It’s not often I have the opportunity to disagree with The Stranger’s David Schmader and the ultra-conservative American Family Association at the same time, but Family Guy is by far the funniest show currently on broadcast television, and I have absolutely no qualms about watching it with my 12-year-old daughter. (Children benefit from a robust comedy education.)
Sure, Family Guy is offensive and often way over the top, but it is the near total freedom of the creators to both offend and disappoint that makes possible some of the show’s funniest moments.
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Gross? Yeah. Relentless? Well, that’s kinda the point. But man did my daughter and I bust a gut watching this scene.
Sophmoric Humor–
L’il Goldy will be groomed to be a chip off the old block.
that show is just not funny. i agree about comedy education. which reminds me, did you hear about the cross-eyed school teacher? she couldn’t control her pupils.
Sound Politics is never this funny!
Family Guy is by far the funniest show currently on broadcast television
Sure, if you’re a manatee.
If you have not seen the South Park rip on Family Guy, do so. This explains perfectly my distate for the show. It’s just stupid. I saw nothing funny about that scene at all.
Compare it to the throwup scene in Team America, which is far superior. It had something that is essential to good comedy, that is completely foreign to Family Guy: context.
I have to agree with pudge on this one. Family Guy just tries WAY too hard to be clever, and usually fails.
Then again, #3 is right too…
Actually, I thought it was funny (c’mon, who didn’t laugh their ass off watching the “complete and total Barf-O-Rama” scene in Stand By Me?). But (IMHO) it wasn’t the best scene on FG. My kids watch FG, and it has the added side effect of spurring real conversation about real issues, like the episode concerning abstinence contracts for teens.
Something else that’s got the kids talking: The Reality Coalition’s ads exposing the hypocracy of the “Clean” Coal movement. The ads are funny, well-done, and they make people ask some important questions.
Schram, today, said that Hillary had to “diplomatically prostate herself” to Mexico. Then he said it again.
Debate’s over about who’s the big swingin’ dick in the Clinton family, and debate’s over about who should accept his own damn Schrammy and just fade away.
Come back, Mr. Goldstein. Governor Carlson needs you. A grateful nation needs you. No more castrati jokes, PMS jokes, or KOMOphobia jokes; you’re the non-dairy creamer in our Starbucks. We need you, more than ever.
Right wingers – most of whom are perverts themselves…love to deflect by pointing at all the “evil” on TV – hoping we won’t notice the real evil they bankroll in their faux wars every chance they can get.
How many of these assholes have been later found out to be pedophiles, rapists, and having affairs? A BUNCH that’s how many. They’re Publicans anyway so who the fuck cares what they think?
I fell out of my chair. Call me juvenile, but I’ll watch that scene at least a couple more times today.
Wow. Fox did this? Finally right wingers are learning that Fox puts out stuff that oh I don’t know appeals to the brain stem perhaps?
Man, wonders never cease! Even the right wing catches on eventually!
That was pretty funny!
But I thought the American Family Association comments on the show over at THE STRANGER were SIDE-SPLITTING…
Let me tell you, you can’t find more assiduous students of perversion than the right wing in the country.
They wrote the book on it!
http://www.republicansexoffenders.com/
demo kid: see, we can agree on many things! And you must admit, some of my posts on SP are pretty funny. And unlike Goldy, I don’t lie.
Family Guy is by far the funniest show currently on broadcast television
If you have not seen the South Park rip on Family Guy, do so. This explains perfectly my distate for the show. It’s just stupid. I saw nothing funny about that scene at all.
Compare it to the throwup scene in Team America, which is far superior…
“South Park” is not on broadcast television.
“Team America” is not a television show.
Better trolls, please.
Eight crates of what? I don’t get it.
“Another TJ”: Please learn to read. I did not imply, in any fashion, that South Park or Team America were broadcast television shows. I didn’t even imply that South Park was funnier than Family Guy, I only pointed out that a particular episode of that show demnostrates why many of us hate Family Guy. And as to Team America, I was just using that as an example of a puke gag that actually works, not saying that it was funnier broadcast television.
If I were going to present funnier broadcast television shows, I would have offered King of the Hill and The Office and The Simpsons (yes, still). And maybe Futurama someday (there’s strong indication Fox may be interested in bringing it back).
Family Guy is not funny.
