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13 minutes ago, Steel Sponge said:
After feeling nostalgic towards the Total Drama series after looking into the already ill-fated Total Dramarama spin-off, I've decided to binge on it since this week, starting back from the beginning. I could try and make a full-fledged review for it, but I'm just going to save myself some time just simply saying that the first season still holds up as a classic. A good of chunk of its contestants made for a very interesting cast, including some of the ones that got booted off early, with Duncan, Heather, Izzy, Geoff, Bridgette, and Gwen being some of the best of the bunch, pre-merge and during the merge.
Heather made for a great main season antagonist. I loved how dirty she played over the course of Island, and how she got her karma well into the Final 3. Gwen and Owen were not too bad of a pair for the finale. I would've rooted for Gwen, but I'll also take Owen's victory as it is. This season's couples provided a good amount of chemistry, with Duncan/Courtney's relationship being the most interesting for me (well...up until the later two seasons).
Then there's the eliminations, I'm not going to express my thoughts on each and every one of them, but to put it simply, I found most of them to be understandable. A couple that I'm willing to debate on, however, is Sadie's elimination, due to her having little focus on the particular episode that she gets eliminated in (but I'll give it props the "marshmallow eating freaks" line), and Geoff's elimination when Duncan and Leshawna's immunity would've had Heather cornered, and the sheer lack of anything foreshadowing his downfall given that Gwen manages to bond with him during the challenge.
It had a few flaws, but in the end, Island was and still is a charming and humorous first impression. A solid 8/10 if I'd say so myself. Also, this is off-topic but...:
Dark times, man. Dark times.
Ill-fated? To me it wasn’t really that bad. The two episodes I’ve seen thanks to Jjs were actually surprisingly good.
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So yeah, this willl probably be one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year. Who knows, maybe even be the worst? Have to really think about it.
The only remotely positive thing I have to say is that Maya Rudolph steals every scene she is in. That’s it. Nothing else about this even remotely stands out. Which is a real damn shame because I still think this idea had some real potential.
On 7/31/2018 at 4:34 PM, Clappy said:Like I said I’m not against the idea of this. I’m all for it. But all this trailer is just the basic concept of LOOK AT THE PUPPETS SWEAR, DO DRUGS, ACT VIOLENT, AND FUCK! I hope the movie is saving the good jokes for the actual film because this trailer is incredibly squandered potential.
The bold pretty much sums up the movie in a nutshell. Which is exactly what I feared it would be and it did use all the good jokes for the trailer. Because the rest of the jokes were practically muppets doing even more gross crude behavior just because they can get away with it. That’s supremely disappointing because when you pull that all back, the movie is pretty dull underneath it all. Nothing interesting at all. It tries to add some sort of sub context about how muppets are second rate citizens and get second rate jobs because parallels to society today. But it doesn’t fully commit to examining that idea further in depth.
I hope we get more original ideas like this in theory in the future. I’m all for them but as long as the effort is clearly there. Unlike this, where no effort was put into at all.
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On 7/31/2018 at 5:43 PM, SpongeNicko said:
How do you feel knowing you've been on these SpongeBob forums for 10+ years now?
Old. Very old.
On 8/1/2018 at 11:44 AM, E.V.I.L. said:I also lowkey want to snowshoe/ski up that road to the top of Whiteface in winter?
Dude I would just love to be around that area in the winter, period. Girlfriend and I are heavily considering making the trip to do it.
On 8/6/2018 at 11:22 AM, Katniss said:Netflix has been pissing me off a lot this year so I have my concerns lol. That being said, I seriously hope this is as good as that trailer made it out to be because it does look excellent.
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1 hour ago, SOF said:
wasn't there's Plankton already...
This isn’t Plankton we’re dealing with. This right here is Dead Eye, partner.
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So proud to see how SBC has grown over the years. Even if I’m not as active as I used to be, I stil love coming here to see how things are going and to catch up with you all. Here’s to seeing SBC continue to prosper as the many years go by.
