This is unironically the best explanation of Family Guy I've ever seen, and I feel stupid for not seeing it. The ENTIRE show (Or, a big basis of it) really is just references to 80's movies and tv shows that usually my parents got more than me (I'm 29). AKA: Shows that people grew up watching in the 60's through the 80's. I think even Seth Macfarlane, all the way back in Season 1, was asking these questions right in the theme song. I took it as a self aware joke, Tariq just nailed it so well. It's a real question. What happened to those values?
Cutaway gags are Family Guy's greatest strength and weakness. It's rapid-fire comedy worked well when it was balanced by the plot making the story not too heavy and not too light. However, the amount of cutaway gags increased each season leaving less time for the main story favoring style over substance.
Another problem with modern FG cutaways are they're literally "says joke, is joke". Early cuts were left open ended or had a little more to them if they were said. Like the Black to the Future cutaway, there was nothing from the actual plot that brings up what the joke would be until the joke starts. ua-cam.com/video/x7a8F4GKM9M/v-deo.html
@@icecreamhero2375 That's not true. A slower pace and less cutaway gags works well... if you have the characters to work with it. That's why the first three seasons are so universally praised, they didn't constantly assault you with cutaway gags and had characters that were actually likable. The reason 19 and 20 fail is because the lack of cutaway gags doesn't hold up much when you realize there's almost no likable characters in modern family guy. Even the main family all feels like they genuinely hate eachother, contrary to the first three seasons when the family actually cared about eachother and every character on the show wasn't an awful person lol
@@Robbie_Haruna Season 19 was atrocious. It is the worst season in the history of the show. I miss the Looney Tunes energy it used to have now it feels sluggish. The jokes used to be flying left and right now there are fewer jokes. I'm not just talking about cutaways. I am taking about regular jokes too. There were some gems Last No L, The Marrying Kind, Customer of the Week and Peterminator, The rest were mediocre or horrible.They had a bunch of bad story lines and kept repeating the same joke over and over again in literally every episode. Example: Brain dying in La Familia Guy. 20 is slightly better. They have better storylines and they got rid of the running gag issue for the most part.
By this logic, those "jokes" about Bob's Burgers and Bojack Horseman suddenly make sense. At first glance you could assume that it's just the writers sticking it to the competition, but by this logic, it's Peter just assuming that these newer cartoons are lame compared to his show because of how they embrace newer values. Hence why Peter called Bojack Horseman "normal words but a horse guy". It's not that that's all the writers assume the show is. It's that that's all it is to Peter, because he didn't bother watching more than the first few episodes, hence why there's still a D or the Hollywood sign.
Ok real question about ths show Bojack Horseman, is that show that depressing as the cutways i've seen on youtube? I never seen that show, but idk seems too drepressing to me.
@@bluebeka2458 It can be pretty depressing and hard to watch at times. It’s an amazing show but it’s not for everyone. Season 1 gets real and heavy but it’s not nearly as rough as the later seasons so if you’re willing to give it a shot I’d say watch season one and see how you feel. The first few episodes are mostly comedic.
@@bluebeka2458 It's a mix of funny and depressing. It deals with themes like addiction, depression, abuse, infertility, and how hollywood basically ruins its child stars, and it takes these themes very seriously. But there's also a lot of light hearted humor and the show takes a very hopeful stance towards most of its darker issues. I feel like a lot of these shows that deal with serious topics try to be depressing or shocking for the sake of it, whereas the issues in Bojack feel much more real and grounded. Season 1 is a bit different that the rest of the series, as the writers' weren't sure yet if they were going to be able to tell the kind of story they wanted to, so I wouldn't judge it based off the first few episodes. If you're okay with stories that touch on heavy themes, I cannot recommend it enough.
I think that's my whole issue with Seth MacFarlane in general. I'm not saying he's not funny, and I'm not saying he's not a good writer. I'm not even saying he's not a great performer, he absolutely is. I just think that he's kind of lazy and a little smug. He tells us nostalgia is a poison, and he does it in front of a brass band, wearing one of Frank Sinatra's suits. I get the joke, it's an obvious joke, but I'm not 100% sure that he gets that it's about him, too.
I think he nailed exactly what Seth was trying to tell people through the show, but over time, it got lost and he realized people just prefer nonsense drama rather than Peter growing and learning. Even King Of The Hill Writers often talk about how FOX prevented them from really.. evolving, or letting any characters grow. Luanne went from going to college and being a mechanic, to being an idiot that married a hick. Bill, despite finding happiness several times, it's wripped away the next episode and forgotten. FOX literally said "Nah.. we need these characters to be suffering constantly, that's what people want to see" - I wish they would've let us see Luanne flourish as a graduate or a mechanic, or let us see Bill live a happy life with his new wife, (Kahn's mother, Laoma) - I'm probably getting in my feelings here, but I find it strange that this is such a repeating pattern in so many of today's popular cartoons. No one ever grows, no one ever learns, despite them shoving the lessons in the face of the viewer, they never show the actual character changing, because that could be risky. I think it would actually make people like the character more... as a random example.. I've only watched a few episodes of Adventure time, but seeing how characters actually learn a lesson, and it sticks with them into the next episode, is really cool, and so simple! I'd love to see that in other cartoons.
@@ZeranZeran You can even see this in live actions shows, like take Castle or even Bones for example. They teased the main leads attraction for eachother so much only to pull back at the last seccond. Or say in Bones, Temperance learned something incredibly valuable about herself and is able to finally open up and be a "normal" person, only for her to be rolled back in development for thr next big plot arc... like oml.
This is why im a Bob's Burgers stan. Everyone has their fare share of chaos, but at least they accept their family's chaos and they love each other for it.
Comparatively, The Simpsons went from a parody of the modern family into a proxy of its former self while Family Guy went from a mismatch of odd and quirky characters into a negative outlook of themselves. Like we have background characters that became a staple for the main cast like Hoarse the bartender where Peter and his friends all drink but now he’s been replaced by Jerome who could’ve been more than the new bartender. Joe went from a handicapped policeman into an incompetent man with a doomed marriage and that’s not taking into account the other characters who were killed off because their respective voice actors also passed away.
I stopped watching Family Guy well before Adam West passed away. Have they done anything for him? Last thing I remember was him getting married to Lois’s sister Carol.
@@Hyper_Drud there was an episode that actually explains how he was able to marry Carol without Carter’s backlash. There was a corruption scandal where everyone, Peter, Quagmire, Dr Hartman, Carter, Tom, and so on had to decide if he was innocent or guilty. Turns out that Carter only allowed Adam to marry Carol because he wanted to expand his dumping waste of something in exchange from it but Adam never let it happen. Every now and then Adam is shown to really care for Carol like genuinely care about his wife.
