This is the actual way the Family Guy writers come up with their jokes. I own none of the rights to these clips from South Park. All rights go to Comedy Central.
@@legitbeans9078 I love the way your comment makes fun of this guy by telling him that something was done intentionally and is the point of doing it like it was done. Oh wait that was the point of your comment. You get points right? Can we just compliment jokes about the video? idiot
like so many US shows, they just go on for too long. Simpsons suffered from the exact same problem , though its drop in quality and shift from satire of American suburban life to simply a cartoon was more dramatic. SP seems to be one of the few that has stood the test of time
Yeah, this is a perfect analogy for the "loophole" writers found. They can insert any joke they want without connecting it to a scene or story as long as a character says "like that time when".
The worst part is that sometimes the set up lines don't even make sense with the cutaway they show like "this is more irresponsible than silent movie corn" and then they just cut to a couple dancing on a bed and I don't understand what's irresponsible about the joke lol
Techncially it wouldn't be, because its done randomly. The manatees don't look like they understand the words so its picked randomly therefore it just did a random algorithm which was possible ages ago. AI might actually make good jokes that are clean and consistent.
The cutaway became more of a cue to laugh than an effective method of joke telling. Even if it made no sense or had no context, some people would laugh because they were trained or expected to. I remember laughing at some as a kid and having no idea what they were talking about.
Old school FG was great up to around season 4 or season 5. I can't believe they're around 20 seasons now, they should have just ended it a looooooooong time ago.
Oh my god... That's why family guy clips are so watchable out of context. When you see them, they're funny but if you go to watch the episode, it's always disappointing. Ngl, this legitimately opened my eyes
100% spot on assessment. That's why for example let's just say... The Office, right? You have to watch the show for the most part to understand any particular scene or the context of why the particular scene is funny, almost like an inside joke. I made the mistake of trying to show my dad, who's never seen The Office a compilation of Michael Scott being mean to Toby scenes, and he didn't think any of them were funny and stopped watching halfway through the video. Then I realized, it's because he doesn't understand the context of the characters and how their relationships and personalities play a huge role. South Park can be the same way, someone could look at this scene and think "Who is that fat kid and why does he even care to begin with?" Not knowing that Eric Cartman is a lowkey diabolical super villain, that will stop at nothing to get a point across or get what he wants. TL;DR context is everything.
Zoomers love random stuff they make a joke out of everything i guess thats why family guy is blowing up they just discoverd it and its the greatest thing they have ever seen.
@@jacob5058 To be fair, I think that's every generation of kids. I was super into Family Guy in the mid 2000s, but when I got to middle school, the lolsorandom cutaway humor just got tiring. Zoomers will get sick of Family Guy sooner than later.
I don't remember where, but somebody made a comment about Family Guy that I whole heartedly agreed with: "Family Guy is a show that has good jokes when you don't have to sit through an entire episode to see them."
@@Never_GamePlayZ The Simpsons, King of the Hill, South Park, Futurama, and Bob's Burgers all surpass Family Guy for me as far as primetime animated sitcoms go.
The Simpsons’ writers actually sent flowers to South Park’s writers for this episode. They were really annoyed with how lazy and irrelevant Family Guy’s jokes were, and appreciated South Park exposing them. Edit: All of the butthurt family guy stans are giving me a good laugh
@@bulb9970 The Simpsons has definitely been slacking for the last decade or so but it has always been way better writing than family guy, and in its hay day it was arguably the best ever.
@Soussy "Simpsons Already Did It"? It was more of a respectful jab at the Simpsons inspired by their internal frustrations about unknowingly copying plots from the simpsons and a demonstration on how the Simpsons than a "roast"
The jokes are a lot more evolved now. Now it’s Peter adopting a new trait and doing stereotypical things that people with that trait do. Example “I have long hair so now I must attend auctions”…. That’s a real “joke” they did
@@handsomeboi3767 nah they’re all shit. At this point Seth McFarlene just likes the fat check Disney/Fox gives him. He doesn’t care about satire or telling a good story
Family guy was always like this. Seriously, have you not watched the old episodes recently? It's literally just how it's depicted in South Park. This parody was made during the so-called Golden Era of Family Guy.
It sounds like you're referring to a show or a piece of media that cleverly mocks or parodies another show's writing. Parody and satire are often used to highlight and playfully criticize the tropes or clichés found in other shows. What specific show or example are you thinking of?
A few are good. Honestly I think Family Guy works better cut up into 10-30 second cutaway gags on RU-vid than it does as a whole show. I still think Peter buying a deodorant that makes you attractive to sick cats is hilarious for example
“This is like [celebrity you never heard of] first morning after writing [song/concert you’ve never heard of]” *shot of a baker behind a counter, random guy walks in and asks for a cup of lukewarm water, baker says “I’m not falling for that one again”* Now laugh
@@debrachambers1304 In this case the old clip would be a little a small joke rather than the entire plot of the episode focused on just those old clips.
