. Then it became an even shallower caricature of itself. I may have laughed a dozen times while watching all of season three. I never finished season four because it barely got a chuckle. So much of it just didn't make sense, and not in a funny way. (Like the Asian reporter being kicked out of a ritzy hotel for being Asian...Asian businesspeople would be one of the hotel's major client bases! It just didn't work.)

I'll second the vote for futurama. I've watched the entire series at least four times. Few cartoons hold up under that kind of repeat viewing.

[brewmaster]

Futurama is coming back in Jan or Feb or something like that.

Family Guy is pretty random, and the jokes are only funny the first time around as mentioned (if at all). Sometimes they say things that are moderately funny, but in general it has become tired. It's really rare for me to laugh out loud at anything, especially TV shows, and FG only did it once. It was when they all drank the epikak and there was a scene of vomiting. Not sure why, but that one got me.

[blueback]

Well, I enjoy the hell out of Family Guy. It's one of the most absurd comedy shows I've ever seen and I think that's what makes it funny. Sometimes I don't want to be bothered with depth or a moral lesson. I just want to see someone do or say something that is so innocently backwards it's hilarious. Futurama is great too, but it's formulaic. It does the same thing every other TV show does with the lessons and such. Family Guy takes those typical plots, drops in a retard, a string quartet, and ends it by making fun of Meg for being ugly, AGAIN.

There are so many TV shows where they pretend to make fun of a character but in the end everyone loves everyone else. Family Guy sets you up for that resolution and then leaves you hanging by making fun of the character (or idea or situation) even more.

Plus, they make fun of EVERYONE.

[niffer]

I prefer moronic SP-style humour to intellectual wit by far. I don't want to have to disengage myself from the moment to find something hilariously funny! To me, part of the humour resides in the timing of the moment! Family Guy isn't my favourite show, but it's just so wrong! And idiotic!

I love it!

[mind_wander]

The only thing, I dislike about Family Guy is the those small commercial cut scene within Family Guy. Even the actors and actress voices, commented its sure is a waste of space and it can be used more efficiently.

[Agogo]

I like family guy but I think any social point it was trying to make was taken out of the show years ago. Now it's just about the jokes.

[Firelie]

Family Guy is alright. I used to be in love with it, but that only lasted until I'd seen all of the episodes. Now I don't really care for watching the reruns, but I do watch the new episodes even though they aren't quite as interesting as they used to be.

If you're looking for absurdity and utter wrongness, I'd say Robot Chicken has to be my new favorite in that department.

Futurama has the ability to keep me watching every night, even though I've seen every episode ever created by now... I'm actually thinking about buying that series (which is a big deal for me, cuz I don't really like buying DVDs and CDs, so if I buy it, it has to pretty much be full of awesome)

[lowtech redneck]

the problem is they are jokes that really only work once--after you've seen it, it's no longer funny.

Try watching it while stoned-it makes all the difference.

[cielo market]

The problem with Family Guy is that you can pretty much guess how every joke is going to end. "Oh this is worse than the time I..." "This is nothing like the time I..." A running gag can only work for so long. I used to like Family Guy when it first came out a couple years back. After they came back from cancellation, the humor seemed pretty desperate.

Try watching it while stoned-it makes all the difference.
That's probably the only way it's funny lol.

[BloozeGit]

I'm a big South Park fan and I find Simpsons enjoyable as well, but Family Guy to me is the most unfunny comedy series ever. On the other hand, if not for them, South Park wouldn't have made that episode that took a piss on them :laugh:

Try watching it while stoned-it makes all the difference.

Even the evening news would be funny! Well actually, there's already some funny stuff that's happening on the news...

[Myrak]

Family Guy was absolute gold in the first 3 seasons IMO. I bought the DVDs of these seasons, something which I rarely do nowadays with the advent of downloadable TV.

Anything after that, barring the PTV episode in season 4, is just a desperate grab at humour. The show just keeps going downhill, the latest season is SO bad. After watching the 8 (?) episodes so far, I think I chuckled about 3 times throughout. Compared to any episode in the first three seasons where it's consistently funny the whole way through the episode and they still had some wittiness to them.

I'm finding American Dad to be slightly better than Family Guy, which isn't phenomenal but its watchable. South Park has been consistently good, as has Futurama (bought all the boxsets of this too). The Simpsons got shit in season 10 and has gone downhill ever since. And I agree with Firelie, if you want dark and absurd humour, Robot Chicken is the way to go.

[Rohsiph]

Try watching it while stoned-it makes all the difference.

Try watching it sober--you might see it for what it really is.

[Wildflower]

What do you think about that TV series Family Guy? I think it's the most shocking piece of television I've ever seen!

I heard so much praise and that they've made many seasons of it and so on, so I thought I'd check it out. I did. And I literally watched it with my mouth open for the first 10 minutes. I'm not kidding. I was literally that shocked. Why? Because it's a comedy show that is in no shape or form funny. At all. Most comedy shows have at least one OK joke in an episode. Not this one. So I want to know if other INTJ's have been shocked by it as well.

If you haven't seen it I really encourage you to! Either you'll like it, or you'll get into a discussion with yourself about the nature of society and how you've managed to disconnect yourself from it so effectively that you can't understand this phenomenon at all.

I am INFP but I found it tasteless and boring myself...and I like some South Park and love King of the Hill. King of the Hill went to the pits this season though. What formerly was a masterwork of human nature has become trite and predictable.

I have never been able to get into the Simpsons or American Dad. There's not too much on TV worth seeing anymore.