Top Ten Problems Of Family Guy (Part #2)

5) Hypocritical Stupidity

Remember when the silly ones were Peter, Quagmire, and maybe the rest of the main characters? Well, let’s just say that was a long time ago. I mean, literally a long time ago, since it felt like everyone’s been drinking too much Red Bell, taken all the drugs for too long, and develop similar retarded traits as Peter himself; or at least their carelessness is now up to eleven due of the atrociousness. Back in the old days, every character in the series are well-written and well-balanced; while each of them carry different amount of qualities and areas of wisdom. Heck, even the minor characters of the show has various likable moments when it comes to the cutaway gags and action scenes. Now those areas of “wisdom” are the only things they comprehended nowadays and all those qualities they separately have disappeared, so whenever they done several unexplainable-yet-ridiculous actions towards anything else, they couldn’t know or careless. Almost every passing episode we’ve seen in the years have the characters either dumbed-down to the point they lack any experience to a situation that could’ve been brought down with much better solutions or when someone rots for their actions while that exact person was trying to stand up to the causer, there is zero shame in the result. Even if there are others that didn’t cause anything wrong or at least trying to associate with a certain goal to stop someone else’s bitterness, nobody’s exactly a innocent martyr. Besides, how many times we’ve have heard this type of “joke” before when it comes to arguments?

Brain: [in denial] “ Relax, Its not that big a deal.”
Stewie: [furious] “Not that big a deal?! It’s a disgusting, unsightly, unsavory disease that it lasts for life!”
Brain: [not being shameful] “Yeah, but you know, isn’t the worst of herpes just the stigma? I mean, like, what if it wasn’t called “herpes”? Like-like, what if it was called “boppo”, huh?”  ~ Herpes The Love Sore

Lois: [upset] “Peter, I made out with Meg’s boyfriend!”
Peter: [surprised] “You made out with Meg’s boyfriend?! How the hell could you do that to me!?”
Lois: [angry] “Because, Peter, you’ve been making feel old and fat and unattractive and worthless!” ~ Go, Stewie, Go!

Meg: [To Chris] “You’re my brother. You’re supposed to be on my side, and you’re such a bastard to me.”
Chris: [confused] “How am I a bastard?!”
Meg: “Oh you want the full story?” ~ Seahorse Seashell Party

Keira: [giggling] “No, silly, I take the bus. I’m in high school.”
Quagmire: [surprised] “What the hell?! You said you were 23!”
Keira: [not worried] “Yeah, and you said you love me.”
Quagmire: “Well, I guess you got me there.”  ~ Quagmire’s Mom

Brian: “Does anyone in this house care about anyone but themselves?”
Meg: “Hey, Brian. How was the seminar?”
Brian: “Meg, please.” ~ Quagmire’s Dad

You see? The dialogue in those examples pretty much sums up this problem, isn’t it? Anyway, back on topic, we already know the purpose of the idiot character is to established a comical foil for the smarter characters to react to. While that’s basically how it works, however, almost every character in the series  either have no exact coherence when it comes to tragic topics, or gave a single damn when a dangerous event is happening, making Scary Movie and other parody films look comically hilarious compare to that. True, they lack common sense in some areas at the original seasons, but at the very least they have brains and the writers knew of how the characters are gonna handle in a actual situation, like Petarded where Peter was sentenced to court due of his selfish actions or the Griffin Family seeking survival at Da Boom (ironic title for a episode, but okay). Now, like the episodes up top, having all characters this hypocritically stupid makes them incredibly dumb and its downright infuriating, especially since there’s even no exact evidence of sane characters that’s calling the hooligans out and put sanity back to the group. Even if there are sane people, most of them ironically are either pedophiles, tyrants, attention-seekers, or selfish drunkards. You can tell that if someone gotten away with certain bad actions, nobody’s alarmed or even done something to prevent it from happening and death seems to be the only solution when there’s more, kinda like if its a inconvenience to them. That’s one of the reasons why Screams Of Silence: The Story Of Brenda Q fails because everyone whom watched the abuse doesn’t done anything right away nor stand up to the causer with a better solution. True, arguably the session and forest battle scenes count and I won’t deny they at least have a motivation, but they’re centered around Brenda’s part of the abuse and Jeff’s death. That shows they weren’t comprehending the exact idea of how it works and since one of the characters is a cop of all people, even the law didn’t step in due of a stupid @$$ policy which I’m pretty sure lets the causers do what they want until its too late, in result of having the writing feel sloppy. Speaking of which, the writing’s having trouble blending in the serious topics with satirical tones nowadays, like at Tales Of a Third Grade Nothing where it made fun of Quagmire being a father of three kids to three women while one of them is disabled comically and Run, Chris, Run done a similar thing to Chris, except it was made it serious and added Herbert for the shoehorned pedophile joke that even I didn’t chuckle at. I can tell by the writing that its plain lousy and lacks any dignity, and these episodes shows Turning back to the abuse episode, If that kind of policy happened in real-life, then the victim would be dead already and the abuser won’t go to prison for it. Better yet, the legal system of the series barely put effort into their jobs, especially since several certain characters we know had already commit countless crimes and red flags everywhere they go. Thus, even the background characters has stupid moments here and there as well, like in both plots of Herpe The Love Sore, everyone’s unable to identify that a baby and implied ex-girlfriends with herpes needed massive medical attention and shunned Peter, Joe, and Quagmire for being bullied by the three arrogant soldiers in the Drunken Clam, heading to Stuck In The Wringer/Little Yellow Book territory of hypocrisy I ever seen. Even when they do stand up for themselves, the guys are called out as the bullies themselves are soldiers and were praised in the result of having a holiday dedicated to them. As for Stewie and Chris, they get well deserved revenge towards Brain for infesting them with the disease for so long, but the downside that they get criticized because the date has a rich environment. As much I find that bull****, that’s another lousy attempt of making Brian the good guy and the children villainized for carrying his infestation. At the end, these two plots are just mean-spirited and meaningless at the same time, especially since both the problems aren’t even settled properly. While its obviously true that maybe Stewie and Chris shouldn’t done the deed with Brian to begin with, buts it’s not like the two known about the suddenly herpes on the dog and their lives is at risk. As for Peter, Joe, and Quagmire, all they did was getting picked on by the soldiers for no better purposes whatsoever and the town joins along with them as well after seeing the nonsense. This is very similar to the other stupid moments in the show, like episode April In Quahog has everyone in false alert due of a ridiculous prank by the news-reporters without having second thoughts on the actual “news” nor holiday alongside with Peter’s foolishness, Cleveland and one of Brian’s ex-girlfriends making love within a stadium that anybody who’s watching is pretty sure there’s children inside the building at Love Blactually, students making fun of Chris’s disability knowing there’s a dead girl with a much worse fate that doesn’t have the police force nor the teachers involved in Run, Chris, Run, making OJ Simpson a murder at the last minute in The Juice Is Loose!, nobody figures out that sex isn’t a better solution nor involving the girl that would’ve carry diseases inside the case for what Quagmire committed at Quagmire’s Mom, The Griffin Family themselves entirely lacks the exact idea of how transsexuals work in Quagmire’s Dad, and everyone in the WHOLE TOWN seeing Meg having a boyfriend, reflecting how careless the city is at Go, Stewie, Go!. This foolish carelessness gives out a bad reputation and makes every single person in the show entirely guilty as possible, rivaling Teen Titans Go!, Drawn Together, and Fairly Oddparents. Sure, SpongeBob somewhat counts, but the difference that even SpongeBob and Patrick didn’t at least killed anybody in the “mishaps” and haven’t forced Squidward to take his own life. The other characters pretty much don’t give a damn if someone died in their schemes, because obviously in their eyes, their s****y goals is much more important than paying attention to how it affects everyone. Back to Family Guy, yes, we all have been hypocrites in our lives and not everyone’s that innocent, but that’s pretty natural, especially since that’s our world in a nutshell. When it to the cartoon sitcom of having everyone being this scatterbrained, that literally leads you to a basic Dumb And Dumber question, “Who’s more foolish?”. Well, I’m just gonna say its somewhat difficult to tell which is which, since most of the time they all have a different reason on why they’re idiots. Laughing at a fool is one thing, but nobody’s gonna laugh at a ton of fools and the TV Tropes straight man role is barely present in the show, since whoever’s sane gets the same exact treatment as the others around them. Remember when everyone step in to certain events and stop the problem maker for making more conflicts, worked together properly to stop the said event happening, and respect each other despite going through risks? Well, that’s thrown out of the window, considering now the series’ “comedy” is getting more stupid and common sense isn’t even there anymore.