Someone once said “know thy enemy”. It seems Stanley Greenberg, Rahm Emanuel and James Carville did not “know their enemy”.
Now this is quite funny.
♦ In New York City, WABC has experienced huge gains during Rush’s Noon – 3pm timeslot: from 4.6 to 6.7 overall (12 and older) share, good for first place overall in the nation’s largest market. Rush’s Big Apple listenership is now estimated at 693,000.
♦ In the second-largest market, Los Angeles, KFI-AM has surged into the number one position (all listeners 12 and older) from 9am to noon, with 618,000 listeners, a 4.6 to 6.0 audience share increase over three months and an even bigger males 35-64 (4.6 to 6.3) move, to take first place there as well.
♦ Chicago, saw another huge move, with Rush affiliate WLS also taking first place during his timeslot (12 and older), from 5.2 share to 6.9 and a total local listenership of 396,700 in the third-largest market.
♦ In Dallas – Fort Worth, 4.8 to 6.4 men 35-64 and fourth overall (12+), 3.5 to 4.5. Cumulative audience: 250,000.
♦ Houston’s results were truly blockbuster: 6.0 to 9.8 overall, ranking number one with a bullet and audience of 382,300. Men 35-64: number one again, from 8.6 to 12.2 over three months. Adults 25-54: first place, 4.6 to 8.7. Women 25-54: 3.7 to 8.3 again good for a top ranking.
♦ DC’s WMAL also saw Rush-related growth: 4.1 to 6.7, good for third overall and an audience of 155,300. Men 35-64: number one with a staggering 6.4 to 13.4 move.
NO – THIS is funny – On Nov 4, 2008 the DEMS beat the utter fuck out of the Publican cowards taking further control of the US Senate, US House, White House, 7 Governorships and 9 of the largest US cities.
The American people said that right wing radio audiences don’t count for shit except amongst the inbred traitors on the right.
Too bad the best the right can do is trot out a drug-addicted looooooser who can’t keep a wife or a hard on and who has an arrest record. Way to go righties!
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You have a guy on the radio, we have the president. I’m sure you’d rather be where you are than where we are, right?
Props
Family guy is funny. It’s doesn’t have the complex storyline of southpark but it’s drunken humor.
I just watched it again and I once again fell off my chair. My wife can’t believe I haven’t grown up enough to get beyond such humor. Hey, Tom Robbins said, “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” We all should hope he’s right.
“Pudge”: Please learn to read. I merely stated two undeniable facts.
Better trolls, please.
Another TJ: don’t lie, please. It is entirely obvious that you were saying those things as if they argued against me. You’re not fooling anyone.
Here is a shut up and laugh moment…
Former Crime Boss: Democrats Like The Mafia
Former Colombo crime family capo Michael Franzese appeared yesterday on Fox & Friends with co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson, and he compared the Democratic Party to a Mafia family.
http://bitterqueen.typepad.com.....amily.html
Whudathunkdat?
Well, Pudge, I was going easy on you, but if you want to go that route…
Your first post in this thread quotes Goldy as saying that “Family Guy” is the funniest show on broadcast television. You attempt to refute this by claiming that it’s not funny, using Parker and Stone as your “evidence.” This does nothing to address Goldy’s claim, as “Family Guy” could be unfunny and still be the funniest show on broadcast television if the other shows are less funny still. So I’m left with two options: either you intended to refute Goldy’s statement, or you intended to post a comment that was unrelated to the part of Goldy’s post you quoted.
Now, you claim to be intelligent, so I must conclude that you didn’t intend to post a non-sensical comment. Therefore, you meant your comment to refute Goldy’s claim that you quoted and used to frame your comment. However, if that’s true, then your comment at #15 is a lie. You DID intend it, you just pulled it off badly.
So, the only remaining question is, which of your comments is the lie?
Another TJ@24:
Well, Pudge, I was going easy on you
Yawn.
Your first post in this thread quotes Goldy as saying that “Family Guy” is the funniest show on broadcast television.
True.
You attempt to refute this by claiming that it’s not funny …
True.
… using Parker and Stone as your “evidence.”
False. I used South Park not as evidence, but as explanation; e.g., “if you don’t understand why I think Family Guy is not funny, see this South Park episode which explains it.”
