Meg Griffin: From Punching Bag to Pointless 

What was your favourite Meg Griffin Moment 🤣🤣😂😂

Really hated that episode where Meg finally stood up to her family but just apologized at the end

Meg's arc is so fascinating to me. She was a badly written annoying teen girl stereotype in the beginning of the series, but instead of writing her as a better character, the show turned her into a punching bag to cater to the audience. "See guys? We think shes annoying too!"

I still don’t understand why the Writers think making Meg Likable is so Hard when it’s so Easy.

I think American Dad portrayed the daughter character better than family guy ever did. Haley was a sort of punching bag for Stan to throw jabs at, but she was her own character that was interesting and will be shown in a good light once in awhile when the focus isn't on Stan. Episodes show her good traits when they're about her. She has emotional moments with Stan too. Idk if this really made any sense, but Haley is a better Meg.

Early Seasons: _"Shut Up Meg"_ Modern Seasons: _"Who's Meg?"_

When I’m at my lois, I’m still a family guy.

"That thing that plays under all the TikTok videos with the talking dog" What did I win ?

(first 4-5 seasons) Family guy is a show about a dysfunctional family who get into wacky shenanigans (rest of the show) Family guy is a show about a family of awful people doing awful things to each other and strangers while reminiscing over pop culture references.

I never understood all the hate towards Meg, she isn’t ugly or rude to anyone. She just kinda exists.

"Meg is pointless" Meanwhile, Cleveland's kids are cardboard cutouts in the background never allowed to talk. Or Joe's kids except like once every 10 years, but don't worry, Quagmire gets all the time he needs to drag down an episode.

To be honest, Meg's abuse got very old and tired before she became boring again. It's actually nice to see her get better treatment! 😅

“Describe Family Guy to me.” “Shut up, Mark.”

I'm gonna take a crack at that challenge: Family Guy is an adult animated Television show which showcases the adventures the citizens of Quahog get into. Its humor is usually derived from pop culture references, references to the 80s, or the shows unique "Cut-a-way" gags. It shows almost no continuity. Edit: Sad that I have to even SPECIFY this, but no, this was not written by AI. I simply thought for a solid minute or two on how to describe the show without name dropping the Griffins.

I can’t stand what they did with Meg. When she FINALLY stood up to her family and called them out, I thought her character arc was going to skyrocket. Nope. The writers make her apologize and go back to be the punching bag. 😒 I got tired of the abuse for nothing. Not only does her family hate her, the whole town does and I never understood it for her character.

Family guy used to be about how a family guy tried to use TV tropes/Pop culture to raise his family, which ended up failing miserably and forcing said father to learn about it. It's famous for their cut-a-way gags to add comedy, which were usually an entertaining flashback who actually contributed to the plot.

8:13 The site you saw wasn't an actual Family Guy wiki. It is a fanon wiki. Fanon wikis are wikis where people make their own series, episodes, movies, and games out of their favorite IPs.

It was always strange whenever the show tried to make her seem ugly or unattractive. It feels like that trope where a female character has glasses, but the moment she takes them off, she's suddenly drop-dead gorgeous. Like her high school friends fit the "unappealing buttmonkey" way more than Meg ever could.

I'd say Family Guy (intially at least) is about a dad (the titular "family guy") trying to raise his family from what he learned watching family sitcoms, "good old-fashion values" but applying them so literally/exaggerated that the hypocrisy of it being better than modern day television is shown. Or its just takes the premise of the Simpsons household, makes every member able to talk, and add cut-away gags.

Honestly, this is something I’ve noticed with a lot of media tbh. A lot of writers don’t take criticism seriously. If you say “I don’t like how Meg is treated.” A lot don’t go “ok let’s take a look at what we’re doing and what people are saying”. They seem to just go on an extreme. Either they do a complete 180 and make whatever was complained about worse in the opposite direction, or they just start stripping away bits and pieces without actually improving what’s left It’s like if you said “I don’t like the sauce on this meat loaf, I wish it were sweeter” and the chef either removes meatloaf entirely from the menu or starts coating it in pounds and pounds of sugar. It doesn’t fix the problem, it just makes the problem different. It feels kinda, narcissistic in a way. Like they think their idea is good so to show you why yours is shit, they go on the most extreme they can with it and make it shit so they can then go “well, we tried it your way and you still hate it so???” Honestly makes me kinda hate a lot of writing teams in that regard. It feels like I’m just being talked down to in a way

Genuinely a little depressing seeing those clips from "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" in the intro where Peter was genuinely excited about Meg's cheerleading tryouts and encouraging of her ambitions. That was actually the first Family Guy ep I ever caught on Adult Swim as a little kid 😭 It's so strange seeing that scene back to back with the lightning rod monologue from "Seahorse Seashell Party". Family Guy was never a show about consistency or anything, but it's weird to see it go from sugar to cyanide to just flavorless chalk dust today.