4) Unbearable Characters

Oh boy…here we go. We already been through the basics of effortless crap and ridiculous humor, so now we’re into the magma territory. Back at #5, I’m have demonstrated how continuously dumb the characters has become, but for this, I gonna take them out one by one and described the major changes they’ve contain in the years. Peter Griffin is the cartoon sitcom’s main star and the series’ endless misadventures are centered around him. Just like any other famous cartoon oaf, he gets the most screen time, enjoyable jokes, hilarious cutaways that involves with chicken, and the most iconic of the cast. So when it comes to the show’s atrocious content, that means we get to deal with his problems the most. Before anybody go all crazy of how exactly bad Peter has become, let me clarify that. While I too despise the demolished characterization, there some traits he used to be: he’s still a oaf, has funny cutaway gags a couple of times, and even has some smart moments, like the time he put a remote on a the table as he basically tell the audience to change the channel, hang out with a lobster, and drank Red Bull. Now, I really hate on what the writers done to the one of most iconic characters of adult cartoon history, since nowadays he has turn from a lovable doofus with redeemable traits to a psychotic bully who lacks any qualms of right and wrong. All he does most of the time in the series is either head to certain events that have nothing to do with his family, neglected his children’s existence, and cause heavy amount of trouble whatever he goes towards everyone in Quahog; specifically towards murder. So whenever you seen him on screen, you pretty much want something worse to happen to him so the episode could just go along without him. Thus, most of his appearances usually involve with the rehashed shenanigans that absolutely doesn’t go anywhere or leave a good impression, like the previous atrocious episodes I’ve talked about previously and from my update. While its arguably true he does that sometimes as well in the original seasons, but there, his silly nature and intellect was well-balanced and well-written, leaving him as a redeemable father who unintentionally causes the mistakes he did and fixes them at the end as he learn his lesson. None of that even appears anymore, and even when he’s not being a ignorant, self-centered bully to everyone around him, he seems to be a incestuous abusive father who imbecilely shuns his own children and has zero concerns on what would happened to them. In fact, that actually sums up his role back April In Quahog, where he does ludicrous bull**** instead spreading the “last day” with them and bought them a Xbox that automatically makes everything better, even though that doesn’t regulate the damages since electronics don’t do that. And lets not forget what he did to baby Suzie.
Peter: [while hugging Lois] “I just hate being around the kids.” ~ April In Quahog
Peter: [To Chris and Meg as he writes a notepad] “When you were babies, I used to knock you kids out every month or so, sometimes by accident, sometimes when the Patriots lost.” ~ Brian Griffin’s House Of Payne
Peter: [Fanfare plays as he and Chris march] “Can you feel the soldiers, Chris? So many has fallen. And this is why they were fighting. For a man to marry his son in a state with enough trees around that nobody can see what’s going on.”  ~ Fresh Heir
Wow! And yet before, I thought Hugh Test, Mr. Turner and even Buck Cluck was worst in their own categories, but compare them to this guy, at least the rooster got some likable moments and the neat-freak is tolerable in several areas. As for Mr. Turner, he on the other hand is recently used for shoehorned jokes and barely interacts with Timmy as much as Peter to his children, but the difference between them that Mr. Turner isn’t incestuous nor murderous. Again, Peter isn’t always like this in the beginning and while he have stupid moments, but the writers understood how’s he written and show his parental adult side of the situation than being a normal doofus. Speaking of normal, there are several times in the series where he acts like his previous self, but in those times, he get’s traumatized to the point nobody would ever helped him out and expected the guy to do something even though he exactly couldn’t. That’s why Peter-Assment fails because the episode’s expecting Peter to do something already even though there are plenty of advantages that anybody can do. To sum up his characterization in the series, whenever he’s tolerable, the world around him bashed him for hypocritical reasons, and whenever he acts as a retard, he barely got any karma in the results. So while its noticeable he has a heart in some areas, that doesn’t entirely let his actions slide. Remember when he gave Lois their  anniversary song after seeing flashbacks of his past in Death Lives, him realizing how fibbing cause a major tragedy at his son’s near-death from If I’m Dyin’, I’m Lyin’, overly exaggerated over a prostate exam at Stewie Loves Lois, and progressing a “ You, Censorship!” program in PTV? Well, judging by how he’s written, he’ll just be consider filler due of doing typical shenanigans of every episode he’s in and/or a decent character that gets shunned by the world. None of the cutaway gags of him getting raped nor sexually violated doesn’t even count, because its hypocritical on the writing perspective. Now that the main star is out of the way, let’s go to his so-called “sweetheart” Lois. *facepalms* Jesus, who thought writing her like this was a good idea?! Lois Griffin used to be a beloved mother to her children, a loving wife for Peter, and a kick@$$ woman that you don’t want to mess or else unless your dead meat. In the old days, she basically represents your every day housewife with decent morality who goes bonkers if someone tries to harm her family, face several opponents, or when something pissed her off. Now, she represents the most typical aspect of a realistic woman’s perspective: a complete uttered bitch with no signs of dignity whatsoever. While I’m not being sexist and all, but Lois we know of is no longer there and replaced with a hollow shell of herself,  such as episodes showing her as a disgrace to motherhood as she let adultery take advantage of her without second concerns and untrustworthy when to comes to serious situations. Go, Stewie, Go! haves her trying to **** a minor due of not telling Peter how much his foolishness affects her and crushing Meg, Peter-Assment, Brian Griffin’s House Of Payne, and Herpe The Love Sore shows how uncaring, blind, and unsupportive she is when to comes to someone’s tragic fate, and Call Girl just shows her how majorly hypocritical she when she hold Peter accountable for the same exact adultery she committed. There’s even a very rare scene at And I’m Joyce Kinney that shows how much she fallen over the years, since the episode is centered around Joyce herself trying to get revenge on Lois for bullying her which was a long time ago in my opinion (not saying payback is a bad thing, but still). Here are some comparisons between her back then and now:
Lois: [starting to crack as music plays and threw the burnt turkey] “No…paper…towels?! DAAHHHH!!!!” ~ A Very Special Family Guy’s Merry Freakin’ Christmas!
Lois: [Watching the couple] “Mmm…I bet you taste like Starbursts.” ~ Go, Stewie, Go!
Lois: [Holding Peter’s “manhood” and shouting to the crowd] “This is mine! This is where my babies come from!” ~ Lethal Weapons
Lois: [Being nude inside the LSD trip] “Wanna have s…..ex…?” ~ Seahorse Seashell Party
Lois: “You bitch….” ~ I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar
Lois: [In the dark, wearing a lingerie]  “Peter, are you ready for your Valentine gift?” ~ Valentines Day In Quahog
I understand that Lois is one of the most attractive feminine characters in cartoon history and many wished she was real so much that they’ll “go to bed” with her, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a much better character then that. Having her as this lust-driven hag isn’t consider sexy nor lovely! That is something I usually expect from a actual prostitute and several words would be best left alone said by a certain popular plumber we all know. In many perspectives, her and Peter obviously needed a divorce, because the two don’t felt like a actual couple anymore nor even need each other, especially since the woman is seeing other me-oh wait…..Fresh Heir already took care of that, where Peter tricked Lois to file the divorce papers, so never mind. Anyway, all I’m saying here is that there’s more Lois that just seeing her as a typical sexual idol that gives even Tawna Bandicoot a run for her money and her characterization is the exact opposite of it. She makes most other motherly characters much more bearable in comparison, especially her counterparts Francine Smith and Marge Simpson. Unless they too have bittersweet moments as well, Lois is nothing but a disgrace to motherhood and marriage.
