@@legitbeans9078 I love the way your comment makes fun of this guy by telling him that something was done intentionally and is the point of doing it like it was done. Oh wait that was the point of your comment. You get points right? Can we just compliment jokes about the video? idiot
like so many US shows, they just go on for too long. Simpsons suffered from the exact same problem , though its drop in quality and shift from satire of American suburban life to simply a cartoon was more dramatic. SP seems to be one of the few that has stood the test of time
Yeah, this is a perfect analogy for the "loophole" writers found. They can insert any joke they want without connecting it to a scene or story as long as a character says "like that time when".
The worst part is that sometimes the set up lines don't even make sense with the cutaway they show like "this is more irresponsible than silent movie corn" and then they just cut to a couple dancing on a bed and I don't understand what's irresponsible about the joke lol
The cutaway became more of a cue to laugh than an effective method of joke telling. Even if it made no sense or had no context, some people would laugh because they were trained or expected to. I remember laughing at some as a kid and having no idea what they were talking about.
Techncially it wouldn't be, because its done randomly. The manatees don't look like they understand the words so its picked randomly therefore it just did a random algorithm which was possible ages ago. AI might actually make good jokes that are clean and consistent.
Old school FG was great up to around season 4 or season 5. I can't believe they're around 20 seasons now, they should have just ended it a looooooooong time ago.
Oh my god... That's why family guy clips are so watchable out of context. When you see them, they're funny but if you go to watch the episode, it's always disappointing. Ngl, this legitimately opened my eyes
100% spot on assessment. That's why for example let's just say... The Office, right? You have to watch the show for the most part to understand any particular scene or the context of why the particular scene is funny, almost like an inside joke. I made the mistake of trying to show my dad, who's never seen The Office a compilation of Michael Scott being mean to Toby scenes, and he didn't think any of them were funny and stopped watching halfway through the video. Then I realized, it's because he doesn't understand the context of the characters and how their relationships and personalities play a huge role. South Park can be the same way, someone could look at this scene and think "Who is that fat kid and why does he even care to begin with?" Not knowing that Eric Cartman is a lowkey diabolical super villain, that will stop at nothing to get a point across or get what he wants. TL;DR context is everything.
Zoomers love random stuff they make a joke out of everything i guess thats why family guy is blowing up they just discoverd it and its the greatest thing they have ever seen.
@@jacob5058 To be fair, I think that's every generation of kids. I was super into Family Guy in the mid 2000s, but when I got to middle school, the lolsorandom cutaway humor just got tiring. Zoomers will get sick of Family Guy sooner than later.
I don't remember where, but somebody made a comment about Family Guy that I whole heartedly agreed with: "Family Guy is a show that has good jokes when you don't have to sit through an entire episode to see them."
@@Never_GamePlayZ The Simpsons, King of the Hill, South Park, Futurama, and Bob's Burgers all surpass Family Guy for me as far as primetime animated sitcoms go.
The jokes are a lot more evolved now. Now it’s Peter adopting a new trait and doing stereotypical things that people with that trait do. Example “I have long hair so now I must attend auctions”…. That’s a real “joke” they did
@@handsomeboi3767 nah they’re all shit. At this point Seth McFarlene just likes the fat check Disney/Fox gives him. He doesn’t care about satire or telling a good story
The Simpsons’ writers actually sent flowers to South Park’s writers for this episode. They were really annoyed with how lazy and irrelevant Family Guy’s jokes were, and appreciated South Park exposing them. Edit: All of the butthurt family guy stans are giving me a good laugh
@@bulb9970 The Simpsons has definitely been slacking for the last decade or so but it has always been way better writing than family guy, and in its hay day it was arguably the best ever.
@Soussy "Simpsons Already Did It"? It was more of a respectful jab at the Simpsons inspired by their internal frustrations about unknowingly copying plots from the simpsons and a demonstration on how the Simpsons than a "roast"
Family guy was always like this. Seriously, have you not watched the old episodes recently? It's literally just how it's depicted in South Park. This parody was made during the so-called Golden Era of Family Guy.
It sounds like you're referring to a show or a piece of media that cleverly mocks or parodies another show's writing. Parody and satire are often used to highlight and playfully criticize the tropes or clichés found in other shows. What specific show or example are you thinking of?