I guess this also explains a lot of the treatment of Meg. A lot of family shows often had a character who was a child or teen, that everyone joked about chasing off and basically bullied them.
What I like about bobs burger is that it’s an adult show that isn’t so cynical. With the sea of mean spirit or sad for the sake of being sad show, bob burger feel like a breath of fresh air
Amen. Bob and his family are actually capable of growth and show it often. Simpsons and Family guy return to the default value each episode, like an NPC in a game.
@@r.i.pmydog7723 What I like about bob's burgers is when Bob is selling his new fish burger, and that old lady comes up and YELLS to the crowd "It looks like a huge, misshapen penis!" _It's supposed to be a fish, not a rocket, or a penis...._ Old lady: _It's a penis!_ That old lady who is always mad at everything cracks me up. I live near like 10 of them.
@@ZeranZeran how are you sure that you arent an npc in a game that goes on for years? What's your earliest memory? Do you remember everything or are there blanks in your mind? What wil happen to you when the game resets? You entirely sure that you arent running on radiant a.i.?
As somebody who doesn't like Family Guy, I find dissections of it really intriguing. I love hearing about what people see in media or get out of media that I personally cannot. Gives me a new perspective even if I still don't end up liking said media.
I’ve always felt like in its early seasons, Family Guy was a show about a normal everyday family living in a messed up world. But as the series went on, it became more of mock of American culture in general. Which I don’t mind, but I think American Dad did it better.
I really like this perspective on the show, and I just wish it felt more impactful than it did sometimes. Some episodes you really do see how peter's media obsessed personality gets in the way of him being a normal person, and then others it just feels like we need to put that on the backburner to tell some jokes. It's perfectly fine that the show disregards this theme for the sake of comedy, but my problem is that it just isn't funny sometimes. Like with Peter just shooting his friends for fun, I don't know if we can chalk that up to him being taught the wrong lessons about friendship, and more so just the show needing a joke to tell and Peter being an asshole is a go to. I mean what can you do, if you got a show that runs for how long, it's gonna strip itself down to its most basic components in order to squeeze less of itself out dry, and in the case of Family Guy and the Simpsons all we get left is an animated comedy about animated jokes. The characters only get written like characters and not joke vessels when they get some inspiration to work with once in a blue moon.
This video has no joke gave me a new outlook on Family Guy and has honestly gained the show some of my respect. Not saying I ever disliked it or thought it was bad or anything, but I never thought about a show which to the average person is just slapstick and dirty jokes would be a little bit deeper.
from the older seasons, it really feels like this is more accurate to what the show wanted to be, it had heart and care put into it but still fit into that idea of 'what you see on tv won't always translate to real families'. Somewhere along the line though it felt like they abandoned this and just decided to become more ridiculous and insane for the sake of shock value, and lost that heart that Family Guy used to have, or most of it. The good stuff still peeks through, but not often :(
@@ToonrificTariq Why do you think the guy's opinion on the show's writing is untrue because he had valid reasons to not like the writing direction in the later seasons of family guy (which I myself felt the same way as well), and if he thinks the older seasons are better than the new ones, then that's perfectly fine, I mean not everyone is gonna like things that you enjoyed, and not everyone is gonna agree with your opinion on the show as some people will still think the show kinda went downhill when it went to seasonal rot, the same way that a lot of people feel about The Simpsons, SpongeBob, The Fairly Oddparents, and even to a certain extent, South Park, and if you don't agree with that person's comment, then that's also okay as well, so try to respect other people's opinions on a certain show, movie, and video game, but I will say this video you made yesterday was pretty good, since you put a lot of hard work and effort went into it, so keep up the good work you have there Mr. ToonrificTariq, your channel is pretty good 👍😊😄💐🌺🥀🥰😍😇🎉💌♥️❤️💋💋💋.
@@Twilight-zm6ro Some of that may have been forced by the network or another source, I got Seasons 1-4 on DVD and you can hear them cringing and poking fun at the more heartfelt scenes in the commentary (with the exception of Brian Wallows, Peter Swallows).
Asking for the definitive premise of "Family Guy" is like asking the same about SpongeBob. In terms of the latter, his first movie has that answer gift-wrapped!
SpongeBob SquarePants does have a theme: it's a critique on capitalism SpongeBob is the naive and hopeful underpaid fry-cook, to young to understand he's being used Squidward is the cynical doomer who's tired of being a wagie and just wants to live out his dreams Patrick is unemployed, yet his stoic outlook on life makes it seem like he's living the best life of the 3 Mr Krabs & Plankton speak for themselves but just incase, they're corporate Sandy is observing Bikini Bottom together with the gorilla we saw once, as a deal with Mr Krabs and then there's Gary
The Loosies have all been fire so far and I’m so glad they’re a regular thing. I think it’s super cool for you to be able to do these shorter form videos, not necessarily because they take less work but because it seems like you’re able to explore media in a different way than when you make a longer form video and I appreciate that cause not everything works with that. That being said, dope video! I think this was an interesting look into the theming of family guy and it’s one I certainly hadn’t considered before.
Well, the cartoon dads of old idea does make sense. Especially since Peter and Lois are often doing something that does reflect what is happening in very socially detached places. Getting involved in the tea party to stop government involvement, endorsing anti vaccination and falling victim to abstinence propaganda are all things Peter, and sometimes Lois, have done. Peter can be seen as Seth going “Yeah, this guy stuck his tongue in a fan and he’s doing what you think is okay. What does that say about you?”
Just made me realize why I like to watch so much of these nostalgic video reviewers. It's because I grew up almost exclusively on TV and had so little friends, that that's all I really have to look back on and be fond of. I did not expect to see a video of that made me open my eyes but here we are.
Just wanna leave a comment and say that I really love what youre doing here man. all your videos are insightful, fun, and nostalgic AF. thanks for all your work and PLEASE keep at it.
I desperately want a semi serious drama about a guy who's living life like he's a 80s TV dad and suffering because of it, with him making cutaway gags that only occur in his mind
You had us in the first half, not gonna lie. But on a serious note, you’ve put forward an interesting theory I’d never considered before. Taking Family Guy at face value is very difficult though (even Brian Wallows & Peter’s Swallows is about an interspecies romance played completely straight), so I don’t know how many writers over the years were aware of how Peter’s mindset informs his behaviour. Who knows, I don’t even think Seth knows sometimes.
