The Sin Of Dissing ‘Family Guy’
The final segment on tonight’s Countdown dissected last night’s South Park. But it’s a tangent off that discussion I want to mention here.
During this segment, Keith Olbermann was left somewhat speechless by the admission of his guest (someone from Entertainment Weekly whose name and positon escapes me at the moment) that he had given a bad review to Family Guy for the sin of not being funny.
(In response to this transgression, the show wrote him into an episode, and then killed him. A perfectly respectable retort.)
For what it’s worth, I feel compelled to come clean with my own opinion, which is roughly equivalent: I’ve never found Family Guy to be even remotely amusing.
That said, what I do find funny is the fact that when FOX asked the show’s creator for a new property, after jerking him and his show around as FOX so often does, he up and handed them (as it’s been explained to me by others) the same show in disguise.
Now that’s funny.
March 24th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
I’m not altogether sure what else the three of you might agree on, but apparently both Matt Groening and the South Park boys have little but utter disdain for Family Guy as animated “entertainment.”
And now that makes four of us, at least. Five, to include the EW columnist.
March 24th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
I’m not altogether sure what else the three of you might agree on, but apparently both Matt Groening and the South Park boys have little but utter disdain for Family Guy as animated “entertainment.”
And now that makes four of us, at least. Five, to include the EW columnist.
And your last bit reminds me of the story about Neil Young playing the Fillmore one night. He apparently did a short, listless set that featured not only a host of new songs, but bookended versions of “Don’t Let it Bring You Down.” Upon leaving the stage, Bill Graham appeared and shouted at Young, “Get the fuck back out there and play something they know!” Young returned to the stage for a 3rd version of Don’t Let it Bring You Down.