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Family Guy: Ocean’s Three And A Half

By fred | February 16, 2009

(S07E07) Boy has it been a while! Finally the show was back, and I have to admit that even if I hadn’t been waiting for it for so long I think I would have been disappointed, but the fact that the show has been off he air for like three years (or three months, I don’t know…) certainly didn’t help things either. Now, let’s be honest it’s not that this episode was any sort of bad really, but it was far from being good either.

I mean sure a few of the jokes did work, but I’m not even sure I would say than the majority of them did make me laugh, and the worst of it all was probably that the overall feeling was almost like writers didn’t have much (good) material, or not enough to fill one full episode and were trying to find different ways to waste time. Now I fully realize that pushing a joke long, too long even, is the way it goes, but this wasn’t what was going on there.

Yes, there was a huge event as Joe’s wife finally gave birth after being pregnant for like 20 years or something, and if the mini wheelchair joke was just hilarious (probably wrong, but still funny) I was disappointed that she didn’t gave birth to an 8 years old, I mean that would have made sense, no?

But if Stewie developing a crush on a baby girl (even though he’s gay) is surely less creepy than Quagmire stating she’s already 18, this whole plot didn’t really seem to go anywhere. Stewie writing a song only ended up in a music video that just wasn’t funny. Sure, many references were thrown in such as The Police or the White Stripes, but it wasn’t really funny, and by the end felt very much like a way to waste 5 minutes.

And the whole incident with Christian Bale going nuts was not that good either, because it lasted for too long as well. And it wasn’t the case of repeating a joke or pushing it for too long, it was different and while the punch line (”OMG are you asking me out!?”) was great, it took way too long to get there, and what made it worse was how that was just an audio joke, really.

And when after all that we get yet another musical from Peter & co before they go rob Pewterschmidt’s vault, I have to say I really felt like they were missing material and only trying to waste time — which really sucks considering not only that the way the show works means they don’t even need a story to write in jokes, and that after months away, I really expected better.

So while some jokes were pretty funny, such as the Two And A Half Men ones or poking at Bill Gates, which I thought was great, I can’t help but feel vastly disappointed in the end. Because this episode was much less funny than the usual episode of Family Guy, because on a few occasions it felt like they were just wasting time (and I was close to getting bored), and because after such a long wait, I was really hoping for an episode much better than average!

In the end yes, the show was back, but no, there isn’t reason to celebrate. And just like Brian’s take on the “workin’ on a novel” bit, maybe it was the kind of stuff you would expect to find on Family Guy, but something was off, and this time it didn’t work.

What did everybody else think ?

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Shows: Family Guy