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It might be hard to remember all these years later, but Stewie was Family Guy’s major breakout character during the…
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Reviews - Family Guy
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Spinoffs are risky business. It’s easy to look at a popular supporting character and say, “Man, I wish that guy had…
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B
So this episode is called “Meg Stinks!” The title, at first, does not bode particularly well—the Meg hatred well has…
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D+
Family Guy makes a lot of offensive jokes. This is nothing new, and not something that’d really be worth spending a…
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B+
Family Guy is most successful when it can land a couple of solid jokes in an episode. That sounds like (and to some…
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Throughout these reviews, I’ve often noted (probably excessively) that for a while now, the best part of Family Guy h…
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B
Phew. “Secondhand Spoke” is just a solid, middle-of-the-road episode of Family Guy, and after the last couple of…
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D
How many incest jokes is it cool for a half hour comedy to make? Is there a manual of taboo subjects somewhere that…
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B
“3 Acts Of God” exists in a fantasy world where Bill Belichick still coaches the New England Patriots but Tom Brady…
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That much of the best material sitcoms produce is dramatic instead of comedic isn’t that surprising—the expectation…
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Sitcom plots often exist solely to service fake emotional beats which don’t ever come back—say a character gets a…
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Often, Family Guy’s off-format episodes can be its funniest—the first fan mailbag episode and “Blue Harvest” come to…
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D
As a heads-up, the air time on this episode was weird and my DVR cut off the last couple of minutes. I suppose…
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B+
So, yeah, Brian was always going to come back, and more likely than not it wasn’t going to last too long—until just…
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The most obvious sign that tonight’s episode represents a new era for Family Guy comes in the opening credits, as…
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When the news broke that Family Guy was going to kill off one of the Griffins during this newest season, Brian would…
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One of Family Guy’s defining attributes is the way it burns through stock sitcom plots—often several over the course…
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D
Last week’s episode was a surprisingly effective character piece, getting at the sympathetic as well as the funny in…
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B+
“Quagmire’s Quagmire” puts the viewer into something of a quagmire (I am so, so sorry). With the exception of the…
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C+
Two weeks in, it’s become clear to me that Family Guy is a hard show to write about (I should have known this).…
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