Megs only trait was punching bag for half the shows run and once the writers even got sick of that, she feels pointless now!

Remember when the characters had actual depth and personality rather than just being one constant stereotype in place for a joke? Neither do I

Speaking of useless things, it's crazy how the clone high reboot basically went from a charming parody of teen dramas to basically just a teen drama with a few jokes.

I never understood all the hate towards Meg, she isn’t ugly or rude to anyone. She's just there💀

The Smiths from American Dad feels more like a family than FAMILY Guy The Griffins for a long time.

Ah, the good old "I mistook a Fanon wiki with a FanDOM wiki". The former are effectively collective fanfics in wiki form (They're the ones responsible of things like Lucina from Fire Emblem being Peppa Pig's nemesis, for example)

11:06 "You guys always act like you're better than me!"

Easy challenge. Family Guy is about a group of actors playing the roles of a nuclear family whilst getting into misadventures that lead to either perilous, emotional or severe situations with inconvenient cutaways.

I remember Mark saying in his every Family Guy episode review that everyone hating Meg is like Homer strangling Bart & it struck me that unlike Homer & Bart' s dynamic, Meg's only comedic angle was her misery. I even remember episodes where Meg would dissappear for the episode's remainder after one joke where something bad happens to her.

Family guy is a show about a family living through what is considered a normal day in rhode island while seth macfarlane occasionally changes the channel to a different animated comedy show every couple of gags

0:35 oh yeah? Family Guy is a show about a family who have many misadventures together or seperetly, with a bunch of fisical comedy and gags (their most popular format being the cutaway gags)

I was never that much into Family Guy, but I did still notice the shift between the early seasons and the later ones in terms of how Meg was treated. And as some have pointed out: It's shocking that Peter being an abusive prick to her, but making a speech in private to Meg that he still loves her, and just has to keep acting the way he does to seem cool is considered to "have heart", whereas if this was at any point said by Homer Simpson to Lisa, it'd be considered the most insulting modern Simpsons episode ever.

I can’t stand how there are a few episodes where Meg can shake up the status quo like with her bond with peter on the college tour or when she stands up for herself and it just never amounts to anything and makes you question what the point of that was

Family Guy is a series about 5 people and Chris who try to survive another day of their miserable lives, but if they die, they live again next week.

Some dumb detail I notice about later season Family Guy episodes is when they do that thing when 2 characters are talking and you see the back of one character's head and it has a shadow regardless of the environment they're in. The sun can be shining directly on the back of their heads and there will still somehow be a shadow where the light is shining

6:48 "It's like they knew they could get away with anything". Did you think you'd get away with that visual glitch? lol

**cracks knuckles** Family Guy is a TV series about the humorous day-to-day adventures of the citizens of Quahog, said humor usually manifesting in pop-culture references and cutaway gags. I didn't use AI, I swear. This is me writing.

I like it how when meg actually stands up for herself, she becomes unlikeable

Does it count if i say family guy is about terrible people doing terrible things

“When I was a young kid, at around 10…” Your parents let you watch Family Guy at 10? My parents only let me when I was 13 and still only certain episodes 💀

My attempt at a family guy description: The show follows a family of five in quahog, Rhode Island. The family gets into shenanigans everyday, and the humor that comes along with it is equally as random. You proved your point that was ridiculously hard for no reason any description comes off as bland.

0:25 I guess I'd say Family Guy is just simply about the random adventures and mischief of the Griffins and how each situation affects the family and/or their dynamic (until its returns to the status quo at the end of every episode)

It felt like the writers wanted a gag character so they made it Meg which led to her ONLY being known as punching bag

3:09 Springtrap is my favorite family guy character.

In the past: Everyone:"Shut Up Meg !" Nowadays: Everyone:"Please Meg do something...Something Meg !"

Family Guy is an animated sitcom about a disfunction family and their crazy antics, with some cutaway gags. That's the best I can do.