It's weird because I honestly think the cutaway gags were pretty funny back around the time when this South Park episode was made. The punchlines usually made sense if you actually got the references they were making. Definitely no rhyme or reason to how they were segued into but that was always Family Guy's style and it was something that made the show unique in a way. But it's like the Family Guy writers embraced the parody whole-heartedly, because not long after this episode came around, it really did start to feel like they just formed entire cutaways using a rudimentary algorithm with no consideration for an actual punchline. They also started self-parodying themselves and lampshading the weakness of their own style of humor a lot more (which is cute the first time you do it but stops being funny incredibly quickly). Nowadays, the cutaways make almost no sense and come off as the writers saying "This is your scheduled cue to laugh" as opposed to any genuine attempt at humor. At least how I see it, Family Guy was always meant to be a show with weak narrative elements that mostly served as a loose vessel for delivering one-off jokes. But as they ran out of jokes, it kind of transformed into a show that's just a weak narrative with obligatory cutaways that are only really there because the audience expects them to be there (and they help to kill as much of a 22-minute runtime as possible). I mean basically, I didn't really have a problem with this style of comedy so long as it managed to be funny, which I think it mostly succeeded in back when this satire was made. It stopped being funny, so now it's just a really annoying way to pad out a poorly-written narrative. The show actually became MORE like how South Park depicted it as being.
I do think that people are taking cheap shots at a big show. I think the south park guys do have their heads up their own asses most of the time and that does add alot to their comedy. It seems like a form of comedy gatekeeping to say "oh these guys have a formula so it must not be funny" and its pretty regressive. Family guy did and still does have some bangers that can actually make me laugh out loud at times and south park has had some serious valleys in their content as well. Yeah the cutaways are gimicky but south park did a totally vile episode solely about swimming in piss in a water park, the only joke the whole episode. It just seems like people focus more on 'the process' than the actual jokes and if you look at all of the series, not just family guy, I think you see more depth in what Seth Mcfarlane does in his work than most of what Trey and Matt have ever really done. Oh the wrote a musical with the same Mormon jokes they've been doing for almost 3 decades? How precious, I'm sure all the fedora tippers are right about them being the peak of comedy.
@@grmpf I think in this case it is. Family Guy viewers don't care, we love this style of comedy. I had no clue that this joke was made in South Park until years later. I think SP fans think way more people care about this issue than the amount that actually do.
@@andreworam2844I think the fact you made FG viewers a “we” and talked about what SP viewers think makes it seem like you got salty your favorite show got criticized.
I remember watching many Family Guys clips for some weeks, and that caused me to watch an episode. I did not expect the entire episode to be like that.
Seth actually never really intended for the show to go past 8 seasons, and dropped off from writing around that time. That’s also around when the show really starts to decline.
Seth isn't actually involved with Family Guy's creative direction anymore, that's why it's so trash now. He left in 2011 and only does the voice work now. So none of the jokes or any of the writing at all is his.
I feel bad for Seth McFarlane sometimes. South Park hates Family Guy, The Simpsons, the list goes on. Seth wanted the show to end earlier but Fox wants money. I'm sure he is aware of the quality of the show currently anyway.
This episode came out during season 5 of Family Guy. This was long before Seth wanted the show to end, and long before Family Guy's quality started to decline.
I'm a fairly new fan of Family Guy and had been binge watching Family Guy out of context scenes for a long time on RU-vid already. Even watched 2 episodes, one where Peter got on a hijacked plane and one where Stewie & Brian travelled through the multiverse. Found them really funny and creative, and also satire. So I was kind of confused when I read the comments on here saying how Family Guy is extremely unfunny-until it turns out I've apparently been watching older versions of Family Guy (?), so I decided to search up the latest episodes of Family Guy and see if they're still funny. Short answer: damn.
@@IONLYKNOWMOVESTHATKILLPEOPLE You have to understand, I just mush the keys on my phone and if what comes up looks similar to a sentence written in English I post it.
Simpsons was what I watched in school. South Park was what I watched in college. Family Guy is what I watched when I had emergency stomach surgery and couldn’t reach the remote in hospital.
The cutaways made family gut way more popular than American dad, the jokes in AD are connected to the plot, maybe some people find that boring compared to the random cutaways about anything you could imagine
Perfect description of FG. I really like the shorts with their jokes but i never actually made it through one episode because they had no story. all it was, was loosely connected jokes.
When South Park made fun of The Simpsons, it was good-natured. They admit how much The Simpsons have influenced modern comedy, including South Park. When making fun of Family Guy, they are out for blood.
When I think of these two shows, I think about that one Simpsons gag that Bart wrote on the board showing the fear they had for the threat sent to Parker and Stone
There are literally more hours worth of cutaways in this series than there are hours in an average season of the show (even when you include the time cutaways consume in an individual season).