And I used Team America not as evidence that Family Guy is unfunny, but as an example of how the same basic joke can be done WELL.
This does nothing to address Goldy’s claim, as “Family Guy” could be unfunny and still be the funniest show on broadcast television if the other shows are less funny still.
I simply said it is not funny, which implies that it is not the funniest show on broadcast TV, since presumably I wouldn’t think NOTHING on broadcast is funny. And to clarify the point, I named some examples in the followup post.
So I’m left with two options: either you intended to refute Goldy’s statement, or you intended to post a comment that was unrelated to the part of Goldy’s post you quoted.
False. There is a third — and wholly obvious — option: that I intended to, and did, deny that Family Guy was funny AT ALL, which was, of course, part of Goldy’s assertion.
Nice try. (Well, not really. But it was a try.)
pudge-
You are wearing these limpdicks out.
Remember, they are not used to someone as smart as you questioning their chronic stupidity. They prefer the friendly confines of their l’il PINHEADED World surronded by others of their “distasteful” ilk.
@26 “You are wearing these limpdicks out.”
You project too much, you limpdicked drunk!
“Remember, they are not used to someone as smart as you”
As smart as Pudge?? LMFAO!!
I simply said it is not funny, which implies that it is not the funniest show on broadcast TV, since presumably I wouldn’t think NOTHING on broadcast is funny.
False. If Goldy claimes a > b, claiming a is small does not address whether a > b, as b could be smaller still.
Also, there certainly are people who think there’s nothing funny on broadcast television. I don’t presume to know what other people are thinking. So I simply took you at your word. You evidently believe yourself possessed of this power to see into the hearts of others, as your comment @ 22 suggests.
Just FYI: You don’t have the power you think you have.
There is a third — and wholly obvious — option: that I intended to, and did, deny that Family Guy was funny AT ALL, which was, of course, part of Goldy’s assertion.
False. You claimed you found nothing funny about the clip Goldy posted, not the show as a whole. Regarding the show, you claimed to have a “distate” (sic) for it, not that it was not funny at all.
Of course, you also claimed that it is “just stupid,” but, as we’ve seen by your hilarious comments here, stupid can be funny indeed.
So, while you’ve provided a few laughs, I still have to request: better trolls, please.
You’re dismissed, with prejudice.
@28 “as we’ve seen by your hilarious comments here, stupid can be funny indeed”
Very well done.
Mafiosi and Faux Noise together?
Well, criminals tend to congregate. Perhaps we can get them to congregate again.
In prison.
FYVM
Another TJ:
If Goldy claimes a > b, claiming a is small does not address whether a > b, as b could be smaller still.
False. I was claiming Family Guy is COMPLETELY UNFUNNY, and nothing can be less funny than that. You are wrong, as usual.
Also, there certainly are people who think there’s nothing funny on broadcast television.
Yes, and — as I said — that is why I clarified in the following post.
You evidently believe yourself possessed of this power to see into the hearts of others, as your comment @ 22 suggests.
@13, you said you made an argument, obviously against me. @15, I demonstrated your argument against me was flawed. @21, you said you were not arguing against me, only making true statements. @22 I said, you’re not fooling anyone (and you now take umbrage at this).
But @24 you admitted that you lied @21, and that I was correct @22: you said “I was going to go easy on you” and then proceeded to attack my comments you previously attacked @13 more directly, necessarily implying therefore that @13 was always intended as an attack on my initial comment, as I claimed, and as you denied.
So your feigned offense that I correctly called you out for lying @21, by your own tacit admission, is just sad.
You claimed you found nothing funny about the clip Goldy posted, not the show as a whole.
False. I did both.
Regarding the show, you claimed to have a “distate” (sic) for it …
Your use of “sic” is inappropriate, as there is nothing wrong with my usage of the word. Try a dictionary.
Of course, you also claimed that it is “just stupid,” but, as we’ve seen by your hilarious comments here, stupid can be funny indeed.
Incorrect. I said that AS OPPOSED to being funny, it is JUST stupid. The word “just” implies it is not funny.
You’re dismissed, with prejudice.
Yawn.
Kids, let this be a lesson to you. If you’re drinking alcoholic beverages, DON’T POST YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE INTERNET.
Just think how embarrassed you’ll be when you sober up and realize that huffily defending made-up words is actually the most coherent part of your comment.