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Rewatching this after buying it on Blu-Ray yesterday. My complaints still stand but good lord does this still hit me hard after months of sticking with me. This mess of a movie is still one of the best movies of the year for sure.
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I’m not trying to pile on 4EverGreen but this is one of the most bizarre reasons to call an episode overrated I’ve ever seen...and you all know the one I’m talking about:
Unpopular opinion time, "Shanghaied" and "Wet Painters" are VASTLY over-rated!
If you really think CAREFULLY about both of those episodes, they're BOTH just "Shaggy Dog Stories." And I mean that, in the sense that in the vast scheme of things, they don't REALLY contribute anything significant to the "Spongebob Squarepants" canon, other than "Shanghaied" being the first SIGNIFICANT role for the Flying Dutchman. Also, "Christmas Who?" is an okay episode, but I just like the stop-motion Christmas special better. Finally, "The Krusty Krab Training Video" episode ending, WAS "The Soprano's" series ending, six years BEFORE that ending ever came about! 
Hopefully, the top three episodes will actually BE episodes that will be WORTH all the anticipation that everyone has been hoping for! (Waits to see how many users give me a "Sad" reaction for THIS comment!) 
Enough said!
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On 8/12/2018 at 2:27 AM, 4EverGreen said:
Bumping this because of the cool news that Christy Carlson Romano, and Will Friedel, Kim and Drakken's original voice actors respectively, will be involved with this movie in some way! If Nicole Sullivan, Shego's original voice actor is on board, than I'm all FOR this film!
Enough said! 
Will Friedle wasn’t the voice for Drakken. He was the voice of Ron Stoppable. Enough said!
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Yeah I’ll be blunt, out of those three, the Family Guy Movie intrigues me the most. We already know how surprisingly decent of a director Seth MacFarlane can be with the first Ted movie. Despite his last two full length films sucking, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he is as dedicated to making a full length feature film of his most well known property. Or at least I hope he would.
We’ve already had a Simpsons Movie, so will this be titled The Simpsons Sequel? I was pleasantly surprised at how great the first one is. My only hope is that equal amounts of passion will be given to the sequel instead of the shell of itself, this series has become.
As for Bob’s Burgers, does it even have that devoted of a following to even warrant a movie? This series is one of the key examples of being hit or miss for me because when it hits, it’s pretty good but when it misses, yeah. I can’t even begin to imagine what they would even do for a movie. I just don’t think there is that big of a demand for a full length film for this and I can easily see it being the least profitable of the three...just like in television ratings.
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3 hours ago, Depressed Luigi said:
I hope we see a Bye Bye Man and Slender Man cross-over soon.
Yes they can be a part of the multi studio universe of widely panned horror movies. Or The Comedically Crap Universe for short.
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Slender Man
Definitely a contender for my worst film of 2018. Like dear god, I think this would have been better if it was a found footage film with no effort than a slogging piece of crap that actual effort was put into.
The Meg
A dumb entertaining shark movie that knew how stupid it was and fully embraced its stupidity. I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. It’s the Deep Blue Sea of the 2010s.
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Bumper Balls will always be my favorite but shoutouts to Shy Guy Says, Lift Leapers, The Final Countdown, Bobsled Run, Pushy Penguins, and Mushroom Mix Up.
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SBC’s and a private server with a couple of my in real life friends for when we game.
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35 minutes ago, Katniss said:
If the popular movies are good enough they can get nominated on their own (like Get Out last year or La La Land in 2016).
I wouldn’t consider La La Land a popular movie because of two reasons. It started off in select cities like most awardsbait movies tend to do. Also it had the underlying message of being a love letter to old fashioned Hollywood. It was always one of those prestige flicks that became popular because of how well reviewed it was and how many nominations it got from The Academy. Still a great movie that I love don’t get me wrong.
But even with that, there are so many popular movies that don’t get recognized at all despite being well reviewed by critics and pushed from studios. It’s a rarity when there is a movie like Get Out that gets away with being recognized as one of the best of the year from the Academy. For example: Wonder Woman, Thor Ragnarok, and Baby Driver were all some of the best reviewed movies of the year and they only got recognized for technical work instead.