A few are good. Honestly I think Family Guy works better cut up into 10-30 second cutaway gags on TH-cam than it does as a whole show. I still think Peter buying a deodorant that makes you attractive to sick cats is hilarious for example
“This is like [celebrity you never heard of] first morning after writing [song/concert you’ve never heard of]” *shot of a baker behind a counter, random guy walks in and asks for a cup of lukewarm water, baker says “I’m not falling for that one again”* Now laugh
It's weird because I honestly think the cutaway gags were pretty funny back around the time when this South Park episode was made. The punchlines usually made sense if you actually got the references they were making. Definitely no rhyme or reason to how they were segued into but that was always Family Guy's style and it was something that made the show unique in a way. But it's like the Family Guy writers embraced the parody whole-heartedly, because not long after this episode came around, it really did start to feel like they just formed entire cutaways using a rudimentary algorithm with no consideration for an actual punchline. They also started self-parodying themselves and lampshading the weakness of their own style of humor a lot more (which is cute the first time you do it but stops being funny incredibly quickly). Nowadays, the cutaways make almost no sense and come off as the writers saying "This is your scheduled cue to laugh" as opposed to any genuine attempt at humor. At least how I see it, Family Guy was always meant to be a show with weak narrative elements that mostly served as a loose vessel for delivering one-off jokes. But as they ran out of jokes, it kind of transformed into a show that's just a weak narrative with obligatory cutaways that are only really there because the audience expects them to be there (and they help to kill as much of a 22-minute runtime as possible). I mean basically, I didn't really have a problem with this style of comedy so long as it managed to be funny, which I think it mostly succeeded in back when this satire was made. It stopped being funny, so now it's just a really annoying way to pad out a poorly-written narrative. The show actually became MORE like how South Park depicted it as being.
I do think that people are taking cheap shots at a big show. I think the south park guys do have their heads up their own asses most of the time and that does add alot to their comedy. It seems like a form of comedy gatekeeping to say "oh these guys have a formula so it must not be funny" and its pretty regressive. Family guy did and still does have some bangers that can actually make me laugh out loud at times and south park has had some serious valleys in their content as well. Yeah the cutaways are gimicky but south park did a totally vile episode solely about swimming in piss in a water park, the only joke the whole episode. It just seems like people focus more on 'the process' than the actual jokes and if you look at all of the series, not just family guy, I think you see more depth in what Seth Mcfarlane does in his work than most of what Trey and Matt have ever really done. Oh the wrote a musical with the same Mormon jokes they've been doing for almost 3 decades? How precious, I'm sure all the fedora tippers are right about them being the peak of comedy.
I remember watching many Family Guys clips for some weeks, and that caused me to watch an episode. I did not expect the entire episode to be like that.
@@debrachambers1304 In this case the old clip would be a little a small joke rather than the entire plot of the episode focused on just those old clips.
Seth actually never really intended for the show to go past 8 seasons, and dropped off from writing around that time. That’s also around when the show really starts to decline.
Seth isn't actually involved with Family Guy's creative direction anymore, that's why it's so trash now. He left in 2011 and only does the voice work now. So none of the jokes or any of the writing at all is his.
I feel bad for Seth McFarlane sometimes. South Park hates Family Guy, The Simpsons, the list goes on. Seth wanted the show to end earlier but Fox wants money. I'm sure he is aware of the quality of the show currently anyway.
This episode came out during season 5 of Family Guy. This was long before Seth wanted the show to end, and long before Family Guy's quality started to decline.
@@IONLYKNOWMOVESTHATKILLPEOPLE You have to understand, I just mush the keys on my phone and if what comes up looks similar to a sentence written in English I post it.
@@grmpf I think in this case it is. Family Guy viewers don't care, we love this style of comedy. I had no clue that this joke was made in South Park until years later. I think SP fans think way more people care about this issue than the amount that actually do.
@@andreworam2844I think the fact you made FG viewers a “we” and talked about what SP viewers think makes it seem like you got salty your favorite show got criticized.
The cutaways made family gut way more popular than American dad, the jokes in AD are connected to the plot, maybe some people find that boring compared to the random cutaways about anything you could imagine
I'm a fairly new fan of Family Guy and had been binge watching Family Guy out of context scenes for a long time on TH-cam already. Even watched 2 episodes, one where Peter got on a hijacked plane and one where Stewie & Brian travelled through the multiverse. Found them really funny and creative, and also satire. So I was kind of confused when I read the comments on here saying how Family Guy is extremely unfunny-until it turns out I've apparently been watching older versions of Family Guy (?), so I decided to search up the latest episodes of Family Guy and see if they're still funny. Short answer: damn.
Simpsons was what I watched in school. South Park was what I watched in college. Family Guy is what I watched when I had emergency stomach surgery and couldn’t reach the remote in hospital.
This is why South park is superior. The writers make fun of family guy but not in a basic and generic way, but in a way that's comedic yet so reflecting and eye opening at the same time
Yeah specially considering how Family guy makes fun o another show like bob's burgers, when they put it straight up in your face while at the same time showing a great jealousy for that show
@@chimuetisbellYou do know that H. Jon Benjamin, the voice of Bob, is a friend of Seth's and is actually a character in Family Guy, right? The gas station guy, Carl
I like family guy more myself. To me, South Park has a brand of comedy similar to robot chicken and just usually ends up being disgusting. Family Guy is more dark style humor and flashbacks, but still better. South Park fell off to me a long long time ago, and while family guy might not be as funny as it used to be... I prefer it over the whole nastiness that South Park uses as their general theme. In my eyes it goes family guy, Futurama, South Park, robot chicken (robot chicken deserves to be last) as there's barely anything funny in it.
