Does Family Guy Still Deserve The Hate? 

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Family Guy as a show maybe got declined over the years in terms of quality, but the amount of Internet memes and the clip compilations on RU-vid really keep the show's legacy alive.

I think it's less hate and more like they don't care similar to The Simpsons or Spongebob. Shows have gone so long to the point it's declared to be *on a decline* after the 'golden era' that the veteran fans either stop actively talking about it or it's just white noise to the casual viewers even when a remotely decent episode aired.

Fox shows owe Adult Swim a tremendous debt. Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, King of the Hill, all amazing shows that brought in new generations of viewers who otherwise would have missed out on the original airings.

let's be fair family guy now isn't as bad as it was in like the early to mid 2010's so yeah i don't actually think it deserves to be really hated anymore nowadays

This epsiode was ok. It was strange that there was 0 mention of Lois' sister Carol. If she got a new sibling you would think she would show up or get referenced. Also, there was a major missed opportunity in the Titanic Joke. When Brain and Stewie were on the boat I wish another Brain, Stewie, and Chris were in the background because they time-traveled to the Titanic in Chris, Brian, and Stewie's Excellent Adventure. *Continuity error:* Lois says she had a dream where Chris worked at the brewery and said that was crazy. He worked at the brewery in Trading Places.

Recent Family Guy episodes, especially this season, never fail to surprise me with how they keep making these *MONUMENTAL* upticks in quality. Although there are still a few duds, this season alone has given us plenty of banger episodes, inlcuding wholesome ones like this. This season's "Bend or Blockbuster", especially comes to mind as one of their more wholesome episodes, given just how uncharacteristically _nice_ the family acted toward each other for once. It was just so sweet to see The Griffins all function as a team for once and have the kids all say nice things about Peter toward the end. If you liked "Adoptation", I would also highly reccomend "Bend or Blockbuster" simply for the episode's wholesome aspect, alone..

Family Guy is a show that honestly works better as a skit show nowadays imo.

have noticed the last few seasons being much better, there was even a string of positive meg-focused plot lines where she was supported instead of abused. really like the improvements. 👍

The fact that they didn't pull a "status quo is God" at the end and not get rid of Tatum might mean the writers are finally learning something. Until I saw the Chris Rock joke.

Nice to see that someone is actually still talking about Family Guy. It's kinda funny and sad at the same time that it went from being one of the most popular and beloved cartoons of all time to being extremely hated by almost everyone to being so irrelevant that barely anybody talks about it or gives it any kind of attention.

This is why shows need to end before they get bad. Shows like Spongebob, Family Guy, and The Simpsons have gotten bad due to greedy corporations keeping these shows alive for money

Actually there is another episode from this season called "White Meg Can't Jump " it's slightly mean spirited towards Meg but in a good way somehow. And the episode ends with get this Meg have a happy ending, like no joke she wins in the end.

When a show oversaturates unfunny gross out humor, inconsistent about developing it’s characters, and makes stupid plots about herpes and pregnant toddler, it deserves it reputation of declining in quality and being a shitty show.

i mean, after the Meg goes to University episode, they kinda started going the right way... but too little too late, same with the Simpsons, they can't undo the damage

Ls Mark really loves Brian Griffin for some reason

I actually think the episodes have been improving lately. I don't find myself skipping as many as I used to.

I have missed so much alpha jay videos cause of school and i regret it cause this video wae great and had some great points honestly. Episodes like this are what i wanna see from modern FG cudos to you jay!

Take a shot for how many times Jay mentions Velma

Also when it comes to a show like Velma i would rather have cigarette ash injected in my veins then watch a show like Velma.

I still think family guy as a whole is kind of a "whatever" show but I appreciate your acknowledgement and understanding of how previous seasons lead people like me to feel that way. I've seen other analyses of the series that tried to convince me that "actually, the show has always been good" which instantly made me not as receptive to their points. I'm much more open to the idea that perhaps the show is getting better from the way you laid out your argument.