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If the title doesn’t explain it all, here’s a link:
Incredibly stupid move by the Academy committee. In a year, like this one especially, where some of the highest grossing movies are seriously some of the best reviewed out there (Black Panther, Avengers Infinity War, Mission Impossible: Fallout), they decide to make a category like this. To me, this is still the Academy refusing to actually give credit to how much smarter and well received some of the mainstream movies can be now. Sometimes, they are much more than just popcorn flicks. They can have strong messages just like those prestige flicks the Academy voters tend to eat up. Which btw, I guarantee you that they still won’t bother to give “popular films” a legit chance to be nominated and win more than those “awardsbait movies”. Fucking stupid.
Can’t wait until next year when they decide to add Best Cinematic Universe as a category because they still think they can tend to be hip and cool.
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Yeah I tried to get this idea off the ground countless times but we’ve never had that dedicated of a sports following around here in previous attempts.
Count me in for sure. Would love to play against you guys...
...and win.
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Biggest news out of the new Nintendo Direct today:
That genius double prank! It’s about time we got to play as King K. Rool so all of Nintendo’s core characters main rivals can be playable!
....oh yeah and then this happened and immediately broke Twitter!
Hell yeah!!!!!
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“YOSEMITE” - Travis Scott
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Cheap Walk Cycles is high end art you uncultured swines. Best Episode 2018.
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In honor of being the first SBC users to have a movie made about them, it's only fitting that they get a SBCinema parody too. This is how it got made. Also this episode will be in spoilers for the time being due to it only being in theaters for ten days so far. Go see it now and make the Titans proud.
78. Teen Titans Go! to SBCinema
Film: Teen Titans Go! to the Movies
SpoilerIn SBC, the Teen Titans arrive to stop The Red Pill. However, when Metal cannot figure out how many of these users are Jjs secretly, the Teen Titans jump into a SBC Rap Battle to introduce themselves and become distracted, forcing the Injustice League to intervene. They criticize the Titans for being childish and not taking anything seriously, and bring up the fact that they do not have a SBCinema parody of their own to prove their legitimacy.
Supergameman: Titans! You aren’t actual SBC members to get realistic episodes written about you.
Beast Boy: Hey Mama, didn’t you replace someone?
Wonder Homie: I did, but we don’t talk about that.
While at the premiere of Cameo Man Again, Robin humiliates himself, after assuming that there will be a SBCinema parody about him, but it ends up being about Limelover and is laughed out by the audience. At the rest of the team's suggestion, Robin resolves that in order to get a SBCinema parody made about him and the Titans, they need an arch-nemesis.
Nearby, Steve breaks into Star Labs to redact a crystal because he can see his reflection in it and no images of him are allowed to be on SBC anymore. The Titans arrive and attempt to stop him, but he swiftly defeats and redacts them. The next day, Beast Boy, Starfire, Cyborg and Raven create a SBCinema episode to cheer up Robin, but he turns it off prematurely declaring that they will go to Clappy to have a parody made about them.
Upon arriving, they encounter Aurora, who is responsible for all the superhero parodies being posted. She turns down the Titans' request to be in a SBCinema episode, but explains that the only way she would make one about them is if they were the only superhero parodies on the forum. The Titans take her words literally by going back in time to prevent Clappy from writing parodies of the other superheroes.
Steel: I am Steel Man.
Raven: I’m from the future. I can tell you Clappy’s DCEU continuity parodies are better than his Marvel ones from Season 1.
Tvguy:
Ren: Hey! Only Banpool can break the fourth wall.
Starfire: Only after Clappy let you do the guest write.
Robin: Which means you’ve lost your guest writing privileges!
JCM: I can’t wait to tell Clappy that The Snark Knight is ready to be posted!
Cyborg: Not anymore fool!
But this only ends up ruining the present, forcing them to go and undo their blunder.