Now that the “parents” are out of the way, let’s go to the children. In my perspective, Chris Griffin is pretty much your typical high school kid and basically the young version of Peter, since it seems to be he’s the least problematic of the cast. We’ve seen Chris going through several plots since the beginning of the series and some of them involves having a attraction towards a sexy-looking teacher that I even don’t reconsidered much at, getting popular but fame takes advantage of him in , and a native he encountered since he ran away. As for himself in general now, he’s barely even used most of the time and sometimes just come out as bad as his father, like at Long John Peter where he’s been annoyed by Joe and disrespected him due of being handicapped, Brian Griffin’s House Of Payne has him and Meg trying to hid Stewie’s near-death experience, committed thievery  from elders at The Heartbreak Dog, and became from a picked-on victim to a arrogant douchebag from the infamous Run, Chris, Run. Chris back then has decent characteristics and used for funny jokes that doesn’t effect the given plot in a episode, despite being just a regular teenage boy and dealing with rough experiences in his school days. We can relate to this guy became we all have been there and sometimes that happens in several occasions in life. Now, he’s completely bland and has less concern of what he’s doing wrong nor comprehended the idea of what’s going on due of a certain event, making him a hypocritical moron that even actual high school girls refuse to interact with and supportive on the “Let’s Harass Meg” wagon. Heck, his relationship with Meg is barely have any proper communication despite interacting with her. On top of that, he doesn’t specifically have much of a basic character, since he has no cringe of whatever his motivation is or interact much with anybody; especially towards his family.  I guess he’s supposed to Ed’s counterpart, but half the time, he’ll just roll with their crap without having second thoughts, unless that have something to do with the folks not spending time with him properly. Fresh Heir completely shows that Peter didn’t done anything Chris at all, making you wonder why he’s not so bright. As the kid goes by in the series, the writers continuously used him for disappointing jokes and filler that makes Steve Smith look like a functioning character in comparison. Every time I’ve seen the guy in the episodes, I immediately gotten bored and barely got a decent impression from his appearance. So yeah, even though he’s the most least impact of the show, Chris is pretty much any other supportive character that has no better qualities. Since he’s done, let’s go check on Megan. *Sighs* Yes…we all see this coming now, huh? This character is obviously the “bane” of the show’s existence and one of the major reasons why the series falls flat with the comedy. Seriously, the gal has been shunned repeatedly since the day the series’ been revived to the world and there’s exactly no sigh of happiness across her path when it comes to this! Okay okay, I’ve exaggerated a bit, but you know what I mean. Meg used to be a typical teenage girl with a understandable sarcastic tone due of being usually bullied in school, a big sister to Chris and Stewie, and the eldest child of the family who’s trying to settle with adulthood sometimes. Nowadays, she’s sometimes a very bland, untrustworthy discount yandere that get what she’s at the end and the rest has her entirely gaining endless suffering that should’ve killed her in the results. Peter continuously harms her everyway possible way without signs of guilt throughout his bull****, Lois stabs her in the back several times and encourages her to commit suicide at one point, and Chris doesn’t remotely treat her like a regular person, which was demonstrated in episode Seahorse Seashell Party. This constant abuse has made countless Family Guy fans feel immediately sad for her, especially those who is related to the critics themselves, TheMysteriousMrEnter, Jew Reviews, and PhantomStrider. After seeing the media’s massive complaints and rants abut this nonsense, several already compare this gal’s tragedy to a certain snobby octopus we all know, but there’s a major difference between the two honestly. True, they both had a endless line of torture episodes, but neither is a innocent martyr than the other, since Squidward is know for being arrogant for comedic purposes and Meg is a just a adult feminine version of Timmy Turner who obviously suffering Stockholm Syndrome. I already explain why Squidward isn’t entirely innocent at one point, but I’m gonna stay on topic. There are even times in the show where Meg is just a bad as the others, like at Friends Without Benefits where she gets obsessive towards a homosexual and forced him and Chris to breaking up with each other so she can have him and Not All Dogs Go To Heaven has her wanting everyone else out be christians even though nobody wants to and doesn’t respect opinions. Okay yeah, that is something I expect from a actual manipulative villainess. As for the repetitive horse**** of her suffering for laughs, its just fill up most the show’s running time with the “Get it, because Meg’s ugly?! HAHAHA!!!” crap and lacks anymore experience. Why? Because they’re so damn boring and killing her wont’ even make anything better, since there’s a certain episode that I going to tackle at #3 that shows you it didn’t matter if a character died. After watching this countless times, I have a feeling that maybe the writers probably have no idea of how a actual teenage girl operates. In fact, many people believe that in a interview that the reason why Meg’s been treated like this because of the bitterness towards Lisa Simpson’s fame in The Simpsons and again, the writers doesn’t know how a young lady works. While reading and watching the info, I felt like it’s the most lousiest explanation I ever heard of, especially since there are PLENTY of examples in the media of teenage gals. As much as I understand where they coming from due of the fact her suffering does happens to certain amount of people in real life, at the very least identify how unfunny her role in the series is. Overall, while’s she doesn’t deserve the aghast treatment she’s been given, that doesn’t excuse her for not making better decisions. While its true its funny back then and most of them were mistakes and inconveniences, the bitterness towards her has gone too far. Lastly, we got Stewie onboard, and I completely disliked the way he’s been written in the series. The baby used to be a brilliant scientific schemer which you expect from certain villains throughout the years and now he’s a homosexual stereotypical idiot kid that doesn’t think very clearly sometimes while being stuck with Brian mostly. Yes, while he has more tolerable moments than the entire family in the recent seasons when it comes to the episodes, but even he needs to realize that there are some bad ideas he shouldn’t commit as they go on. On top of that, he’s kinda like if Doctor Neo Cortex lost some brain cells and didn’t finish off the final conclusion of his problems, so Stewie’s pretty much a okay character. Its sucks that a baby of all people is more interesting to watch than the rest of the entire cast, since the Road To _ mini-series is consider having the best episodes of the cartoon sitcom. While I’m not saying Stewie is a bad character overall, it’s just the brilliant genius side of his we all miss. Also, his friendship with Brain is what I admire next to Spongebob &Patrick, The Eds, Hiccup & Toothless, Mordercai & Rigby, and Megamind & Minion, but that friendship has major flaws that needs the authorities’ attention, especially in Stewie Is Enceinte. The rest of the supportive characters are equally boring, heinous, and bland as the Griffin Family, especially Quagmire; who went from a typical perverted poking stick of lusting men to a downright careless sex hound when it comes to women and his own children carrying so many dangerous diseases. There’s a scene somewhere that I refused to enjoy and shows how majorly hypocritical he is no matter the case and back at Screams Of Silence: The Story Of Brenda Q where he psychologically abused his sister, making him bad as Jeff. Remember this lines?

