How is this show still going? I don't think this show has even the twentieth viewer numbers of its earlier seasons. I thought I was the only one dumb enough to still continue to watch the show, and I don't even pay for it!
So how is it that this show is still going? Bigger shows have been canceled over bigger viewership than this show.
It's honestly really sad that I don't even have more than 3 actual laughs in a season of this show anymore out of the 20 episodes they put out each season. There are one or two episodes that stand out each season or every other season, but that's it, out of 20 or something episodes, only one stands out and it's not even that good, but the standards have been lowered so much that a decent episode feels refreshing and great.
And the funny thing is, 95% of the time, those episodes are probably just referencing other shows and movies or just recreating some famous movies. So they still can't write a decent story for their own characters and world to save their lives.
American Dad has had a long run too, and that show too is not as funny and creative as it once was, but the new American Dad is like 7/10 if the earlier seasons were 9/10. But Family Guy's later seasons or maybe even the second half of the seasons have been a 5/10 - if we're being generous - compared to the 8/10 it was in the earlier seasons.
American Dad is the total contrast to this show and its writers. The opposite of what I said about the decent episodes of this show can be applied to American Dad. There are only a couple of bad episodes per season and even those have their actually funny moments that make you laugh.
That show has its own unique characters and settings and writers take advantage of that and actually care enough about the characters to make them included in their episodes and the stories they write, whereas in Family Guy, the kids don't even appear more than 2 minutes in some episodes.
American Dad actually writes plots and stories about the characters compared to FG which relies on pop culture references every minute to make boomers laugh or something, and American Dad is ironically more mature and adult than this show and it's ten times funnier.
This episode's plot was just plain uninteresting. Mayor West was fairly interesting at first when he was introduced, but now has become a boring uninteresting character and this was probably his most mid plot ever.
I much rather them go back to evil Stewie and his sci-fi shenanigans with Brian, and Peter hanging out with Jesus again, than watch another boring "plot" - if you can call it that - about a boring character and his dad or something.
They should either actually sit down and think of decent plots that involve at least half the main family and actually earn their paycheck, or just end the show and spare us the misery of watching the nth episode of season 35 with another boring unfunny and uninteresting story.
So how is it that this show is still going? Bigger shows have been canceled over bigger viewership than this show.
It's honestly really sad that I don't even have more than 3 actual laughs in a season of this show anymore out of the 20 episodes they put out each season. There are one or two episodes that stand out each season or every other season, but that's it, out of 20 or something episodes, only one stands out and it's not even that good, but the standards have been lowered so much that a decent episode feels refreshing and great.
And the funny thing is, 95% of the time, those episodes are probably just referencing other shows and movies or just recreating some famous movies. So they still can't write a decent story for their own characters and world to save their lives.
American Dad has had a long run too, and that show too is not as funny and creative as it once was, but the new American Dad is like 7/10 if the earlier seasons were 9/10. But Family Guy's later seasons or maybe even the second half of the seasons have been a 5/10 - if we're being generous - compared to the 8/10 it was in the earlier seasons.
American Dad is the total contrast to this show and its writers. The opposite of what I said about the decent episodes of this show can be applied to American Dad. There are only a couple of bad episodes per season and even those have their actually funny moments that make you laugh.
That show has its own unique characters and settings and writers take advantage of that and actually care enough about the characters to make them included in their episodes and the stories they write, whereas in Family Guy, the kids don't even appear more than 2 minutes in some episodes.
American Dad actually writes plots and stories about the characters compared to FG which relies on pop culture references every minute to make boomers laugh or something, and American Dad is ironically more mature and adult than this show and it's ten times funnier.
This episode's plot was just plain uninteresting. Mayor West was fairly interesting at first when he was introduced, but now has become a boring uninteresting character and this was probably his most mid plot ever.
I much rather them go back to evil Stewie and his sci-fi shenanigans with Brian, and Peter hanging out with Jesus again, than watch another boring "plot" - if you can call it that - about a boring character and his dad or something.
They should either actually sit down and think of decent plots that involve at least half the main family and actually earn their paycheck, or just end the show and spare us the misery of watching the nth episode of season 35 with another boring unfunny and uninteresting story.