Steve next arrives at JCMTech to redact the crystal's power and the Titans arrive to stop him, this time putting up an actual fight. They secure the crystal, but Steve escapes, resolving to split Robin from his teammates. The next day, Aurora invites the Titans back to the forums and announces that she will make a movie about them due to their recent fight with Steve. While Robin is given a tour of the premises, Raven, Beast Boy, Starfire and Cyborg venture out and cause mischief. They find the OAXIS that is heavily guarded by Butch Hartman and try to destroy it, but Aurora arrives and reveals that O.A.X.I.S., is just a terrible acronym for a new streaming service he is making. She resolves to drop the rest of the Titans from the SBCinema parody and make it solely about Robin, which he happily accepts, much to the consternation of his team, who wish him luck.
Robin finishes making the SBCinema parody himself, but during a scene where he interacts with the Titan Tower door panel, a light falls and knocks him out. He awakens and finishes the scene where Aurora reveals that they are in the tower for real, and that she is actually Steve himself in disguise. He gets the crystal back and tells Robin that his making so many SBCinema episodes was a plan to keep the heroes busy while he took over SBC. Robin escapes and calls his friends back, who join him with open arms.
Steve unleashes the crystal's power to control the other episodes and sends them after the Titans. Robin goes after Steve while the rest of the team leads off the countless Clappy creations. However, Steve uses his new power to control Robin, and tells him to redact his friends who show him the rest of the SBCinema episode they made for him. Robin comes to his senses, and the team takes out Steve together, defeating him and his giant tool of a brother too.
The heroes all congratulate the Titans for their heroic efforts with Robin admitting that he has learned to be himself. When he tries to go on, everyone demands that they cut to the end immediately with Robin attempting to stall so that "kids can ask their parents questions about joining a forum". Starfire breaks the fourth wall to say to go right to the credits but Robin stops just before the film ends telling kids to "ask their parents why Mr. Saturn hates the pedos".
In a mid-credits post, the Teen Titans from the 2003 series show up on a distorted screen telling the viewers that they "found a way to join SBC too".
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11 hours ago, McSponge said:
Nice list. I'm interested, how would you rank the seasons?
Great question. Had to really think about it for a bit, but here’s what I think:
2 > 3 > 4 > 1 > 5 > 6 > 16 > 9 > 7 > 15 > 8 > 10 > 14 > 11 > 13 > 12
And on that note, I would like to announce Part 2 of my Family Guy project:
Top 10 Best Episodes of Family Guy Starting With Season 10
Yes I want to challenge myself to pick out the best episodes of the downfall years of Family Guy. Surprisingly, not all my choices are going to be from Season 16 despite how much I’m praising it being a real improvement season. Amongst all my list choices and even in my honorable mentions, there will be representation from at least one choice from each season.
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Man, where did this show go so wrong?
This used to be one of my favorite shows of all time. I may have grown up with The Simpsons and I like and respect what that series accomplished and how it will go down as one of the most iconic shows of all time. But I never loved The Simpsons the way I once did for Family Guy. Family Guy during its first three seasons, hell I’ll even go that extra mile and say the first few years after its multi-year cancellation was just iconic.
And then something happened. It stopped being good.
It seems today, that all we see, is Family Guy becoming everything the naysayers said it was. It relied too heavily on cutaways. Some jokes were overlonged to kill off runtime. It rehashes its own jokes. Too many pop culture references. It goes for shock value too much. Seth MacFarlane preaches his own views through his own shows. I could go on and on, but yeah it was becoming a parody of everything bad the critics said it was. And it started to embrace its own badness.
But you know what. It’s been a few years. Maybe I should look into this show and see if it is really deserving of all those times I placed it on my year end worst lists. I’m up for the challenge. Let’s make it a Top 10 list…oh wait you guys already know what one of my choices will be based off my previous television review thread. Nevermind. A Top 11 list. Let’s do this!
CLAPPY'S TOP 11 WORST FAMILY GUY EPISODES
SpoilerSo I’m going to cheat. This isn’t a Top 11 list. This is a Top 12 list…sort of. Yeah my number eleven choice is a tie because this is practically the same damn episode.
