I remember watching through the entirety of Family Guy on a totally legitimate website when I was 14, and once I got to like, season 13, there was just this shift that seemed to come out of nowhere, where Glenn suddenly became the voice of reason, and Joe became a second Meg.
That episode where Quagmire saw Lois in the bathroom is iconic in my household. My parents used to let me watch family guy when I was like, 10. Then when that episode played, they made us turn it off and told us we couldn't be watching it anymore. We were shook to our core. But, of course, within the next few nights my sister and I snuck downstairs to finish the episode, only to have the chicken fight scene happen (which was the first time we saw one of those) and it made us howl with laughter so loud it woke our parents up and we got hella grounded lmao
Please make one about Lois next, she’s literally perfect for this kind of video cause she’s changed so much and a lot of people (including myself) hate her so much now
That one where she goes crazy over not being made a customer of the week is so bad. It's just watching the character treat people like shit over something so annoyingly petty.
@@JaxonElzinga I absolutely hate the one where Lois starts strutting around joe claiming it’s to help him and Bonnie but in reality it was to help her pathetic ego and in the end Peter was the one apologizing 😒
@@noobgamer7_738 Also the end of the Alana episode where Lois starts whining about not being in prison while Alana is telling her how much she misses Peter and the kids.
It's really hard to take any moral lessons seriously when they involve a reoccurring sex offender. Quagmire has literally given date-rape drugs to women on more than one occasion. If the show just wants to be edgy comedy, that's fine, but you can't make thoughtful episodes if they contradict the characterization of the characters in all the others.
Honestly quagmire should’ve been a carefree uncle that a lot of people would come to for advice or to listen to them and I would’ve liked that Brian and quagmire would get over their issues with one another and in a weird way becoming close friends.🤔🐱
I felt like if they wanted to remove Quagmire's sex shit they should have made him see just how he affects them. That girl he dated who was like him or possibly even the episode where his sister was getting abused could've been a turning point for him
the ultimate issue is that the family guy writers were cowardly they couldve either stuck to their guns and have quagmire still be a gross funny pervert, but treated in the context of the contemporary culture (ie, have him get socially ostracized), or taken responsibility with the insensitive jokes they made with him in a way that was honest with themselves and not infuriatingly meta instead they just swept his core personality under the rug and hoped u didnt notice this giant gaping hole where once was quagmire
I remember a few years back when people were complaining about Quagmire being too much of a pervert. Now that the show has somewhat stopped flanderizing him as a sexual predator, suddenly people want the old Quagmire back? Tbh y'all just complain about anything.
@AzureWolf Quagmire isn't one of those characters that need an arc to explain why he's changed. The metoo era came and they toned him down, simple. Family Guy is pretty much the most episodic show around now. It's almost unnecessary to give Quagmire an entire few episode arc, since one episode probably wouldn't be enough.
7:11 I think the weirdest thing about this episode was that yeah Meg is 18 now but for god's sake he practically watched this girl grow up. Feels like he was just waiting since her birth for her to turn 18, which is very possible knowing him.
Considering he put his toes in her mouth once while she was sleeping & tried to record her & her friends for pornographic purposes during their sleepover & she was underage in both cases, it's no surprise.
The more time goes by, the more I begin to think that segment (if not the entire episode) should've never been made. Even if everything Quagmire said was right/true, it doesn't hold any weight since he has done equally sleezy things as Brian has. I think it would've been less likely to backfire if that moment was instead gave it to Joe Swanson, or Cleveland, or hell, *maybe* even Peter (since he's known Brian ever since he took him in).
@@Metal_Groove45 Meg wasn't underage, dude. In the beginning of that episode she turned 18. It's still weird, but It's really not that relevant if you have all the facts.
he really said "you constantly try to bone ur owners wife" yet he constantly tried to fuck lois, who was his BEST FRIENDS wife. also wasnt there an episode about him leaving a voicemail on peters phone by accident saying how much he loved lois?? bro is on par with bryan for hypocrisy
Both comments before echo this, but while it probably made fans happy, it should have come from a different character. Family Guy is no stranger to have a large cast of recurring characters. Quagmire, in the span of an episode, goes from being on good terms with Brian, even helping him during the New Brian episode, to barely being able to stand his mere existence.
If you want to keep quagmires pervert trait while making him more tolerable and not necessarily a bad guy, all you have to do is make him a gentlemanly man who reveres women, treats them like queens. Have him move on from just seeing them as objects and realize he can get more out of making connections. Or just give him a wife who completes this aspect of quagmire in some way, there’s multiple ways that can work out. But instead they just try to completely distance themselves which is just strange.
A good way to keep Quagmire the way he was and keep meToo friendly would of explore more episodes where his pervert nature cause trouble. For example, his pervert actions with a plane hostess could of gotten him fired from his job which could cause him to become depress and struggling to pay bills. With him realizing that he needed to learn to control himself in professional situations.
I did enjoy the older Quagmire. His jokes usually gave me a good laugh, and when on screen you never knew what he would do next. The scene where Lois is in prison and Quagmire is in the background freaking out over sexual innuendos is still one of my favorites. Now he’s just boring in recent episodes, and I don’t think I’ve laughed once in idk how long with his character
One of my favorite jokes of all time on the show was from the Terminator Episode. A Terminator Peter walks into the Drunken Clam and scans all of Peter's drinking buddies. When he scans Quagmire, it says "Former Pervert; Lacks Comedic Angle."
Quagmire represents everything i despise in humanity, yet he still makes me laugh more than any character on the show. Sometimes dark times call for dark humor....anyway nice video
@@aerostrafe1075 i think we all have an uncle ruckus, which makes it more entertaining to relate him to someone we know that acts like him. we don't all (i hope) have a family member or friend that acts like quagmire who's humor is just "hey i'm a rapist but it's okay cuz i'm funny about it" it's one thing to have an uncle who is old fashioned and racist as fuck, it's another to have a convicted rapist for a friend.
