Current Events > I'm starting to realize that a lot of Family Guy jokes go on waaaay too long.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Like some scenes just feel like forever.
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The chicken fight joke is a good example of this.

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*hits knee*
OWWW
OWWW
OWWW
OWWW
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You're just figuring this out.
Family Guy honestly insults its viewers with this fill.
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the worst jokes are the ones where a character says something or there's some kinda visual gag, and one of the characters looks at the screen and goes, "get it?"
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LanHikari10 posted...

The chicken fight joke is a good example of this.

Those are actually interesting, although my sister disagrees.
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Although I do admit that sometimes they take things overboard, ie, the name Margaret Woolworth Carrington von Schumacher Chanel Astor Livingston Compte de Saint-Exupery Mountbatten Windsor Armani Roosevelt Von Trap wykenhamp Hearst Montgomery Rothschild Johnson & Johnson Twillsworth Dolce Gabana Von Zweiger II Montgomery de LaRoche Geico Vanderbilt Lannister van Burean Butterworth How I Met Your Mother Wrigley Louise-Dreyfus Ludwig Morgan Stanley Dumont Lamborghini Forbes higbee Winthrop Chanel Remy Martin Fitzwilliam Kennedy Motel Six Fairchild Brook Pritzker Davenport von Stolen Monty Python Ellisworth Aston Martin Haverbrook Ziff Launder Hilton DuPont Kinkaid Winslow Coors Oviatt Marlborough Pembroke Huffington Bush Mellon Sinclair Mellencamp Starbucks van Dyke III Montgomery Marriott Barrington Chadsworth Big League Chew Chesterfield Kensington Boothbishop Longbottom Nottingham Meisterberg Burgermeister Tudor Hapsburg Rockefeller Onassis.
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SiO4 posted...

You're just figuring this out.
Family Guy honestly insults its viewers with this fill.

Well I've been watching Family Guy episodes with my girlfriend after a long, long, long, long time of not watching any.

And there's just so many "jokes" that involve a character making sounds or repeating themselves over the course of a full minute.
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That's liberal comedy for you. A wall of text that could have been settled with a simple punch line

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pretty much any flashback that lasts over 10 seconds is bad.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

SiO4 posted...

You're just figuring this out.
Family Guy honestly insults its viewers with this fill.

Well I've been watching Family Guy episodes with my girlfriend after a long, long, long, long time of not watching any.

And there's just so many "jokes" that involve a character making sounds or repeating themselves over the course of a full minute.

Exactly, they are wasting your time.
It's the equivalent of vamping for time on the radio.

I really don't watch many cartoons, at this point in my life, but it is the one thing that turned me off from Family Guy.
It's insulting.
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My favorite episode is the one where they go to Texas cuz Stewie vomits communion.
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The Conway Twitty stuff sucked.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm7bgcRVhQ0" data-time="

One long joke I still like.
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Mistere Man posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm7bgcRVhQ0" data-time="

One long joke I still like.

That guy belongs in a spelling bee.
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Remember the Grey Poupon one where they LITERALLY showed the entire real life ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf_btxzYA0Y" data-time="
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YoshitoKikuchi posted...

Remember the Grey Poupon one where they LITERALLY showed the entire real life ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf_btxzYA0Y" data-time="

I never saw the commercial before, but I still found it funny because they explained it.
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Well the obvious reason is because theres not enough plot to fill an episode so they have to stretch it out with those long jokes.
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the bad jokes and the weird self-parody are the only good things about the show
it's an easy show to make fun of and it knows it and joins along with you

the ridiculously long name amuses me because they had the balls to immediately say the name later on in the scene
stuff like the conway twitty dances is boring, and then there's that lazy kind of joke where the show just explains something and then just cuts away to that thing without even attempting a twist, with really weak "ha ha just like real life get it" commentary

Mistere Man posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm7bgcRVhQ0" data-time="

One long joke I still like.

I still reference this whenever I think of Robert Loggia.
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coolwhip
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They still reusing jokes from 1999?

Anything about that show I found funny as a teen has been driven into the ground.

There's a bit where this rich girls last name is a bunch of company names combined that goes on for like a literal full minute and they do it 3 times in the episode. The bit isn't even funny before it becomes annoying. Im starting to think the annoyance was the bit.
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

There's a bit where this rich girls last name is a bunch of company names combined that goes on for like a literal full minute and they do it 3 times in the episode. The bit isn't even funny before it becomes annoying. Im starting to think the annoyance was the bit.

