Family Guy: Peter’s Progress [season finale]
By fred | May 19, 2009
(S07E16) The most important thing, or certainly the first objective of a sitcom, is to make its audience laugh. As such, you’d think that after that overly long hiatus they had, writers of Family Guy would have at least ensured if not to save the best for last, to make sure they would end the very uneven season on a high note. However, that would be a huge mistake on your part.
For a few weeks now the writers have clearly been uninspired, so much that it feels like they just don’t have any clue of what to do anymore, no more jokes, not one story left to tell, so instead last week they borrowed stories from others. Unfortunately that was a nightmare, with an episode that had 3 laughs in it — really, I counted them, not one more.
This week, I’m not even sure the episode was as “good” as lats week’s, which should be enough to say how unfunny it was. I’m sure everyone was shocked by Peter & Meg sleeping together (albeit in a fake story where they’re not related, of course) while Lois was trying to do the same with Stewie, but this all thing was just boring, from head to toe.
What both those episodes left me feeling, was that writers were running out of ideas, facing a blank page with no idea of what to do, and so resorted to any tool they could to come up with something that could look like a half-hour episode of the show, forgetting just one minor detail about what such a thing such include/be, and that would be humor.
The last episodes of this season have been a huge disappointment, and if the writers are suffering so much to painfully come up with an unfunny half-script nowadays, they just should quit — either get fresh blood on the team, or end the show. Because as it is now, I’m not sure there’s really a point still watching…
What did everybody else think?
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Shows: Family Guy
I don’t understand why people have so great expectations. I think is was a nice episode 4/5.
The Simpsons and South park are doing the same stuff all the time, so why should FG come up with whole new stuff. It is still very funny.