That's pretty much the premise of Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the most detestable, manipulative people going through their lives, and mostly failing, and the audience laughing along the way. You like Dark Comedy, you will like that show.
It was honestly a huge missed opportunity not to have some sort of big character change with Quagmire, usually with a character like that their predicament is that they've become too old to be the "ladies' man" or they've missed out on having a family like Boomhauer from King of the Hill. Quagmire's issue is not that but that it's socially not acceptable to be that kind of guy anymore, you can do so much with that with a number of different angles to take. That's really the problem with these animated shows that have gone on far too long, they'll put in modern takes and current events and stuff like that but not have their characters change with the times. They treat it like the flavor of the week when really it's the new status quo.
The willingness to neuter Quagmire (almost literally) shows that Family Guy isn't the edgy satire it used to be. It only exists to keep existing, and if that takes removing all the character from a main character, they'll do it happily. Compare that to South Park, whose creators would absolutely love for the show to get cancelled, which means they're not afraid of doing anything they want and staying as controversial as possible. Ironically, the only show that wants to end is the one worth keeping.
9:12 Hey, you found that wiki! I'm actually one of the administrators for that wiki and I was surprised to see our wiki in your video! Thanks for the odd shout out, Mark!!
I don't get why they suddenly decided to make Quagmire hate Brian for no reason. There was never an episode where Brian did something awful to him directly or where he simply took issue with. The episode where Brian scammed him in return for getting his teeth "fixed" was made AFTER Quagmire declared his hatred for him. I know the series is barely known for its continuity, aside from stuff like Diane getting killed by Stewie at the end of And then there were Fewer, but this is something that should've had a clear explanation behind it instead of just coming out of nowhere. Don't worry, it's not your Brian favoritism, that roast Quagmire did to him along with his awful takes in Streams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q are some of his worst moments in THE WHOLE SERIES. The former because he's guilty of nearly everything he accuses Brian of to worse degrees, and some of it isn't even that bad, like who has actually been negatively affected by Brian doing his business in the backyard or him writing a terrible book? The latter because it's an absolutely despicable episode that doesn't know if it wants to be funny or be a serious representation of domestic abuse, and fails at both as a result HARD. Whenever Quagmire tries to be the straightman(archetype, not personality) it makes me think of an altered version of the Spongebob quote which goes: "Oh, so now the pedophile rapist is gonna preach to us!"
i like to think the reason is that he is a cat person and seeing a dog trying to fucking his friends wife (A DOG!) and having a greater chance then him doing so is personally insulting to him yes he has no standards for himself in the bed, but for a DOG to go for his target? step too far.
The worst part is that in a recent episode, Peter sets him up for a funny joke that he would normally make and he doesn’t make the joke and instead is used as boring exposition
Just think, they can have an episode about Stewie getting pregnant with Brian’s puppies, but they think having Quagmire act like Quagmire is a bit too spicy. Just saying. I never cared for Quagmire and whenever they try to play him as a morally upstanding caring guy I just remember all the stuff he has done up until those points and wonder if the staff know what they’re trying to get out of the character.
I think a good contrast is Boomhauer from King of the Hill. He's basically the same archetype, but they don't push it to the extreme. He has traits established from day one that don't make him into the worst fucking human possible, there's something there besides him being in his 50s. Quagmire's traits outside his playboy status weren't really established firmly until several seasons in. And they're mostly just nothing. The only one I think they could do good episodes about is his veteran status, but there's like one or two over that and then nothing else. No, what's important is he likes cats, hates Brian, and he's good at his day job. He's the weakest part of the show fr
Glen has a heartwarming origin like his niece with cancer he helped and i think some other stuff and his wildness got destroyed nowadays. :( he went from hilarious to not that good.
What if they changed Glen from being a sex guy into a drug guy. Sex was always a comedic vice for Quigmore so maybe they could give him other comedic vices.
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Ngl I never really liked Quagmire's speech against Brian because it's mad hypocritical. Everything he says about Brian can be applied to himself and then some. It's a great speech ruined by the fact that it's said by the at least deserving character.
To me, Quagmire only worked in old episodes before they started constantly having him be a r@pist. Not that they never did that back then but it was more rare. It eventually became his whole personality. I wish more shows would have a perverted character who can be off putting at times but is a good person who's just socially awkward. Like Tina from Bob's Burgers & the main character in the first episode of Oshi no Ko.
A better way to solve a all the issues that would come with Quagmire's character would be to instead repurpose his character to be a failing "ladies' man" in where over time he becomes less and less successful with swooing a woman to the point where it becomes laughable, like; "lol, look at this sad old man, he thinks he can still get action". Sure, it's neither perfect nor an ingenious idea, but at least the show gets to have it's cake and eat it too.
Normally, flanderisation is when a layered character gradually becomes a one-note character. But Quagmire is a bit different, he was a one-note character to begin with, then he lost that one note and it was replaced with... well, to be honest nothing.
Even though there are Quagmire moments that still make me laugh, I will admit that at this point on some level his whole pervert schtick has gotten old,stale and cliche.
Oh fuck no, the moment the clip of the cat cafe appear it gave me flashbacks, my teacher was accused of sexual harassment and left our school then we find out he opened a cat cafe it was literally the same situation 😭
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If I'm gonna be honest, I'm waiting for the day Brain can return that speech back to Quagmire. As much as Brain has been warped into this worse version of himself, he is still no where near as bad as Quagmire. Quagmire is just self aware of how awful he is and now is trying to wash away how horrible he is/was.