-Unowninator- posted...

Although I do admit that sometimes they take things overboard, ie, the name Margaret Woolworth Carrington von Schumacher Chanel Astor Livingston Compte de Saint-Exupery Mountbatten Windsor Armani Roosevelt Von Trap wykenhamp Hearst Montgomery Rothschild Johnson & Johnson Twillsworth Dolce Gabana Von Zweiger II Montgomery de LaRoche Geico Vanderbilt Lannister van Burean Butterworth How I Met Your Mother Wrigley Louise-Dreyfus Ludwig Morgan Stanley Dumont Lamborghini Forbes higbee Winthrop Chanel Remy Martin Fitzwilliam Kennedy Motel Six Fairchild Brook Pritzker Davenport von Stolen Monty Python Ellisworth Aston Martin Haverbrook Ziff Launder Hilton DuPont Kinkaid Winslow Coors Oviatt Marlborough Pembroke Huffington Bush Mellon Sinclair Mellencamp Starbucks van Dyke III Montgomery Marriott Barrington Chadsworth Big League Chew Chesterfield Kensington Boothbishop Longbottom Nottingham Meisterberg Burgermeister Tudor Hapsburg Rockefeller Onassis.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

There's a bit where this rich girls last name is a bunch of company names combined that goes on for like a literal full minute and they do it 3 times in the episode. The bit isn't even funny before it becomes annoying. Im starting to think the annoyance was the bit.

I said that earlier.

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It allows them to fill time for the required episode length when they have no other story ideas
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Illuminoius posted...

the bad jokes and the weird self-parody are the only good things about the show
it's an easy show to make fun of and it knows it and joins along with you

the ridiculously long name amuses me because they had the balls to immediately say the name later on in the scene
stuff like the conway twitty dances is boring, and then there's that lazy kind of joke where the show just explains something and then just cuts away to that thing without even attempting a twist, with really weak "ha ha just like real life get it" commentary

Tbh I love the Conway Twitty ones, but just because my parents used to listen to him all the time and I never heard anyone else or anywhere talk about him.

It made me feel special because I was the only one of my friends who knew who he was. And tbh I kind of like his music. Old country is kinda nice.
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Oop, my bad. He didn't clarify that they do it 3 times tho.
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People actually like episodes ending with Conway Twitty because the writers are to lazy to think of anything else? Jesus.

Greased up Deaf Guy was great until he appeared more than the first time.
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Collat posted...

People actually like episodes ending with Conway Twitty because the writers are to lazy to think of anything else? Jesus.

Before I woke up in the middle of the bit and didn't know what was happening.
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Collat posted...

People actually like episodes ending with Conway Twitty because the writers are to lazy to think of anything else? Jesus.

You know what is lazy? Wheel if fortune. Takes no effort to think of what to do with it. People still like to watch it.
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Irony posted...

Greased up Deaf Guy was great until he appeared more than the first time.

The Simpsons have the same issue. 1 demential characters created for one off jokes should only appear once. (Eg. Yes man and Crazy cat lady.)

Lost_All_Senses posted...

There's a bit where this rich girls last name is a bunch of company names combined that goes on for like a literal full minute and they do it 3 times in the episode. The bit isn't even funny before it becomes annoying. Im starting to think the annoyance was the bit.

I first saw this somewhere else but I didn't know they did it 3 times in an ep jFc lmao

-Unowninator- posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

There's a bit where this rich girls last name is a bunch of company names combined that goes on for like a literal full minute and they do it 3 times in the episode. The bit isn't even funny before it becomes annoying. Im starting to think the annoyance was the bit.

I said that earlier.

Oh shit, I didn't know you could hyperlink quotes like that.
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Banjo2553 posted...

-Unowninator- posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

There's a bit where this rich girls last name is a bunch of company names combined that goes on for like a literal full minute and they do it 3 times in the episode. The bit isn't even funny before it becomes annoying. Im starting to think the annoyance was the bit.

I said that earlier.

Oh shit, I didn't know you could hyperlink quotes like that.

I didn't either; that was just a test post. :P
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DuranOfForcena posted...

just look at Arrested Development season 4

I did, and it was horrifying!
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-Unowninator- posted...

I didn't either; that was just a test post. :P

How in the fuck

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I haven't watched Family Guy in a while, but I still laugh when I watch it.

from the nonsense flashbacks to the Conway Twitty shit, lol.

I'm amused by random nonsense, I guess. I still like watching that Kimmy Schmidt show too, lol
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