Yo man thank you for this awesome video. I love it when people look at things from a different vantage point. I've always loved Family Guy for its randomness, but now I love it even more because maybe it's not. Thank you again, man.
Yeah this show got tired for me real quick. With Homer as bad as he is you know he still loves his kids even Bart. But how they were forever treating their daughter. On Family Guy. I was like that stop being funny a long time ago.
i always thought it was interesting how when a group of male writers didn’t know how to write a teenage girl it evolved into her being beaten and mistreated every episode
The turning point was S8, in particular the Brian/Quagmire subplot in "Jerome is the New Black". While an amusing deconstruction of Brian on its own, it then became the standard approach for every character who's appeared more than a few times. Stick around long enough, you're the most flawed, jackassiestst version of the character.
But Lisa didn't got physically harmed by Homer at least, she was neglected or laughed at by her father Homer, but i guess there some times where he kinda cared about her (in the earlier seasons), even tho they have totally different ideologies. But Meg on the other had, was completely physically harmed, humiliated and neglected over and over again.
This is the best analysis of Family Guy I’ve ever seen. The show is clearly hit-or-miss (mostly miss nowadays) but I never saw this interpretation of the show articulated as perfectly as this.
Family Guy genuinely makes me feel like a terrible person. Or at least makes me very uncomfortable. The amount of times they tackled serious topics and failed faster than Ezra Miller destroying they’re career in the span of 2 months is insane to me and it’s really horrible.
Homer, throwing Emmies: It's over, Peter! I have the high ground Peter: Hey that's no fair, I don't got none of them! Tariq: *Amazing, every word of what you just said...was wrong* We're lucky there's a family guy who positively can do all the things that make us laugh and cry
I appreciate your insight, man. The series to me felt the same way. But I’d also see how the series would be something completely different for someone else who wants to watch a funny cartoon. I’m glad I stopped watching it when I did along with not seeing a single episode of South Park either.
Whoever edits your videos is freaking phenomenal. If you edit on top of writing your essays, your talent is off the charts!! I hope your channel becomes a house hold name
I don't like Family Guy, I think because I was tired of the jokes, and never will, but listening to you makes me feel like there was a little thought put into the story. Sometimes. If that lesson is what they were going for, damn wish they had sprinkled it in more episodes.
It’s throughout the entire show lol that’s what this video is about. Majority of episodes about Peter raising his family / his marriage with Lois is about this stuff.
@@ToonrificTariq I never saw it, but I also wasn't giving the show enough credit to be anything other than silly nonsense. thanks for giving me a new perspective on this show. I always learn something new on this channel.
honestly this perspective on family guy is rly interesting and could make for a really great commentary on how our childhood media shapes our current morals and how we need to be in a constant battle to be better people! its a shame its wasted on family guy lol
Great perspective! The beginning of the intro always reminded me of All in the Family. I think, in a sense, the show was always based off the pastiche of "those were the days," but with the "good old days" being transposed to Star Wars in the theater and glorifying the 80s, a time when pop media first started to really saturate the world. I also always think about the Venture Bros creators lamenting on DVD commentary about how Family Guy wasn't afraid to just run a gag into the ground for minutes, and how that took a lot of boldness to run 5 minutes of just Conway Tweety singing. It seems like that kind of joke is something the show has maybe moved past, but in 2012ish, that really struck me.
I really enjoyed this one tariq. I like your passion for family guy. One thing i really like about you and johnny is that you seperate yourself from reviewers in a way. A lot seem salty and negative toward media, whereas you guys always try to find the positive in it. It gives a perspective that wants me to give later seasons a chance. I can tell you are an animator yourself because You are very good at constructive criticism rather than just being angry about it that not every episode is a banger. Keep up the good work
My opinion of Family Guy has changed a lot since I first discovered it as a kid. But I like your spin on it. Honestly never bothered to think too deeply about the themes of FG
This is the most in depth anyone has ever analyzed Family Guy in the history of ever!! And the scary thing is this is the most sense anyone has made analyzing Family Guy.
I always thought that I Never Met the Dead Man was key to understanding the show. The fact that FG is modeled after the Simpsons (and therefore modeled after The Flintstones and The Honeymooners and etc. etc.) is part of that. It's about a guy who understands the world through television. You put it better than I could though.
another thing to mention is a quote Peter has in one of the episodes, where he basically says that if you take your values from a TV show and choose to blame it instead of monitoring what your kids watch is an idiot
This is crazy. The last vid I seen of yours was the buzz on Maggie, great vid btw, but the algorithm hasn’t been promoting your stuff to me. I just went down your channel like woooww, like Mike, C/o 3000, My Life as a Teenage robot, Hi hi puffy ami yumi and 40 minute Dan Haskett vid. I’m bout to kick UA-cam ass for this one….
@@ToonrificTariq yeah yeah. Lol. I hadn't gotten into the video good yet. That was juss my naked perspective. 😄.. i like where you went with it tho. 🙌🏿💯😊.. cuz i only saw it as a parody, for the most part.. Now i can't see it the same. 😁👑
I love this theory! What about American Dad though? They also have references in their show that they are making a show. There is definitely an episode with the actors who play Stan and Hayley being interviewed behind the scenes. Idr if it's the same ep, but they also did one where they mourn the death one of the background characters. Klaus did DVD commentary in an ep too. That might have been more a comment on his state of mind though...
It's funny you mention family guy as performers putting on a show given Brian and Stewie did a song at Emmy's one year and the viewer requested anthology episodes featuring them talking to the camera. Reminds me of the few times American Dad said the characters were actually actors on the American Dad sitcom, like when the person who played Stan and Haley doing a drug PSA at the end of She Swill Surivive.
Actually no I am remembering the one episode with New Yorkers coming where they just blame all of their interpersonal problems and how they respond to it on the violence on TV.
One point that I always try to make to people who don't watch Family Guy or South Park is that so many of the characters are wrong and part of the humor is laughing at just how wrong these people are. In South Park we laugh at how outrageous the scheme Randy Marsh takes to prove he's part Native American. He may be the main character of the plot but he's not a hero or someone to cheer on; Randy Marsh is a character to watch do goofy shit and laugh at. I really like the Mickey Mouse and Looney Tunes comparison you made. If we can laugh at Bugs Bunny fighting Yosemite Sam because Sam didn't mow his lawn, then we can also laugh at Peter getting into a fight with a big chicken over expired coupons.