I remember on the Graham Norton show Seth Macfarlane explained how he came up with the idea on all the characters of Family Guy and then Graham was like “Now where’s Quagmire from? That can’t be a person.” And Seth couldn’t stop laughing 😂😂
In the dinner date scene where he talked about Brian’s son, I found that really hypocritical because Quagmire has a fck ton of kids so it doesn’t make sense why out of all people he had to say it
As much as i enjoy older Quagmire jokes i feel like he's more comedically versatile now. It is weird that they chose to make him a straightman though considering that was Cleveland before season 8
I still have the theory that Quagmire has been using Ida's ID for the longest time because there's that episode where Peter accidentally becomes trans and has to have that talk with Ida, where she mentions she 'was unhappy for 61 years' before she transitioned. I feel like Quagmire is actually in his 40’s but was using a fake ID with his Dad's DOB
What life? He’s a failing author, he has to make sure Stewie doesn’t constantly kill himself because he’s a baby with no common sense, and every relationship he has ends in disaster because he can’t stop bragging about himself
@@dusksunsetio6042 Spot on, bro. Brian is infuriatingly pretentious and Quagmire's whole rant to Brian's face was well deserved. I want to see more episodes where Brian's pretentious and arrogant nature come back to bite him in the ass.
@@JaxonElzinga the real question is, will they stick? Or will the status quo strike again like every change that happens in this groundhog day lookin show? Honestly the only thing that sticks is when a character dies or gets married, and even the former got retconned when James Woods returned
I don't care how many cats he rescues Glen Quagmire can never be redeemed. The few good things he has done will never outweigh all the bad and illegal things he's done. It should have been him that was ran over by that car instead of Brian or disappeared for as long as The Cleveland Show lasted (but without him having his own show).
@@peter19426 people on the internet defending him but calling Brian Griffin the worst character because of how badly he treats women. They'll say it's wrong for Brian to hit on Lois but will stay quiet when Glenn does it.
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I think Quagmire these days could work as a Johnny Bravo type character. Like I know their was the whole Pepe le pew controversy and he's semi-similar but like how about keep the coolness of Quagmire similar to Johnny. Like have Quagmire come over to Peters and start just giving the Family stuff. Have him be like super nice to Meg and Peters kids and maybe that's the controversy. Like Peter gets upset because his kids prefer Quagmire. He should be like the cool uncle who does shitty things but everyone just loves him because he's cool. Only difference is that he gets beat the shit out of when trying to hook up with the ladies. Like imagine an episode where Quagmire he trys to hit on a lady they just beat him up so he tries making an action movie hoping that he will be remembered for that instead. Only issue is the action movie is full of 80s stereotypes and jokes that no one likes it in the modern age. Make him like the outdated but still cool character I think works.
The funny thing is every trait Quagmire is saddled with now (being a cat-lover, getting annoyed over little things and hating Brian for moral reasons) were all there years ago, but they were meant to contrast with his actual "insane pervert" personality, the joke was always how out-of-character these moments were. But since he can't be a pervert anymore, these traits have become all he has left, meaning there's no longer any irony to them. Plus, him hating Brian had a meta element to it. Before that episode, those two had never had any real screen time or dynamic together, so the reveal that Quagmire had resented Brian all these years, and that's why they were never onscreen together, was genuinely funny. Now it's been dragged out for so long, that it's no longer a joke, it's just what Quagmire does now.
I kinda liked how they crossed it over into his cat-lover shtick and implied he just doesn't like Brian for the petty reason that he's a dog (which figures because he can stand Peter and Lois for much worse), I was never much for the on the nose 'meta' joke going on with the rivalry early on and think it got better when Brian started fighting back and they became 'those two pompous guys in the group that always bicker'. I think the problem is the pervert thing just slowly became the secondary part of his personality, like it's still implied, but rather than the self righteous element being a funny gag here and there to contradict it, it's the pervert part instead. The pious hypocrite side of his personality is the dominant force now, with the pervert part only surviving so much as to further demonstrate that he's full of it.
Do Peter next: the Bored Genius. Talk about how important it is to recognize that he does not see any validity in others who talk smack for no reason and himself can be much more accomplished though he is too bored to try. Like the many times he achieves going to space, becoming a millionaire, etc. And talk about how this specifically involves his low opinion of others and therefore the absolute value of his boredom.
"I don't want to bring a new baby i to the world with HIM around!" "Okay, first of all, Bonnie, you've been pregnant for, like, six years, a'right? Either have the baby or don't." One of the funniest exchanges in the series, imo. Years later I hear it and still laugh heartily.
The most creepiest thing about quagmire’s character is the fact he’s 61. Or at least it was revealed in an episode where Peter looked at his driver’s license. “Carrots.” That’s the only time it’s ever brought up too.
I did notice a while ago how much Quagmire just became that angry side character that randomly says something rude or mean for no reason. Like a time when Clevand said a random joke and Quagmire snapped at him for no reason at all. It's a bizare change for him
Man I am soooooo glad they got rid of sexual assault jokes, because they were too offensive for today's climate. I'm just glad they made more room for jokes about violence, gore, drug use, self harm, racism, child molestation, etc. Because those are a ok.
Though I actually feel like he has been given more depth to his personality in the season 21 episode The Stewaway, he actually played as a temporary guardian for stewie while he was in Paris with him.
They really went into the office one day and said "we should remove the Quagmire from Quagmire". People should just call him Glenn now because that feels more fitting for his current personality than his last name does
I wish they would've done more with quagmire, in southpark we had chef who loved being with women but was also the man with morals and would teach the kids about right and wrong. Quagmire was just a sexual deviant who had very odd conflicting moments that didn't make sense.