Its true, most of the funniest Family Guy moments weren't random cutaways. The majority of them would be more funny if they just left it up to the imagination rather then show the random joke.
As someone who likes Family Guy, it's astonishing to see how South Park depicted what the show would eventually become at the time of this episode's airing.
@@erictsenmusic Yeah, I don't remember which episode was it, but they included one thing that FG does well and that's "not being preachy all the time" in opposite to southpark.
@Gopatich Bro you are literally arguing with what creators of South Park said about themselves lol Also yeah, if most of the episodes is trying to teach you how to behave etc. you can call it preachy.
@@onutrof1157 it's true. Trey Parker himself said: "We totally understand that people love it and that's why we put it in the show. We understand that it speaks to some people and it's like, it can be a simple laugh, and that's great. And we certainly don't think it should be taken off the air or anything like that. We just don't respect it in terms of writing."
When South Park made fun of The Simpsons, it was good-natured. They admit how much The Simpsons have influenced modern comedy, including South Park. When making fun of Family Guy, they are out for blood.
When I think of these two shows, I think about that one Simpsons gag that Bart wrote on the board showing the fear they had for the threat sent to Parker and Stone
There are literally more hours worth of cutaways in this series than there are hours in an average season of the show (even when you include the time cutaways consume in an individual season).
Perfect description of FG. I really like the shorts with their jokes but i never actually made it through one episode because they had no story. all it was, was loosely connected jokes.
In the 1990s, there was a game called Gex, and all of its jokes boiled down to stuff like "this is like X at Y's house" or bad impressions of celebrities. Then Family Guy ran for over 20 years and decided its jokes should be even worse versions of that.
I remember when I was younger trying to figure out which episode the funniest jokes were from. I couldn’t remember because the jokes had nothing to do with the episode itself
@@CIPHERINATORits pretty inevitable A year or two ago, i heard that loads of kids nowadays started watching south park through Tiktok.. But I myself, was introduced to South Park when The Stick of Truth game came out when i was 14.
The thing is: I genuinely used to love Family Guy in its earliest seasons and even though this South Park episode would’ve still been applicable about THOSE EPISODES at the time, it felt like RIGHT AFTER THIS EPISODE AIRED, Family Guy REALLY began to decline and started “taking the piss” with the “lol random” and reference humor. The first few seasons of Family Guy still have some of the most genuinely funny moments in the entire show, in my opinion.
I remember the "Bird is the Word" episode was fairly popular when it came out. I rewatched it recently and they hammered the joke to death in the first five minutes. I didn’t bother watching the rest of it.
i love how south park demonstrates family guy as some fictitious cartoon in their world like family guy is not good enough to share a universe together
Louis: Peter, you promised you would stop eating mayonnaise out the jar with your hand! Peter: You think that's bad, remember the time I boarded the wrong plane at the airport? *cut away scene: [Peter boards Air Force One, sits next to President Biden who's eating vanilla icecream]. Peter: Hey these seats are great! President Biden: [Licks icecream, the icecream falls off the cone and rolls onto his lap]. Peter: Hold on there buddy I'll get that for ya. [Peter begins eating the ice cream off President Biden's lap] [A secret service agent walks in, the agent's eyes get wide as he turns around and goes back to where he came from]. *cuts back to Peter and Louis. Louis: It took us 3 weeks to get you off that island. Peter: [stares at the 4th wall]. Yep, we went there.
@@cal.353 how tf would he end up on air force one when the president was on it? It doesn't just sit parked with the president on it. It's a terrible joke.
There should be a Family Guy episode where Peter says “ this is like the time I’ve got a party done South Park and had a repetitive catchphrase before announcing cutaway gags.”
Actually, this was also the plot in one of the episodes of The Avengers in the 1960s. The villains were using as a cover a publishing company that kept churning out all kinds of short novels, which were very popular until the arrival of the Internet, and they worked under the same principle. They had a database of random subjects, verbs, nouns, etc, in cards and they took cards at random and fed a computer with them and the computer came out with the plot for a novel putting all those things together in a logical way.
You can say this is a representation of what Family Guy's humor is today, but they forgot something: They can't have an episode without someone puking or getting horribly injured/killed as a joke
The Manatees got me laughing so hard, and way more than the last 30+ family guy jokes i seen surprised i had that laughe in me, but South Park just have some of the best jokes ever.
I love the way that the laundry is totally disconnected from the actual joke.
its the missing continuity
You think that’s bad…. because it is
Uhh yeah that's the point. You get points right?
@@legitbeans9078 I love the way your comment makes fun of this guy by telling him that something was done intentionally and is the point of doing it like it was done.
Oh wait that was the point of your comment. You get points right?
Can we just compliment jokes about the video?
idiot
You think that's bad, Remember the time I was abducted by E.T. and alf into their space ship?
This aged..embarrassingly well.
the "Good Quality" did not however
Really. You feel embarrassed.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker…
Together they’re pure comedy gold
What happened recently?
It didn't. More like Family guy humour didn't aged at all.
