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drrockso20 posted:I think what makes it work is that there's no designated punching bag among the Smith's, pretty much every member is just as likely to be dealing out the abuse as they are to be receiving it It definitely works better as a result. I haven't watched Family Guy since season 2 or 3 but even by then making GBS threads on Meg was pretty tiresome. I think the a great example of this is the episode where the family roasts Roger and then each other, pretty much spells it out while still being loving hilarious: "Stan you have the undeserved ego of Jeremy Piven, the annoying self-righteousness of Sean Penn, and the unbearable hypocrisy of Rush Limbaugh. What I'm trying to say is, you're almost as bad a person as Rachel Ray." Levin fucked around with this message at 05:56 on May 7, 2024 |
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Pretty sure Klaus is the closest thing to a punching bag, but it helps that Klaus is a bad person with no sense of loyalty to anyone or anything. Meg's punching bag status came from a writing staff that didn't really know how to deal with female characters, let alone a teenage one, and since she was characterized as being overweight/ugly, they felt that was license to make them the bottom rung of the social order. It could have been a commentary ON how society treats people like her, but it mostly ends up being misogynistic reinforcement since Family Guy's talented writers left to do American Dad anyway.
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Klaus did eventually become a better character
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Mx. posted:Klaus did eventually become a better character Epic fail!!
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May 7, 2024 06:34
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Help me Maury, my daughter's a bitch!
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Yeah the Meg stuff got ludicrously mean-spirited, they've toned it down a lot fortunately https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OykYb05EuY
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Nichael posted:They aren't mean spirited toward each other, just the rest of the world. It makes for more consistent writing. Roger this cage is supposed to be for the entire family but you’re always the one using it.
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Mx. posted:Klaus did eventually become a better character HUMANS ARE TALKING!
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Klaus has always been the best character. It's just that he got better
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Milo and POTUS posted:Klaus has always been the best character. But Francine's always been around
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Neeksy posted:Pretty sure Klaus is the closest thing to a punching bag, but it helps that Klaus is a bad person with no sense of loyalty to anyone or anything. It helps that 1) like you said Klaus is more often than not an awful person, and 2) Klaus might be the most frequent victim for abuse in the family(especially in the early seasons where they had problems figuring out what to do with him) but he also gets plenty of chances to dole it out as well
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May 8, 2024 22:08
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He got to charge Steve, for one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1czNnym2MgE
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FireWorksWell posted:He got to charge Steve, for one He absolutely schooled Hayley in one and one, and that hurts cause she's a real baller. Not somebody who would forget to check the ball on game point.
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May 8, 2024 22:38
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Klaus in the melon and scallop soup was super gross, and funny
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Nobody is safe from AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g39q9pKPu-k
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Mister Kingdom posted:Nobody is safe from AI I know AI is poo poo but come on, Hayley's shiny forehead isn't even covered up.
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That's because AI is really bad at being given specific commands on details without the piece further devolving into mush as it has to re-iterate over and over.
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An absolute dogshit Patrick Stewart
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I would have prompted Steve as just Scott Grimes I can't see him as anyone else. Interesting enough to see where the AI took it, and where they decided to prompt certain things. Maybe they just had trouble getting the AI to do certain things.
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AI slop deserves to get DADDED! No one is safe.
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I have no bad sides. My front is bad, though.
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Starting The Long Bomb. So many perfect moments. Season 12 really kicks things into a higher gear.
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Sir, do you have a daughter? I used to...
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Ha! I was only pretending to be a genius.
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Neeksy posted:Pretty sure Klaus is the closest thing to a punching bag, but it helps that Klaus is a bad person with no sense of loyalty to anyone or anything. Klaus went from Brian rip-off complete with trying to gently caress the main guys wife to just a weird loser to an almost pitch-perfect parody of an extremely specific kind of person (Florida douche) that does not show up in american pop-culture very often but also almost everyone in America has met. But as a fish with a german accent. And it loving works and makes his suffering hilarious Meg is just a normal girl who's like slightly overweight, I guess. But not enough that its in any way noticeable in a loving cartoon show. They're just bullying a normal girl basically.
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Started season one on a whim and while it's far from perfect there's still gems to be found early on: Also, I forgot the opening intro gag started off different.
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Season 1 is fine if for no other reason than the Ollie North song is amazing
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FlamingLiberal posted:Season 1 is fine if for no other reason than the Ollie North song is amazing But that's season 3.
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This show has been on too long, I really thought that was Season 1, maybe Season 2
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Klaus went from Brian rip-off
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I think he's literally a phd in psychology even back then. That's why they turned him into a fish
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Things really changed for Klaus when the writers realized that they didn't have to have him trapped in his bowl the whole time and could have him out and about in adventures
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Yeah, he just has to be touching water.
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Is there a writer or writing team that is prolific when it comes to American Dad episodes like Swartzwelder was for The Simpsons?
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He talks how? And apparently, he doesn't even have to be in water. Just, like, touching it? That's not how fish work
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Davros1 posted:Things really changed for Klaus when the writers realized that they didn't have to have him trapped in his bowl the whole time and could have him out and about in adventures They definitely wrote themselves into a corner early by having two core cast members who couldn't leave the house and realized it pretty quickly. On my current rewatch I noticed that they originally acknowledged people noticing Roger's weird proportions/grey skin the first two or three times he put on a costume, but it normalized to "Nobody notices or cares as long as he's in a costume" super quickly. Now I wish I had paid attention to how soon after that they were able to get to "Klaus can drag himself around in a tiny dish of water without issue, it's fine." ...now I'm thinking about how it's super important that nobody finds out that Roger is an alien, but the talking fish can go out in public and interact with people regularly without incident. Levin posted:Is there a writer or writing team that is prolific when it comes to American Dad episodes like Swartzwelder was for The Simpsons? Doesn't seem like it...Looking at the IMDB credits and no one name really stands out. It looks like the most "Written By" credits anybody has is 20, which both Joe Chandler and Nic Wegener have reached. But they've both got 50+ "Staff Writer/Story Editor/Executive Story Editor" credits, and 100+ "Supervising Producer/Co-Executive Producer/Executive Producer" credits. I don't think the show has had a Schwartzwelder-style guy who was cranking out scripts in solitude that rarely needed significant rewrites or staff input. JethroMcB fucked around with this message at 20:42 on May 9, 2024 |
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Steve I forget how exactly are you related to Klaus?
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For a bar in an attic that you have to walk through a residential house to get to you have an impressive amount of customers!
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