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Sam and Friends BookFamily Guy painted itself into a corner with it's darker humor. Now the cast are all jerks to each other for laughs instead of just Meg. When they started doing that to Joe, that was a bit too far. One episode had Chris calling him a monster or something because he was giving Chris advice. While I can't say that was either funny or completely cringeworthy, but then Peter made a ringtone out of his crying... now, I like crossing the line twice jokes, but that wasn't a joke. Not even close. And yet another episode had Peter viciously trolling him because he's handicapped. I failed to see the humor of that, and I like Family Guy. When the show started, the cast had some likability to them. Now everyone's a jerk to everyone else and it's just all cringe humor. Then they try to take issues like domestic abuse seriously when everyone's abusive and the same thing was played for laughs before and since.
But that's more of an example of a show that's been on too long and pandering to a new audience. It used to be some edgy, hip thing without having the characters all pass moral event horizons. Now it's just something that's running on shock fumes.
But that's more of an example of a show that's been on too long and pandering to a new audience. It used to be some edgy, hip thing without having the characters all pass moral event horizons. Now it's just something that's running on shock fumes.
) on the show); call me old-fashioned, but I like to watch a show (even an animated and/or comedy show) where every character in the main cast is actually...well, a character, and not a punchline. And I don't buy that Seth Macfarlane and his team of middle school-humor loving writers can't write female characters; his other big hit, American Dad, has female characters who are reasonably fleshed out (with maybe not the most admirable traits, but still something), and besides that, it's not like a teenage girl character is that much harder for a talented writer to write than any other character (though, maybe the keyword there is "talented").
