That’s my reaction to watching an episode of Family Guy.
Family Guy isn’t an animated sitcom so much as it’s a nightmarish conglomeration of grunge-sexual-toilet-humour, mixed in with random segues and inexplicable pop cultural references. Watching Family Guy is like watching a twenty car pile up on the 401…it forces you to watch, mouth agape, in sheer, unadulterated horror!
Last night, I watched the show as a favour to a friend, determined to have an open mind. The result?
1— Two minutes of actual plot about a wife cheating on her husband with his next-door-neighbour/friend…
2— A man fornicating with his dog, who was wearing the face-mask of a black woman! Yes…you read that correctly…
3— A guy with his hand down the front of a woman’s shirt, trying to pull out a fish…with the expected side effects!
4— A COMPLETELY OFFENSIVE song-and-dance routine, where the news that a man has full blown AIDS is revealed in a supposedly-amusing manner!
5— The most RIDICULOUS collection of 1980s pop culture references…but ones that appear to have been sucked right out of my brain! Everything from the S-as-cling-wrap scene in Superman II, to The Transformers, to an insipid re-creation of the end scene of Rocky III! In between all this, they sneak in an offensive Natalie Wood joke. I screamed…for many, MANY reasons!
All I could think of, watching this collection of travesties, is…WHAT THE F*CK is FOX THINKING?!?
This show is disgusting, shocking, ridiculous…I can’t believe this is entertainment! It makes South Park look like art! I’d rather watch American Idol!
There is no redeeming value to this gobshite, whatsoever! If people actually find this crap amusing, then we are truly living in the run up to the apocalypse…it’s the toe-nail fungus of television!
As far as I’m concerned, there are now only four good shows left on television: Doctor Who, House, The West Wing, and Battlestar Galactica. Everything else is just…
…well…insert an appropriately banal comment of your choice.