Quagmire: [Finish reading the note to Brenda while tearing up] “I want the girl who I grow up with back. I…I want my sister back. Brenda, I love you.”

As much I won’t deny Quagmire doesn’t want his sister to seek anymore harm from Jeff, but at the same time, he puts the blame on his own sibling and downright lied he treated women like beings, specifically since a couple of them are actual high school students. So yeah, while does have some decent motives, that doesn’t excuse his actions whatsoever. Despite being funny and subtle several times, Joe Swanson is the embodiment of the police force not doing their forsaking jobs since there are must worse experiences than just abuse, Bonnie is just as a pointless lusting hag as Lois at some point, Clevelend is only used for ridiculous racist jokes that even I don’t find comical, Herbert and Adam West is barely present, Carter is the worst attention-seeker I have ever seen, and the townspeople are just stock characters in general.  You see, when these characters all gone down to the drain, you just wanted the entire town to rot in Hell for that matter and no longer admire them like they used to be before. Each character is just bad as the other, but have reasons to be so and on. All of them makes the characters from certain decent live-action sitcoms, video games, movies, and other good cartoons look like geniuses compare to these morons. Now that’s out of the way, there’s one certain character that I haven’t fully analyzed ands its about that time when we head to Number #3.

3) Brian Griffin's Reputation

“Hey, get out of here! This is my house!” ~ Halloween On Sponner Street

“What? Can be tired at 1:00 in the mourning?!”

