There are loads of references to famous people in Family Guy. It's the comedic equivalent of taking somebody hostage until they agree to hang out with you. See Peter's fight with a chicken, or anytime someone falls over. And when that doesn't work, they go the other way and drag a joke out for so long you feel you have to laugh just to make it stop. With that gag-rate, none of them hang around for long enough for you to consider just how unfunny they were. Family Guy contains, on average, 5.20 jokes a minute. To its credit, when Family Guy is making shitty jokes, it's making a lot of them. Those long uncomfortable spaces in slow-moving 30-minute episodes give you plenty of time to consider just how unfunny what you're watching is. The humor is always based around friends, or moms, or dads, saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. In the post- Peep Show quagmire (sorry), British comedy has become stuck in a cycle of staid silences and prolonged awkward looks. When you compare Family Guy to the average British sitcom in 2016, you can begin to see where some of its appeal might lie. I think its watchability is down to three things:įirstly, pace. ![]() I imagine it's the noise I will make if I ever change a diaper: "There's loads of shit and piss, which is sort of funny in that it's eventful, but more than anything it smells terrible and I don't want to look at it any more." As if my laugh is questioning its own existence as it is leaving my mouth. If I do make a noise, it's this sort of disappointed pity-groan. Why is Family Guy popular? I have watched a lot of episodes by now and I'm pretty sure the reason isn't "because it's funny." I've never really laughed at an episode. ![]() It will return to UK television on February 29 on ITV2, but in its brief absence, let's take a moment to reflect on exactly why we keep going back. This week BBC Three left television and became an online-only service, and it did not take Family Guy with it. Now we drag our dreary limbs off a train, are lucky to have microwaved some leftovers by 9 PM, briefly consider opening the scary-looking envelope from the IRS that arrived that morning, phone our moms, reply to some more emails, switch the heating on, and fall lovelessly into the arms of Peter Griffin. Remember: the family that laughs together, stays together.When we were young, we'd run in from the yard, gobble down fish sticks, and sit wide-eyed and cross-legged in front of The Simpsons. They also have the benefit of not making nervous parents explain the meaning of a few choice words. ![]() And these 35 movies hit the mark.Įach of them fit the sweet spot that can send every generation into hysterics, possibly for different reasons. It just has to make everyone gathered on the couch laugh – which, admittedly, is no easy task. But the humour doesn’t have to play only to the less-developed brains in the audience. ![]() Sure, for a movie to qualify as ‘fun for the whole family’, that inherently means it must entertain the youngest members of the brood. Let’s clarify this right from the start: no, ‘family comedy’ is not a euphemism for ‘kids’ movie’.
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