this episode, strangely enough, had a very similar plot to a simpsons episode that aired a few months back. that episode saw abe dating a woman with an adopted son, who homer becomes jealous of. i feel like that episode did more interesting things with that concept than the family guy episode. for starters, calvin, the kid from the simpsons episode, has a much more unique personality, and we actually get to see him interact with homer. homer gets jealous of calvin specifically because of how abe treats him, much like lois and carter with tatum. however, the simpsons episode has a scene where homer sees how abe treats calvin, and in turn shows calvin firsthand how abe treats him. this leads calvin to want homer to improve his relationship with abe, because despite their arguing throughout the episode, he grows to want homer to be happy. i think the biggest problem with the family guy episode is that tatum is a complete non-character. she only exists to make lois jealous, and her only personality trait is that she's a generic child. compare that to calvin, who's big thing was that he enjoyed taxidermy, which plays into that episode's plot. back to tatum, we never see her voice an opinion on lois being jealous of her, or observing how carter treats lois compared to her. and that bit at the end is probably the only time we see the two of them actually conversing. and yes, i know that these are two different shows that are trying to do two different things. but i've believed for a while that while simpsons is the best it's been in quite some time, family guy still has potential to improve. its worst days are long behind it, but it feels like it's been stagnating for the last decade or so, not getting any better or worse. the cutaway is no longer the show's default joke, which now seems to be "dry, witless observation of whatever harmless minor aspect of society is mildly bothering the writers this week." my point is, family guy wasn't always like this, so it doesn't have to stay like this.

i wish ads/sponsors werent in the middle of the videos and just have them at the beginning. or at least ahve them in a time line. its very annoying to have to stop what im doing to skip the sponsor noone care about or would ever use.

It’s funny bc I think the past three seasons have been their best seasons !! I think a lot of people just get nostalgic for old seasons, not bc they were actually better but because they miss how they felt being that young and watching the show. If that makes sense

Family Guy should get renamed to "Family Man"

0:56 They borrowed that from the Simpsons and Family Guy has been doing that since the early years. They call it the first act miss lead. In the Art of Family Guy book they said they think of the funny idea first then think "how do we build up to that". In some episodes, it works well. One example of an episode doing this well is Turban Cowboy Peter kept skydiving and got impaled on a skyscraper. He then meets a Muslim person in the hospital and becomes friends with him. It might be a little crazy to start with Peter in the hospital.

I'm glad that you did a video about a recent episode because I think there is still effort but in, but not a lot that's in caliber that it was originally because it is probably hard todo now. But even if you watch the episodes I can say I believe there is still effort put in at least over the course of the season(at least joke wise) I think they have been more transitioning into deeper drama that goes to a pessimistic comedy level(that at least makes me laugh, compared to the simpsons). But also in the episode Peter points out the baby gorilla that can't stop sneezing, I find a little funny, and heartwarming, that I'm curious on your opinion

Great video Alpha Jay! Family Guy was the best show, so many great episodes ❤

"BRIAN LOOK OUT!" Lives in my head rent free.

haven't yet watched the video, but i can say that i've been watching the whole ass series since mid january and what i found was interesting. of course the show started out great, then in the middle of its run it dipped below the mariana trench, and after a while actually became kind of okay. it's not what it was in 2000, but it's far from what it was in 2008. even if the show is a meme at this point, it alright, but same beer more or less. tl;dr what a well-timed upload i just finished yesterday what the f-

I never watched Family Guy before

I feel pretty indifferent when it comes to family guy even though I feel it’s getting better over time like the owl house it got cut before it’s time in contrast to something like SpongeBob that is basically a corporate corpse to just make Nickelodeon money 💰 when I go to the zoo I’ve always gone to zoo I’ve loved seeing the pandas 🐼 as they are my favorite kind of bear to see how they are.

It’s not hated enough, the “comedy” became mean and gross, it’s obvious that no one who works on it cares, it’s mostly only good for a few clips here and there to be posted online. Honestly one of my least favorite adult animated shows

There was one episode I saw recently that had such a good story that it had no cutaways. I forgot what it was but I remember it was really funny.

I still like Family Guy, idc what anyone says.

I don't watch family guy anymore but the way I see it 1 good episode doesn't mean that the series is improving just that it accidentally did things right and yes those times it happens it deserves praise but only the episode and not the series as a whole. I see things like the saying "Once an accident, twice a coincidence, three times a pattern" so now if multiple episodes in a season are good then the show is improving and the series itself should be praised for it.