“Yeah well, you don’t’ deserve her, you know that? All she does is give and give and you treated her like crap.” ~ Play It Again, Brian

“Oh yeah, I’ll pay you soon.” ~ Patriots Games

“You…have gave me a wonderful life. I love you all.” ~ Life Of Brian

Ah yeah…Brian Griffin’s Reputation. This is probably the issue on what’s everyone being waiting the most for. given the dog his very own number here because there is so much negative criticism, animated atrocities focus on him, plots around him doing controversy/getting a girlfriend while not exactly caring the what the **** is going on, and the constant profaning towards the character. So, lets head to the actual dog himself. Brian Griffin was the show’s main voice of reason and the most recognizable of the cast next to Peter. He’s hilarious, charming, and pretty much the Sane Man of the family, since in several occasions he tells them how much of bad idea their antics are and how they affect the world. As the series eventually continue on without stopping nor ending, he now becomes enemy Number #1 towards the Quahog citizens, audience, critics, and the entire fanbase. Even though I too despise of what he became, I’m not going to bash this guy despite many reasons why I should. For starters, there are ton of episodes out there besides being the voice of reason, especially with the Road To _ mini-series having him and Stewie journey around the world with goals that’ll benefit them both even if there are up and downs sometimes. Heck, even the Road To The Multiverse shown the two heading inside different realms of reality that is similar to theirs, which I find a okay episode. In the old days and much like most canine characters, Brian is a very funny character despite being a drunkard, a underrated writer, a “ladiesman”, supports his family’s efforts on whatever dangerous occasions might occur, and accept the flaws he carry, such as slapping sense into Peter in If I’m Dyin’, I’m Lyin’, supporting him to the recklessness towards censorship in PTV, realizing how much his creativity becomes when it falls into the wrong hands in Brian’s Play, seeing how the trophy is praised by the others’ greed in Love Thy Trophy, and have to understand the fact that he’s getting old after trying to rescue in The Man With Two Brians. While he’s not the best guy around depending on romance or writing, Brian has decent standards and a moral compass, leaving him very admirable and interesting to watch. This is gives a good impression to the audience since it tells you that not everyone is perfect and most things can complicated depending on our lives. Whenever he appears on screen where he tells someone how their antics affect a person, we not only got the impression of him giving wisdom to the specific character, but also  The hound is usually there for common sense that Nowadays, all of the brilliant characteristics he used to have are thrown away, and replaced with ludicrous controversy, rehashed ex-girlfriend plots that repeatedly wasted everyone’s time, unhealthy relationships with his friends that ends up with filler, and letting his own egotistical nature take advantage of him without second concerns. I’m seen countless comments, rants, and reviews talking about how incredibly bad he is and occasionally been called a @$$hole, jerk, dumb@$$, smart aleck, bastard, and other names that I refuse to say right now, but I’m just going to call him much better fitting term for him that entirely sums up his entire role of the series and what he’s become: Player. Yes guys, Brian is a forsaking player in every single sense of the word and it symbolizes his true purpose of the episodes. He continuously slept with countless without preparation nor caution on how old they are, doesn’t give a damn of how everything is affected due of his shallow nature, abandoned his biological children for his benefits, treated everyone around him like complete dog , and complains many times he doesn’t retrieve the popularity exactly the way he wanted to be instead of seeing he made an accomplishment no matter what. There are many episodes in the newer seasons that perfectly shown how awful he is as the years go on and watching on screen immediately puts a bad impression towards the viewers, like him trying to Lois in Play It Again, Brian, mooching off his own son of his career while having zero qualities of love towards him in Brian’s A Bad Father (how forsaking ironic), cheating on his fiancé while being drunk in Brian’s a Got A Brand New Bag, became a jerk due of his book not getting enough he wanted in Brian’s A Bestseller, cause of time rift that made everything backwards due of a banging someone in Yug Ylimaf, doesn’t even care about who carries his infectious disease that came out of nowhere with implications of leaving half of the Quahog citizens infested too in Herpe The Love Sore, disrespected religion followers that viewed God after committing he’s a atheist in Not All Dogs Go To Heaven, and almost committed statutory rape on a high-school girl in that disgusting episode to watch, Scammed Yankees.

Okay….NO! This isn’t exactly the type of character we all suppose to admire and since he committed all of those actions I’ve mentioned up top not only describes he’s PURPOSELY doing it for his own pleasure, but just like the rest of the Griffin Family, this lust-driven mutt deserves to be in prison. On top of that, its no surprised that the authorities doesn’t figure out how much of a major failure of a father, con man, and sex offender he is. In comparisons to other canine characters, Brian’s like if Scrappy-Doo become an adult and does whatever he wants for his own pleasure and makes Courage, Dudley Puppy, Scooby-Doo, and Santa’s Litter Helper look like harmless, non-violent dogs. Just like Roger The Alien, the traits of redemption is very beyond sometimes depending on the episode and you can’t help but massively hate the guy. However, despite his foolishness, there are several traits of positivity in him, so I can’t say he’s completely heartless. There are some good portrayals of him here and there despite the obvious flaws, but at the very least some of his original character is trying to shine again, especially in Brian Griffin’s House Of Payne, where it show us how much his sitcom became rotten due of letting James Woods take advantage of him, indirectly telling he shouldn’t not be exposed like that. As much as analyzed how broken the mutt is, that doesn’t mean he deserves unjustified anguishing while just being normal. Love Blactually has him betrayed by his puck@$$ girlfriend who obviously couldn’t wait any longer and slept with Cleveland (And yet people think Amy Rose was bad enough), Quagmire’s Dad shows Brian beaten up by Quagmire for just finding out the woman he slept with is a transsexual, also snapped at him for not knowing she has cancer in Road To The North Pole which I find decent at some spots due of symbolizing the world’s greed, and even Not All Dogs Go To Heaven made him a complete threat to society and kicked out of every single bar due of having different religious beliefs, even though he can’t be the only one. Similar to the previous crap we’ve seen too, having the mutt in these pathetic shoehorned “stories” not only shows the incompetence he and society really are due of the bull reasons, this majority of writing feels incredibly lazy! In matter of fact, example Life Of Brian is nothing but a ratings trap entirely in order to seek attention, because while killing off a character is one thing, but demolishing a least favorite cast member that everyone bashes so much was completely unsatisfying, especially since all Brian done in the episode is helping Stewie to stop the time-traveling and playing hockey afterwards, leaving the hound been given the Nautical Novice treatment with a side of Demolition Doofus to his minor demise. Thus, immediately after the episode is over, the white hound miraculously returns a couple of episodes later, thanks to Stewie saving him at the last second. This actually tells me that killing a least favorite character doesn’t make anything better nor fulfilled single crap! That’s why the special Whatever Happened To Spongebob fails because its trying too hard of how Spongebob’s needed in the world and he’s the only character that has the capability to retain balance. Now, I won’t mind a character getting killed off for official reasons, but doing for comedy and shock value is completely pointless and unnecessary. Half the time, its like the show couldn’t go on at one single episode without him, even though some characters were killed already without any problems and obviously a main character is too much to throw way; when there are much worse people next to the canine. To sums things up, I see Brian as nothing but a unhealthy player that gets away what he wants and/or a decent sane man that gets bashed for ridiculous reasons. There’s a huge difference between incoherence and just being a low-esteemed douche.  

