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Mx. posted:it's so loving good, it just goes absolutely full on into any joke and doesn't back off and it's hilarious Yeah it can make pretty much anything funny, even stuff I normally wouldn't. It'd be hard to explain to someone why Roger cracking his knuckles and saying "I'm gonna rape him this time" is funny to someone who doesn't watch the show. limp_cheese posted:I would argue that started happening S3E1 with the Steve clones that Stan and Francine raised separately. After that poo poo got weird and the show was better for it. 3E1 was the Vacation Goo episode, Son of Stan is season six. FireWorksWell fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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Tom Tucker posted:Yeah everyone counts out American Dad as just Family Guy light but it’s actually some sort of absurdist self-aware magical-realism exploration of our culture that really doesn’t have any parallels. The show creatively just took off Season 4+ and never looked back A friend of mine told me that something was terrible "like that American Dad poo poo" and I had to ask her if she meant Family Guy and I just got a "meh, all the same" kind of shrug. Madness! If she didn't keep baking awesome desserts to bring over we'd be having sterner words. (I mean, I watch FG too but they are leagues apart).
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My usual reaction to family guy is "was this stereotype actually a real one, and was it enough to hang a whole joke off of?"
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Yeah, unfortunately some people will just never give it a real chance just because of Family Guy or hating Seth McFarlane in general. I've never seen this show get as mean spirited as some of the stuff I've seen on FG (I haven't seen an episode in a very long time, I've heard it's gotten better but I'm not gonna watch for myself) Like I remember FG being pretty violent and seemingly loathing its cast with what they get subjected to, but AD mostly uses that to emphasize a punchline rather than having it be the whole joke. Brawnfire posted:My usual reaction to family guy is "was this stereotype actually a real one, and was it enough to hang a whole joke off of?" Yeah I disliked when they'd just make stuff up. Even in AD'S early seasons there's stuff like "its called the little death because in the middle ages only midgets could have orgasms. Read the Bible."
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I think the creative energy that made early Family Guy interesting went into American Dad after its first cancellation.
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Neeksy posted:I think the creative energy that made early Family Guy interesting went into American Dad after its first cancellation. I think AD got a few Futurama writers as well.
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muscles like this! posted:There's a Tik Tok trend right now of people using Steve's lines from the clown college episode. Yeah spill it. My favorite roger costume related bit is people who inexplicably look like roger. And that whole clown trial in the whiplash episode is incredible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISTHsBvX5g Space Cadet Omoly posted:My favorite variation on this gag is when Roger is the one surprised or annoyed when a character does (or doesn't) end up being him. Oh You butt. I shoulda known it was gonna get brought up
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I really enjoy Roger as Francine’s Dad’s Cat. Him and Haley in that episode are just great “so… what do you get out of this?”
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The only hard part is chopping up my dumps into cat-sized pieces.
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Watched "The Vacation Goo" tonight, drat that's some good stuff right there. The last half of season 2 has some bangers, they really nailed a lot of what makes the show good pretty early on imo
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The early season 1 has some bits I love to pieces ("Your very manhood is at stake! Your very manhood is at stake! Your very manhood is at sta-" "That's it, no more carpooling.") but it really starts to come into its own with Stan of Arabia onward.
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DAMMIT FRANKIE! YOU JUST LET SOME NUT COME IN AND OPEN MY PLYWOOD DOOR
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Alxprit posted:What I appreciate is them inventing characters for jokes that never have to come back, rather than relying solely on pop culture for their abuse. The aforementioned clip is a good example of that too - this sadistic employee person never reappears, and why should he? He did his job. Brawnfire's post got me thinking about another great instance of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ8RuVI35lk Let me handle this, Gaaary!
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FireWorksWell posted:The early season 1 has some bits I love to pieces ("Your very manhood is at stake! Your very manhood is at stake! Your very manhood is at sta-" "That's it, no more carpooling.") but it really starts to come into its own with Stan of Arabia onward. I'm of this mind. The show is honestly fairly watchable far earlier than many assume. The beginning of the Golden Turd saga was one of the first things that made me go "oh this show is neat" when it was first airing on TV.