The show is beloved from the first 5 seasons but it got a lot of hate for it's seasonal rot especially from season 12. The show isn't that terrible anymore so it doesn't deserve as much backlash as before since the show has improved from it's dark age

Here's the thing, the reason I would be more inclined to say yes, just like I would Modern Spongebob is because at this point it doesn't really matter if the show is good or has produced a good episode when it's past the point of an active discussion. Hardly anybody goes out of their way to review or talk about the show anymore, and even if you can find good episodes it's buried in a messy pile that I don't think people want to spend time waiting for an episode to air or finding an episode that would be good, when they could just watch more engaging shows. And that seems harsh to be dunking on the show's quality, but there is such a thing as too late. Which is the case for Family Guy and Spongebob, while they aren't the hatestains they once were, they also came too late that their engagement with people has left actively. When the creator isn't actively involved with the show and just does voice over, that should be a clear sign. And in Spongebob's case, whenever I do hear laughs or discussions about the show its often references of the show's humor in its glory days. As a side note, I'm really not a fan of how people still tight panties about a character or action have being mean spirited (like slapstick) when I thought we've grown beyond whining about something being mean. Don't get me wrong, there is such a thing as being mean in a bad way, but there's also being good in a bad way too. And too often do I see people go back to review older shows and characters or even current and use "mean spirited bad" and feels as if characters or shows can't be mean anymore or a character can't have active flaws, their flaws have to be passive like "they lack focus" to be considered a tolerable flaw. Which to me seems a little regressive. Like I said, if you want to use the argument "it's how they are written" the same excuse applies to anything you write, it's all about execution. And me personally, I miss when characters were flawed or had more ridged exteriors, now it feels like characters have to feel passive and samey. Especially if they are female. The issue with Family Guy's brand of "mean" humor is the show doesn't really do it very well, the joke is that 'they are mean" with not really commentary, slapstick or jokes in there. They kind of just tell the same jokes with the characters, like Brian using women for sex or being a liberal douche, while also being a Know-nothing Know it all. or Lois having Stewie's old gag of hating her family but done worse because it just makes Lois less appealing as a character. And how Bonnie's only joke is that she hates Joe, which is her only personality, yes, it's mean spirited, but her issues is how one note it is and makes Bonnie unlikable as a result. The show doesn't know how to write unlikable characters well or even characters with flaws, that's always been the issue post revival. That and the mean humor often clashes with their lowbrow gags and repetitive jokes..

I love family guy more& more as the years go by .every episode makes me laugh & feel good for a lil bit 😊

They need to do more of the adventure/ time travel type episodes that they used to have like with Brian and Stewie for example. Those were some of my favorites .

I disagree... to a degree. Usually with the new new Family Guy there's just disinterest, which is understandable since it's bland as hell cutaway gag after cutaway gag tripe. When people actually hate on Family Guy though it's usually the episodes or moments that rightfully earned it, which even if years old now are still terrible today.

I wish people would talk more about American Dad! 🌚 It’s miles better.

I’ve been watching some newer family guy and I’ve noticed two big things. 1. There are waaaaaay too many incest jokes and plots. It’s like every episode they talk about fucking each other and it’s disgusting, not funny 2. Someone obviously has a gore fetish. The blood moments are so over the top and it doesn’t add any comedic value and happens way too often

People keep saying that it's improved recently, but at this point, it's too late for me. Nothing will ever top the first six seasons.

How family guy has been going. I'm stick of the love hate relationship Peter and Lois go through. The unbelievable hate Meg gets. And the Emmy/Oscar references, change the show then you'll get it. All they steal from the Simpsons, and still nothing.

I think shows like the Family Guy, Simpsons, and such would be more fresh if the characters age. Old Peter, mid thirties Chris, ect ect. Let the characters grow up with the audience.

Honestly, I don't find Family Guy funny anymore, but the late and post-2010s episodes amuse me. I find them entertaining and and the characters are endearing to me again, a far cry when the series was at its low point.

We got terrible Brian episodes after they decided to bring him back to life

this is a dark theory but I remember having a family guy DVD. I watched one of the deleted scenes from the Fat Guy Strangler episode where it was revealed that Lois had a sister with dwarfism called Kate who lived in the basement given how Carter revealed that Babs tried to killed Lois by putting her in oven as well that three of their kids died I think that Kate is one of Lois's dead siblings.

I like the older episodes more, Season 8 and the recent episodes are hit and miss. Even though I like plot driven shows more, even I like shows that are more comedy based(although I do think there are times that Family Guy goes too far).

Even though the hate for family guy is gone, there's still that feeling that the show is just tired. If anything, besides that the only problem the show has is the character inconsistencies.