11. “Foreign Affairs” (S9)/”Internal Affairs” (S10)
Or at least a continuation of sorts. Bonnie and Joe’s marital troubles sure are supremely forced. Around Season 7 onwards was when all these characters became terrible people with no real conscious, but you can look no further as to where Bonnie became a spiteful woman. That’s seriously what her character is now since she’s no longer pregnant.
Let’s start with Foreign Affairs. Where Lois and Bonnie both go to Paris because the plot tells them too and Bonnie tries to force Lois to have an affair since that’s what she is there to do. Why? Because she hates the fact that Joe is paralyzed and questions her love for him. Yep, selfish sounds right. Oh and Peter becomes a home school teacher because why not. The subplot is nothing more than just Peter being an obnoxious moron to his children and we get to watch the full music video for “Dancing in the Street” because Family Guy wants to knock off as much of the runtime for their episodes as humanely possible to piss us all off.
And then you have Internal Affairs. Where they make Joe completely irredeemable by having him cheat on Bonnie. Not without pressure from his two toxic awful friends who think it is only fair that he cheats since she did the same. To the people reading this thread. Just because your partner cheated on you doesn’t mean you are allowed a free pass. That moral is beyond fucked up. I don’t care how awesome the song “Africa” is. That song doesn’t justify these two people who clearly don’t love each other anymore to get back together.
So yeah, these two are equally as terrible and the coming seasons where Bonnie keeps daydreaming of ways to kill Joe can all lead back to these two completely unbearable episodes as the breaking point.
SpoilerNow here’s a claims I hear quite often. Season 6 was the last great season. Not a single bad episode. You guys sure about that?
10. “Padre de Familia” (S6)
So here’s a fun fact about this episode. It was released during the 2007 Writer’s Strike. Where practically any television series or movie with a script ceased production on their shows because all the members of the Writer’s Guild of America went on strike for months upon end. Family Guy had a couple episodes that were in post-production that 20th Century Fox forced out anyway against Seth MacFarlane’s wishes because they were practically done and only needed to be edited. This was one of those episodes.
And that is partially to blame for why this episode sucks so much. So many of these scenes needed to be edited from actual professionals because so many of these scenes are so clunky and make zero context with the actual episode. The only way to make this more tolerable is to watch this on Adult Swim where it is unedited and a lot of the jokes that missed make so much more sense.
But no. My real problem with this episode is the heavy amounts of stereotyping gone horribly wrong and completely tasteless. Laugh at the portrayal of Hispanic culture. LAUGH DAMN YOU! I get that stereotyping for shock value is Family Guy’s shtick at this point and sometimes it can be funny. But making an entire episode dedicated to it is just crude and tasteless. Sadly, this isn’t the Family Guy will dive into this well.
SpoilerHonestly almost all of this list revolves around the main plot line of the episode being the worst part. This is the only episode where the B plot is justifiably bad enough to be the main reason it’s on this list.
9. “Brian Griffin’s House of Payne” (S8)
After starting off with an admittedly awesome visual sequence within Stewie’s imagination, everything goes supremely south from there. The whole B-plot of Stewie getting head damage from Meg and Chris is horrible. The fact that they cover this up for weeks with endless amounts of disguises just goes to show how beyond irredeemable these characters are. Especially Peter who says that this is a common occurrence for him too. And his idea to frame Lois is icing on top. Every minute involved with this god awful B-plot just makes this episode that much worse.
Oh yeah, the A-plot is another Brian is a lowkey horrible writer story. It’s always funny to poke fun of just how pretentious of a piece of shit he is and watching it devolve to a garbage sitcom always puts a smile on my face. Not saying that I liked the A-plot, no. They’ve done better in the series. But would I take it over probably the worst B-plot of the entire series? Hell yes in a heartbeat.