As much as I love Family Guy, this rings true, especially in the later seasons. It used to be hilarious consistently, nowadays it's hit or miss.
I own most Family Guy seasons and I really miss the effort that was put into story telling and creativity.
Family guy and South Park aren't funny
And South Park says the f word and the n word
And I hate the n word it's racist
And I'm white but still
It was only consistently funny before its initial cancellation, then it was downhill from there
like so many US shows, they just go on for too long. Simpsons suffered from the exact same problem , though its drop in quality and shift from satire of American suburban life to simply a cartoon was more dramatic. SP seems to be one of the few that has stood the test of time
It's because they fired the manatees and got actual "writers"
"holy freaking crap Lois this is worse than the time I blanked with blank"
Of course nowadays just watch random car insurance commercials to see the same jokes.
This is like the time I [PLAYED XBOX 360] with [OBAMA]
*cuts away*
"Holy crap Peter halo 3 is fun."
"Yes I know Obama."
@@Vickysqueeze Wow you just told a Family Guy joke and the worse part is I saw it in my head
Sounds like a YIAY prompt
Don't you worry about the company, let me worry about blank.
Yeah, this is a perfect analogy for the "loophole" writers found.
They can insert any joke they want without connecting it to a scene or story as long as a character says "like that time when".
this loophole is so self-conscious though (i generally don't think they had look for it very hard) that it's basically a meme in and of itself
The worst part is that sometimes the set up lines don't even make sense with the cutaway they show like "this is more irresponsible than silent movie corn" and then they just cut to a couple dancing on a bed and I don't understand what's irresponsible about the joke lol
“Remember when is the lowesht form of convershashion” - Tony Soprano Sr.
They can also drag something out 'for comedic effect' when in reality it's just to pad the episode out.
@@kaiz3nbergsopranomaxx
"You think thaaats bad?" Lives in my head rent free.
You think thaaats bad? Remember the time everybody was getting rick-rolled?
This is worse than the time…
This is better than the time…
This reminds me of the time….
Like a…
No thoughts cost money. That phrase is as bad as any family guy joke format.
@@SacsachCCABP I thought you were about to burst into a Jarvis Cocker song then..... I wonder who if anyone will get the reference.....
You think that's bad?
Remember the time I said you think that's bad?
The cutaway became more of a cue to laugh than an effective method of joke telling. Even if it made no sense or had no context, some people would laugh because they were trained or expected to. I remember laughing at some as a kid and having no idea what they were talking about.
That is the definition of social conditioning.
Pavlov’s joke
@@Jamesharveycomics underrated comment
It's just like that story about a society controlled by a small group of people who all believe in what they are doing
@@Jamesharveycomics they need to hire you
It's been six years, the manatees are still the lead writers on family guy
@Reality was talking about the video, but ok
No. The manatees have lost their edge a bit. I think they're getting tired of this game or they're running out of balls. #FreeWilly
No wonder Family guy predict future just like paul the octopus from fifa 2010
The manatees were cute though.
@@SidVacant69 They were fake. Hate to break it to you. Simply drawn, then animated. 🤷🏾♂️
Ironically, this is the proto-type for future AI scripts
Holy shit you're right 👀😮
prototype*
Why use AI just use manatees.
AI could do better than Seth and co.
Techncially it wouldn't be, because its done randomly. The manatees don't look like they understand the words so its picked randomly therefore it just did a random algorithm which was possible ages ago. AI might actually make good jokes that are clean and consistent.
I actually like old school Family Guy, but this is undeniably accurate.
This SouthPark episode was made in 2003 so it's pertaining to Family Guy starting season 4
@@rigby3620 this is cartoon wars p2 so this means this is like 2006 since it’s s10 of southpark
Old school FG was great up to around season 4 or season 5. I can't believe they're around 20 seasons now, they should have just ended it a looooooooong time ago.
@@rigby3620 why are you lying 😂😂
family guy really ended in 2003. Nobody counts season 4 and beyond
Oh my god... That's why family guy clips are so watchable out of context. When you see them, they're funny but if you go to watch the episode, it's always disappointing. Ngl, this legitimately opened my eyes
Its easier to like the good jokes when they aren't surrounded by a bunch of terrible jokes.
100% spot on assessment.
That's why for example let's just say... The Office, right? You have to watch the show for the most part to understand any particular scene or the context of why the particular scene is funny, almost like an inside joke.
I made the mistake of trying to show my dad, who's never seen The Office a compilation of Michael Scott being mean to Toby scenes, and he didn't think any of them were funny and stopped watching halfway through the video. Then I realized, it's because he doesn't understand the context of the characters and how their relationships and personalities play a huge role.
South Park can be the same way, someone could look at this scene and think "Who is that fat kid and why does he even care to begin with?"
Not knowing that Eric Cartman is a lowkey diabolical super villain, that will stop at nothing to get a point across or get what he wants.
TL;DR context is everything.