Its true, most of the funniest Family Guy moments weren't random cutaways. The majority of them would be more funny if they just left it up to the imagination rather then show the random joke.
This is why South park is superior. The writers make fun of family guy but not in a basic and generic way, but in a way that's comedic yet so reflecting and eye opening at the same time
Yeah specially considering how Family guy makes fun o another show like bob's burgers, when they put it straight up in your face while at the same time showing a great jealousy for that show
@@chimuetisbellYou do know that H. Jon Benjamin, the voice of Bob, is a friend of Seth's and is actually a character in Family Guy, right? The gas station guy, Carl
I like family guy more myself. To me, South Park has a brand of comedy similar to robot chicken and just usually ends up being disgusting. Family Guy is more dark style humor and flashbacks, but still better. South Park fell off to me a long long time ago, and while family guy might not be as funny as it used to be... I prefer it over the whole nastiness that South Park uses as their general theme. In my eyes it goes family guy, Futurama, South Park, robot chicken (robot chicken deserves to be last) as there's barely anything funny in it.
As someone who likes Family Guy, it's astonishing to see how South Park depicted what the show would eventually become at the time of this episode's airing.
@@erictsenmusic Yeah, I don't remember which episode was it, but they included one thing that FG does well and that's "not being preachy all the time" in opposite to southpark.
@Gopatich Bro you are literally arguing with what creators of South Park said about themselves lol Also yeah, if most of the episodes is trying to teach you how to behave etc. you can call it preachy.
@@onutrof1157 it's true. Trey Parker himself said: "We totally understand that people love it and that's why we put it in the show. We understand that it speaks to some people and it's like, it can be a simple laugh, and that's great. And we certainly don't think it should be taken off the air or anything like that. We just don't respect it in terms of writing."
In the 1990s, there was a game called Gex, and all of its jokes boiled down to stuff like "this is like X at Y's house" or bad impressions of celebrities. Then Family Guy ran for over 20 years and decided its jokes should be even worse versions of that.
I remember when I was younger trying to figure out which episode the funniest jokes were from. I couldn’t remember because the jokes had nothing to do with the episode itself
@@CIPHERINATORits pretty inevitable A year or two ago, i heard that loads of kids nowadays started watching south park through Tiktok.. But I myself, was introduced to South Park when The Stick of Truth game came out when i was 14.
The thing is: I genuinely used to love Family Guy in its earliest seasons and even though this South Park episode would’ve still been applicable about THOSE EPISODES at the time, it felt like RIGHT AFTER THIS EPISODE AIRED, Family Guy REALLY began to decline and started “taking the piss” with the “lol random” and reference humor. The first few seasons of Family Guy still have some of the most genuinely funny moments in the entire show, in my opinion.
Actually, this was also the plot in one of the episodes of The Avengers in the 1960s. The villains were using as a cover a publishing company that kept churning out all kinds of short novels, which were very popular until the arrival of the Internet, and they worked under the same principle. They had a database of random subjects, verbs, nouns, etc, in cards and they took cards at random and fed a computer with them and the computer came out with the plot for a novel putting all those things together in a logical way.
i love how south park demonstrates family guy as some fictitious cartoon in their world like family guy is not good enough to share a universe together
You can say this is a representation of what Family Guy's humor is today, but they forgot something: They can't have an episode without someone puking or getting horribly injured/killed as a joke
I remember the "Bird is the Word" episode was fairly popular when it came out. I rewatched it recently and they hammered the joke to death in the first five minutes. I didn’t bother watching the rest of it.
Louis: Peter, you promised you would stop eating mayonnaise out the jar with your hand! Peter: You think that's bad, remember the time I boarded the wrong plane at the airport? *cut away scene: [Peter boards Air Force One, sits next to President Biden who's eating vanilla icecream]. Peter: Hey these seats are great! President Biden: [Licks icecream, the icecream falls off the cone and rolls onto his lap]. Peter: Hold on there buddy I'll get that for ya. [Peter begins eating the ice cream off President Biden's lap] [A secret service agent walks in, the agent's eyes get wide as he turns around and goes back to where he came from]. *cuts back to Peter and Louis. Louis: It took us 3 weeks to get you off that island. Peter: [stares at the 4th wall]. Yep, we went there.
@@cal.353 how tf would he end up on air force one when the president was on it? It doesn't just sit parked with the president on it. It's a terrible joke.
There should be a Family Guy episode where Peter says “ this is like the time I’ve got a party done South Park and had a repetitive catchphrase before announcing cutaway gags.”
@@emphi8946 South Park uses the same types of mechanisms in (almost) every episode. While their insult joke here is both accurate and amusing, Trey and Matt are hypocrites for maintaining this nonsense over the years.
