Originally posted by: maddog00
Wasn't Family Guy ALWAYS about random pop culture references and nonsensical plots?

I thought that was their gimmick.

Yeah, but there is too much of a good thing. In the past, you'd have a main plot, and, every so often, they'd cut away to the nonsequiter flashbacks, and it'd be funny. Now, you barely have a plot because all the flashbacks constitute the entire episode.

It's like how the Fonz was a cooler character on Happy Days when he was a minor character. Then they made him the star, and it wasn't as good.