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It wasn't the fact that he isn't a pervert anymore, it's that the show acts like it can reverse its damage when they already had decades to change his character while acting that he could be "redeemed" of all the terrible shit that he did.
I never enjoyed Quagmire past the first sexual assault joke; it just flipped a switch in my mind like "oh he's not a quirky pervert, he's a fucking predator that shouldn't even be portrayed in a positive funny light".
What I don't get is why his standards are so inconsistant. He's not above forcing himself on a woman (by drugs or kidnapping) or getting with animals, but he'll wait until Meg's 18 to get with her and be shocked and appalled that his sister is being physically abused.
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the bonnie being pregnant for 6 years joke is literally still so hilarious lmao
"Hard to believe she's already 18." Killed me when I realized what he meant
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@@oldveryveryoldmanfromthe1900sbro no one asked
"Quagmire you're a r*pist" is for whatever reason one of my favorite quotes tbh
It really sums him up and can be used to attack his double standards on brian.
I remember watching through the entirety of Family Guy on a totally legitimate website when I was 14, and once I got to like, season 13, there was just this shift that seemed to come out of nowhere, where Glenn suddenly became the voice of reason, and Joe became a second Meg.
still funnier than modern South Park
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@@reek4062yeah no the reason season of south park is better than anything family guy has made in like five years
@@alejandro9829 More like the past decade
That episode where Quagmire saw Lois in the bathroom is iconic in my household. My parents used to let me watch family guy when I was like, 10. Then when that episode played, they made us turn it off and told us we couldn't be watching it anymore. We were shook to our core.
But, of course, within the next few nights my sister and I snuck downstairs to finish the episode, only to have the chicken fight scene happen (which was the first time we saw one of those) and it made us howl with laughter so loud it woke our parents up and we got hella grounded lmao
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I honestly miss when Quagmire’s jokes actually hit hard (giggity) and we’re funny and made sense
Good one dude
@@JessePinkman27892 thanks 😂
Is he even saying giggity anymore? I haven't heard it in a while... The show really changed a lot.
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Please make one about Lois next, she’s literally perfect for this kind of video cause she’s changed so much and a lot of people (including myself) hate her so much now
That one where she goes crazy over not being made a customer of the week is so bad. It's just watching the character treat people like shit over something so annoyingly petty.
@@JaxonElzinga I absolutely hate the one where Lois starts strutting around joe claiming it’s to help him and Bonnie but in reality it was to help her pathetic ego and in the end Peter was the one apologizing 😒
@@noobgamer7_738 Also the end of the Alana episode where Lois starts whining about not being in prison while Alana is telling her how much she misses Peter and the kids.
she went from mother who takes care of her kids to 80s wildcat looking to go to concerts and *party* with everyones snake.
Francine better to me from American dad .
Quagmire be like: I’m just an actual sexual predator lol
still a better character than randy
It's really hard to take any moral lessons seriously when they involve a reoccurring sex offender. Quagmire has literally given date-rape drugs to women on more than one occasion. If the show just wants to be edgy comedy, that's fine, but you can't make thoughtful episodes if they contradict the characterization of the characters in all the others.
"every word means yes to me!"
At least he is better then white Cleveland (yes it exists)
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Honestly quagmire should’ve been a carefree uncle that a lot of people would come to for advice or to listen to them and I would’ve liked that Brian and quagmire would get over their issues with one another and in a weird way becoming close friends.🤔🐱
You mean like chief from Southpark
How about someone like Boomhauer from King of the Hill?
@@thewanderder2982 Man I miss Chief.
I felt like if they wanted to remove Quagmire's sex shit they should have made him see just how he affects them. That girl he dated who was like him or possibly even the episode where his sister was getting abused could've been a turning point for him
They could also substitute his sex obsession with an obsession of doing dangerous and reckless things for fun to fit with that carefree uncle idea
the ultimate issue is that the family guy writers were cowardly
they couldve either stuck to their guns and have quagmire still be a gross funny pervert, but treated in the context of the contemporary culture (ie, have him get socially ostracized), or taken responsibility with the insensitive jokes they made with him in a way that was honest with themselves and not infuriatingly meta
instead they just swept his core personality under the rug and hoped u didnt notice this giant gaping hole where once was quagmire
Yeah they should’ve done what South Park did with cartman which is to keep quagmire fucked up but have him be called out or in the wrong
I remember a few years back when people were complaining about Quagmire being too much of a pervert. Now that the show has somewhat stopped flanderizing him as a sexual predator, suddenly people want the old Quagmire back? Tbh y'all just complain about anything.
@AzureWolf Quagmire isn't one of those characters that need an arc to explain why he's changed. The metoo era came and they toned him down, simple. Family Guy is pretty much the most episodic show around now. It's almost unnecessary to give Quagmire an entire few episode arc, since one episode probably wouldn't be enough.
Mark is cowardly
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7:11 I think the weirdest thing about this episode was that yeah Meg is 18 now but for god's sake he practically watched this girl grow up. Feels like he was just waiting since her birth for her to turn 18, which is very possible knowing him.
"Hard to believe she's already 18."
-- Glenn Quagmire, about Joe and Bonnie's baby, about ten seconds after she was born
Considering he put his toes in her mouth once while she was sleeping & tried to record her & her friends for pornographic purposes during their sleepover & she was underage in both cases, it's no surprise.
@@Dan_-think it was just a meta joke
In an earlier episode he goes up to her and asks if she's 18 yet so that's definitely the case
That's the point, media literacy is fucking dead
Quagmire hates Brian, while being a hypocrite himself. Pure Irony at its finest! Keep up the good work Mark!
