Seth MacFarlane has said he doesn't understand why people want Family Guy to back to the style of the first three seasons. Seth isn't very fond of the pre-cancellation episodes, citing story and animation problems, and doesn't find them particularly funny. The episode "Fore Father" is his least favorite episode of the entire show.
In fact, Seth goes so far as stating his belief that the fans who prefer the pre-cancellation episodes are just aggravated that the show they stuck with, back when it wasn't popular and FOX didn't care about it (the show they fought to save), has now become something different than they remember. To him, it's a sense of misplaced entitlement or something.
>Fore Father is his least favourite episode I mean yeah it's a little bland but nowhere near bad. Also seconding
Dylan Smith
Pre-cancelation FG: a commercially disappointing first attempt with lukewarm critical reception at best
Post-cancelation FG: cultural juggernaut that made Seth hundreds of millions and enabled him to do whatever he wanted going forward
If I were him, I'd like post-cancelation more too
Jacob Moore
Has McFarlane created anything that aged well? He may be a good singer and voice actor, but I struggle to find any of his works which are still well-liked today.
Easton Anderson
DVD commentary for the episode Former Life of Brian
Blake Gomez
American Dad, kinda.
Landon Reyes
Ted
Tyler Gonzalez
Not surprised, many creators dislike their older works, Matt and Trey hate the first 3 seasons of South Park for instance.
Caleb Hernandez
I heard Seth in an interview with Stern a while back defend the cutaways, and omitting the fact that they're often dumb non-sequiturs. Howard asked him what they were, and Seth told him they were just jokes that usually involved flashbacks, and that critics said that didn't qualify as comedy for that reason, which made everyone in the room scoff and take Seth's side.
He kinda came across as a bit disingenuous.
Jordan Williams
>Seth told him they were just jokes that usually involved flashbacks This is like when they did that cutaway to make fun of Scrubs but you can pull up cutaways on that level from that same season.
Nicholas Roberts
Why would anyone invest emotions in fucking family guy you moron.
Everbody clicks on some YouTube links on accident and gets some chuckle out of it. No one watches whole episodes like an unhibited maniac and cares about the story or characterisation. What is your damm problem??
Benjamin Russell
Nobody liked Ted to begin with, other than people who saw it as 6th graders
Eli Powell
can someone explain where this "bored half-eye open" expression came from? did seth start the trend?
Legit the first Christmas episode is probably the funniest episode of the entire series.
Brody Miller
The earlier seasons had emotional moments retard >Brian discovering his mother died and tries to bury her >Peter saying goodbye to some birds he raised >Brian and the Old Lady >Stewie saying goodbye to Olivia >Peter trying to win back Lois And many more, you could relate to these characters and their struggles.
Seth hasn't worked for it since 1 decade, Life of Brain indeed
Camden Peterson
Based vs based*
William Rodriguez
Haven't watched Family Guy in over a decade. I fondly remember the very early episodes while loathed the episodes that made me stop watch all together. Shit's bad I don't care what Seth says.
Christopher Collins
Boring vs Soulless but at least funny
Landon Perez
Some people believed the attempts at "emotion" and "morals" in the old seasons came across as cheesy/forced. That's why the post-cancellation seasons are more about characters being dicks to one another.
Blake Lopez
They're better than the dated topical crap they give us nowadays.
Wyatt Parker
Why do adult animation creators do this? They make something successful, then they refuse to do the thing that made them successful. It happened with groenning
Evan Walker
Because the networks keep on renewing their shows when the creators want them cancelled already.
Idk about that. Matt Groening didn't cause the Simpsons decline, he oversaw the show in its classic era (seasons 1-8) and kept things in check.
Around the time he left the Simpsons to do Futurama in 1999, Mike Scully wrecked the show as he was no longer confined to Groening's rules. Celebrity guest stars appeared who were praised instead of mocked, Homer went from a put-upon breadwinning loser to an indestructible superhero, the animation got stiff and shitty looking.
Aiden Carter
>virgin peter not just using a generic puppet rig pose.
one job
Josiah Brooks
Perfect thread to ask, anyone else struggle to get into modern animated sitcoms or recent seasons of stuff like Family Guy? I don't care about pop culture and celebrity shit. As a result their jokes always fail in my eyes. I don't know of the celebrities they reference and I don't care about them either.
Think the only animated sitcom that mostly dealt with it's own original characters and conflicts is King of the Hill. Sure you got some celebrity centered episodes, but mostly? It's just the main characters dealing with common conflicts in life like having a lousy neighbor or something. I just cannot stand pop culture shit that's doomed to be dated even if it's good and if you already don't keep up with pop culture every joke is a failure.
