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Originally Posted by Redway
I like Family Guy a fair bit (although my Brian-Griffin aesthetic attachment would suggest more than that) but compared to The Simpsons (a true zeitgeist), it’s actually a terrible show, full of terrible people. After a certain point, Peter’s destructive idiocy and everyone piling in to abuse Meg., not least of all for her supposed looks (she’s actually a pretty average-looking teen.) becomes more distastefully annoying than entertaining. It’s not a show that seems interested in ever getting truly better. Just louder and constantly updating, keeping up with the culture on-which some of the fifty gags per episode can be based. The baseline was already morally ugly. It never reached the same acclaim as the best adult-cartoons. Family Guy’s just … Family Guy. There was never any golden age to speak of in the first place. And Peter’s …well, Peter just being the way he is drives me up the wall. Homer Simpson is fundamentally lovable and loving in return to people besides his wife. Peter is closer to being a narc., just a comedically exaggerated buffoon of one. At this point, I actually hate him. I know it’s “just a cartoon” but still. People can find certain elements of Family Guy, if not the whole show, objectionable for all sorts of reasons.
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Peter Griffin is a legend imo.