Maybe Quagmire secretly hates himself but he pretends he doesn't to put up a facade
Gets on Brian for failing College twice. I mean Hitler flunked art School and almost conquered the world as a result. So, your move, Glenn...
The more time goes by, the more I begin to think that segment (if not the entire episode) should've never been made. Even if everything Quagmire said was right/true, it doesn't hold any weight since he has done equally sleezy things as Brian has. I think it would've been less likely to backfire if that moment was instead gave it to Joe Swanson, or Cleveland, or hell, *maybe* even Peter (since he's known Brian ever since he took him in).
@El_Rey_Chipinque Not only that, but Quagmire hitting on an underage Meg is much worse that Brian hitting on Lois!
@@Metal_Groove45 Meg wasn't underage, dude. In the beginning of that episode she turned 18. It's still weird, but It's really not that relevant if you have all the facts.
He doesn’t even use “Giggity Giggity Goo” anymore. R.I.P Quagmire
It's Giggity Giggity Gone
Peter:"Hey Lois,you remember when Ls mark made a totally accurate and well made video talking about the modern status of my best friend Quagmire ?"
Quagmire’s scene where he verbally berates Brian while warranted, is one of the most hypocritical and pompous speeches I have ever heard.
Also it feels like it came out of nowhere: I don’t remember how they interacted in the earlier seasons but Quagmire just all of a sudden hates him.
he really said "you constantly try to bone ur owners wife" yet he constantly tried to fuck lois, who was his BEST FRIENDS wife. also wasnt there an episode about him leaving a voicemail on peters phone by accident saying how much he loved lois?? bro is on par with bryan for hypocrisy
They chose the wrong character to give Brian the spiel
Both comments before echo this, but while it probably made fans happy, it should have come from a different character. Family Guy is no stranger to have a large cast of recurring characters.
Quagmire, in the span of an episode, goes from being on good terms with Brian, even helping him during the New Brian episode, to barely being able to stand his mere existence.
I know right it’s like a pedo lecturing a r&@$& about consent
I just love how you keep using this intro when talking about how much a Family Guy has regressed! First Brian, then Joe, and now Quagmire! 😁😁😁😁
(And Springtrap, don't forget my favorite Family Guy character)
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Even the same thumbnail style!
@@BinglesP Hehe! True dat!
If you want to keep quagmires pervert trait while making him more tolerable and not necessarily a bad guy, all you have to do is make him a gentlemanly man who reveres women, treats them like queens. Have him move on from just seeing them as objects and realize he can get more out of making connections. Or just give him a wife who completes this aspect of quagmire in some way, there’s multiple ways that can work out. But instead they just try to completely distance themselves which is just strange.
Him being a Sanji would be better.
Giggity giggity g'lady
A good way to keep Quagmire the way he was and keep meToo friendly would of explore more episodes where his pervert nature cause trouble. For example, his pervert actions with a plane hostess could of gotten him fired from his job which could cause him to become depress and struggling to pay bills. With him realizing that he needed to learn to control himself in professional situations.
Yea but that would require a commitment to changing his behavior, which family guy can’t do.
I did enjoy the older Quagmire. His jokes usually gave me a good laugh, and when on screen you never knew what he would do next. The scene where Lois is in prison and Quagmire is in the background freaking out over sexual innuendos is still one of my favorites.
Now he’s just boring in recent episodes, and I don’t think I’ve laughed once in idk how long with his character
One of my favorite jokes of all time on the show was from the Terminator Episode.
A Terminator Peter walks into the Drunken Clam and scans all of Peter's drinking buddies.
When he scans Quagmire, it says "Former Pervert; Lacks Comedic Angle."
Quagmire represents everything i despise in humanity, yet he still makes me laugh more than any character on the show.
Sometimes dark times call for dark humor....anyway nice video
I mean Uncle Ruckus in the boondocks is one of the most detestable human beings in comedy fiction but I can never not laugh at him.
@@aerostrafe1075 i think we all have an uncle ruckus, which makes it more entertaining to relate him to someone we know that acts like him. we don't all (i hope) have a family member or friend that acts like quagmire who's humor is just "hey i'm a rapist but it's okay cuz i'm funny about it" it's one thing to have an uncle who is old fashioned and racist as fuck, it's another to have a convicted rapist for a friend.
Hey buddy I’m sorry about the rain but I’m still
That's pretty much the premise of Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the most detestable, manipulative people going through their lives, and mostly failing, and the audience laughing along the way. You like Dark Comedy, you will like that show.
...is nobody gonna talk about how Mark took a Temu sponsorship?
Sell out! Just kidding I think this came out months before the controversy.
aye man gotta get that bag yk yk
What's the Temu controversy?
@@andistansbury4366 data leaks, shitty products, and general badness. google it if you want
@@andistansbury4366them stealing people’s data, exploiting their workers, and selling shit they’re not supposed to be selling lol
It was honestly a huge missed opportunity not to have some sort of big character change with Quagmire, usually with a character like that their predicament is that they've become too old to be the "ladies' man" or they've missed out on having a family like Boomhauer from King of the Hill. Quagmire's issue is not that but that it's socially not acceptable to be that kind of guy anymore, you can do so much with that with a number of different angles to take. That's really the problem with these animated shows that have gone on far too long, they'll put in modern takes and current events and stuff like that but not have their characters change with the times. They treat it like the flavor of the week when really it's the new status quo.
The willingness to neuter Quagmire (almost literally) shows that Family Guy isn't the edgy satire it used to be. It only exists to keep existing, and if that takes removing all the character from a main character, they'll do it happily. Compare that to South Park, whose creators would absolutely love for the show to get cancelled, which means they're not afraid of doing anything they want and staying as controversial as possible. Ironically, the only show that wants to end is the one worth keeping.