'Ey, I've watched just about all your videos, I just never found Family Guy particularly funny or clever. But this narrative lens makes me want to binge the series anew. Well done, sir🙌🏾
I think the show originally. was about reconciling the desire for wholesome things while wanting provocative things. kind of like how the show ultimately had liberal feminist view point but it was still frat boy show, so you could be a democrat and still enjoy more conventional masculine things, but now the show is about being American in a dead end job, in a dead end marriage, knowing nothing is working out but incapable of changing it. it really captures that feeling of society, not crumbling around you, but degrading around you, like a dilapidating house. I think now its about that ennui and the drudgery of dissatisfying modern life, but explaining in laymen's terms. idk I feel like that mood was solidified when Lois joins Fox News, and at the end of the episode Lois is like "does any one really care how I left?" kind of like the writers and the audience are kind of just going through the motions at this point also I hope when the series ends they give Mila Kunis an Honorary Emmy, just as a fuck you
I think where a lot of people mess up is by judging this show under the same standard as Primal or something. Not every piece of media has to be profound and ever evolving, sometimes I show is just meant to be stupid and funny. And I admire Family guy for that. Funny, hubby and I just finished watching Family Guy and I see this as I’m laying in bed. Great video! I grew up on the show, I watched it almost every night. My husband grew up on Veggie Tales and only saw a few episodes at friends’ houses or on Facebook. We started watching it and it’s just always been a comfort show bc it’s predictable. Peter is going to do something dumb, Stewie and Brian are going to argue, everyone is going to be mean to Meg, Chris is going to be stupid and inappropriate.
Excellent commentary, as usual. It makes me see Family Guy in a new light. I'm probably still not going to watch that show anymore, but it is legitimately hilarious to me about 30% of the time. That's worth something.
You really helped Seth Macfarlane out there lol But it was really good analysis I feel like there's this thing in media and the arts where a creator will create something with no real underlying meaning but then ppl give it an underlying meaning through analysis that is positively received and given the content mire depth. Because of the analysis gives the show or movie or book more praise and ppl giving it more of a chance, the creator then embraces the analysis and acts like that was the original meaning all along. Not saying that's what's happening here since Seth hasn't reacted but I feel like that happens a lot with these show and movie creators sometimes.
I think Family Guy can be deep and have meaning but only sporadically. I haven't watched anywhere close to a full season since like season 10 but the cutaways were gettin on my nerves and got less funny over time I used to love Family Guy but I grew to resent it but I will watch this whole video when I have free time
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Candy Quahog Marshmallow is the best K-pop song out there. And I'm not just saying that because there's a line in the song about me. It's legitimately a banger, they went way too hard making that song
An interesting commentary on how much nostalgic media can effect ourselves and how we act. And with so many people clamoring for the idealized climates of past decades, it really makes you wonder if our dependency on media has effectively erased any identity that these current decades could’ve had. I guess it says a lot about our modern society when the mere distraction becomes the addictive drug.
Me and my friends had the DVDs on repeat everyday back in 03 when it got cancelled. I still maintain that like season 2 to season 6 or 7 is a good show.
I think this is interesting topic. There are morals you can take from media. Even if it's subconsciously, the media we consume can and often does shape us as people, but at the same time a lot of things don't age gracefully and and when you refuse to grow and adapt with real world around you, some very problematic ideologies can be formed. There's a reason we say some things don't age well.
this is the best video
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Idk man that Fat Albert one really hit me in the feels
This is unironically the best explanation of Family Guy I've ever seen, and I feel stupid for not seeing it. The ENTIRE show (Or, a big basis of it) really is just references to 80's movies and tv shows that usually my parents got more than me (I'm 29). AKA: Shows that people grew up watching in the 60's through the 80's. I think even Seth Macfarlane, all the way back in Season 1, was asking these questions right in the theme song. I took it as a self aware joke, Tariq just nailed it so well. It's a real question. What happened to those values?
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Cutaway gags are Family Guy's greatest strength and weakness.
It's rapid-fire comedy worked well when it was balanced by the plot making the story not too heavy and not too light.
However, the amount of cutaway gags increased each season leaving less time for the main story favoring style over substance.
Not true. The biggest issue with seasons 19 and 20 are the serious lack of cutaway gags and slower pacing.
Another problem with modern FG cutaways are they're literally "says joke, is joke". Early cuts were left open ended or had a little more to them if they were said. Like the Black to the Future cutaway, there was nothing from the actual plot that brings up what the joke would be until the joke starts.
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@@icecreamhero2375 That's not true.
A slower pace and less cutaway gags works well... if you have the characters to work with it.
That's why the first three seasons are so universally praised, they didn't constantly assault you with cutaway gags and had characters that were actually likable.
The reason 19 and 20 fail is because the lack of cutaway gags doesn't hold up much when you realize there's almost no likable characters in modern family guy. Even the main family all feels like they genuinely hate eachother, contrary to the first three seasons when the family actually cared about eachother and every character on the show wasn't an awful person lol
The long cutaway gags in the newer seasons where it'll literally be 3 minutes of a song no one cares about makes me not want to watch it
@@Robbie_Haruna Season 19 was atrocious. It is the worst season in the history of the show. I miss the Looney Tunes energy it used to have now it feels sluggish. The jokes used to be flying left and right now there are fewer jokes. I'm not just talking about cutaways. I am taking about regular jokes too. There were some gems Last No L, The Marrying Kind, Customer of the Week and Peterminator, The rest were mediocre or horrible.They had a bunch of bad story lines and kept repeating the same joke over and over again in literally every episode. Example: Brain dying in La Familia Guy. 20 is slightly better. They have better storylines and they got rid of the running gag issue for the most part.
“Gee, Lois, this is worse than the time ToonrificTariq made a whole video about us!!”
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@@jackeggleson4102 “Shut up Meg” “That was Mom!” “(Lois) Yearh, shut up Meg”
And then Toonirific made a video about how lazy it was for Family Guy to have a cutaway about him.
That clip you opened with might just be my favourite family guy gag.
Wanna watch some pirated one piece with me later?
I get what you're saying, but...objectively, the "they respected me for saying it" King of Black People bit is the best.
By this logic, those "jokes" about Bob's Burgers and Bojack Horseman suddenly make sense. At first glance you could assume that it's just the writers sticking it to the competition, but by this logic, it's Peter just assuming that these newer cartoons are lame compared to his show because of how they embrace newer values. Hence why Peter called Bojack Horseman "normal words but a horse guy". It's not that that's all the writers assume the show is. It's that that's all it is to Peter, because he didn't bother watching more than the first few episodes, hence why there's still a D or the Hollywood sign.
