Family Guy

[silent_reaper]

Surely Seth McFarlane has to be aware that the past couple seasons of Family Guy are incredibly stale, especially in comparison to the first few seasons.

[crapshot2]

well, the lost most of the origonal writers when it went off the air.

it appears that any writer that is even a little bit funny got sent to american dad.

[Goldar]

Surely he hasn't sold out by now.

[Asian_Minority]

entropy

[Satoh]

Because the premise got old.

[Nyanya]

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silent_reaper wrote:

Surely Seth McFarlane has to be aware that the past couple seasons of Family Guy are incredibly stale, especially in comparison to the first few seasons.

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Who needs to put effort into their work when they are salaried for 100 million dollars?

[Astromang]

Years after it was taken off the air, it was discovered by teenagers and preteens who liked it when the fat guy fought with the big chicken. This became the fanbase of family guy and they have catered to it.

THE END

[HolyLoliSoul]

EPILOGUE

Family Guy makes money. Nothing else matters...Metallica.

[lillhammer78]

Filler **beast**

Character 'development' **beast**

Computer animation, light/shadow **beast**

Complete focus on only the characters Seth voices **beast**

Dated material like 2 girls 1 cup video reaction **beast**

It was a great show in it's time. It's time has LONG passed. Seth went from using his pen to write some real great stuff into using his pen to sign the paychecks of the dozens of people he subcontracts his shows development out to.

[naraku361]

Family Guy had quality?

[mochi]

Because Seth Mcfarlane is deliberately making the show horribly offensive and disgusting because that's what Fox wants

[Kharlatasznazka]

Over the years I have noticed that a lot of Family Guy content gets recycled. I think Family Guy's prime has definitely passed on and now it's just a flat comedy show that relies on stupid antics of the characters then actual funny comedic script in my opinion.

But, I still watch it because I usually have nothing else to watch and it makes great background noise for when I'm wasting my time away on the internet, which is twenty-four seven mind you.

It would be nice if Aaron McGruder can actually get his sh!t together and bring on more seasons of the Boondocks, but I digress.

But oh well.

[Satoh]

I think it went stale when it started to spoof itself.

[Kharlatasznazka]

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Satoh wrote:
I think it went stale when it started to spoof itself.

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Agreed.

[Victor_Noir]

It's quite simple. Success creates overconfidence. Overconfidence creates hubris. Hubris leads one to the belief that whatever product you give to your adoring public, that it'll be a great success. You create crappy episodes, people will still eat that **beast** up like it was given to you on a silver platter. When you have a successful product, there's no need to think about how I can make it a better product. There's no need to change the Family Guy dynamic. If you stuff your episodes full of insipid pop culture references slathered with Peter Griffin belly laughs.. there's no need to think of creating something better. OH IVE CREATED YOU THIS SUPER AWESOME FAMILY GUY EPISODE, NOW WHERE'S MY PAYCHECK?!? .. And when you put your paycheck above the quality of the product, when you think your product is super duper when its all formulaic crap, that is the folly of all television.

[Kharlatasznazka]

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Victor_Noir wrote:

It's quite simple. Success creates overconfidence. Overconfidence creates hubris. Hubris leads one to the belief that whatever product you give to your adoring public, that it'll be a great success. You create crappy episodes, people will still eat that **beast** up like it was given to you on a silver platter. When you have a successful product, there's no need to think about how I can make it a better product. There's no need to change the Family Guy dynamic. If you stuff your episodes full of insipid pop culture references slathered with Peter Griffin belly laughs.. there's no need to think of creating something better. OH IVE CREATED YOU THIS SUPER AWESOME FAMILY GUY EPISODE, NOW WHERE'S MY PAYCHECK?!? .. And when you put your paycheck above the quality of the product, when you think your product is super duper when its all formulaic crap, that is the folly of all television.

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Very much agreed.

[railroadengine]

Seth knows he can live off of 20th century Fox regardless of the programming quality knowing most people are idiots and will watch just about anything.

[MasterEv]

well more than half of every good series starts beating the dead horse after a while. . . I still watch that one tho

Southpark on the other hand, I've not been sure why I still watch for years now >_>

[greyshirt]

i think it's time for Family Guy to rap things up. 

[silent_reaper]

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crapshot2 wrote:

well, the lost most of the origonal writers when it went off the air.

it appears that any writer that is even a little bit funny got sent to american dad.

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This theory would actually make a lot of sense

[Buddyroe360]

Coincidentally, you can find the answer in Family Guy.

[westpark]

Several reasons. One, McFarlane is doing 3 shows right now, so he's spread thin. Another reason is that he's rich, so he has less incentive to be edgy. Next, the newer writers use recycled Bush-era American Dad jokes that aren't funny.

Last....like every movie/novel series/anime/tv show --- as it goes on it jumps the shark several times. Its making so much money though that McFarlane/Fox/[as] will never let it go till they've milked it dry. The franchise is a billion dollar gold mine. No way in hell they're letting it go that easily.

[westpark]

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Nyanya wrote:

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silent_reaper wrote:

Surely Seth McFarlane has to be aware that the past couple seasons of Family Guy are incredibly stale, especially in comparison to the first few seasons.

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Who needs to put effort into their work when they are salaried for 100 million dollars?

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Exactly. mcfarlane is fat rich & lazy. Why work hard?

[westpark]

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Astromang wrote:

Years after it was taken off the air, it was discovered by teenagers and preteens who liked it when the fat guy fought with the big chicken. This became the fanbase of family guy and they have catered to it.

THE END

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Agree w/u on somethign for once astro.

[BUU8800]

The funny thing is MacFarlane himself has said he thinks the show should have ended by now.