Zoomers love random stuff they make a joke out of everything i guess thats why family guy is blowing up they just discoverd it and its the greatest thing they have ever seen.
@@jacob5058 To be fair, I think that's every generation of kids. I was super into Family Guy in the mid 2000s, but when I got to middle school, the lolsorandom cutaway humor just got tiring. Zoomers will get sick of Family Guy sooner than later.
I don't remember where, but somebody made a comment about Family Guy that I whole heartedly agreed with:
"Family Guy is a show that has good jokes when you don't have to sit through an entire episode to see them."
South Park really hit the nail on the head tbf, extremely accurate 😂
Idea bolz
It's kind of sad that it needed pointing out to begin with. I never understood the hype for family guy. It's bizarre.
@@cuccamungait's better than south park for sure.
@@Never_GamePlayZ The Simpsons, King of the Hill, South Park, Futurama, and Bob's Burgers all surpass Family Guy for me as far as primetime animated sitcoms go.
@@cuccamungayour right but a little off.
The jokes are a lot more evolved now. Now it’s Peter adopting a new trait and doing stereotypical things that people with that trait do. Example “I have long hair so now I must attend auctions”…. That’s a real “joke” they did
Gay gene. Nuff said 😐
Don't you mean "joke"?
@@LAndL857 lemme edit that real quick
Just because they’ve evolved doesn’t mean their shit
@@handsomeboi3767 nah they’re all shit. At this point Seth McFarlene just likes the fat check Disney/Fox gives him. He doesn’t care about satire or telling a good story
The Simpsons’ writers actually sent flowers to South Park’s writers for this episode. They were really annoyed with how lazy and irrelevant Family Guy’s jokes were, and appreciated South Park exposing them.
Edit: All of the butthurt family guy stans are giving me a good laugh
Seems more like “take this please, don’t make fun of us as well since our writing is just as bad”
@@bulb9970 The Simpsons has definitely been slacking for the last decade or so but it has always been way better writing than family guy, and in its hay day it was arguably the best ever.
@Soussy "Simpsons Already Did It"? It was more of a respectful jab at the Simpsons inspired by their internal frustrations about unknowingly copying plots from the simpsons and a demonstration on how the Simpsons than a "roast"
this is a widely known factoid do you feel proud for posting it?
@@CommentFrom I didn't know that. It's not as widely known as you think. Anyway, they're just sharing facts. What's your problem with it?
South Park will always be some of the best satire TV has to offer.
Ikr.....all this family guy bullshit....never watched an episode and never will
idk have you seen curb your enthusiasm?
@@tonyatthebeach same and proud
@@tonyatthebeach Family Guy is better. You don’t want to watch because you know you’ll be wrong.
@@stimswwolf7867Jokes about irrelevant celebrities no one has cared about for the past 20 years isn’t funny.
It's truly how Family Guy is like now. A load of random unfunny jokes.
The old episodes were great
@@Splizzyglizzy That's true.
@@Splizzyglizzy True that.
Family guy was always like this. Seriously, have you not watched the old episodes recently? It's literally just how it's depicted in South Park. This parody was made during the so-called Golden Era of Family Guy.
Occasionally some random jokes tend to be funny
(Megs full name)
the fact that their “clip” of family guy literally could be in the actual show and i wouldn’t think anything was off or different
I would, the gags aren't in every scene the most I've seen is like 1 every 3 scenes or something
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This is such a creative way to make fun of another shows writing
It sounds like you're referring to a show or a piece of media that cleverly mocks or parodies another show's writing. Parody and satire are often used to highlight and playfully criticize the tropes or clichés found in other shows. What specific show or example are you thinking of?
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That’s an intriguing statement! Are you looking to explore the philosophical implications of determinism, or do you have a specific aspect in mind?
This is also how Buzfeed makes their quizzes.
And how WatchMojo makes their top tens.
Wait, no. This is too creative for them.
Accurate
hi Jeremy
Its so painfully true, whenever you think of a genuinely funny family guy joke its never a cutaway. Shame they are few and far between
its the exact opposite to me. the cutaways are funny but the episodes stories themselves suck
A few are good. Honestly I think Family Guy works better cut up into 10-30 second cutaway gags on TH-cam than it does as a whole show. I still think Peter buying a deodorant that makes you attractive to sick cats is hilarious for example
Family guy has had more than a few funny cutaways. It's the show's bread and butter.
I honestly like the cutaways… in early Family Guy.
@@cdfactory I guarantee your taste in comedy is hardly more refined than their's.
The Manatees are very cute. And they make great family guy writers too.
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🤙 Determinism is Freedom 🤙
“This is like [celebrity you never heard of] first morning after writing [song/concert you’ve never heard of]”
*shot of a baker behind a counter, random guy walks in and asks for a cup of lukewarm water, baker says “I’m not falling for that one again”*
Now laugh
"This is like writing jokes for Gex at Al Pachinco's house." - Gex
*Wheeeze*
LAUGH!! >:O
Would you kindly explain the joke about the baker and lukewarm water.