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Ok real question about ths show Bojack Horseman, is that show that depressing as the cutways i've seen on youtube? I never seen that show, but idk seems too drepressing to me.
@@bluebeka2458 It can be pretty depressing and hard to watch at times. It’s an amazing show but it’s not for everyone. Season 1 gets real and heavy but it’s not nearly as rough as the later seasons so if you’re willing to give it a shot I’d say watch season one and see how you feel. The first few episodes are mostly comedic.
@@bluebeka2458 starts out funny but gets more depressing as the seasons go on
@@bluebeka2458 It's a mix of funny and depressing. It deals with themes like addiction, depression, abuse, infertility, and how hollywood basically ruins its child stars, and it takes these themes very seriously. But there's also a lot of light hearted humor and the show takes a very hopeful stance towards most of its darker issues. I feel like a lot of these shows that deal with serious topics try to be depressing or shocking for the sake of it, whereas the issues in Bojack feel much more real and grounded. Season 1 is a bit different that the rest of the series, as the writers' weren't sure yet if they were going to be able to tell the kind of story they wanted to, so I wouldn't judge it based off the first few episodes. If you're okay with stories that touch on heavy themes, I cannot recommend it enough.
I think you put about ten times as much thought into Family Guy as Seth MacFarlane did.
seth hasn't written for family guy since 2010
I think that's my whole issue with Seth MacFarlane in general. I'm not saying he's not funny, and I'm not saying he's not a good writer. I'm not even saying he's not a great performer, he absolutely is. I just think that he's kind of lazy and a little smug. He tells us nostalgia is a poison, and he does it in front of a brass band, wearing one of Frank Sinatra's suits. I get the joke, it's an obvious joke, but I'm not 100% sure that he gets that it's about him, too.
I think he nailed exactly what Seth was trying to tell people through the show, but over time, it got lost and he realized people just prefer nonsense drama rather than Peter growing and learning. Even King Of The Hill Writers often talk about how FOX prevented them from really.. evolving, or letting any characters grow. Luanne went from going to college and being a mechanic, to being an idiot that married a hick. Bill, despite finding happiness several times, it's wripped away the next episode and forgotten. FOX literally said "Nah.. we need these characters to be suffering constantly, that's what people want to see" - I wish they would've let us see Luanne flourish as a graduate or a mechanic, or let us see Bill live a happy life with his new wife, (Kahn's mother, Laoma) - I'm probably getting in my feelings here, but I find it strange that this is such a repeating pattern in so many of today's popular cartoons. No one ever grows, no one ever learns, despite them shoving the lessons in the face of the viewer, they never show the actual character changing, because that could be risky. I think it would actually make people like the character more... as a random example.. I've only watched a few episodes of Adventure time, but seeing how characters actually learn a lesson, and it sticks with them into the next episode, is really cool, and so simple! I'd love to see that in other cartoons.
He literally hasn’t written FG for YEARS.
@@ZeranZeran You can even see this in live actions shows, like take Castle or even Bones for example. They teased the main leads attraction for eachother so much only to pull back at the last seccond. Or say in Bones, Temperance learned something incredibly valuable about herself and is able to finally open up and be a "normal" person, only for her to be rolled back in development for thr next big plot arc... like oml.
I’m never gonna get tired of that “We’re a little short, Helga” clip lmao
Same.
That and the stranger things “he’s lying” clip are fucking hilarious lol
"It's like I'm living in loser city" - Helga
the meanest lovable bully of all time
@@will8243 Man Ive seen that clip like a hundred times now and am only now learning it ISNT a clip from The Butterfly Effect
This is why im a Bob's Burgers stan. Everyone has their fare share of chaos, but at least they accept their family's chaos and they love each other for it.
I love both with all my heart lol so that’s fair.
Comparatively, The Simpsons went from a parody of the modern family into a proxy of its former self while Family Guy went from a mismatch of odd and quirky characters into a negative outlook of themselves. Like we have background characters that became a staple for the main cast like Hoarse the bartender where Peter and his friends all drink but now he’s been replaced by Jerome who could’ve been more than the new bartender. Joe went from a handicapped policeman into an incompetent man with a doomed marriage and that’s not taking into account the other characters who were killed off because their respective voice actors also passed away.
I stopped watching Family Guy well before Adam West passed away. Have they done anything for him? Last thing I remember was him getting married to Lois’s sister Carol.
@@Hyper_Drud there was an episode that actually explains how he was able to marry Carol without Carter’s backlash. There was a corruption scandal where everyone, Peter, Quagmire, Dr Hartman, Carter, Tom, and so on had to decide if he was innocent or guilty. Turns out that Carter only allowed Adam to marry Carol because he wanted to expand his dumping waste of something in exchange from it but Adam never let it happen. Every now and then Adam is shown to really care for Carol like genuinely care about his wife.
@@Hyper_Drud they replaced him with his cousin wild west who is voiced by sam elliot
And south park is still as good as it used to be, maybe even better.
I guess this also explains a lot of the treatment of Meg. A lot of family shows often had a character who was a child or teen, that everyone joked about chasing off and basically bullied them.
This is why i love Bob's burgers it doesn't do the bad dad thing
This is a great reading of the show. Wow
What I like about bobs burger is that it’s an adult show that isn’t so cynical. With the sea of mean spirit or sad for the sake of being sad show, bob burger feel like a breath of fresh air
Same with king of the hill
Amen. Bob and his family are actually capable of growth and show it often.
Simpsons and Family guy return to the default value each episode, like an NPC in a game.
@@r.i.pmydog7723 What I like about bob's burgers is when Bob is selling his new fish burger, and that old lady comes up and YELLS to the crowd "It looks like a huge, misshapen penis!"
_It's supposed to be a fish, not a rocket, or a penis...._
Old lady: _It's a penis!_
That old lady who is always mad at everything cracks me up. I live near like 10 of them.
@@ZeranZeran how are you sure that you arent an npc in a game that goes on for years? What's your earliest memory? Do you remember everything or are there blanks in your mind? What wil happen to you when the game resets? You entirely sure that you arent running on radiant a.i.?
Great video, though the show is actually about Joe Swanson dealing with his wacky neighbors
As someone who loves family guy it’s always great to see a genuine dissection of it
As somebody who doesn't like Family Guy, I find dissections of it really intriguing. I love hearing about what people see in media or get out of media that I personally cannot. Gives me a new perspective even if I still don't end up liking said media.
@DannyPhantomFan2 I agree with you. While FG isn’t my cup of tea, I do find these reviews of it to be interesting.