9:12 Hey, you found that wiki! I'm actually one of the administrators for that wiki and I was surprised to see our wiki in your video! Thanks for the odd shout out, Mark!!
I don't get why they suddenly decided to make Quagmire hate Brian for no reason. There was never an episode where Brian did something awful to him directly or where he simply took issue with. The episode where Brian scammed him in return for getting his teeth "fixed" was made AFTER Quagmire declared his hatred for him.
I know the series is barely known for its continuity, aside from stuff like Diane getting killed by Stewie at the end of And then there were Fewer, but this is something that should've had a clear explanation behind it instead of just coming out of nowhere.
Don't worry, it's not your Brian favoritism, that roast Quagmire did to him along with his awful takes in Streams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q are some of his worst moments in THE WHOLE SERIES. The former because he's guilty of nearly everything he accuses Brian of to worse degrees, and some of it isn't even that bad, like who has actually been negatively affected by Brian doing his business in the backyard or him writing a terrible book? The latter because it's an absolutely despicable episode that doesn't know if it wants to be funny or be a serious representation of domestic abuse, and fails at both as a result HARD.
Whenever Quagmire tries to be the straightman(archetype, not personality) it makes me think of an altered version of the Spongebob quote which goes: "Oh, so now the pedophile rapist is gonna preach to us!"
i like to think the reason is that he is a cat person and seeing a dog trying to fucking his friends wife (A DOG!) and having a greater chance then him doing so is personally insulting to him
yes he has no standards for himself in the bed, but for a DOG to go for his target? step too far.
Wait you're actually seriously upset about that one Quagmire speech? I thought everyone was joking about that lmao
@@SirWeirdGuy I wish people didn't actually believe him
I also really hate the scene where Quagmire is laying into Brian. He's literally laying into him for all the things HE does, too
And he actively admits he's being hypocritical while giving himself a pat on the back for not excusing himself for it.
The worst part is that in a recent episode, Peter sets him up for a funny joke that he would normally make and he doesn’t make the joke and instead is used as boring exposition
Just think, they can have an episode about Stewie getting pregnant with Brian’s puppies, but they think having Quagmire act like Quagmire is a bit too spicy. Just saying. I never cared for Quagmire and whenever they try to play him as a morally upstanding caring guy I just remember all the stuff he has done up until those points and wonder if the staff know what they’re trying to get out of the character.
I think a good contrast is Boomhauer from King of the Hill. He's basically the same archetype, but they don't push it to the extreme. He has traits established from day one that don't make him into the worst fucking human possible, there's something there besides him being in his 50s. Quagmire's traits outside his playboy status weren't really established firmly until several seasons in. And they're mostly just nothing. The only one I think they could do good episodes about is his veteran status, but there's like one or two over that and then nothing else. No, what's important is he likes cats, hates Brian, and he's good at his day job. He's the weakest part of the show fr
Nah no way he got sponsored by a shady ass company 😢
Glen has a heartwarming origin like his niece with cancer he helped and i think some other stuff and his wildness got destroyed nowadays. :( he went from hilarious to not that good.
NGL, what Peter said at 8:12 reminds me of what Cartman said in the cartoon wars episode. "I'm a little boy, that's a cartoon!" - Eric Cartman
What if they changed Glen from being a sex guy into a drug guy. Sex was always a comedic vice for Quigmore so maybe they could give him other comedic vices.
that ad is so suspicious... nothing is that cheap without a downside...
Yeah it’s a massive scam, they literally use gambling techniques to make u think u won the reduced price
Temu profits off of slave labor, uses scam tactics, and more.
and, like every other one of these marketplaces, 95% of all items are just off-brand items that'll break a few days after first use. So...Wish 2.0 basically but with gambling techniques added into it.
child labor and a lot of the products are bootlegs and/or damaged
I think the quagmire show cutaway gag perfectly described him
"My name is Glenn Quagmire, and i say Gigity."
And thats all he is
I had a physical reaction to seeing a Temu ad baked into a video
Ngl I never really liked Quagmire's speech against Brian because it's mad hypocritical. Everything he says about Brian can be applied to himself and then some. It's a great speech ruined by the fact that it's said by the at least deserving character.
To me, Quagmire only worked in old episodes before they started constantly having him be a r@pist. Not that they never did that back then but it was more rare. It eventually became his whole personality. I wish more shows would have a perverted character who can be off putting at times but is a good person who's just socially awkward. Like Tina from Bob's Burgers & the main character in the first episode of Oshi no Ko.
A better way to solve a all the issues that would come with Quagmire's character would be to instead repurpose his character to be a failing "ladies' man" in where over time he becomes less and less successful with swooing a woman to the point where it becomes laughable, like; "lol, look at this sad old man, he thinks he can still get action". Sure, it's neither perfect nor an ingenious idea, but at least the show gets to have it's cake and eat it too.
Quagmire is a straight up r@pist in seasons 2/3
@@el_rey_chipinque That's actually a good idea
Quagmire may be one of the fastest-flanderized characters I've ever seen. He still gets depth later, but never escapes the husk he becomes instantly.
Normally, flanderisation is when a layered character gradually becomes a one-note character. But Quagmire is a bit different, he was a one-note character to begin with, then he lost that one note and it was replaced with... well, to be honest nothing.
Even though there are Quagmire moments that still make me laugh, I will admit that at this point on some level his whole pervert schtick has gotten old,stale and cliche.
Oh fuck no, the moment the clip of the cat cafe appear it gave me flashbacks, my teacher was accused of sexual harassment and left our school then we find out he opened a cat cafe it was literally the same situation 😭
Gotta be honest I’m almost 100% sure Temu is an actual scam it’s been months and idk anyone who has ordered anything other than like dollar store trinkets who’s received anything from them and I’m kind of shocked you’d accept their sponsorship.