The random celebrity you never heard of is too accurate. Even if you heard of a celebrity, the joke barely relates to them
It's weird because I honestly think the cutaway gags were pretty funny back around the time when this South Park episode was made. The punchlines usually made sense if you actually got the references they were making. Definitely no rhyme or reason to how they were segued into but that was always Family Guy's style and it was something that made the show unique in a way.
But it's like the Family Guy writers embraced the parody whole-heartedly, because not long after this episode came around, it really did start to feel like they just formed entire cutaways using a rudimentary algorithm with no consideration for an actual punchline. They also started self-parodying themselves and lampshading the weakness of their own style of humor a lot more (which is cute the first time you do it but stops being funny incredibly quickly). Nowadays, the cutaways make almost no sense and come off as the writers saying "This is your scheduled cue to laugh" as opposed to any genuine attempt at humor.
At least how I see it, Family Guy was always meant to be a show with weak narrative elements that mostly served as a loose vessel for delivering one-off jokes. But as they ran out of jokes, it kind of transformed into a show that's just a weak narrative with obligatory cutaways that are only really there because the audience expects them to be there (and they help to kill as much of a 22-minute runtime as possible).
I mean basically, I didn't really have a problem with this style of comedy so long as it managed to be funny, which I think it mostly succeeded in back when this satire was made. It stopped being funny, so now it's just a really annoying way to pad out a poorly-written narrative. The show actually became MORE like how South Park depicted it as being.
Ya boy wrote a whole essay in the comments
I do think that people are taking cheap shots at a big show. I think the south park guys do have their heads up their own asses most of the time and that does add alot to their comedy. It seems like a form of comedy gatekeeping to say "oh these guys have a formula so it must not be funny" and its pretty regressive. Family guy did and still does have some bangers that can actually make me laugh out loud at times and south park has had some serious valleys in their content as well. Yeah the cutaways are gimicky but south park did a totally vile episode solely about swimming in piss in a water park, the only joke the whole episode. It just seems like people focus more on 'the process' than the actual jokes and if you look at all of the series, not just family guy, I think you see more depth in what Seth Mcfarlane does in his work than most of what Trey and Matt have ever really done. Oh the wrote a musical with the same Mormon jokes they've been doing for almost 3 decades? How precious, I'm sure all the fedora tippers are right about them being the peak of comedy.
Family guy from oeter griffin... xD
Bro wrote a essay about family guy jokes 💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@KendrickLamarreal10182 And? Don't blame him that he has stuff to say and you don't.
1:48 This is the philosophy on how Friedberg and Seltzer movies are made.
I remember watching many Family Guys clips for some weeks, and that caused me to watch an episode.
I did not expect the entire episode to be like that.
The early years weren’t quite like that
Eyyy, Es pfp, nice.
Yeah that's all the show has ever been. It's not so much a sitcom as it is a half hour of brief skits thinly disguised asa sitcom.
It's so lame.
@@TheAngryShadowknightThis show is not lame ! Stop being one of those people who thinks a thing is lame so it’s not !
Imagine if Family Guy just recycled their stories into gags.
Peter: This is worse than the time Brian violated Sea Breeze!
Shows clip of old episode.
honestly that’d be kind of funny
@@whydoihave100subs another NPC bot that will laugh and clap at anything family guy makes 😂😂 what a complete loser
"feel the heat from her genitals..."
That's something a lot of old sitcoms did when they were pressed for time or money. Clip show episodes.
@@debrachambers1304 In this case the old clip would be a little a small joke rather than the entire plot of the episode focused on just those old clips.
This is worse than the time Cleveland forgot to turn off his porchlight
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Cutaways are the jumpscares of comedy.
Jarringness trying to pass for substance.
That's bloody brilliant
Perfectly said.
It's all about the "gotcha didn't I?"
Well said. Not a bad thing to do, but gets real old when that's all you do...
They aren't trying to pass for substance. South Park is, and it's failing.
Manatees: “Peter”, “Incest”, “Mother-In-Law”, “Trigger”, “Weird Al”
Writers: YES! Comedic genius!
Peter: "You think that's bad how about when..."
Manatees: "Jenna Jameson, Mrs Butterworth, Breakdancing, Berlin Wall."
Seth actually never really intended for the show to go past 8 seasons, and dropped off from writing around that time. That’s also around when the show really starts to decline.
Seth isn't actually involved with Family Guy's creative direction anymore, that's why it's so trash now. He left in 2011 and only does the voice work now. So none of the jokes or any of the writing at all is his.
Already said before, Seth is just a voice… and it’s been like that for over 10 years.
@@TheRaptorJesus the show was always bad, it's a copy of the Simpsons but not as clever or funny
Fun fact: In 2024, this how ALL Hollywood productions are written.
I feel bad for Seth McFarlane sometimes. South Park hates Family Guy, The Simpsons, the list goes on.
Seth wanted the show to end earlier but Fox wants money. I'm sure he is aware of the quality of the show currently anyway.
He doesn’t even write for the show anymore.