I’ve always felt like in its early seasons, Family Guy was a show about a normal everyday family living in a messed up world. But as the series went on, it became more of mock of American culture in general. Which I don’t mind, but I think American Dad did it better.
true
Old family guy was better
I really like this perspective on the show, and I just wish it felt more impactful than it did sometimes. Some episodes you really do see how peter's media obsessed personality gets in the way of him being a normal person, and then others it just feels like we need to put that on the backburner to tell some jokes. It's perfectly fine that the show disregards this theme for the sake of comedy, but my problem is that it just isn't funny sometimes. Like with Peter just shooting his friends for fun, I don't know if we can chalk that up to him being taught the wrong lessons about friendship, and more so just the show needing a joke to tell and Peter being an asshole is a go to. I mean what can you do, if you got a show that runs for how long, it's gonna strip itself down to its most basic components in order to squeeze less of itself out dry, and in the case of Family Guy and the Simpsons all we get left is an animated comedy about animated jokes. The characters only get written like characters and not joke vessels when they get some inspiration to work with once in a blue moon.
This video has no joke gave me a new outlook on Family Guy and has honestly gained the show some of my respect. Not saying I ever disliked it or thought it was bad or anything, but I never thought about a show which to the average person is just slapstick and dirty jokes would be a little bit deeper.
I like the old animation style for Family Guy so much more than how it looks now.
There was an episode where they make a joke about this. I liked the old style better, too.
from the older seasons, it really feels like this is more accurate to what the show wanted to be, it had heart and care put into it but still fit into that idea of 'what you see on tv won't always translate to real families'. Somewhere along the line though it felt like they abandoned this and just decided to become more ridiculous and insane for the sake of shock value, and lost that heart that Family Guy used to have, or most of it. The good stuff still peeks through, but not often :(
Very untrue lol.
@@ToonrificTariq Why do you think the guy's opinion on the show's writing is untrue because he had valid reasons to not like the writing direction in the later seasons of family guy (which I myself felt the same way as well), and if he thinks the older seasons are better than the new ones, then that's perfectly fine, I mean not everyone is gonna like things that you enjoyed, and not everyone is gonna agree with your opinion on the show as some people will still think the show kinda went downhill when it went to seasonal rot, the same way that a lot of people feel about The Simpsons, SpongeBob, The Fairly Oddparents, and even to a certain extent, South Park, and if you don't agree with that person's comment, then that's also okay as well, so try to respect other people's opinions on a certain show, movie, and video game, but I will say this video you made yesterday was pretty good, since you put a lot of hard work and effort went into it, so keep up the good work you have there Mr. ToonrificTariq, your channel is pretty good 👍😊😄💐🌺🥀🥰😍😇🎉💌♥️❤️💋💋💋.
@@Twilight-zm6ro Didn’t say they had to agree. Just said their statement about the show losing its theme is not true lol.
@@ToonrificTariq Oh okay, sorry for confusing you, Mr. ToonrificTariq, I hope you're not mad at me.
@@Twilight-zm6ro Some of that may have been forced by the network or another source, I got Seasons 1-4 on DVD and you can hear them cringing and poking fun at the more heartfelt scenes in the commentary (with the exception of Brian Wallows, Peter Swallows).
Asking for the definitive premise of "Family Guy" is like asking the same about SpongeBob.
In terms of the latter, his first movie has that answer gift-wrapped!
SpongeBob SquarePants does have a theme: it's a critique on capitalism
SpongeBob is the naive and hopeful underpaid fry-cook, to young to understand he's being used
Squidward is the cynical doomer who's tired of being a wagie and just wants to live out his dreams
Patrick is unemployed, yet his stoic outlook on life makes it seem like he's living the best life of the 3
Mr Krabs & Plankton speak for themselves but just incase, they're corporate
Sandy is observing Bikini Bottom together with the gorilla we saw once, as a deal with Mr Krabs
and then there's Gary
@@12DAMDO: Gary is the omni-powerful sorcerer supreme who bends reality to there will
The writers say the theme is optimism. SpongeBob always has a positive outlook.
Man Lois this reminds me of the time Toonrifictariq did a review on family guy!
The Loosies have all been fire so far and I’m so glad they’re a regular thing. I think it’s super cool for you to be able to do these shorter form videos, not necessarily because they take less work but because it seems like you’re able to explore media in a different way than when you make a longer form video and I appreciate that cause not everything works with that.
That being said, dope video! I think this was an interesting look into the theming of family guy and it’s one I certainly hadn’t considered before.
Well, the cartoon dads of old idea does make sense.
Especially since Peter and Lois are often doing something that does reflect what is happening in very socially detached places.
Getting involved in the tea party to stop government involvement, endorsing anti vaccination and falling victim to abstinence propaganda are all things Peter, and sometimes Lois, have done.
Peter can be seen as Seth going “Yeah, this guy stuck his tongue in a fan and he’s doing what you think is okay. What does that say about you?”
Just made me realize why I like to watch so much of these nostalgic video reviewers. It's because I grew up almost exclusively on TV and had so little friends, that that's all I really have to look back on and be fond of. I did not expect to see a video of that made me open my eyes but here we are.
Just wanna leave a comment and say that I really love what youre doing here man. all your videos are insightful, fun, and nostalgic AF. thanks for all your work and PLEASE keep at it.
I desperately want a semi serious drama about a guy who's living life like he's a 80s TV dad and suffering because of it, with him making cutaway gags that only occur in his mind
You had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
But on a serious note, you’ve put forward an interesting theory I’d never considered before. Taking Family Guy at face value is very difficult though (even Brian Wallows & Peter’s Swallows is about an interspecies romance played completely straight), so I don’t know how many writers over the years were aware of how Peter’s mindset informs his behaviour. Who knows, I don’t even think Seth knows sometimes.
Yo man thank you for this awesome video. I love it when people look at things from a different vantage point. I've always loved Family Guy for its randomness, but now I love it even more because maybe it's not. Thank you again, man.
Only the Family guy apologist could create this thought provoking think piece.
Yeah this show got tired for me real quick. With Homer as bad as he is you know he still loves his kids even Bart. But how they were forever treating their daughter. On Family Guy. I was like that stop being funny a long time ago.
i always thought it was interesting how when a group of male writers didn’t know how to write a teenage girl it evolved into her being beaten and mistreated every episode
personally i dont hate family guy and i kinda like it
The turning point was S8, in particular the Brian/Quagmire subplot in "Jerome is the New Black". While an amusing deconstruction of Brian on its own, it then became the standard approach for every character who's appeared more than a few times. Stick around long enough, you're the most flawed, jackassiestst version of the character.
