It's weird how pre-cancellation Family Guy was more corny and cute ("Who touched the thermostat?"), while post-cancellation is cold and cynical with a lot of gore and politics.
Perhaps this is a metaphor for how our society is more cynical now compared to the buoyant 1999.
9/11 ruined everything!
its a metaphor to how the writers/directors (i.e. not seth) wish they were writing for better shows or movies but are stuck with fucking family guy
Family Guy was originally supposed to be a send-up of cheesy family-oriented sitcoms, with ordinary issues taken to absurd heights.
They found out this was an unsustainable model, so they revamped and turned the show into what it is today.
FPBP, it literally ruined everything, Bush became a prick, mudslimes were pissed and yelled, politicans made shitty campaings banking on the event, shows and games were censored and a lot more. America has been a shit hole ever since.
It's why American Dad season 1 was so shit, it was just non-stop politics and bashing on Bush.
This is true. The hopeful future we had in the early internet days was brought to a screeching halt, and suddenly we were a lot more vulnerable and the world seemed a hell of a lot scarier. This turned into a downward push into cynicism and near-nihilism, which affected literally everything from politics to TV to the economy. We still haven't recovered from 9/11.
A mix of FOX giving them more freedom and assuming what fans liked about the original run And American Dad became send-up of cheesy family-oriented sitcoms, with ordinary issues taken to absurd heights
>shows and games were censored and a lot more.
I've actually liked movies made in 2011-2012. There's a way in which people talk where it's not as dumb down as movies are now.
>nudist episode
>Lois is naked but not Meg
I'm still mad.
Name 5
Are you sad that kids today will never experience live before 9/11 Zig Forums? They missed out the good times.
And it was before Meg being the awkward loser daughter was taken to its over-the-top extremes
Why did they even abandon that family?
This is what happened.
They had one more voiced cameo in S3 but I think because Fred Willard (RIP) and Jane Lynch happened to be available
Even this is outdated
It's not weird at all. Pre-cancellation Family Guy was great, hence why there were huge internet campaigns to get it back when it was cancelled. Believe it or not, there was a time when Family Guy was basically universally loved on the internet and considered the best animated show ever.
Fox no longer allows woman butts.
>Family Guy is a hit on FOX, lauded as the next Simpsons
>Seth MacFarlane catches his flight to Los Angeles and dies on 9/11
>The show gets cancelled midway through season 3 and is deeply missed
>American Dad, the Cleveland Show, and Ted do not exist
It's a shame that Family Guy and Futurama were cancelled early, were revived due to fan demand, but FG is the only one that is on to this day while Futurama only got 4 movies and 2 seasons before getting canned again.
What went wrong? Futurama was the superior of the two and was much more creative and funny.
Not to mention FG was bought back to FOX while Futurama was dumped to basic cable
It's easier to be cynical then it is to be sincere. And when your show is 20+ years old, you start taking the easy route a lot more.
*than
I watched one of those super early episodes and honestly it was just worse simpsons. Thank god they changed it
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>They found out this was an unsustainable model, so they revamped and turned the show into what it is today.
Care to share the deets?
But user, being sincere might get you laughed at!
They really should change the theme song, it makes no sense now when the show has become tryhard edgy garbage.
>no orville either
i may be the only one to care about this
time for your afternoon nap zoomer
I won't drag the discussion in here but I cared because the Orville was the closest thing to Star Trek we had.