Family guy is a slapstick adult comedy cartoon about a dysfunctional family and their larger then life antics. Boom did it. I deserve a cookie.

i love how toonrifictariq put it it's about a man who tries to bring fortune to his family through the morals he learned through tv. shit just makes sense

The episode where family Guy had her go "wow I guess I NEED to be abused" only for them to write a 'serious' episode about Quagmire's sister being abused (which btw they heavily imply that she's in the wrong or weak for) made it so I could never take any serious moments from quagmire as genuine

I don't know if it's just me because I don't watch Family Guy as much anymore, but I noticed the moral of the end of the episodes are... bad? 😅 Don't get me wrong, Family Guy will always have a special place in my heart, but I noticed lately the message are just *toxic* . For example, when Meg finally stands up for herself, she had to apologise in the end just to avoid upsetting the unstable family. I didn't like that message, as it implies you just have to put up with negativity from your loved ones. Another instance was when Brian published a book and Stewie donated it because it was badly written. In the end of the episode, Stewie has to essentially lie that he was jealous of Brian, just to make Brian feel better about himself. I found that message to irk me because instead of accepting jealousy as a human emotion, and to promote support for when our close ones succeed pass us, it portrays a toxic mentality that we ought to lie and put ourselves down. There are a few other episodes similar to this. I don't know. I watched American Dad and Bob's Burgers, as well, and the endings are more sensible in my opinion (besides that Klaus episode where he becomes a nun). Any thoughts on why Family Guy insists on these weird messages? I'd love some examples and thought on this subject!

Family Guy: A Simpsons-style animated comedy starring an eccentric family that places its cast into a variety of situations, differentiating itself from its contemporaries with edgier humor, musical numbers, a reliance on unrelated “cutaway gags”, and references and parodies to beloved films and TV.

Family Guy is a show about cartoon characters trying to preform a family sitcom as they gradually get more and more unhinged until getting tired and then burning out entirely as the seasons moved on. I still love the line where someone points out a contradiction or something and Peter goes "I don't know its all just jokes."

Hey Lois, remember the time LS Mark made a 15 minute video about our daughter?

Family Guy is about TV, it's about tropes, you can see this in the opening where the characters sing about how TV is always the same, you can see in the second section that all the characters act as if they know it's a show and the title itself has a TV symbol. Notice how almost every joke subverts common tropes, even when it's about politics you see them heavly criticizing the ideology presented in the joke, I can remember Chris showing up in a Trump joke and he said "Look! I wrote this joke(gets angry expression) THAT'S WHAT YOU DESERVE (type of people name I can't remember)" or something like that, it showed how Family Guy is even parodyzing jokes that take a clear political position, I remember those people who comment "haha family guy is wild, no one is safe!" Yeah, neither you. Now let's take my favourite episodes, the ones where Stewie kills Lois, if we analyze it, it's played very meta and parody-like, Stewie feels like another Stewie, the plot gets bizzarre even for Family Guy standards, it was played as if it was the defenitive ending of Family Guy, and how does it end? It was all a simulation, Brian asks Stewie if people are gonna be mad about this and he says that yes they do but they should enjoy the ride. If that doesn't prove that Family Guy is about common TV tropes... I don't know what it is. Family Guy is the OG meta-narrative, that's why it works with it and with shows such as Velma it doesn't, because with Family Guy it's the whole point

The sonic unleashed music in the background just sent me back to the past

i think toonrifictariq perfectly described family guy. a middle aged father who tries to apply television logic into different scenerios, some of the time tries to apply it to parenting. while doing that, also paroding pop culture, and current events.

“Megatron” *ROBOTS IN DISGUISE.*

Family Guy is about that time something happened and those who remember it.

0:23 It’s about Peter Griffin

Family guy is a show about Walter Hartwell White

This is the biggest flaw for a long-running show to me when long running shows who create their characters under a certain cultural era and then are forced to change them later. They ultimately forget what made the character special and just choose the more wacky traits and ignore the more nuanced and complex ones leaving the character feeling soulless.

Family Guy is basically just Seth McFarlane's version of The Simpsons but with cutaway gags and more violence and ruder jokes and more swearing.

Family Guy is about the Griffins and they're daily life

I always felt bad for Meg

my man went to a fanon wiki and was shocked to find things that were fanon.

Family guy is a comedic slice of life adult animation that centers around The Griffin Family and their weekly antics. mostly focused on Peter, the patriarch (that felt weird to type), it allows follows the exploits of his wife Lois, his 2 teenaged children Chris and Meg, as well as his infant genius/gay baby stewie and their dog Brian. episodes typically center around an A and B plot, where the A plot focuses on Peters adventures, the B plot will showcase the familys exploits (and usually how peters antics can have an effect on them). although the show began more as a humble recreation of older 80's/90's sitcoms (think family matters or full house), the show quickly became more about surreal and sometime horrific episode plots (including the baby getting pregnant, or getting herpes, or building a time machine. or peter and his friends finding god???). you can actually gleam the original intention of the show from its theme song "but where are those good old fashioned values (in television), that we used to rely?"; the show was meant to be about a family trying to better themselves, usually gleaming wisdom from lifes many lessons from tv. went a bit off the rails there, but its not impossible to describe the show

Family guy is about a man in his 40s using lessons from TV shows he grew up with to raise his family.