2) Abandoning Responsibility

Ugh…this problem…Okay, I’m just gonna think back for a second and say this. Now, imagine doing the worse things you’re not so proud of. Picture it as getting involved into dangerous situations that made everybody see you as a threat to humanity for the actions you’ve “committed”, even if its not entirely your fault. At some point, depending on how everything goes, you’ve eventually snapped somewhere due of the world’s massive incompetence and there is no other choice than being placed in the nuthouse, making you no different than the rest of the maniacs inside. Innocent or not, Its all takes just one bad day to lighten up that minuscule spark from within, and in result of blood spewing on the floor since common sense is thrown out of the window. When it comes to walking towards the path of madness, the minute those kind of actions begun, the minute the sacred consequences comes to bite you on the @$$ no matter what. But however, not every action gets its exact karma, no matter how worse it is or it’ll affect the world around it. Responsibility is a very infamous term when it comes to  that tragedy and it can harm anybody depending on the person’s motivation, but its needed for the majority of reasons. So the question is, what does that got to do with the cartoon sitcom? Because the logic of the show continuously disappears as each episodes go on and every character doesn’t take advantage of it when it comes to solving a problem they committed themselves or others. According to the revived show, they say its okay to be a @$$hole to everyone around you for no official reasons, back-stabbed your love ones for the sake of getting laid while improvising your sexuality, do whatever you desire for your own pleasure without giving a damn on what the consequences might be, betray your friends and family’s trust as you nearly killed them with disastrous results, abandon your own scarred children as you have no interest in them, the law would definitely arrest you for minor things instead of the obvious committed red flags done by actual criminal activity, siblings won’t be there for your when you’re shunned to death, allow your tormentor to take advantage of you, make fun of the sick, disabled and dying, incoherently destroy public property, and cheer for those who’s deeds are more hazardous than everyone thinks. Okay yeah, most of these situations is what I usually expected from real-life sociopaths to do, not parental figures and guardians. Despite their silly nature and their crazy antics, Peter and Lois are very good parents when it comes to looking out for their children and prepare them for the world as they build up on taking care of themselves. Sure, they can have perverted moments at times, but that didn’t mean they have the traits of regular parents when it comes to the child’s side of a issue. Now, they’re ludicrous abuse scumbags more concerned about their crap and doesn’t give two single s about their children’s existence, health, or well-being. Heck, its clearly obvious that they’re not even cringed when one of them died at one point, especially Peter himself. Parental obliviousness is somewhat common depending on the adult, but not to the point where the children are better off dead and forgotten due of the episodes having them being completely shunned and letting the world taking advantage of them without their attention, like at episodes Dial Meg For Murder, A Fistful Of Meg, & Road To India, they willingly don’t defended Meg at several occasions nor giving a hopeful impression, abandoned Stewie without double checking his forsaking health in Baby Not On Board, Herpe The Love Sore, & Brian Griffin’s House Of Payne, and almost every episode around Chris has the two barely interacting with him. I understand that Family Guy is a satirical comedy show, but come on! I get these two are foolish, but to the point where they’re not there for their children properly most of the time or at least around, them literally have the gall to take away their innocence without out second thoughts is the most infuriating written process I ever seen. Fresh Heir shown Peter trying to commit incest on Chris in order to selfishly inherit the money and still neglected for it like some everyday gold-digger; and Go, Stewie, Go! made Lois into a pedophilic, cheating bitch that probably destroyed Meg inside, since Lois was supposed to be some sort of idol toward her. Not even Stewie gets the attention he needs since he’s basically a child, and judge imagine how messed up his life is with these two not present. You know, after seeing these episodes around the parents being morons to parenthood, the speech Meg told about the two at Seahorse Seashell Party feels even more satisfying, especially since none of the two – hence by the title - taken their responsibilities as parents. Several of you may argue that American Dad and The Cleveland Show has the parental figures going through the same route as them due of incest overtones, but even Stan, Cleveland, and their wives step up their games to the children and bring some balance in their lives. Literally!
The other adult characters fallen on this category too, especially Joe and Quagmire. While he’s the least issue when it comes to parenting, his duties as a police officer is very underwhelming when it comes to carrying so many advantages. No seriously, he has the capability to arrest somebody right there, especially since some episodes show him been beaten up and watched someone getting abused. As much as I’m not saying that he should’ve done it right away, but I’m saying that when its time to do his police force duties, he needs to step in and won’t allow much of the anarchy that’s going on in his face. Its like if he’s just letting these events happening without some sorts of limitations or avoidance, but knowing how the law works in this show, Joe isn’t going to do his job like he’s supposed to do and let innocent civilians die due of the all of a sudden ridiculous policies. First off, I said before that these idiotic policies not only allow the crooks do whatever they want to the victim, but that means the police won’t immediately headed to the crime until the criminal got away with murder. This is something we usually expect from the Ride Along series, Bad Boys, CSI and especially Criminal Minds, which I’m sure they have much better experiences when deals with these kind of situations. Second, Joe following rules in reluctance is what I understand, but that doesn’t mean you just let it all happened.  Even Hoodwinked’s Big Bad Wolf step in to aid Red’s encounters toward Boingo and Hansel & Gretel’s diabolical plans, and yes, we did see him given up at point, but thanks to Twitchy slapping sense into him, he decides to take responsibility and find her in the Dark Castle Towers. How ironic that a wolf from a fairy tale/buddy cop movie is more bearable to watch than a guy who just stands there and do nothing since they’re voiced by the same guy. I like Joe and all, but he needs to step up his game when it comes of doing his job. True, he has done it in several occasions before, but neither of them are enough compare to the crap that eventually happens without resistance. Just like what I point out at #4, I’m stating the facts as years go by, Joe symbolizes the laziness and idiocy the police department became, since I’ve seen many new reports of racist cops at the east boarder having unnecessary issues towards the pedestrians. My guess the writers are demonstrating how police is becoming more moronic nowadays and using Joe as a example of how they go, which I find a sad story to be honest. And speaking of which, his relationship with Bonnie is your typical bad relationship you’ve seen in reality shows in MTV, like the time Bonnie cheated on Joe for somebody on the internet because he’s handicapped (stupid reason to do so by the way), and Joe did the same thing, but listen to Peter’s bull**** to do so, so neither of them have proper communication that surprisingly didn’t affect their baby girl. I’m glad the show didn’t do the “think about the children” crap, because let’s face it, that is the most overrated excuse in the book. For Quagmire, I view him and Brian as separate rivals when it comes their usual shticks: both slept with women that carry their diseases and children [it is obvious?], jump right into the conclusion than stating the obvious [killing Jeff/not getting enough attention over a book], scold others about the crap they’ve done too [Quagmire shunning Brian for not knowing his niece’s cancer that should’ve been acknowledged earlier and same exact thing towards women/Brain told Peter for not being there for his son ironically], and commit bad actions toward their own relatives [Brian mooching Dylan/Quagmire psychologically put Brenda at the blame]. While they do have several differences depending how their motivated, in many ways, their basically the same player. Heck, even Lois and nearly Bonnie can be consider prostitutes for all I care, because those not only are being unfair towards their marriages, but ridiculous idols to their children. In matter of fact, I already imagine Chris being a self-centered @$$hole due of not getting enough love from Peter and Lois nor being there for him, Meg would just being her own woman in refusal of taking the abuse, and Stewie, Suzie, and the rest of the soon infants might turn into juveniles because nobody’s paying attention to them. Its seems that all the adult characters are derailed so hard that they’re concerns is focused on their needs in life than realize that sometimes family come first. Every time a certain episode does this in several occasions, you want neither of them to succeed at all and face failure in their goals, all because none of them took responsibility for their actions while knowingly they’ll affect their children in many ways possible no matter how scarring it is. Sadly, that’s entirely sums up the miserable lives of many children are facing today, due of the bull****ing of the so-called parents done and at some point other families’ lives would be nearly ruined as they’re force to take care of someone else’s kids. You know, I once been in a situation that almost took a majority of summer away from me due of one of my relatives suffering drug overdose and my folks have no choice but to watch over that person’s kids; in result of not having a life because of what I’m going through thanks to court. Sucks @$$, isn’t it?!  So to stay on topic, overall, whoever makes a motivation in this show has no exact concerns of how it’ll affect everyone, especially towards the youngsters, because obviously having children takes away the adultery fun, huh?!  I literally feel sorrow for them, since the people around the didn’t exactly got the idea of child innocence matters. This is why God established countless Bibles to begin with, because even he knows how dangerous the world can be and basically telling everyone to use safety measures and how to avoid the foolishness in it, and it sucks that nobody focus on him now. That’s how Christianity and many others came to existence, because its all made by him. The only person that the adult characters’ work on best due of their actions is nothing but the Devil himself.

