Family Guy – The Beginning

Family Guy - The BeginningFamily guy is an animated television show that uses story premises along with humor in their episodes.They were criticized the most by Entertainment Weekly, and then Seth MacFarlane went back at them in an episode entitled “There’s Something About Paulie” where Peter is going to the bathroom and he uses their magazine as if it were toilet paper. The television show South Park even takes a hit at Family guy. In the South Park episode entitled “Cartoon Wars,” they portray the Family Guy writers as manatees who simply push rubber balls which are their “idea balls” into a rubber bin. Of course other cartoonists criticized Family Guy because all of the animated shows like them are in competition with the others plus it makes for some good laughs.

The humor in Family Guy is adult in nature, although the fact it is a cartoon give the impression that it could be child appropriate.  Unfortunately, children under a certain age should not be watching the show, as the situations and events that take place are often times over their heads as well as inappropriate for their ages.  Luckily for us adults, the humor is timeless even when the events mentioned are time sensitive.  This is evident by the strong numbers in DVD sales which were the very reason that Family Guy still exists till this day.  By poking fun at the everyday activities most people subject themselves to, this show will continue to venture onto new stages of comedic genius, cementing its place as one of the best cartoon series to grace the often belittled Fox lineup.


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  1. Lola Said,

    March 10, 2009 @ 5:22 pm

    hahaha ahahahahahahahahahahahahha

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