3:08 Ah yes my favorite Family Guy Character, Spiringtrap

Crack at the challenge: Family guy is a comedy show made by Seth Macfarlene.

I know im late, but i can finally describe this show, "peter griffin, a well meaning father who has a hard time connecting with his family, does his best to please his wife all the while she worries about his actions, as his idiot of son and annoying teenage daughter try to live their lives, all the while, there genius of a baby and dog best friend go on wacky adventures together"

Family guy is a show where a bunch of people just throw random shit at a board

Would be interesting to see how Haley Smith, another daughter in a sitcom life, has turned out. Probably more, since American Dad has a lil more depth to the family.

"shut up LSMark!" -Peter Griffin ('cause he still want to punch Meg)

The griffin family and their shenanigans is how I would describe family guy

Family Guy is about Peter Griffin and his family’s antics …………

That "take a bullet for Meg" edit was next level, thank you

Family Guy is a show about a family which may or my not be insane getting themselves and the city and by extention the multiverse into chaos involving cutaways

*It’s A show about A comedically dysfunctional family that love but also hate eachother, and it’s cruel in A good way.*

I enjoy the times they make Meg unhinged, but it's obvious the crew have no idea what to do with her character

Family guy is about a dad who is obsessed with tv from the past, trying to find a decade to live in. and needs to learn to move forward. that's why in the theme song it has "It seems today that all you see Is violence in movies and sex on TV But where are those good old-fashioned values... On which we used to rely?!"

Family Guy is a show about the misadventures of a disfunctional family

I would describe family guy as "psychopathic misadventures soaked in pop culture". It doesn't have much of a standard plot (and in fact rarely has any actual story of note that isn't just an extended joke), so the best you can really do is just try to summarize the gags it does. That's also why I believe the show can be funny in small bursts, but watching a lot gets really boring and tedious really fast. For the record, I actually did go type this out when you said to.

fanon wikis are a bane to people trying to research any basic information about any series

Family guy is an adult animated comedy about a family and their friends and neighbors getting into various silly antics.

Family Guy is ultimately about the endeavors of a man who was raised on old-school family sitcoms, who tries to apply the logic of those "good old fashioned values" to raising an actual family. The lyrics to the theme song and the fact that the logo has an old CRT TV in it are there quite literally to denote that. It has changed a little over the decades, but ultimately it can be traced back to that. What happens when you try to apply sitcom logic to real life?

Bro the title was right there!! “Lois Griffin: A Maternal Mess”

Boo. Luigi jumpscare. Hello there, Mark, lmao.

Family Guy is a show about a distinctional family that gets crazier and crazier as time goes on and relies heavily on dark humor and cutaway gags and rarely keeps any semblance of continuity or direction A parody of sitcoms that gradually became a parody of itself "Family Guy" is somehow so insane that it loops back around to being predictable Also the main characters are often portrayed as "mentally disabled" unless the plot calls for them to be relatively intelligent making it hard to follow their logic while simultaneously knowing exactly what they're going to do next

Megs only trait was the punching bag because the writers genuinely didn’t know what to do with her, when said abuse was removed she became pointless. She’s fundamentally broken as a character since she was never fleshed out in the first place.

Family is an animated show about the family and their friends and neighbors as they get into ridiculous and over the top antics

10:35 yo that thumbnail goes super hard

I swear you've made so many of these I wouldn't be surprised to see one of Seamus at this point

Family guy: An animated sitcom about a dysfunctional family in a dysfunctional town.

1:45 THAT! Yes I want to see the pitch bible for Family Guy so badly!!!

I feel like the moments where Meg’s a punching bag would be more funny if she just took it in stride to a ridiculous degree. Imagine if the scenes where Peter hits her, she just doesn’t react and/or is upset by something else like for example that episode where the Griffins hide in the attic from burglars, when Peter hits her with a bat, she’s upset that it isn’t a dream. Maybe Seahorse Seashell Party has Meg act smugly about her insane durability rather than standing up for herself.

I think I would summarise the plot of Family Guy as "Average Dad doing not-so-average things."

All right…here I go. Family Guy is about the wacky adventures of the Griffin family, but a lot of the time they have to live off the tropes of old movies or shows and any other kind of pop culture, because the dad, Peter Griffin, grew up was born and raised with the morals and style of those movies and shows, more specifically the 80s, and is raising his family off of those ideals that he learned previously, hence why there’s so many random cutaways in the show. It’s like a show run by Peter Griffin himself.

The Griffin Family slowly crumbles as every season passes by going on wacky yet horrible adventures.

There’s a Simpsons episode where they joke about a “Family Guy Land” and one of the attractions is “Dump on Meg”, that pretty much sums up her whole character now