@@TheS1E2A3L4 That probably does or does not say something
@Reality
When did he say that?
huh, my respect for seth macfarlane has gone up slightly, like 5 points
he isnt in the negatives or anything but atleast he knew when to end
This episode came out during season 5 of Family Guy. This was long before Seth wanted the show to end, and long before Family Guy's quality started to decline.
"This is worse than the time I won a trip to Mexico with Gary Coleman."
-Gex
Is it Gex night again?
@@gabe_motherboard3355 Aww I love Gex night
dunkey
"You're using the rhythms of comedy with no punchline" - Every Episode Of Generic Animated Sitcom™ by ABK
Stewie Griffin even complained about all of the cut-aways in an episode once.
Being self-aware means nothing if you don't change
@@AramesiaToken so fucking true
Which?
@Claude Speed S10 E5 - Back to the Pilot, 3:15?
Wow it seems like even the actors don’t like the jokes
I remember the fist time seeing this episode and the manatee "writers" reveal, I couldn't stop laughing.
reveal* C'mon dude.
@@IONLYKNOWMOVESTHATKILLPEOPLE You have to understand, I just mush the keys on my phone and if what comes up looks similar to a sentence written in English I post it.
@@calessel3139 reletable if they can understand the point that im trying to tell thats enough for me fuck the large crack thats messing up my typing
@@calessel3139 Just admit you were wrong lmao
@@IONLYKNOWMOVESTHATKILLPEOPLE My response was a joke, but yes I was.
This is , imo , probably the most brutal roast out of any animated tv show. This joke/episode basically ruined family guy’s reputation as a comedy
It absolutely did not. Their viewership is still very similar to South Park's. Some people like this kind of humor.
@@andreworam2844 That's not the same as having a good reputation though. I'm not saying the other person is right, just pointing this out.
@@grmpf I think in this case it is. Family Guy viewers don't care, we love this style of comedy. I had no clue that this joke was made in South Park until years later. I think SP fans think way more people care about this issue than the amount that actually do.
@@andreworam2844I think the fact you made FG viewers a “we” and talked about what SP viewers think makes it seem like you got salty your favorite show got criticized.
@@littlemoth4956 nah the SP episode was absolutely hilarious. I think it’s top notch comedy. I just don’t run it ruined FG’s reputation.
Cartman: My jokes are deep and connected to the story
Also Cartman: *takes pictures of Butters in various positions
True but there is usually a whole episode based around those actions and usually with some type of moral of the story
More deep and connected to the story than family guy is these days
something went deep lmao
That was connected to the story, did you not watch it, and the photo reveal?
@Victor Lugosi
Yeah, the message is pretty good, but the joke is a shallow one where you burst out laughing because it's stuid
That aged so well
Especially since South Park just stole a joke from Family Guy...
@@NostalgiNorden what joke did SP steal from FG?
@@NostalgiNorden no they didn’t
@@NostalgiNorden they didnt steal squat 😂
@@NostalgiNorden After Family Guy stole hundreds of jokes?
How people shit on American Dad but watch Family Guy I'll never understand.
The cutaways made family gut way more popular than American dad, the jokes in AD are connected to the plot, maybe some people find that boring compared to the random cutaways about anything you could imagine
Nobody hates American dad
I’ve tried watching American Dad a few times and I just can’t get into it
The main issue with American Dad is that it's just for Americans. I'm European, 50% of the times I don't know what they're talking about
@@Luca17051996 I mean, the fish is German, so you can at least understand him
I love how the "watch on TH-cam" ad on the side is for Family Guy and not South Park
0:21 The way Cartman says "Family Guy is soo funny "
I'm a fairly new fan of Family Guy and had been binge watching Family Guy out of context scenes for a long time on TH-cam already. Even watched 2 episodes, one where Peter got on a hijacked plane and one where Stewie & Brian travelled through the multiverse. Found them really funny and creative, and also satire. So I was kind of confused when I read the comments on here saying how Family Guy is extremely unfunny-until it turns out I've apparently been watching older versions of Family Guy (?), so I decided to search up the latest episodes of Family Guy and see if they're still funny.
Short answer: damn.
there's a whole family guy conspiracy. And it starts with eyes
This episode was pure gold when they said the writers were manatees just picking random word balls with topics on them
What episode is it
@@mariadiaz6671 It's the episode with manatees just picking random word balls with topics on them
@Space13 stfu the fuck up no need for harassment my little man
Thank you for describing the video I just watched.
Yeah we all watched the video, genius.
Simpsons was what I watched in school. South Park was what I watched in college. Family Guy is what I watched when I had emergency stomach surgery and couldn’t reach the remote in hospital.
u said it andrew.
he was forced to watch famly gay🥲🥲🫡😓😓😓😓😭😭
Horrible. On top of invasive abdominal incisions they made you endure something traumatic.
Andrew for the win!
Had to read your comment twice. At first, I thought you ate the remote!
Family Guy writers have no faith in their audience understanding their jokes and that’s why they always explain them in the show.