I’ve actually ordered from it and it works 💀 READ REVIEWS THO BECAUSE YOU DO GET A SKETCH SELLER HERE AND THERE
@@ricardo4943-k6b I only ever ordered the exact items in the ads and thus far three months later not a single item has arrived and two “sellers” attempted to steal info
Luckily I used a prepaid for purchase
@@ricardo4943-k6b I heard claims of child labor, so I support it
*THANK YOU!*
I was shocked by this, too
@@superk9letsplays419 based
A temu sponsorship is kinda crazy
Mark do you even know what Temu is like genuinely 😭
Yikes, that Temu sponsership aged.. REALLY bad.
If I'm gonna be honest, I'm waiting for the day Brain can return that speech back to Quagmire. As much as Brain has been warped into this worse version of himself, he is still no where near as bad as Quagmire. Quagmire is just self aware of how awful he is and now is trying to wash away how horrible he is/was.
I remember on the Graham Norton show Seth Macfarlane explained how he came up with the idea on all the characters of Family Guy and then Graham was like “Now where’s Quagmire from? That can’t be a person.” And Seth couldn’t stop laughing 😂😂
In the dinner date scene where he talked about Brian’s son, I found that really hypocritical because Quagmire has a fck ton of kids so it doesn’t make sense why out of all people he had to say it
As much as i enjoy older Quagmire jokes i feel like he's more comedically versatile now. It is weird that they chose to make him a straightman though considering that was Cleveland before season 8
I still have the theory that Quagmire has been using Ida's ID for the longest time because there's that episode where Peter accidentally becomes trans and has to have that talk with Ida, where she mentions she 'was unhappy for 61 years' before she transitioned. I feel like Quagmire is actually in his 40’s but was using a fake ID with his Dad's DOB
I have a theory that quagmire hates Brian because he secretly jealous of the life Brian has.
Probably.
What life? He’s a failing author, he has to make sure Stewie doesn’t constantly kill himself because he’s a baby with no common sense, and every relationship he has ends in disaster because he can’t stop bragging about himself
@@dusksunsetio6042 Spot on, bro. Brian is infuriatingly pretentious and Quagmire's whole rant to Brian's face was well deserved. I want to see more episodes where Brian's pretentious and arrogant nature come back to bite him in the ass.
@@JaxonElzinga the real question is, will they stick? Or will the status quo strike again like every change that happens in this groundhog day lookin show? Honestly the only thing that sticks is when a character dies or gets married, and even the former got retconned when James Woods returned
@@JaxonElzingaOut of character arguably, but well deserved.
Man, Cleveland's character essay is going to be a hellish ride if youre going to look at his spinoff
I don't care how many cats he rescues Glen Quagmire can never be redeemed. The few good things he has done will never outweigh all the bad and illegal things he's done. It should have been him that was ran over by that car instead of Brian or disappeared for as long as The Cleveland Show lasted (but without him having his own show).
Quagmire was funny
@@lordlammi1562 operative word "WAS"
@@RomaroBrandon what made u hate him so much
@@peter19426 people on the internet defending him but calling Brian Griffin the worst character because of how badly he treats women. They'll say it's wrong for Brian to hit on Lois but will stay quiet when Glenn does it.
@@RomaroBrandon you do have a point I really hate when people shit on brain but completely ignore all the terrible stuff quagmire has done
the sponsor is a scam
I keep hearing this in the comments but I've never used temu so I wanna know how it's a scam
@@Fireclaw24 apparently it's a gambling thing
@@Fireclaw24 most of the products are cheap because they're bootlegs and/or are damaged. plus there's an overwhelming amount of testimonials from people who never recieved what they ordered. that's not even digging into the labor can of worms....I'd just avoid using it lol, it's definitely an app ppl can live without
@@Fireclaw24I've heard they support things like slavery and child labor.
@@Fireclaw24so far in recent days the biggest scam i’ve seen from it is moist critical where he tried to buy over a thousand dollars worth of stuff from them. They got an email to verify if the order was real. Charlie verified with them that the order was legit. Some time after, they canceled the whole order for no reason
8:47 Don't forget that he also slaughters the entire family with a shotgun, INCLUDING MAGGIE, because Homer walks in
I think Quagmire these days could work as a Johnny Bravo type character. Like I know their was the whole Pepe le pew controversy and he's semi-similar but like how about keep the coolness of Quagmire similar to Johnny. Like have Quagmire come over to Peters and start just giving the Family stuff. Have him be like super nice to Meg and Peters kids and maybe that's the controversy. Like Peter gets upset because his kids prefer Quagmire. He should be like the cool uncle who does shitty things but everyone just loves him because he's cool. Only difference is that he gets beat the shit out of when trying to hook up with the ladies. Like imagine an episode where Quagmire he trys to hit on a lady they just beat him up so he tries making an action movie hoping that he will be remembered for that instead. Only issue is the action movie is full of 80s stereotypes and jokes that no one likes it in the modern age. Make him like the outdated but still cool character I think works.
One of the best jokes in Family Guy history is still:
“Yeah, 911, yeah it’s stuck in a window this time.”
Who would've thought that a character was more likeable when he was a pervert
Mark really had a scam website sponsor him
I’m so sorry but that temu ad aged like milk in the last year 😭
The funny thing is every trait Quagmire is saddled with now (being a cat-lover, getting annoyed over little things and hating Brian for moral reasons) were all there years ago, but they were meant to contrast with his actual "insane pervert" personality, the joke was always how out-of-character these moments were. But since he can't be a pervert anymore, these traits have become all he has left, meaning there's no longer any irony to them. Plus, him hating Brian had a meta element to it. Before that episode, those two had never had any real screen time or dynamic together, so the reveal that Quagmire had resented Brian all these years, and that's why they were never onscreen together, was genuinely funny. Now it's been dragged out for so long, that it's no longer a joke, it's just what Quagmire does now.