Spoiler8. “Stewie is Enceinte” (S13)
What did you guys expect? Does the title alone not spell it out for you that this episode is B-A-D? I knew this episode was going to suck the moment they teased that this episode was going to happen online. I’m just surprised I didn’t hate this episode more to be honest. Even Brian you have to feel bad for here. The reason this episode sucks is because Stewie is a psychopath who “just wants to spend more time with Brian”. I put the air quotes around there because normal people don’t think impregnating themselves will resolve their problems.
And when Stewie does become pregnant, he becomes extremely annoying. LAUGH AT THE PREGNANT TODDLER EVERYBODY! HE’S ACTING LIKE A NORMAL PREGNANT FEMALE! No he did this to himself because he’s a sociopath. Oh and the babies are fucking disgusting. I did not need to see fanart of what Brian and Stewie’s children would look like come to life. And watching that one humanoid puppy drown in the water was morbid (as well as knowing the deaf one got killed by a lawn mower). Do I even need to justify the other plot? Let’s move on.
SpoilerHey guys, remember the time Brian and his roommate disagreed about the OJ verdict?
Did you know they made a whole episode loosely around that idea?
7. “The Juice Is Loose” (S7)
For the longest time this was my worst episode. Not because of how tasteless it is for Family Guy to tackle one of the most publicized lawsuits of all time so distastefully, but because the jokes are pretty much “OJ DID IT LOL”. And as true as that statement is, at least try to spice up the jokes a bit.
I used to hate this just because it was the same damn joke over and over, but now it’s just boring. It is them trying to shock you with the fact that they are going that far. Look OJ Simpson is literal scum of the Earth, but look at South Park for example. They are at least smart with what they do with episodes revolving around scum criminals. The Charles Manson episode of South Park is seriously one of the best series has ever done because they were witty with the jokes surrounding his case and associating to real life. Family Guy is dangling around OJ Simpson but not doing anything with him.
SpoilerHEY DID YOU GUYS KNOW SETH MACFARLANE IS AN ATHEIST!? AND HIS CONSTANT SLAPS AT RELIGION PRODUCE SOME OF THE WORST FAMILY GUY EPISODES!?!?
6. “The 2000 Year Old Virgin” (S13)
Look there is no way to put this lightly, but I hate when Family Guy mocks religion. Not All Dogs Go to Heaven is spared from this list for the B-plot actually being good. Not a single minute of this episode is even the slightest bit good. At least in previous Jesus episodes, they throw in good jokes to go with Seth MacFarlane’s stances on religion.
This entire episode was Seth MacFarlane forcing his view on religion for twenty-two minutes straight. This is just an angry man letting the whole world knows that he hates Jesus. He wants to make fun of the fact that he’s never gotten laid. He wants us to think that Jesus was never an actual virgin and that he used that stance as a way to having tons of sex. None of this was purely intentional. Even Seth knew that there would be backlash to his stances on Jesus portrayed through this episode.
For those of you who know me, I’m a proud Christian. I don’t want to push my views onto anyone because I honestly believe that everyone has the right to believe what they want to believe. That being said, I have my limits on what I can or cannot tolerate. This took an extra step too far than Seth’s normal hot takes on religion straight into blasphemous and vulgar. Next.
SpoilerI told you all it was coming.
5. “Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q” (S10)
I’ve already dug deep into this episode into the old thread, so I’m going to keep this relatively short. If you want to know more of my thoughts, look it up.
In short, Family Guy should never tackle domestic violence seriously. Ever. Coming from a series where men hit women constantly for shock laughs, watching them tackle this subject in a completely serious manner is nauseating. And then Quagmire’s speech about his sister being terrible for staying in such a toxic relationship is unforgiveable levels of bad. Then killing her abusive boyfriend because he deserved to die is….god I don’t even want to touch this episode with a ten foot pole ever again. Onto the next one.
SpoilerYeah…no preamble. Just sit there and let the visuals explain the episode itself.
4. “Herpe the Love Sore” (S12)
HERPES! Sit there and bask in all the visuals of herpes. From the hideously disgusting animation to look at to actual photographs of people with herpes. I can’t watch this episode and not feel disgusted by the fact that I have to look at it for a good 2/3’s of the episode. And to think, we’ve got no choice but to think that Brian was only brought back for his character to sink lower and lower with practically every plot after his death. Yeah him giving a one year old herpes is definitely going to make us love this character being alive still.
