Does anybody not like Family Guy?

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I've never seen a full episode, but what I have seen hasn't impressed me. It doesn't seem to have the Simpson's capacity for rip roaring humour that lasts a whole episode.

There are a couple of fantastic jokes though...


Judge: In fact, If I could, I would put you in a place where you would be removed from the general public. Perhaps locked in a big, secure building with other dangerous people for a pre-determined period of time, based on the nature and degree of your offense. Unfortunately, as far as I know, no such place exists. So, I have no choice but to set you free.
Peter: Does that mean I get my kids back?
Judge: Absolutely not! Case closed! [bangs his gavel]
Peter: Oh, crap! [to the judge] Oh, it was prison you were thinking of. Prison.
Judge: Aw, I already banged the hammer.

Personally I have no problem with making light of sensitive or serious subjects at all. I'm a fan of South Park, for instance. I don't think there is a subject that can't be joked about.
I like some of the jokes on Family Guy, but some of it is too boring for me. None of it is offensive.

It is a rather gross show, but they do some jokes on it that make me glad I tuned in.

Of course, I like dark and off-color humor.

Never saw it.

I don't like looking at it because the main guy's chin looks like a scrotum . Someone told me that it was intentional.

Agreed.

Personally, I can't stand watching any recent episodes of Family Guy.

Well Family Guy is just dumb humor aimed at the lowest denominator of of viewership. As is American Dad, and the Cleveland show. American Dad being the stupidest, and Cleveland being better but not by much.

That said, they are all funnier than Brickleberry. (BTW better than Simpsons, bobs burgers,etc too as they stink too.) FOX's Sunday lineup is pretty meh....

This is why I watch Walking Dead, on Sundays....and Boardwalk Empire.

I agree with this. I don't find it offensive. However, I hate the show for other reasons. I just don't think it's very funny, and I can't watch because the characters are so ugly. The dad just disgusts me. I don't ever want to see him on my TV.

I actually think Family Guy is funny, and it's my eight year old's favorite cartoon (I know, boo, hiss on me for letting her watch it).

I recently saw that episode again where Stewie turns the Cabana Club into 'pLace', the cool club for hip youngsters. While Peter is forced to return to third grade.

I thought it was a pretty good episode. Dunno if it counts as a 'newer' episode. Nothing too gross, fairly consistent with the two concurrent storylines, and most jokes worked pretty well.

yes i'm of the same opinion. I dont desire to be around the visually unpleasant in life.likewise for fictional characters. This discussion reminds me of the time i was at a neighbors house. The mother of a four year old was allowing him to watch family guy.so as to not change her own viewing habbits. I tried to make her see the folly in said actions. But the unintelligent are not often improved by discourse.

I can appreciate why there is a huge fanbase towards Family Guy - the very fast pacing of joke-joke-joke means there isn't time to dwell on the ones that fall flat or are even offensive. And having watched a few episodes myself in the past, there are some individual moments I found really entertaining, funny, witty or even nostalgic (like when Chris ended up in a Take On Me parody, or Stewie rides the '1-2-3-4-5!' pinball machine that I hadn't seen since my days of watching Sesame Street) albeit in an off-colour or dark fashion.

That said though, it's a very thin tightrope Family Guy balances on and all too often for me personally, the jokes are either so heavily-dependent on American pop culture (which is a nightmare for an outsider like me in the UK if the episode is political), or fall flat (because I personally find it too mean-spirited, juvenile or just out-and-out weird), or just plain aren't funny (usually whenever Brian or Stewie have episodes entirely dedicated to them dating or what have you) that I've given up on Family Guy altogether. Maybe Seth McFarland stretched himself far too thin with American Dad (moving to Time Warner I heard), the now-cancelled Cleveland Show, Ted (second movie in production), and the no-one's-sure-what's-happening-with-it Flintstones revival..., so the flaws in his original project are progressively worsening without his attention, or Family Guy has outstayed its welcome? Shame really as the animation's gotten better in recent years.

At any rate, Family Guy is just one of those things like Marmite - people either strongly love it or hate it. As long as the series keeps making money, FOX (or Comedy Central or whoever commissions it there) now, will keep going with it regardless of online consensuses. I'm just glad I saw it when I did.

It's rude and gross and not funny to me and I have no interest in it.

I liked it a lot during its first 3 (pre-cancellation) seasons. I watched it every week during its first run, and then bought the first two DVD sets for those first seasons. I was a big Simpsons fan too, but felt Family Guy was in some ways even funnier.

After it came back on the air after cancellation a couple years later though, it didn't feel quite as good. I bought the next DVD set, but stopped after that, because it was clear it just wasn't quite up to where it had been initially in terms of comedy value. I still watched it now and then, but it became more something I'd just turn on if I happened to be watching TV at the time, rather than go out of my way not to miss it like I initially used to.

Wow, I'm just surprised to find so many people who feel the way I do about it! I figured I was just easily offended.

We used to watch it when it was new, and there are things about the show that are very funny, scenes and lines we still quote. But I agree that it is visually unappealing... I understand having a style to your animation instead of photo-realism but yeah, it's just icky. (American Dad is even worse.) And there's so many character tropes; it's tiresome. The megalomaniac baby is a nice change, though...

But mostly we just ran into the same problem repeatedly mentioned here; it's offensive... they always go too far. You could be chuckling along at the humor and then they make one joke that wipes off the smile and ruins the moment. After a while, we decided it just wasn't worth it.

I haven't seen it in years, but I stopped watching it because I didn't think it was funny.