It might be hard to remember all these years later, but Stewie was Family Guy’s major breakout character during the…

Spinoffs are risky business. It’s easy to look at a popular supporting character and say, “Man, I wish that guy had his…

So this episode is called “Meg Stinks!” The title, at first, does not bode particularly well—the Meg hatred well has…

Family Guy makes a lot of offensive jokes. This is nothing new, and not something that’d really be worth spending a lot…

Family Guy is most successful when it can land a couple of solid jokes in an episode. That sounds like (and to some…

Throughout these reviews, I’ve often noted (probably excessively) that for a while now, the best part of Family Guy has…

Phew. “Secondhand Spoke” is just a solid, middle-of-the-road episode of Family Guy, and after the last couple of weeks,…

How many incest jokes is it cool for a half hour comedy to make? Is there a manual of taboo subjects somewhere that…

“3 Acts Of God” exists in a fantasy world where Bill Belichick still coaches the New England Patriots but Tom Brady is…

That much of the best material sitcoms produce is dramatic instead of comedic isn’t that surprising—the expectation of…

Sitcom plots often exist solely to service fake emotional beats which don’t ever come back—say a character gets a new,…

Often, Family Guy’s off-format episodes can be its funniest—the first fan mailbag episode and “Blue Harvest” come to…

As a heads-up, the air time on this episode was weird and my DVR cut off the last couple of minutes. I suppose “Peter…

So, yeah, Brian was always going to come back, and more likely than not it wasn’t going to last too long—until just…

The most obvious sign that tonight’s episode represents a new era for Family Guy comes in the opening credits, as the…

When the news broke that Family Guy was going to kill off one of the Griffins during this newest season, Brian would…

One of Family Guy’s defining attributes is the way it burns through stock sitcom plots—often several over the course of…

Last week’s episode was a surprisingly effective character piece, getting at the sympathetic as well as the funny in…

“Quagmire’s Quagmire” puts the viewer into something of a quagmire (I am so, so sorry). With the exception of the main…

Two weeks in, it’s become clear to me that Family Guy is a hard show to write about (I should have known this). Partly,…