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I've thoroughly enjoyed basically every episode of Family Guy this season. A few years ago and for a long time before that I couldn't stand watching it anymore. I wanna know what happened. It's like The Simpsons is entirely a bunch of people who only want the show's name on their resume but Family Guy managed to get people who actually wanted it to be good again.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I've thoroughly enjoyed basically every episode of Family Guy this season. A few years ago and for a long time before that I couldn't stand watching it anymore. I wanna know what happened. It's like The Simpsons is entirely a bunch of people who only want the show's name on their resume but Family Guy managed to get people who actually wanted it to be good again. Family Guys a good enough background watch these days, but every single episode they HAVE to put in a pronoun joke and it ruins it for me.
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May 4, 2022 07:42
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Annabel Pee posted:Family Guys a good enough background watch these days, but every single episode they HAVE to put in a pronoun joke and it ruins it for me. I haven't heard any this season  , they also have pretty much stopped the over-the-top graphic violence that they were inserting into every episode for a while.
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May 4, 2022 07:45
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Das Boo posted:I went to look up something on Kelsey Grammer the other night and I was kinda horrified at his personal history. His father and little sister were murdered in separate instances (the latter famously, by a spree killer). It kinda... like, I know he must be okay with playing Bob because he played loving Sweeney Todd, but I would not be comfortable handing him murder plots as a Simpsons writer. And then there's his adult life. Been discussed in the Frasier thread, and basically if you combine Frasier with Always Sunny you get Kelsey Grammar's actual reality.
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May 4, 2022 08:37
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Mellow_ posted:It was when they did the Principal Skinner isn't the real Principal Skinner episode. this one is redeemed by being recycled Into the first half of Mad Men
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May 4, 2022 11:27
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I haven't heard any this season Maybe it was the season before, I remember at least three episodes in a row having pronoun/woke people offended by everything type jokes.
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May 4, 2022 15:11
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Seems to have done wonders for his state of mind. Don't know how accurate it was but I remember reading a thing from someone who was on the set of Frasier talking about how between takes he would basically just shut down and not do anything or talk to anyone until it was time to do another scene.
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May 4, 2022 18:24
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War and Pieces posted:this one is redeemed by being recycled Into the first half of Mad Men It's an old soap opera plot and Mad Men deliberately played with those tropes.
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May 4, 2022 18:39
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Pete snitching on Don to the partners and them being like "What do I loving care he makes us a lot of money?" was great
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May 4, 2022 18:44
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muscles like this! posted:Don't know how accurate it was but I remember reading a thing from someone who was on the set of Frasier talking about how between takes he would basically just shut down and not do anything or talk to anyone until it was time to do another scene. The episode where Frasier's sick and gets hosed up on prescription medicine certainly has a... reality to it.
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May 5, 2022 03:00
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I've thoroughly enjoyed basically every episode of Family Guy this season. A few years ago and for a long time before that I couldn't stand watching it anymore. I wanna know what happened. It's like The Simpsons is entirely a bunch of people who only want the show's name on their resume but Family Guy managed to get people who actually wanted it to be good again. Same. I haven't hated it enough to stop watching it, but I've hated it enough to hate-watch it and now I'm back to regular-watching it. SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I haven't heard any this season Speaking of over-the-top graphic violence, the Three Directors episode was hilarious.
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May 5, 2022 03:43
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I've thoroughly enjoyed basically every episode of Family Guy this season. A few years ago and for a long time before that I couldn't stand watching it anymore. I wanna know what happened. It's like The Simpsons is entirely a bunch of people who only want the show's name on their resume but Family Guy managed to get people who actually wanted it to be good again. i haven't seen as many episodes as you but i have come across a bunch of random episodes of the newer seasons, and i too have found it shockingly enjoyable. maybe not "great", but seems they're miles ahead of how they used to be. before i would avoid FG just as much as new simpsons, but i could happily watch the former now
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gently caress me https://twitter.com/pgjackson/status/1526993446833205251
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May 19, 2022 20:35
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Lol is this real? It’s hurting my brain and I refuse to click the link
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May 19, 2022 20:54
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Last Chance posted:Lol is this real? It’s hurting my brain and I refuse to click the link quote:Long's not lying. Although he doesn't appear in the clip above, Reich (who served as U.S. Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton) does show up in the episode as himself to help explain the history of American middle-class decline. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1526995675195445248 I wish I could find the video on Twitter so I can embed it. It suuuuuuuuuucks
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May 19, 2022 21:01
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Mr Interweb posted:i haven't seen as many episodes as you but i have come across a bunch of random episodes of the newer seasons, and i too have found it shockingly enjoyable. maybe not "great", but seems they're miles ahead of how they used to be. before i would avoid FG just as much as new simpsons, but i could happily watch the former now this season in particular has been pretty good, yeah
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May 19, 2022 21:12
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gently caress I watched and I’m glad the clip was only a minute or so. Real insightful stuff
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May 19, 2022 21:13
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When I think "Homer's income and job security isn't realistic enough," I also think "What would Hugh Jackman have to say about this?" I sleep better knowing the show runners got my back. (I sure hope they mean the actor so my poo poo post works)
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May 19, 2022 23:49
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Hugh Jassman
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"Wait a minute, Wolverine can't fly!" "I'm not Wolverine. I'm Hugh Jackman."
