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Joe Redifer
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posted 01-15-2008 03:48 PM

quote: Peter David Bruce
i love it

I hate it.

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Ben Wales
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posted 01-15-2008 03:52 PM

I have never heard of it - should I?

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Joe Redifer
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posted 01-15-2008 03:55 PM

No!

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Peter David Bruce
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posted 01-15-2008 04:09 PM

ok so maybe its a little ridiculous and not EVERY show is as good as others, but it does have some hilarious moments and i suppose all the visual gags and character voice acting is why i enjoy it. you can just tell theyve had alot of fun making it.

its not as crude and in your face as south park, and its not as family friendly as simpsons... so its perfect for me. im not fussy, but i know what i like.

'this is almost as tense as that time i forgot how to sit down'
*throws himself into the chair head first*

its just simple humour i like i guess.

not for everyone, but maybe all us in the UK are into this kind of thing. its pretty popular over here.

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Hillary Charles
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posted 01-15-2008 04:15 PM

To me, the humor in that "Take On Me" sequence comes at the end, after Chris' mother asks him we he was all that time. The fear and confusion in Chris' voice is what makes me laugh.

The show is incredibly self-indulgent, seemingly purposely irrelevant, and often offensive. And it makes me laugh.

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David Stambaugh
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posted 01-15-2008 04:18 PM

quote: Hillary Charles
The show is incredibly self-indulgent, seemingly purposely irrelevant, and often offensive. And it makes me laugh.

What Hillary said! [beer]

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Joe Redifer
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posted 01-15-2008 04:38 PM

quote: Hillary Charles
The fear and confusion in Chris' voice is what makes me laugh.

But why is he fearful and confused when in the video he was dancing around like it was normal? I hope the writers never come back from their strike... they don't deserve to get paid!

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Peter David Bruce
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posted 01-15-2008 04:51 PM

perhaps he was lost in the moment, and on reflection thought 'oh buggery' and that is why he seems fearful and confused after.

just a thought - but hey, this is one small piece of the puzzle. and a bad bit, at that!

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Hillary Charles
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posted 01-15-2008 04:55 PM

I guess it was the guys with the wrenches that scared him out of his pop-induced revelry. [Confused]

I really wouldn't expect "Family Guy" to have a logical set of groud rules. I used to HATE Bugs Bunny when he'd stop himself from falling by drinking HARE TONIC (Stops Falling Hare), because that can't happen.

If you're hoping the writer's strike will keep the show out of production, you'll be very pleased when I relate some news I heard. Supposedly, FOX has taken the show away from Seth MacFarlane and will find a way to make new episodes.

But...are manatees in the writers' union?

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Brian Michael Weidemann
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posted 01-15-2008 06:30 PM

Regardless of how bad the show may or may not be, regardless of the reasons behind the strike or the terms of either side ... that's Seth MacFarlane's show, he does 90% of the voices, and he is its driving force.

That FOX, legally or not (however they may be doing it) is taking claim of it, is worse than a petulant toddler screaming "Mine, mine!" at the top of his lungs. Considering how begrudginly they took it back, it's sickening how they're, in some way, cutting off their proverbial nose to save face (to twist the cliche a bit).

There's a degree to which comedy isn't meant to be analyzed, especially for consistency or continuity, futhermore in such a self-aware and discontinuous show as FG.

Does one ask why the end of Blazing Saddles takes everyone into a theatre, in the logic of the movie itself? Does one ask where Monty Python's knights of the Round Table found the wood to make the Trojan Rabbit in Holy Grail, or find it confusing that "Scene 24" isn't actually the 24th scene?

If greats like that are impervious to such scrutiny, I think it's weak that a crappy little show like this should be shot to death because of it? [Big Grin]

Why is that funny, when it doesn't make sense? Because THAT'S what's funny about it!

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Tim Reed
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posted 01-15-2008 08:34 PM

quote: Peter David Bruce
maybe all us in the UK are into this kind of thing. its pretty popular over here.

I've always been deeply ingratiated to the British for Monty Python! Love 'those zany Monty Python boys!' [thumbsup]

quote: Hillary Charles
I used to HATE Bugs Bunny when he'd stop himself from falling by drinking HARE TONIC

I feel your pain. My brothers and I always got mad because the Coyote never caught the Road Runner, or that Tom never beat Jerry. [Razz]

Cartoons just have to exist in their own universes.

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Does one ask why the end of Blazing Saddles takes everyone into a theatre,

Actually, the part of this show where the street fight moves over to the soundstages used to lose me. Even as wacky as the film had been to that point, it abandoned its story and simply lost credibility there. It was a deus ex machina resolution. (Yes, EVERY movie establishes its own unique ground rules... things the audience will accept as probable within that universe... but things must happen within those boundaries.) I've since grown to appreciate it, but for the longest time I just had to throw my hands up in the air at that point in the movie.

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Joe Redifer
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posted 01-15-2008 08:37 PM

Please stop comparing good cartoons to a bad one. Family Guy is about fat people. Joy!

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Hillary Charles
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posted 01-15-2008 08:58 PM

Couldn't resist. I really don't wish anyone eternal damnation. [evil]

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Mike Heenan
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posted 01-15-2008 10:10 PM

quote: Tim
Actually, the part of this show where the street fight moves over to the soundstages used to lose me. Even as wacky as the film had been to that point, it abandoned its story and simply lost credibility there. It was a deus ex machina resolution. (Yes, EVERY movie establishes its own unique ground rules... things the audience will accept as probable within that universe... but things must happen within those boundaries.) I've since grown to appreciate it, but for the longest time I just had to throw my hands up in the air at that point in the movie.

I always thought it was hilarious... it's so absurd you have to laugh but yeah I can see your point . "PIss on you I work for Mel Brooks"

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Tim Reed
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posted 01-15-2008 10:48 PM

"Drive me off this picture." [Razz]

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