Before I finish off this bad boy, here are some dishonorable mentions:

Voice Acting – While I’m pretty neutral to the well-appreciated voice acting, Seth MacFarlane has voice too many stock characters that be barely recognized over the years, and very similar to Stephen Hillenburg, I bet he doesn’t enjoy on Fox’s operation towards the sitcom. As for the rest, I can tell whenever they portrayed those awful reincarnations, even the voice actors themselves don’t sound comfortable, especially Mila Kunis, since I heard at the news at one point she and Ashton Kutcher (AKA Elliot from Open Season) wanted to raise their children properly and not letting greed take advantaged of them. When I read about that, that tells me that Meg actually has more parental skills than the two sickos that “raised” her. To me, Alex Borstien’s role as Lois in the recent seasons sounds like she’s gonna trying to molest somebody, Patrick Warburton’s comical nature is losing its touch, and Jennifer Hale and Mike Henry seems to be the most bearable voices to listen to, since the characters they act are barely around most of the time.

GOOD Modern episodes – Most of the episodes in some areas are pretty Meh and several plots are actually pretty good, so the series has some light within the darkness somewhere. There a good episode here and there and some jokes is undeniably hilarious, but sometimes the episodes we see with decency barely got any attention due of being outlasted by the unneeded filler crap we’re seeing now. If the folks of FOX keep up with this by focusing on fixing the quality, then there’s a chance of happiness for the show, but I’m not gonna count on them entirely.

The Soundtrack -  This mention…is the most lest common in the series. The music of the cartoon has gone on and off depending of the episode, and the composers did a great job given that specific episode a sense of tension, especially the chicken cutaways. Now, its barely heard and all we got is dead silence, like if somebody in the production knows the episode is going to be so bad that music won’t make it better.  

