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You don't have to be right. You just have to have a phone. Loved their little unhappy New York vignettes and the Sonic rampage.
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The_Doctor posted:Rewatched the White Rice episode last night, and christ, that wanders far too close to being out and out racism. The get out of Francine having Asian parents isn’t actually the get out the show thinks it is. I mean, isn't that the "meta" of the episode? As far as I can recall, her show doesn't make it past a single episode because it's offensive garbage. Edit: Re: The Sonic Bullying scenes. Can someone make a gif of them jumping on the car while Francine does the monkey and Jeff eats taters? That was a really great and loopable image
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"I hope you guys like ham sliders" killed me. That was a fun episode that covered a lot of ground.
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my son's rear end on my window, my alien's dick in the gas, and the open road in front of me
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Nichael posted:my son's rear end on my window, my alien's dick in the gas, and the open road in front of me Roger with his dick in the tank while they are driving away looking satisfied cracked me up. That episode was everywhere, but god drat the shots of NYC looked gorgeous. I am a little to into Hayley's New York look.
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"Steve's girlfriend. She's 50, but looks ... 57?" Happy b-day to Wendy School, while I'm at it!
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Milo and POTUS posted:Might be my favorite episode the season It's been a really strong season too. So many people have said it, but how the gently caress does this show stay this consistent 15 years in?
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Well? Does anybody know? People can't even pin down just exactly where or even when simpsons turned bad so it's probably equally a mystery why this is still so fresh.
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Jul 3, 2019 09:08
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Milo and POTUS posted:Well? Does anybody know? The Simpsons got noticeably worse in season 10. American Dad probably got noticeably better in season two or three, never really declined.
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Nichael posted:The Simpsons got noticeably worse in season 10. I dunno I remember there being a stretch of somewhat mediocre episodes that happened after Hayley and Jeff got married(notably Jeff basically isn't in most of them, leading to my theory that they were leftover scripts from earlier seasons that they dug out so they could be lazy), and some of the episodes during the period where Jeff was in space weren't all that great either Also they need to apply the lesson they learned with Hayley to Steve already, that lesson being that dating plots in animated sitcoms get tired and worn out after about 10 to 20 uses*, so after a while you should just have the character get a semi permanent significant other, they did it with Hayley(even if they did loophole it for a while with the whole Jeff In Space arc), and they need to do it with Steve as well *which makes it all the worse that they've done it with Steve somewhere between 40 and 60 times drrockso20 fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Jul 3, 2019 |
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Jul 3, 2019 11:29
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Who. Who has steve dated 40 to 60 times
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Jul 3, 2019 12:06
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Milo and POTUS posted:Who. Who has steve dated 40 to 60 times Snot.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Who. Who has steve dated 40 to 60 times I meant that they've done plots about him trying to get a girlfriend around that many times(and most of which sucked), not that there's a singular person he dated that many times
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I'm really glad that the TBS seasons have refrained from the well of "Steve's dating plots" and that the few we still get have been really good. I'm also happy that the writers have not been gun-shy about writing for Jeff in the past season or so; for the longest time, it felt like they weren't able to fit him into the family dynamic ever since the marriage.
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Jul 3, 2019 16:15
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There's something so wonderful about watching the whole family trash a Sonic.
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Stan... I've been meaning to tell you; you can see the outline of your penis through your sweatpants.
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I don't think there's that many steve dating plots, especially post debbie. The only person steve dates isThe_Doctor posted:Snot.
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TheFattestPat posted:There's something so wonderful about watching the whole family trash a Sonic. The shot where the music cuts off and a smiling Francine is doing the Monkey while the rest of the family trashes a car is pure art. "Being mean is fun!"
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Milo and POTUS posted:I don't think there's that many steve dating plots, especially post debbie. The only person steve dates is I'm counting the times he's trying to get someone to date him and fails as well
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Jul 4, 2019 06:32
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Milo and POTUS posted:Well? Does anybody know? I dunno, but it helps that they have a really talented cast, and the writers allow each character to be terrible.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I don't think there's that many steve dating plots, especially post debbie. The only person steve dates is To be fair, he also dated Stan. He just didn't know it. I love that episode because it gave us this: 
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Milo and POTUS posted:Well? Does anybody know? It's a few things, I think. - Roger is one of the best TV characters ever. Capable of doing anything, even his "boring" characters are hilarious because they mock the sadness of suburban American life. - All the characters are well-developed. I think I heard somewhere that this show picked up a bunch of writers from the cancellation of another animated show, like Futurama or Family Guy, and it just retained them forever. The writers seem to actually remember nuances to the characters that they can play with. Nothing in the Simpsons has stuck the last 18 years; it's like most of the writers for the Simpsons stopped watching the Simpsons in Season 12 like everyone else. - Economy of storytelling. This show gets right to it in Act 1, taking the harder path of making jokes out of a naturally evolving story rather than making Act 1 a separate story. Like, the best part of this episode was their lives in New York. If the Simpsons were telling the same story, the episode would have ended with the family pacifying a mob by magically knowing Stomp because it would have spent Act 1 dicking around on a random sidenote like "What if Homer owned a cell phone kiosk at the mall?"
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PostNouveau posted:It's a few things, I think. American Dad also has a tendency to have little tangent/side characters that never appear again, but shine like a diamond when they appear. Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQwSCM0C-54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0wpvRCdir0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7nKxPi5pEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYWOaMgEwo There's also a tendency towards surrealism, to the point where if I didn't know how much work it took to make an animated show, would be some trolls shitposting in television form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bwOYHtFAGs Stuff like that happened in this season, like the "dogfather" joke. That entire episode is completely nonsensical and it's great. There's more, but you get my point.
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Jul 4, 2019 20:02
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YOU ARE MY QUEEN, REBECCA is the single greatest one scene character line
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Buckle calling into the radio show was great.
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Party Plane Jones posted:YOU ARE MY QUEEN, REBECCA Agreed. I'm so glad this thread is going strong and there's still such love for this show. Latest episode was probably my favourite of the season so far, I had no idea where it was going and loved all the twists. Hard to pick a particular scene I liked the most but Steve's dry conversation with his 50 year-old partner would be up there.
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I haven't seen an episode of Family Guy for, probably, the better part of a decade. Are the main characters still so hateful towards one another?
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Mordja posted:I haven't seen an episode of Family Guy for, probably, the better part of a decade. Are the main characters still so hateful towards one another? Depends on the episode, but yes. Meh gets the brunt of it, though.
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Mordja posted:I haven't seen an episode of Family Guy for, probably, the better part of a decade. Are the main characters still so hateful towards one another? IMHO this has been radically toned down over the last two seasons, and I suspect it has something to do with a batch of new writers.
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The_Doctor posted:Last time I checked in with FG it was still doing borderline /not even borderline racist/misogynistic/homophobic/transphobic jokes. And that was maybe 5 years ago? MacFarlane has said they are dialing back the gay jokes.
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Mister Kingdom posted:MacFarlane has said they are dialing back the gay jokes. I thought that was Family Guy's best feature!?
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Considering Disney now owns them, I figure Family Guy is either going to be quietly canceled as soon as possible(cause they've made way too many direct attacks at both Disney as a company, and Walt Disney as a person for them to be comfortable supporting it as an ongoing production), or they'll sell it off to someone else as soon as possible
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Mordja posted:I haven't seen an episode of Family Guy for, probably, the better part of a decade. Are the main characters still so hateful towards one another? They are but the last couple of seasons have had some good laughs. Its not fine art but it feels like a small upswing for whatever reason.
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