I kinda liked how they crossed it over into his cat-lover shtick and implied he just doesn't like Brian for the petty reason that he's a dog (which figures because he can stand Peter and Lois for much worse), I was never much for the on the nose 'meta' joke going on with the rivalry early on and think it got better when Brian started fighting back and they became 'those two pompous guys in the group that always bicker'.
I think the problem is the pervert thing just slowly became the secondary part of his personality, like it's still implied, but rather than the self righteous element being a funny gag here and there to contradict it, it's the pervert part instead. The pious hypocrite side of his personality is the dominant force now, with the pervert part only surviving so much as to further demonstrate that he's full of it.
Mark in the nicest way possible you have terrible luck with sponsors
Terrible luck with women too innit
@@kingofthegrill that has nothing to do with him taking a sponsor from the fun y child labor site
@@kinnelyuwu5771 just pointing out a theme in Mark's life. English teacher might call it thematic relevance.
Do Peter next: the Bored Genius. Talk about how important it is to recognize that he does not see any validity in others who talk smack for no reason and himself can be much more accomplished though he is too bored to try. Like the many times he achieves going to space, becoming a millionaire, etc. And talk about how this specifically involves his low opinion of others and therefore the absolute value of his boredom.
"I don't want to bring a new baby i to the world with HIM around!"
"Okay, first of all, Bonnie, you've been pregnant for, like, six years, a'right? Either have the baby or don't."
One of the funniest exchanges in the series, imo. Years later I hear it and still laugh heartily.
Nahhhh they made the quagmire toilet meme into a show in 1999???
I loved the scene where Quagmire rips Brian a new one.
it's the rare time they portrayed him as a real human for a change.
Wh-why is Mark being sponsored by Temu
The most creepiest thing about quagmire’s character is the fact he’s 61. Or at least it was revealed in an episode where Peter looked at his driver’s license. “Carrots.” That’s the only time it’s ever brought up too.
Cleveland...You will be next !
No way gang sold his soul to temu
From experience don't use temu. It's all just junk
Also, you end with your credit card on indian or indonesian auctions
It’s not all junk. I got a pretty cool controller from there for 22 dollars, but I also tried buying a mouse from the app, and it was junk
@@tomsmithok child labor
Yeah but you get to shop like a billionaire @@migkazui
Holy shit did you expect it to be quality at those prices
I did notice a while ago how much Quagmire just became that angry side character that randomly says something rude or mean for no reason. Like a time when Clevand said a random joke and Quagmire snapped at him for no reason at all. It's a bizare change for him
Awww hell nah temu sponsored him 😭 did nobody tell him it's s a scam?!?!?!!
Quagmire was much funnier as a one note pervert, they ruined him when they tried to make him relatable.
Man I am soooooo glad they got rid of sexual assault jokes, because they were too offensive for today's climate. I'm just glad they made more room for jokes about violence, gore, drug use, self harm, racism, child molestation, etc.
Because those are a ok.
Ain’t no way bro got sponsored by a scam company
Not fucking Temu 😭
Though I actually feel like he has been given more depth to his personality in the season 21 episode The Stewaway, he actually played as a temporary guardian for stewie while he was in Paris with him.
i wouldn't recommend advertising dodgy sites , always research sponsors
Quagmire was already flanderized from the start. They had to unflanderize him then reflanderize him in a different way.
**Clears throat**
"Who else but Quadratic formula could lose purpose?"
They really went into the office one day and said "we should remove the Quagmire from Quagmire". People should just call him Glenn now because that feels more fitting for his current personality than his last name does
Giggity giggity giggity! I always found Quagmire amusing in the first few seasons of the show
I wish they would've done more with quagmire, in southpark we had chef who loved being with women but was also the man with morals and would teach the kids about right and wrong. Quagmire was just a sexual deviant who had very odd conflicting moments that didn't make sense.
Bro really got sponsored by a pyramid scheme
I know that, when he was young kid, around 10. Family Guy was his favorite show.
I don't know about you but temu TOTALLY seems like something that'll be outed as a scam sometime soon. I see ads everywhere for it and it just looks like wish 2.0
temu sponsor unlocked a new facial expression in me
It's time for Mark's quarterly Family Guy retrospective.
It wasn't the fact that he isn't a pervert anymore, it's that the show acts like it can reverse its damage when they already had decades to change his character while acting that he could be "redeemed" of all the terrible shit that he did.
Man really took a temu sponsorship, ngl that took away some respectability for me
Gotta get that bag lol
I never enjoyed Quagmire past the first sexual assault joke; it just flipped a switch in my mind like "oh he's not a quirky pervert, he's a fucking predator that shouldn't even be portrayed in a positive funny light".
0:08 he’s really gonna start all these like this huh.
just realized he copy pasted the intros in this one and the joe one lmao
What I don't get is why his standards are so inconsistant. He's not above forcing himself on a woman (by drugs or kidnapping) or getting with animals, but he'll wait until Meg's 18 to get with her and be shocked and appalled that his sister is being physically abused.
Quagmire without sex jokes can be the straight man , is well read, and goes on normal dates with women. He's like if Brian had game.
LS Mark needs to make more video essays analyzing every Family Guy character.
To be fair, Quagmire’s evolution really shows what happens to those cool uncle ladies man types.
1:53 mark fucking taking anything to get money-
LS Mark forgot about the Cosmo & Wanda character downfall video he made when listing all of them