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Chris Knight posted:Watched "The Vacation Goo" tonight, drat that's some good stuff right there. The last half of season 2 has some bangers, they really nailed a lot of what makes the show good pretty early on imo XAAANADUUUUUUUUU CAN'T CRRYYYY ON CUE NOW I AM HERE IN XANADUUUUU
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FireWorksWell posted:Yeah it can make pretty much anything funny, even stuff I normally wouldn't. It'd be hard to explain to someone why Roger cracking his knuckles and saying "I'm gonna rape him this time" is funny to someone who doesn't watch the show. Aha, thanks, I was curious which episode this was. The numbering for this show can be... weird/inconsistent.
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They pioneered an incredible anti-piracy practice! Now they'll have no choice but to watch every single episode to find which one they want!
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Milo and POTUS posted:They pioneered an incredible anti-piracy practice! Now they'll have no choice but to watch every single episode to find which one they want! Unironically correct, the hosed up seasons listings make it so hard to find episodes on pirate sites that I pay for American Dad
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Mx. posted:Unironically correct, the hosed up seasons listings make it so hard to find episodes on pirate sites that I pay for American Dad You pay to pirate American Dad? 
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While that is an option no I pay to watch it legitimately instead of pirating it...
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Mx. posted:While that is an option no I pay to watch it legitimately instead of pirating it... Check your private messages for insightful commentary from me about cartoons.
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Small White Dragon posted:Aha, thanks, I was curious which episode this was. The numbering for this show can be... weird/inconsistent. It made putting together a Plex playlist of the Christmas episodes very hard for the early ones.
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Speaking of B-plots, the one where Roger is a flower was on TBS last night. "That's a tip for everyone at home. No one ever shoots the flower."
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I think once they dialed back on Roger being a murderous psychopath via his personas they really hit the mark. poo poo like the potted plant and the census episode where he plays up being an anxious wreck who punches himself in the crotch.
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The great part is that Roger can just be anywhere the show goes to add another level to it. Like he’s the owner of the skate rink killing rats in the roller derby episode, the concrete salesman in the time traveling hotel, or the cat I mentioned before. He doesn’t have to be the focused and it’s super easy to just write him in anywhere he needs to be.
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Tom Tucker posted:The great part is that Roger can just be anywhere the show goes to add another level to it. Like he’s the owner of the skate rink killing rats in the roller derby episode, the concrete salesman in the time traveling hotel, or the cat I mentioned before. He doesn’t have to be the focused and it’s super easy to just write him in anywhere he needs to be. It'll never go stale for me. The cat bit where he goes from bipedal and smoking a cigarette to pawing at a can like a normal cat when the kitchen door opens always gets me. They haven't leaned as hard on "people who might be Roger" and I appreciate that. Wilbur.....Kentucky....
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Brawnfire posted:RABBITAGE That's right, Stan. I found a way.
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FireWorksWell posted:They haven't leaned as hard on "people who might be Roger" and I appreciate that. Wiz Khalifa 
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FireWorksWell posted:It'll never go stale for me. He was sucking a beer can too
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Milo and POTUS posted:He was sucking a beer can too Guess I forgot that but that's great
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Everyone of you can go to hell, because I'm Kevin Bacon!
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Roger's nesting doll of personas in the episode Roots was a great bit, turning out that he is both twin brother and mother of a guy that is in a competing asphalt business to a persona that is actually pretending to be said twin and mother.
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lol that they used the entire two minutes of the score https://i.imgur.com/2ASvIF8.gifv https://i.imgur.com/5LOk5f5.gifv
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Oh, it's from something else? Always liked it.
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The presence of the Tearjerker clip just raises more questions!
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Siddown, ya yutz!
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FireWorksWell posted:Oh, it's from something else? Always liked it. It's the MASH score, specifically "Suicide is Painless".
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Thank you!
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