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[McDuffies]

Lot of references from Loony Tunes aren't that obscure nowadays. I mean you don't have to have lived in 40ies to be able to reckognize Peter Lorre caricature.
I would rather compare Family Guy to, say, Josie and the Pussycats. Back then, kids playing guitars and solving mysteries were what sold well, nowadays it's satire and pop-culture references.

[Killbert-Robby]

Lot of references from Loony Tunes aren't that obscure nowadays. I mean you don't have to have lived in 40ies to be able to reckognize Peter Lorre caricature.
I would rather compare Family Guy to, say, Josie and the Pussycats. Back then, kids playing guitars and solving mysteries were what sold well, nowadays it's satire and pop-culture references.

But like was mentioned before, satire and pop-culture references have been around since, well, forever. It's not exactly a novel formula. I'd say Reality TV is more reasonable for the "this is only going to sell this generation" title.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

Yeah, I see the point you're all making. I guess to me it just seems that when Family Guy makes a reference they're so much more... obnoxious about it. Like a character will actually lampshade that they're about to make a reference, whereas in the older cartoons it was more subtle. In a Looney Tunes short the joke doesn't rely on the fact that they are making a pop culture reference- the joke is... well, whatever the joke is. And if you got the reference it added to the humor.

Maybe I'm just being myopic about it but I feel like Family Guy just stopped trying to make actual jokes and Seth McFarlane decided Cultural Reference + Voice of GodBrian = Comedy Genius. And somehow that's working.

[IVstudios]

I feel like Family Guy just stopped trying to make actual jokes and Seth McFarlane decided Cultural Reference + Voice of GodBrian = Comedy Genius.

Don't forget to reuse the few good jokes you have over and over again. And again. And Again.

[Phact0rri]

For the family guy:

-Delivery is horrid.
-Repeating the same action a billion times.. when its not funny the first time, is pretty annoying.
-Tactless things, that are more sad than funny.

[Killbert-Robby]

I like how when it comes to Family Guy, humor is suddenly entirely objective.

[McDuffies]

What you guys say times two, since I think that it was never particularly good to begin with. By now they know they're doing a lame and unfunny show, and they're apparently hoping that by overdoing it, they'll somehow make it so bad it's good or something.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

I like how when it comes to Family Guy, humor is suddenly entirely objective.

Is this directed at me or just in general?

[Killbert-Robby]

I like how when it comes to Family Guy, humor is suddenly entirely objective.

Is this directed at me or just in general?

In general, and in an ironic sense.

[Bustertheclown]

I like how when it comes to Family Guy, humor is suddenly entirely objective.

Is this directed at me or just in general?

In general, and in an ironic sense.

Apparently, some comedy is so bad it doing its job that it has the power to teach.

[Killbert-Robby]

Is this directed at me or just in general?

In general, and in an ironic sense.

Apparently, some comedy is so bad it doing its job that it has the power to teach.

Apparently some comedy is so bad that I guess it does weird things like appeal to other people.

[Bustertheclown]

Apparently some comedy is so bad that I guess it does weird things like appeal to other people.

And those people are poor students.

[Phact0rri]

I like how when it comes to Family Guy, humor is suddenly entirely objective.

Comedy is obective. It has to be or it'd not be billed as something that's supposed to make you laugh.

[Killbert-Robby]

I like how when it comes to Family Guy, humor is suddenly entirely objective.

Comedy is obective. It has to be or it'd not be billed as something that's supposed to make you laugh.

In the same way water's supposed to be wet, but someone people find water in a sink painfully hot while others are fine with it. I don't even know why you'd bring up completely pointless smartassing.

[Phact0rri]

I like how when it comes to Family Guy, humor is suddenly entirely objective.

Comedy is obective. It has to be or it'd not be billed as something that's supposed to make you laugh.

In the same way water's supposed to be wet, but someone people find water in a sink painfully hot while others are fine with it. I don't even know why you'd bring up completely pointless smartassing.

Yes I suppose some people are okay with scolding water, just like some people are okay with bad timing, and delivery in slap-stick. That doesn't necessarily make it unfunny to everyone, it just makes it hard to watch for people who are a bit more sensitive to these sorts of things.