"Good" or not, I just don't like Family Guy, and I think it has had an overall negative influence on adult animation ("Family Guy clone" is a generally accurate description of a lot of series). Maybe I just don't like how early stuff was "random jokes," then middle stuff was highly political, and then after I've only ever been tricked by ratings traps (Brian dying, Simpsons Guy, Send in Stewy Please, and then the one with "we're going to redub an old episode" or whatever that was), but I just haven't ever really enjoyed it and think "no, if anything it isn't hated enough."

I feel like an episode could entirely be written by ChatGTP and nobody could tell.

Love your video, man, and keep up the great work

I always see Family Guy today as having inversed itself. In its early years, Family Guy seasons was mostly good episodes, a few decent ones, and one or two bad ones. Today its a couple of good ones, a few decent ones, and then half just forgettable episodes I dont really care to watch again. You cant understate the importance of Family Guy, apart from The Simpsons its probably one of the most important animated shows ever, but these types of episodes are now the exception instead of the rule.

Huh. That plot does remind me of the early years of that offensive yet silly humor with sincere feelings attached. I wonder if other episodes this season have other promising premises. The slap joke was forced and unfunny though.

Getting invested in Family Guy character development is a more lost cause than getting invested in Rick and Morty lore.

I don't hate family guy. I love the older iteration of the show. New Family Guy just feels forced to me

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Fair, why Lois is the most hated character in modern years her episodes are the best somehow, customer of the week is one of the best modern episodes

season 21 is a step up in quality for sure

I've been one of modern Family Guy's staunchest defenders for a VERY long time. But even I haven't really liked the past three seasons. Hell I straight up hated almost all of the first 11 episodes of season 21 (haven't seen a single one past the 11th). But you juuuust might have convinced me to get back into it. Opening hulu now lol

The people who hate on the show should at least give Family Guy some props for trying to still be funny with their jokes. Family Guy isn't as gruesome with some of their dark jokes like they were 10 years ago, and every now and then, they make decent episodes. The problem is, FOX keeps putting stress on these shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy to make more episodes and honestly, they've been milking it to the point where they can barely find any new plot lines for the episodes because of how long it's been going on for. The Simpsons hardly does Couch Gags anymore, and I even think Seth MacFarlane said he wanted to end the show sooner then later. Unfortunately, money brings out the greed in the corporate companies.

Well, most of the jokes you pointed out still aren't my cup of tea, but it looks like it's gotten a lot better. (If it's not just a few episodes that are like this one)

My man, maybe you've not watched modern Family Guy but, Lois being jealous or envious because she can't get what she feels like she is owed from other characters is most of her episodes now.

I watched a modern fam guy episode last week and what I found was I got a lot of"Ha!" Moments from some the little cut aways or dumb surprising jokes and that's really it majority of it was just kind of boring and dumb and awkward

Family Guy deserves the hate that it's accumulated over the years you can add as many new characters and make good stories you can put the turd in a dress and put lipstick on it but that doesn't make it America's next top model

1:38 You used a clip from Fecal Matters when Peter wasn't mean in that one.

Idk. For me it's a hatred that stays because of what older episodes set up it's like a simpsons paradox where the early seasons/episodes were so good that you want them to be that quality in the future but they aren't. Also Family guy has a bunch of re-used jokes specifically cutaways and the whole meg thing which was completely stupid cause they tried to spin it as Meg NEEDED to be bullied in order to keep the family together when in reality it's Peter's issues that would tear it apart not Meg standing up for herself. But I just can't find myself enjoying it too much anymore but this is just a comment on a YT Video.

Family Guy should have ended 15 years ago

Family guy is in its rebirth Era all shows that last a long time Wil drop in quality then become good again

In my opinion, it SO deserves the hate. I'm sorry, but that's just how I feel, though I have no ill will towards Seth Mcfarlene or the other cast members. The Orvill I heard is awesome.

Peter: Why do you sound like Carl who is my Son's only friend

Hey, I don't know if you know this, but there's something weird going on on RU-vid lately, and it mostly has to do with Family Guy. Channels from other countries are posting full episodes, even though their channels have nothing to do with the show. Some people claim it as a hack of some kind. Is it possible that you could make a video on that?

Family Guy for the first 10 season was often times funny and the cutaways actually entertaining. I think it is a great show, but over time it has gotten old, they've run out of ideas, and with Seth no longer writing it has become lazy. Some episodes barely have anything happen and seem to just focus quite biased political and social commentary. The new episode was pretty decent. There the occasional fun episodes feeling more classical rather than being mean-spirited to either the characters or audience.