But Lisa didn't got physically harmed by Homer at least, she was neglected or laughed at by her father Homer, but i guess there some times where he kinda cared about her (in the earlier seasons), even tho they have totally different ideologies. But Meg on the other had, was completely physically harmed, humiliated and neglected over and over again.
@@anni1348 season 1 and I think season 2 Peter and Lois loved meg but it stops after that lol
This is the best analysis of Family Guy I’ve ever seen. The show is clearly hit-or-miss (mostly miss nowadays) but I never saw this interpretation of the show articulated as perfectly as this.
Family Guy genuinely makes me feel like a terrible person. Or at least makes me very uncomfortable. The amount of times they tackled serious topics and failed faster than Ezra Miller destroying they’re career in the span of 2 months is insane to me and it’s really horrible.
Homer, throwing Emmies: It's over, Peter! I have the high ground
Peter: Hey that's no fair, I don't got none of them!
Tariq: *Amazing, every word of what you just said...was wrong*
We're lucky there's a family guy who positively can do all the things that make us laugh and cry
And I'm a The Simpsons 😌
ToonrificTariq is my favorite Family guy youtuber.
I appreciate your insight, man. The series to me felt the same way. But I’d also see how the series would be something completely different for someone else who wants to watch a funny cartoon. I’m glad I stopped watching it when I did along with not seeing a single episode of South Park either.
this video’s freakin sweet.
80's guy was such a good episode I was dying all the way through it.
Whoever edits your videos is freaking phenomenal. If you edit on top of writing your essays, your talent is off the charts!!
I hope your channel becomes a house hold name
It’s all me lol thank you!
I don't like Family Guy, I think because I was tired of the jokes, and never will, but listening to you makes me feel like there was a little thought put into the story. Sometimes.
If that lesson is what they were going for, damn wish they had sprinkled it in more episodes.
It’s throughout the entire show lol that’s what this video is about. Majority of episodes about Peter raising his family / his marriage with Lois is about this stuff.
@@ToonrificTariq I never saw it, but I also wasn't giving the show enough credit to be anything other than silly nonsense. thanks for giving me a new perspective on this show. I always learn something new on this channel.
honestly this perspective on family guy is rly interesting and could make for a really great commentary on how our childhood media shapes our current morals and how we need to be in a constant battle to be better people! its a shame its wasted on family guy lol
Seth MacFarland's gonna see this and be like "I didnt mean any of this shit"😂
Great perspective! The beginning of the intro always reminded me of All in the Family. I think, in a sense, the show was always based off the pastiche of "those were the days," but with the "good old days" being transposed to Star Wars in the theater and glorifying the 80s, a time when pop media first started to really saturate the world. I also always think about the Venture Bros creators lamenting on DVD commentary about how Family Guy wasn't afraid to just run a gag into the ground for minutes, and how that took a lot of boldness to run 5 minutes of just Conway Tweety singing. It seems like that kind of joke is something the show has maybe moved past, but in 2012ish, that really struck me.
I like the concept of this?!? 😭😭😭
Surprisingly haven't heard this before tho, it makes a lot of sense- :D
I really enjoyed this one tariq. I like your passion for family guy. One thing i really like about you and johnny is that you seperate yourself from reviewers in a way. A lot seem salty and negative toward media, whereas you guys always try to find the positive in it. It gives a perspective that wants me to give later seasons a chance. I can tell you are an animator yourself because You are very good at constructive criticism rather than just being angry about it that not every episode is a banger. Keep up the good work
My opinion of Family Guy has changed a lot since I first discovered it as a kid. But I like your spin on it. Honestly never bothered to think too deeply about the themes of FG
I just discovered it as a kid
The streets want Daria my boy.
It's trendy to hate on Family Guy, but it's been the most daring show by a long shot. Still fresh and funny, last time I saw it.
8:31 dont let the grown cartoon fandom hear that itll make em mad😭😭
Tariq is ALWAYS giving me different perspectives on Family Guy and I so appreciate it
This is the most in depth anyone has ever analyzed Family Guy in the history of ever!! And the scary thing is this is the most sense anyone has made analyzing Family Guy.
I always thought that I Never Met the Dead Man was key to understanding the show. The fact that FG is modeled after the Simpsons (and therefore modeled after The Flintstones and The Honeymooners and etc. etc.) is part of that. It's about a guy who understands the world through television. You put it better than I could though.
another thing to mention is a quote Peter has in one of the episodes, where he basically says that if you take your values from a TV show and choose to blame it instead of monitoring what your kids watch is an idiot
This is crazy. The last vid I seen of yours was the buzz on Maggie, great vid btw, but the algorithm hasn’t been promoting your stuff to me. I just went down your channel like woooww, like Mike, C/o 3000, My Life as a Teenage robot, Hi hi puffy ami yumi and 40 minute Dan Haskett vid. I’m bout to kick UA-cam ass for this one….
I always understood Family Guy to be a parody of sitcoms..
I mean, it is lol but that’s not really a theme.
@@ToonrificTariq yeah yeah. Lol. I hadn't gotten into the video good yet. That was juss my naked perspective. 😄.. i like where you went with it tho. 🙌🏿💯😊.. cuz i only saw it as a parody, for the most part.. Now i can't see it the same. 😁👑
@@ToonrificTariqhow is it not a theme lol?
I love this theory! What about American Dad though? They also have references in their show that they are making a show. There is definitely an episode with the actors who play Stan and Hayley being interviewed behind the scenes. Idr if it's the same ep, but they also did one where they mourn the death one of the background characters. Klaus did DVD commentary in an ep too. That might have been more a comment on his state of mind though...
I feel like Family Guy lost whatever subtle meaning it had over a decade ago, but I'm curious if you can change my view on that
same.
It's funny you mention family guy as performers putting on a show given Brian and Stewie did a song at Emmy's one year and the viewer requested anthology episodes featuring them talking to the camera. Reminds me of the few times American Dad said the characters were actually actors on the American Dad sitcom, like when the person who played Stan and Haley doing a drug PSA at the end of She Swill Surivive.
Actually no I am remembering the one episode with New Yorkers coming where they just blame all of their interpersonal problems and how they respond to it on the violence on TV.
I was having a rough day and no lie: after 9 minutes of really interesting, trenchant insight that last 10 seconds got me GOOD.