Oh and the B-plot is pretty bad too. The guys get their asses kicked by soldiers over their bar booth. Using patriotic symbolism in such a misguided light is always frustrating and is a constant Seth MacFarlane-ism that I’m sick of. Oh and yes let’s laugh at Peter suggesting that they have to start rooting for the Middle East because of them getting their asses kicked is not funny.
SpoilerSo we already talked about Family Guy dedicating a whole episode to stereotyping Hispanics. Is that not tasteless enough for you? They can do other ethnicities so much worse.
3. “Turban Cowboy” (S11)
Pretend none of you knew this episode existed and just judged it based on the title. You can already pinpoint what Family Guy is going to do up to this point and even then, you can’t help but feel dead on the inside thinking that stereotyping all Muslims are terrorists would even begin to correlate to laughter. This episode deserves to be this high on the list alone for that premise along with the one infamous cutaway involving the Boston Marathon as well as the very end. One of the worst endings, if not THE WORST, in Family Guy history.
God seeing Family Guy go down this road with their controversial typecasting episodes makes me long for the days of When You Wish Upon a Weinstein. Yeah there is shock value with how they portray Jewish people, but at least there was a sense of heart behind the episode itself. Peter wanted a Jew so he can help get his life in order and not be a disappointment to his family. Peter just wants to be Muslim because he thinks it’s freaking sweet HEHEHEHE. There is no heart behind these insensitive episodes about other cultures.
SpoilerSo I don’t think this comes as a surprise to any of you, but I don’t watch Family Guy on the regular anymore. My viewings have been sporadic ever since the end of Season 9 when I felt like this show has no real appeal to me anymore and is just a shadow of its former self. Family Guy for the past five or six years has just become a trainwreck that you can’t look away from so I would tune in on occasion to watch notoriously bad episodes or surprisingly good ones. But even then, I knew I haven’t watched them all. That’s why I did this two part project. To watch any episodes that flew under the radar and that I never watched before. Needless to say, every episode that made my Top 11 I’ve seen before for being notoriously bad or their badness I didn’t realize until rewatching. And then there was this one…
2. “Brian’s a Bad Father” (S12)
I’ve never seen Brian’s a Bad Father until this past week. My jaw dropped after I sat through these unfiltered 22 minutes of pure shock and disgust. At both plots. Where the hell do I even begin?
How fitting that this also aired shortly after Brian was brought back to life, further proving my theory that the writers and Seth wanted to make us as an audience immediately regret ever wishing that. To watch deadbeat dad Brian only use his neglected son Dylan to further his own career interests is just infuriatingly insufferable. How the hell are any of us supposed to relate to this character except for other narcissists like Brian? People don’t change. Brian is going to keep being an egotistical asshat to Dylan every time they bring this character back into our lives, isn’t he? I don’t care how many times he apologizes to Dylan. He’s just going to keep being the same self-indulgent douchebag.
And the B-plot is just as bad. Hell it might be worse. Peter is a destructive sociopath who should be locked up for the rest of his life. Quagmire has every right to want to end their friendship after being intentionally shot in the arm by his so called best friend. Joe has just as big of a right to not want to associate with Peter either. Peter threatening to commit suicide over this for attention is especially insulting to any real life victims of suicide and those who seriously contemplate it. That Meg joke doesn’t help matters either. And the resolution involving Joe shooting Peter in the arm and Quagmire shooting Peter in the head is just infuriating.
One more left….
And just to emphasize how bad this show has gotten and how many contenders there actually were for this list, a few dishonorable mentions
Spoiler"Family Gay" (S7)
This episode has always been bad, but this nearly made the list for the repetitive jokes from previous episodes and ESPECIALLY the retarded horse opening segment. Painful to sit through.