In ur opinion what’s ur least favorite family guy episode

Glad that im not the only one who LOVED this episode. I was dying laughing within the first 30 seconds. Great episode

I really enjoyed the gag where Bri was literally thrown to the wolves when it came to his book

While this is a nice episode, I do think it’s strange that The Simpsons have done a similar story earlier in their latest season. It could be a coincidence, but I find it strange.

I don't care for the relentless punching down schadenfreude and perpetual character assassinations, but that's just me...

Im Glad you can appreciate the better quality of episodes in season 21 it feels like the show got better again

@8:48 God, I love Family Guy. I’m no regular watcher, but when a joke hits, it smashes. The tongue & cheek commentary of women-rambling, the earlier joke with Stewie yawning like “Really? We’re actually doing a Harambe ep? Ookay.” Show’s got jokes, and it can be a good time. Can.

Probably most unpopular opinion on human history I prefer modern family guy to modern Simpsons

In my opinion family guy golden age was season 2-4 and the dark age from season 8-12 the boring age from season 13-18 nowadays it is alright.

When watching this episode I thought to myself "huh an actually funny and good episode dor the first time in awhile "

After years of rolling my eyes at family guy, i actually liked this episode. It gave me a new outlook on carter

Yes

I baught all 7 seasons of family guy on dvd cuz that when it was great Modern family guy is just boring and aggravating to watch but there are a few gems like this episode

I been sayin' of Family Guy, there's a lot of good reasons to dislike the show, but, that monologue everyone memorized from the South Park episode hasn't been relevant in a long time. FG has changed and shifted dramatically over the last twenty years. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. But it's absolutely not the same show it was back when everyone decided it's "just references and random cutaways."

the show is not as good as it used to be. it went on way too long and needs to end. the fanboys that defend it are so toxic too.

Wished this aired in CN

It's more like apathy than anything like the Simpsons. I just don't care about the show anymore it's been going as long as it has you think it would just stop.

Family Guy is definitely one of my favourite tv shows of all time , if not the most favourite tv show of all time. I can guarantee you that I am not writing with complete bias because I admit and i think it is obvious that the amount of bad seasons and episodes drastically decreased over the last few years. Long story short, no, I do not think that Family Guy deserves that much hate right now even though I totally miss old Family Guy where Peter wasn’t that depressing and ignorant, Stewie was cleverer and Brian was a character full of charm

The early seasons are definitely the best sure... but I'd never say family guy deserves hate because even today I still get laughs from it (but I am bias because I grew up with Seth MacFarlane)

I dislike family guy because of how they treat meg like a waste

This is my opinion on Family Guy. Season 1- 18 is flawless. Season 19 is awful. The episodes have slower pacing. The jokes don't come as quick as they used to and the plots have less energy than the older episodes. Compare the pacing of a season 4 episode to a season 19 episode. They don't have nearly as many cutaway gags. Some episodes have 1 cutaway, some have 2 cutaways, some have 3, and some have none. I think the Average Family Guy episode should have at least 4 cutaways. They often repeated the same joke over and over again in the same episode. Watch the episodes back to back and you will see what I mean. This is especially true in La Familia Guy. There were so many poorly written storylines. *Example:* The Young Parent Trap. Peter and Lois pretend to be young to fit in with the hipsters. The plot is too stupid they should be able to tell that they are at least 40 just by looking at them. Meg and Chris later find out Peter and Lois are pretending to be hipsters so they dress up as hipsters and annoy them until they crack. The plot would be over in two seconds if Chris and Meg showed up with a family picture. Season 20 is much better than season 19. It still has some of the problems of season 19 but they stopped repeating the same joke over and over in the same episode and the storylines have better writing overall. This annoying new side character named Doug started to take over the season. Halfway through the season, 21 Family Guy becomes Family Guy again. In the episode the Candidate, they brought back the fast pacing, they had a good amount of cutaway gags, it was funny all the way through, and the storyline was good.

I don’t think much of family guy, and I think less of it the more I see. There’s parts of it that are funny… but mass majority of it isn’t.

reminds me of how be cool scooby doo was compared to family guy as a insult which doesn't make sense since while family guy isn't the best it isn't bad

5:00 reminds me of another recent episode…

Wait is the scene at 5:34 a reference to the one time that Chris Rock tried to slap Will Smith at the Oscars