1) Anger-Filled Terrorism

Alright! This is it, everyone! This is the very last problem of the entire series, and abandoning responsibility is only secondary compare to this. I’ve spent weeks taking care of the other problems and this one is the Big Apple of the batch that I been dying to talk about. So, I hope everyone’s ready to read this loud and clear when I bring this piece of crap to the ground, because let’s face the facts: Family Guy   is no longer the clever satirical show it once was. In my eyes, the main reason why this cartoon sitcom is so spectacular back then is because not just the brilliant writing, but Seth Macfarlane wants us to enjoy the Griffin Family’s usual shenanigans; and I bet he want us to be entertained so after a work day’s over, we can laugh out loud at the pure goodness as we watch. All the comedy gold we’ve seen in Quahog throughout the years has become roadkill and replace with this shameful purging style that not even Bojak Horseman could enjoy, and that really says something since his show represents the yin & yang of reality and its more interesting to watch. What do we got here? Noting but shock value and filler to gather enough attention to the world, since everyone within the town is fill with hatred and evil; so whenever there’s a bright light in every counter, the darkness takes over and destroys it. To be honest, Quahog is pretty much the last place I’ll hang out at, because the minute you go in there, the minute you’ll go crazy in the next few minutes. Not only everyone’s a jerk, but those whom commit ludicrous,  endless tragedies while shunning others get away scot-free while the helpless innocent that seeks resistance get viciously blamed, especially with each adult always find ways to pleasure themselves for fun as every single child that exact person suppose to raise is either scarred for life, emotionally unstable, or doesn’t receive any assistance for health at the end. Death doesn’t really matter in the horrid world they live in, since many would be completely forgotten and left behind since everybody is more concern over bull**** than give a crap on what’s really happening, because obviously needs are more necessary than a person’s life. The show never even identify itself of how remotely insulting its becoming towards the audience and realized that cruelty does not give a genuine impression towards the viewers. Not even a little. Instead of bring good messages and decency, the series goes overboard of offending tragic topics and many religions, believing that’s what comedy is made for even though its not close enough to be funny. Putting satire on everyday dangers didn’t give a good idolization on those who want to take a path of adulthood after all the school years are over and to them, it encourages more negativity and does whatever it takes to be bad. This is, without signs a shame, one of the most sickening shows in media history. And yes, it revivals with most bad sitcoms in the world, but I think fits well with the movie trilogy, The Purge. If the series really thinks its back to its original state, its so dead wrong, because this relentless bashing and murderous nature has given the Grim Reaper a overdue job. This ridiculous raging progress has entirely destroyed all hearts of fans that loves this show to death and gets overly criticized by hundreds of people every single year it aired every atrocious episode after episode, bringing fuel to the fire. Compare this to American Dad and The Cleveland Show, those two shows look like descendants and while they too have suffer this fate, they at least got more positivity in several spots than this sitcom all together. Even much other cartoon sitcoms I know of  have much better stories, well-developed characters, and inspiring satire that’ll last for generations to come. Heading back to the impressable part, if some certain teenagers believe this is how the world operates, that’ll make the show not just bad, but potentially dangerous for them. Yes, even though they too know that this isn’t real-life, but that doesn’t mean they should “learn” from this nonsense, since the purpose of the series is basically jumping into conclusions without common sense or using logic to figure out a much better idea. If you’re a regular adult, religion believer, policeman or policewoman, a person suffering a disorder, or anybody that went through enough crap or fulfilled their lives with functioning jobs that didn’t entirely needed morals and knew how the world works, you’ll incredibly offended, ‘coz according to this show, you’re the bad buy and has no signs off dignity whatsoever, even that’s what it present itself.
To finish off the countdown, lets go to the one of the last examples of the show, Turban Cowboy. This was close back at #6, but I decided to bring it here due of establishing terrorism for comedic reasons. In this episode, Peter befriended a Muslim supporter and took interest of his religion, but as we know what happens: everyone gets suspicious, believe Mahmoud to be a terrorist, its turns out he and friends are due of the ridiculous racism crap, Joe arrested them with ease believe all the Middle-East citizens are dangerous, and Lois would’ve divorced Peter if he even cry for once. Despite some good takes on the “never judge a book by its cover” plot point, its pretty much borderline meth for the most part, since the majority of the episode is considered pointless and doesn’t show that not all Muslims are terrorists. Other episodes like Stew-Roids shows the carelessness of using drugs to affect your body, Quagmire’s Quagmire is just a sexual assault report that could’ve happen on anytime, Peter’s Sister is the show’s Big Sister Sam,  both Baby Got Black & He’s Bla-ack! screams more racism, Brain The Closer is noting but a broken jaw itself, and the rest I established to watch in the journal is just slow, boring, and undoubting disrespectful to the audience. So, another last example to show the sitcom’s massive failure, and in my opinion, Valentines Day In Quahog. This is one of the cliché valentines day specials that’s really infamous to the cartoon side of entertainment, and this one is no expectation whatsoever. Anyway, as the title suggested, Quagmire eventually turned into a woman (ambiguous by the way) due of a power outage on a burner Witch-ay Woman style and learned nothing of the opposite sex besides becoming a lesbian that makes even Johnny Bravo can find unsettling, Stewie travel through time to search the summer of the 60s’ but ended up give a incestuous kiss to Lois, Meg fallen in love with a maniac that almost killed her which reminds me of the Joker/Harley Quinn relationship, given Herbert a lazy Cyrano de Bergerac attempt by getting his grandniece to have sex with Chris that doesn’t get the attention of authorities, and lastly we headed to Brian’s plot of the story where Stewie rounded up all of his ex-girlfriends throughout the years of Family Guy. Wow! This moment at first surprised me at first, but then nothing much due of comprehending the idea of why Brian couldn’t find a single sweetheart: he’s a unlikable douchebag that’s being hypocritically written by the executives’ perspective. As much as I felt sorrow and respect the women’s opinions, most of them are NOT innocent martyrs the last time I check and several people other than Brian didn’t step in to stop his recklessness or at least arrest him at one point. And thus, let’s face it: nobody got the exact idea THAT HE’S A FOSAKING CANINE!!! Even Brian himself tells them that and Stewie especially, since he’s pretty next to him till the show rots in Hell. So basically, this piece of writing completely shows how the developers know how underwritten the mutt, and doesn’t seem to undo that. I mean, it felt like we’re supposed to feel sorry him for being a obvious sex offender to society and nobody loves him from the very beginning. I wonder what happened to Brian after all of this, but I imagine him and all the exes going to bed again and reestablished his herpes towards them, starting the whole process over. *sighs* My god….You know, this scene has led to a question why hasn’t Quagmire been given a intervention like this, but I already knew its all about the stupid “Everyone Hates Brian” nonsense. Also, this episode really sums up the problem entirely since nobody uses their brains in this holiday “special”. This takes the cake of the worse Valentines Day special besides the others, especially since this one is meant comedy and it’s the exact opposite.

So yeah! That’s the entire breakdown guys, and my god…this second countdown took over a week to finish! Now, Family Guy in general has become from one of the most beloved shows to a unforgiving filibuster that doesn’t desire attention anymore. It irritated the fans and critics alike, broken the wrenched hearts of the fanbase, all characters are undead clichés, and the downfall of quality is still operational! And guess what?! I found out they just release two new episodes right after Road To India. Because making money matters more than the quality, huh? Okay, overall, this show needs to pull the plug immediately since its been going for too long and It literally sucks that Seth Macfarlane couldn’t exactly put this show back in order anymore. The only hope I have for this show is for it end soon and nothing else.