One point that I always try to make to people who don't watch Family Guy or South Park is that so many of the characters are wrong and part of the humor is laughing at just how wrong these people are. In South Park we laugh at how outrageous the scheme Randy Marsh takes to prove he's part Native American. He may be the main character of the plot but he's not a hero or someone to cheer on; Randy Marsh is a character to watch do goofy shit and laugh at. I really like the Mickey Mouse and Looney Tunes comparison you made. If we can laugh at Bugs Bunny fighting Yosemite Sam because Sam didn't mow his lawn, then we can also laugh at Peter getting into a fight with a big chicken over expired coupons.
I swear dude you are the most funniest, informative, and most relateable youtuber i ever watched! Keep it up man!!!
very good vid. Been out for an hour or two and its already a classic
'Ey, I've watched just about all your videos, I just never found Family Guy particularly funny or clever. But this narrative lens makes me want to binge the series anew. Well done, sir🙌🏾
The excitement I get when this man uploads is unmatched
I think the show originally. was about reconciling the desire for wholesome things while wanting provocative things. kind of like how the show ultimately had liberal feminist view point but it was still frat boy show, so you could be a democrat and still enjoy more conventional masculine things, but now the show is about being American in a dead end job, in a dead end marriage, knowing nothing is working out but incapable of changing it. it really captures that feeling of society, not crumbling around you, but degrading around you, like a dilapidating house. I think now its about that ennui and the drudgery of dissatisfying modern life, but explaining in laymen's terms. idk I feel like that mood was solidified when Lois joins Fox News, and at the end of the episode Lois is like "does any one really care how I left?" kind of like the writers and the audience are kind of just going through the motions at this point
also I hope when the series ends they give Mila Kunis an Honorary Emmy, just as a fuck you
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Dude it’s just a show to make you laugh stop trying to find some hidden lore that doesn’t exist lol
I have been watching your videos since your chalk zone analysis and I still get excited for your videos
Love where your content has been going💗💗💗
Certainly an interesting viewpoint to have on the family guy .
as someone who has watched family guy since i was kid, too, this has blown my mind in such a cool way. you got a forever subscriber 🤝🏽
This is the beginning to my all-night binge. Just subbed. 💕🤟🏾
I think where a lot of people mess up is by judging this show under the same standard as Primal or something. Not every piece of media has to be profound and ever evolving, sometimes I show is just meant to be stupid and funny. And I admire Family guy for that.
Funny, hubby and I just finished watching Family Guy and I see this as I’m laying in bed. Great video! I grew up on the show, I watched it almost every night. My husband grew up on Veggie Tales and only saw a few episodes at friends’ houses or on Facebook. We started watching it and it’s just always been a comfort show bc it’s predictable. Peter is going to do something dumb, Stewie and Brian are going to argue, everyone is going to be mean to Meg, Chris is going to be stupid and inappropriate.
Lois wake up, there’s a new ToonrificTariq
Tariq changing minds one video at a time
I love someone actually looking into FG instead of just taking the surface "Family Guy isn't funny 🤪" take
Eu aprecio sua mente crítica Toon.
Mesmo se este desenho tem ou não um tema por trás você literalmente melhorou o desenho 300% com essa analise.
"Just be a normal human being! be a husband to your wife or a father to your children"
Pot calling the kettle black much Lois?
I don’t even like family guy but these vids are still so entertaining, keep up the good work bruv
Seth really wants the best animation grammy
Excellent commentary, as usual. It makes me see Family Guy in a new light. I'm probably still not going to watch that show anymore, but it is legitimately hilarious to me about 30% of the time. That's worth something.
It's kind of amazing that your parents had the foresight to name you toonrific
the amount of MF DOOM on your channel makes me so happy lmao, DOOM and cartoons are a match made in heaven RIP the Villian!
You really helped Seth Macfarlane out there lol
But it was really good analysis
I feel like there's this thing in media and the arts where a creator will create something with no real underlying meaning but then ppl give it an underlying meaning through analysis that is positively received and given the content mire depth.
Because of the analysis gives the show or movie or book more praise and ppl giving it more of a chance, the creator then embraces the analysis and acts like that was the original meaning all along.
Not saying that's what's happening here since Seth hasn't reacted but I feel like that happens a lot with these show and movie creators sometimes.
I think Family Guy can be deep and have meaning but only sporadically. I haven't watched anywhere close to a full season since like season 10 but the cutaways were gettin on my nerves and got less funny over time
I used to love Family Guy but I grew to resent it but I will watch this whole video when I have free time
Dope analysis brotha!
The weird science jab at Johnny made me die laughing
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Candy Quahog Marshmallow is the best K-pop song out there. And I'm not just saying that because there's a line in the song about me. It's legitimately a banger, they went way too hard making that song
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Its one of my favorite songs in the show.
Thanks!
The double edged aword of family guy. Nuanced when it wants to be...which isnt that often
An interesting commentary on how much nostalgic media can effect ourselves and how we act. And with so many people clamoring for the idealized climates of past decades, it really makes you wonder if our dependency on media has effectively erased any identity that these current decades could’ve had. I guess it says a lot about our modern society when the mere distraction becomes the addictive drug.
Watched ur intro and immediately subscribed. Johnny sent me
Your insight into these aspects are very interesting, I still watch it and very much agree. It's an interesting show to analyze, hope to see more!
I really appreciate how family guy cartoon was explained in a positive manner. Another view has been added to me by seeing this video.
Love it when you do FG videos
That was amazing but F is for Family retrospective, when?
Instant subscribe. Great take man. 👌
Me and my friends had the DVDs on repeat everyday back in 03 when it got cancelled. I still maintain that like season 2 to season 6 or 7 is a good show.
😁. Family Guy teaches us that family is awful, and they'll be the ones to hurt you most. Yeah, you love them, but they'll still hurt you.
@Dante Toshiro64 I think it's just my own personal theme I take from it. I think others can find one more suited for them.
@@tenebrousoul9368 pretty pessimistic take, but to each their own
Underrated content creator 🙏
Great video man never realy thought of this show in that way but it makes alot of sense an it's nice to know theirs a little bit of something their
Seth: imma take this real quick and make it my explanation
What a fantastic video very well articulated
freakin sweet a year old tariq video ive never seen
I'm so happy to hear you call out how clear it is the show is a performance, even without the cartoon 4th wall.
I think this is interesting topic. There are morals you can take from media. Even if it's subconsciously, the media we consume can and often does shape us as people, but at the same time a lot of things don't age gracefully and and when you refuse to grow and adapt with real world around you, some very problematic ideologies can be formed. There's a reason we say some things don't age well.