It may just be me but Family Guy isn’t funny any more.
The show that viewers demanded Fox bring back used to be one of my favorite shows to watch but ever since 2010 something’s changed about the show. It’s as if the writers deliberately decided to shut down one of the shows main veins of humor. I don’t know.
What happened at the end of 2010…. What was it… What could be so titanic in nature that it caused the shows writers to turn away from one of the staples? Oh yeah, a Democrat was elected President.
Family Guy was a show that was never afraid to take a shot at the Bush administration but has never even once criticized Obama. In fact they’ve gone so far as to portray him as a rock star. It’s clear the show has a liberal slant and they’re just not afraid to come out and state it. Seth McFarland and the writers once implied that McCain-Palin was the choice of the Nazi Party but is unwilling to make any political references since Obama took office, and it’s killed the show.
With political humor off-limits the writers have had to go farther afield to find storylines. They can’t mention the economy, because that would reflect on Obama, they can’t address the war because that would be a statement about Obama. There’s fewer laughs than there used to be. Now that they’ve left political humor aside, at least until a Republican takes the White House they’ve had to push farther to be edgy and a lot of the time it comes off as just mean. Yes their Christmas special was awesome but other than that this season has largely been a letdown. There are a couple of good lines here or there but its not the same show it was when Bush was in the White House.
It's not like every episode contained a Bush joke but they took plenty of shots at Bush throughout his eight year term and have yet to mock Obama on anything. They're only portrayal smacked of fan-boy favoritism. It's just sad to see that the show I thought was funny really had a political agenda the whole tiem.
Now it’s not funny to see them crack on Republicans anymore because they're not willing to hit a Democrat. Its not just a joke, but it’s a political statement. The writers aren’t trying to be funny they’re throwing their own ideology up and hoping you agree with it.
I don’t want my cartoons to preach at me. The Simpsons and South Park have done a very good job being funny without being preachy. After seeing the last two years of Family Guy I have to wonder if the first eight or so were just a thinly veiled political agenda.
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