Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I like Family Guy and appreciate all the references, but the show seems very random - it seems that merely including a pop reference is considered to be funny and clever. In the heyday of the Simpsons, movie references were well-thought-out and really made me laugh, but now with shows like family guy it's just 'hey, there's Boba Fett, hahaha'.
I like Family Guy and appreciate all the references, but the show seems very random - it seems that merely including a pop reference is considered to be funny and clever. In the heyday of the Simpsons, movie references were well-thought-out and really made me laugh, but now with shows like family guy it's just 'hey, there's Boba Fett, hahaha'.
I can sort of agree with you there, perhaps. The show is very random. But I would say that randomness can be very funny. It's unexpected and wrong in its own ways. I often find that I laugh far more over an episode of Family Guy after I've watched it than during. Sometimes the jokes are just hard to absorb at the very moment you see them.