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Posted by Jonathan Worthing (Member # 803) on 01-18-2008, 06:38 AM:

[joe]

may wish to disagree.

Lets have a race.

first to 200 posts
Less your 34 posts to this point 18 Jan 2008

Posted by Dave Ritchie (Member # 4030) on 01-18-2008, 02:20 PM:

Makes me laugh - I'll put my vote here

Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 01-18-2008, 04:24 PM:

Love and Hate are such strong emotions to harbor towards a television show, but I really do enjoy "Family Guy."

Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 01-18-2008, 04:51 PM:

I laugh at the show more often than not. (vote)

Posted by Jeremy Weigel (Member # 4208) on 01-18-2008, 05:42 PM:

Not as funny as first few seasons, but still makes me laugh.

Posted by Christopher Duvall (Member # 284) on 01-18-2008, 07:07 PM:

I am in...

Posted by Clint Koch (Member # 1179) on 01-18-2008, 07:08 PM:

Makes me laugh.

Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 01-18-2008, 07:52 PM:

Seeing as the Hate thread has a fair fraction of posts in defense of the show, this one may end up going the way of the "Where the HECK is your CAT's picture" thread (ie: locked sooner rather than later). But I'll put in my official vote anyway.

[beer]

Posted by Peter David Bruce (Member # 4447) on 01-19-2008, 05:39 AM:

top prog

Posted by Paul Burt (Member # 3743) on 01-19-2008, 11:27 AM:

Funniest and most outrageous show on TV.

Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 01-19-2008, 11:46 AM:

I enjoy it. Formulaic and predictable, but I enjoy it.

Except the singing... often the singing drags me down.

Posted by Shane Cooper (Member # 2510) on 01-19-2008, 02:43 PM:

Dumb, immature, and sophomoric. However, I need some of that in my life and Family Guy provides the funny. My vote is here.

Posted by Robert John Jeromson (Member # 2559) on 01-19-2008, 04:59 PM:

Add mine too [beer]

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 01-19-2008, 05:41 PM:

It's rude and subversive. I love it. Even the singing.

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 01-20-2008, 12:08 PM:

I just can't figure out how they get away with such direct attacks on known figures, usually in the entertainment business -- in a talk about being a good mother, Peter says something like, "yah a good mother like Britney Spears," then cut to a picture of BS holding an infant and putting out a cigarette on the infant's head where there already exists a big indentation. I mean, how can they get away with stuff like that? I don't really care because it's really hits my funnybone.

Anyway, yah, I vote YES here cause its a show that when I do get to watch it, I have to make it a point not to be drinking any liquids because unexpectedly it can make me laugh so hard that whatever I am drinking will be shooting out my nose. Not many comedies on TV can do that, and it does it without a freakin laugh track. (I will not watch ANY comedy that has a laugh track....it's insulting to everyone's intelligence -- either it's funny or it isn't; I don't need to be "told" what I am supposed to laugh at. And the idiocy of it is, you hear this raucous laughter and you look at everyone watching with you and 9 times out of 10 they are not even braking a smile.)

Oh yah, btw, I was house sound engineer on an HBO special a number of years ago for a comedy starring Robert Klien and Stockard Channing; there was an audience at the tapings. We taped three runs of it. There were quite a few jokes that in all of the three runs, they never got a even a mild laugh, but when it played on HBO, there was hysterical laughter on the soundtrack. So when they say, "filmed before a live audience, (as opposed to a dead one) it means, there was an audience, yah, but for all anyone knows, they could all be sitting there with frowns on their faces, but nonetheless, the guffaws will come wild and furious from your TV and it's just as canned as before they had studio audiences. It's deceptive, it's a lie, it's phoney and it says something about our shallow culture that the majority of viewers are perfectly ok with being led around by the nose....sheeple.

Er....so, um, yeah...I vote YES. [thumbsup]

Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 01-20-2008, 12:30 PM:

So I'm guessing you Family Guy lovers also love The Monkees, Panburger Partner, The Snorks and the Ford Ranchero?

Ah crap, I just added a vote...

Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 01-20-2008, 12:58 PM:

I think celebreties have had numerous libel and slander lawsuits thrown out because they are "public" figures...
As for the laugh track, the darkest use for it that I'm aware of is in Natural Born Killers, where Rodney Daingerfield is berating his daughter.
I think I can make most any episode of COPS more interesting (and surreal) by inserting a laugh track. (I don't have the software for that, sadly.)

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-22-2008, 02:57 AM:

Another vote. Stewie rules!

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 01-22-2008, 10:49 AM:

Stewie....a perverted, filty-minded, self-centered, psychopatic, homicidal infant with an English accent....what a concept!!

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 01-22-2008, 02:49 PM:

[thumbsup]

It keeps me sane watching a couple of episodes late at night after a long service session.

Looking forward to watching my Blue Harvest Special Edition tomorrow night! [Big Grin]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 01-23-2008, 03:51 AM:

quote: Frank Angel
...a perverted, filty-minded, self-centered, psychopatic, homicidal...

I like that in a person... [thumbsup]

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 01-23-2008, 09:38 AM:

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quote: Frank Angel
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...a perverted, filty-minded, self-centered, psychopatic, homicidal...
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I like that in a person...

So Phil you got a downer on the English accent my colonial friend [Wink]