"Hot Shots" (S15)
Another episode that is Seth MacFarlane preaching about his stances. This time vaccination. Why the hell would Lois even be anti-vaccination in the first place? Isn't that what Seth is in favor of or does he just want Brian to be the know-it-all dick?
"Peter's Sister" (S14)
Or as I like to call it, how to totally waste Kate McKinnon with such an infuriating character. Would have made the list if it wasn't for Peter getting his just desserts for so many years of torturing everyone around him.
"Run Chris Run" (S14)
I swear they've made this episode of Family Guy like six times already.
"Brian the Closer" (S13)
Yeah WhoBob. This episode definitely sucks.
"Thanksgiving" (S10)
If this was there plan on what to do to Kevin, then honestly they should have just left him "dead".
"German Guy" (S9)
Trying to make us sympathize with a pedophile, eh Family Guy? If there was one character I wish we could have gotten less of post-cancellation, it's Herbert.
Quagmire's Mom (S13)
Consider this episode my honorary number twelve...or thirteen because of the tie. Trying to make Quagmire, who is on trial for having sex with an underage girl, a backstory for his sex addiction and putting all the blame on how he was raised by his sex crazed mother. Fucking awful. And then him getting off free because his mom fucked the judge? Even fucking worse. Unjustifiable.
SpoilerCould it be anything else?
1. “Fresh Heir” (S12)
Family Guy has made a ton of irredeemable crap during its now seventeen years of air time. But nothing can redeem this episode. Not even the slightest ounce. You can’t go back from watching an episode about incest and pedophilia. Do I even need to list off all the disturbing moments of this episode? If you’re one of the few people in the world who think the idea of Chris giving his grandfather a handjob, Peter divorcing Lois to marry his own son, Peter checking out other underaged boys asses, and the implied sex Peter will have with Chris during their honeymoon, then good for you. I have my limits and if there was any episode that made me stop watching Family Guy for a long ass time, this is it. This killed off my interest in the show completely for a few years and while Season 16 has been a much needed improvement for this series, it will never erase this episode existing from my subconscious. Fuck off Family Guy.
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On 7/29/2018 at 11:20 AM, The Boulder said:
IPS: Clappy said "people" have been criticising it but I've only seen myself doing so. If I'm not alone great, if I am just say my name lol I won't get riled up over the namedrop when it's true.
Hey buddy. I should have clarified. It’s not just you because I’m going all the way back to before you too. I know of plenty people from my tv.com time too that was passionately against this episode and since we still have some stragglers from back during those days, I was speaking from under that impression too. If you want a specific example, RaeAndAnasRock passionately hated any episode with the slightest bit of Squidward sabotage (ask Jjs since I guarantee maybe one or two people will remember that name haha). Sorry for any trouble this might have caused.
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Honestly the big problems with this season is it’s a lot of half baked ideas that don’t feel fully fleshed out and then not realizing which characters were completely fleshed our after the first season
-They make Trent obsessively compulsive only to cut him before they go all out with it? I get that he’s boring but at least commit.
-The aforementioned Gwen/Duncan are going to end up being more than just friends at some point hint. It was only around for a few episodes but if that’s “the biggest note” of this season, you know it’s a lackluster one.
-Leshawna is uninteresting without having Heather to play off of.
-Owen didn’t deserve to come back a second time after he got voted off.
-Justin is villainous for not even half the season and then all of a sudden, he’s just another contestant. Yeah what Cha said about him being a precursor to Alejandro is the truth.
-I love Duncan, but he did not deserve to make it as far as he did, nor the win.
-Beth, I at least get why she stuck around for so long, but it honestly would have been more interesting to see Lindsay in the finals. At least more people like her.
-Harold’s underdog story is cut supremely short, which is a damn shame because to me, he was the MVP of the season.
-I love the movies, you all should know that about me, but the whole picking a different genre each episode thing started to run out of ideas towards the end. Even Chris broke the fourth wall in that pet companion episode to point that out. Still rings true though.
Total Drama has had worse seasons than this (hello All-Stars), but this is honestly a filler season that leads to a great one following afterwards.