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May 20, 2022 00:15
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al jean must pay for his crimes
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May 20, 2022 00:40
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Empty Sandwich posted:ok. ok. I have an idea. I shouldn't have initially presented this as a wild pitch rather than stuff the writer spelled out in an interview, but yeah
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May 20, 2022 01:14
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the lowest point of the Simpsons thread predicted this!
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May 20, 2022 01:14
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Kind of a cop out ending to this. Talking about how there are all sorts of problems and then just go "become a firefighter" like that's a solution.
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May 23, 2022 01:29
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ngl I kinda love this style and they should let this dude do a whole episode https://twitter.com/mrtimlong/status/1527352479523885063?s=21&t=O_6AS_JhVQXz5-MgNqkBPQ
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May 25, 2022 01:06
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i think homer gets stupider every year
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May 25, 2022 02:00
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I saw a tweet where the animator filmed his girlfriend's reaction to the couch gag airing on TV. I imagine they shut the episode off as soon as the couch gag ended.
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May 25, 2022 02:04
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I saw the newest episode and thought it wasn’t bad. They employed a lot of minor characters from the church which I appreciated and even had a few good laughs. The musical number got pretty dark but didn’t feel as overwritten as their jokes usually do. My caveat is that my roommate and I have been watching a few episodes every night after work and I decided to play the latest one since we’re very deep into season 17 (a god awful season. I remember vividly that this was where I originally stopped and could no longer continue watching). So my expectations were low. Thanks for listening to my story.
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May 25, 2022 02:09
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Watching it now, and the song is so dire.
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May 25, 2022 02:34
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Wait the episode just ended after a ten minute song. What the gently caress was this episode. Just nothing there.
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May 25, 2022 02:41
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runnypoops posted:i think homer gets stupider every year thats not a question professor
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Ralph Hurley posted:ngl I kinda love this style and they should let this dude do a whole episode I enjoy custom couch gags animated in different styles by professionals, but they always end up being the only memorable thing of said episode in a desperate bid to stay relevant by getting the Internet to talk about it. The rest of the episode is just that, an episode. It’s sad, really, because would it really kill them to do a full episode or two or three in different art styles to change things up? I mean, look at this. It took this person four years off and on to solo animate a three minute meme in different cartoon styles, and it is loving dope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjU_D-j7Qso
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Earlier in the thread I pitched a spinoff show that would essentially just be Simpsons but animated by animation legends and up and comers. What's the point of having Disney's unlimited vault of money if they're not going to do anything with it? It would at least be a more believable of winning those awards that they give those lovely Maggie or Lisa Meets (current pop star) shorts to.
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Ralph Hurley posted:ngl I kinda love this style and they should let this dude do a whole episode I'm not a huge fan of Bart and Millhouse's clothes, but the art style is pretty great.  runnypoops posted:i think homer gets stupider every year Today I saw a season 7 Office episode where it's heavily implied that Kevin doesn't know alphabetical order. Why do dumb characters always get dumber to an insanely unrealistic degree? I can't tell if this is happening with Family Guy or not because Peter has been VERY loving dumb for a very long time. You Are A Elf posted:I enjoy custom couch gags animated in different styles by professionals, but they always end up being the only memorable thing of said episode in a desperate bid to stay relevant by getting the Internet to talk about it. The rest of the episode is just that, an episode. Oh man, as insane and awful as John K is, a Simpsons episode in his style would have been pretty fun.
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YeahTubaMike posted:Today I saw a season 7 Office episode where it's heavily implied that Kevin doesn't know alphabetical order. Why do dumb characters always get dumber to an insanely unrealistic degree? I can't tell if this is happening with Family Guy or not because Peter has been VERY loving dumb for a very long time. Because it’s easier to write and good enough for a lot of the audience. It’s hard to develop interesting characters or story arcs, like Luanne going from enrolling in community college and learning how to run a household to being a barely functioning redneck wife.
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Kevin wasn't even stupid in the earliest seasons of the Office, Michael just assumed he was. There's that episode where he's secretly a poker champion that plays off of it. Then they just made him actually stupid.
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May 25, 2022 05:03
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Mantis42 posted:Kevin wasn't even stupid in the earliest seasons of the Office, Michael just assumed he was. There's that episode where he's secretly a poker champion that plays off of it. Then they just made him actually stupid. There's a lot of problems with writers basically not getting the original characterisation and just going off second and third-hand impressions. Like Meme Kirk vs Actual Kirk where the former became canon to the reboot movies.
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May 25, 2022 07:37
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Spent too long thinking about how they might have rebooted Kirk van Houten for the Simpsons movie
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There's a lot of problems with writers basically not getting the original characterisation and just going off second and third-hand impressions. Like Meme Kirk vs Actual Kirk where the former became canon to the reboot movies. TOS establishes that Kirk used to be a brash arrogant slut. Reboots got him right.
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Endless Trash posted:TOS establishes that Kirk used to be a brash arrogant slut. Reboots got him right. No, TOS establishes that Kirk used to be an absolute nerd in his Academy days. Picard was the one who got slapped for two-timing dates and got stabbed through the heart in a bar fight.
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