The funniness of family guy

If you’re looking for a cartoon with random moments that will have you laugh so hard that you might piss your pants…than go to the store, pick up some Pampers, and make sure you’re back at your house before 9pm on Sunday Night, in order to catch the new season of Family Guy. Unlike Trix cereal, it’s not just for kids.

THE HISTORY

Family Guy was originally created by Seth MacFarlane in 1999 for Fox. It was cancelled a year later by the network and then was brought back in order to finish through to three seasons. After those three seasons, it was cancelled once again, and some thought for good.

Cartoon Network started airing Family Guy re-runs for syndication, on Adult Swim, the network’s more adult-oriented late-night block of television, and that fueled a family guy phenomenon. Fans of the show from when it was on Fox tuned into their beloved show again, and somehow, word started spreading about how funny the show really is. Ratings for Adult Swim increased heavily, and later on, once the seasons were released on DVD, those sales skyrocketed as well. The success that resulted influenced Fox to bring the show back to production for new episodes, and ever since, it has continued to stay strong. Fox has a deal for Family Guy to be produced until 2012.

REASONS TO WATCH

The show has had a lot of success because of the way it goes about its comedy. The characters are the heart of the show. Peter is the fat, always up to some crazy scheme, dad of the family. Louis, who loves sex, is the mom of the family. Chris, the oldest child is the stupid fat son, a direct result of Peter. Meg, is the ugly, often ignored middle child of the family in which everyone in the family, including the dog Brian, makes fun of. Stewie, who always has plans of world domination, and is quite possibly the funniest character in the show, is the baby in the family. He is always kickin’ it with Brian. They’re boys yet they’re enemies. And speaking of Brian, Brian is the smooth talking, yes talking, dog of the family who loves a good drink, and is up to no good, no matter who he kicks it with.

The show is built mainly around random and hilarious flashbacks and / or pop culture references that just totally catch you off guard.

The flashbacks most always start with something like, “that was worst than the time I…” and then they flashback to something that is so random and funny, that it just has you sitting in your chair, saying to yourself, “what the (expletive)?”
The cartoon, South Park did a spoof of how family guy gets their metaphorical or simile-like jokes when in one of their episodes, they said that Family Guy jokes come from manatees who pick different idea balls to construct a joke for an episode. The idea balls involved the themes of a date, Mexico, and Gary Coleman. Then you saw them refer to a made-up version of Family Guy in which Peter makes a joke about going on a date with Gary Coleman in Mexico.

The pop-culture references also make the show. For instance in the episode of Family Guy aired last night on Fox, the best was when they re-enacted a scene made famous in the movie, “Office Space”. In the movie, Michael and Samir, get so frustrated with a certain fax machine, that they take turns destructing it. Family Guy did their version of this scene with Brian and Stewie demolishing Peter’s “Bird Surf” album, in the exact same fashion as in “Office Space”. The music was the same, and so was the way in which both items were destructed.

The show is a classic, sometimes referred to as a cult classic. If you need some comedy in your life, Family Guy is the way to go.