My uncle used to be the senior editor for Family Guy he’s now working on the new clone high.
Your manatee family moving up in the world
@@AT-il2ej Well neither I nor my uncle are manatees but his wife certainly is.
XD
@@afterlife697 LMAO SAVAGE
Clone High was dope I can't wait for the revival.
This is why South park is superior. The writers make fun of family guy but not in a basic and generic way, but in a way that's comedic yet so reflecting and eye opening at the same time
Yeah specially considering how Family guy makes fun o another show like bob's burgers, when they put it straight up in your face while at the same time showing a great jealousy for that show
@@chimuetisbellYou do know that H. Jon Benjamin, the voice of Bob, is a friend of Seth's and is actually a character in Family Guy, right? The gas station guy, Carl
Family Guy is like fast food equivalent of comedy and South Park is like a fine dining
@@gino7460 oh, ok, you can't envy your friends
I like family guy more myself. To me, South Park has a brand of comedy similar to robot chicken and just usually ends up being disgusting.
Family Guy is more dark style humor and flashbacks, but still better. South Park fell off to me a long long time ago, and while family guy might not be as funny as it used to be... I prefer it over the whole nastiness that South Park uses as their general theme.
In my eyes it goes family guy, Futurama, South Park, robot chicken (robot chicken deserves to be last) as there's barely anything funny in it.
The South Park version of Peter saying “you think THATS bad” is hilarious
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It's sad how true this is. Family Guy jokes is like an AI wrote them based of random variables with no actual meaning or relevance.
Yeah exactly 😅 But I still enjoy watching it anyways
Its true, most of the funniest Family Guy moments weren't random cutaways.
The majority of them would be more funny if they just left it up to the imagination rather then show the random joke.
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As someone who likes Family Guy, it's astonishing to see how South Park depicted what the show would eventually become at the time of this episode's airing.
Family Guy has ALWAYS been this way. That’s why SP made this episode in the first place.
@@jeremytheoneofdestiny8691Season 1 is good
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They still used the same jokes.
It just seemed more fresh because you haven’t had 20 seasons of the same running joke.
@@jeremytheoneofdestiny8691Trey and Matt always hated Family Guy and especially seasons 1-3 which fans tend to overly praise.
@@TheCeraizationwhen was the first time they said they hated family guy?
Remember how the writers were actually offended by this?
Seth McFarlane = lil beetch
The manatees were offended?
Didn't they write some lame ass gay joke about the writers in an episode in response or something?
No, because it didn't happen. If you hate Family Guy then good for you, but stop making shit up.
@@The_Butt_Cracker th-cam.com/video/Br9DY97zL2Q/w-d-xo.html
I started watching family guy after watching that south park episode
Irony
actually That is exactly the point, Which is no matter how they disagree with Family Guy, you can still watch it and no one should force you to stop.
@@erictsenmusic Yeah, I don't remember which episode was it, but they included one thing that FG does well and that's "not being preachy all the time" in opposite to southpark.
@Gopatich Bro you are literally arguing with what creators of South Park said about themselves lol
Also yeah, if most of the episodes is trying to teach you how to behave etc. you can call it preachy.
@@onutrof1157 it's true. Trey Parker himself said:
"We totally understand that people love it and that's why we put it in the show. We understand that it speaks to some people and it's like, it can be a simple laugh, and that's great. And we certainly don't think it should be taken off the air or anything like that. We just don't respect it in terms of writing."
When South Park made fun of The Simpsons, it was good-natured. They admit how much The Simpsons have influenced modern comedy, including South Park. When making fun of Family Guy, they are out for blood.
When I think of these two shows, I think about that one Simpsons gag that Bart wrote on the board showing the fear they had for the threat sent to Parker and Stone
Exactly. It was a joke but also a love letter to the influence and the legacy that The Simpsons has. This was a declaration of war.
There are literally more hours worth of cutaways in this series than
there are hours in an average
season of the show
(even when you include the time cutaways consume in an individual season).
And it still costs like a million dollars for each episode
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I absolutely prefer Family Guy, but this is a seriously good burn
Me when this episode came out: Oh how fun, what a silly riff on Family Guy!
Me in 2022: Talk about calling it
Ain't no way people actually are offended by this, lmao
You haven't witnessed the internet enough
You obviously don't know the new woke generation
Except butthurt family guy fans
@@rotekanale8124 🤓
Not even the family guy writers were offended, they started referring to their cutaways as manatee jokes
Perfect description of FG.
I really like the shorts with their jokes but i never actually made it through one episode because they had no story. all it was, was loosely connected jokes.
In the 1990s, there was a game called Gex, and all of its jokes boiled down to stuff like "this is like X at Y's house" or bad impressions of celebrities.
Then Family Guy ran for over 20 years and decided its jokes should be even worse versions of that.
Scott the woz moment
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I remember when I was younger trying to figure out which episode the funniest jokes were from. I couldn’t remember because the jokes had nothing to do with the episode itself
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The crazy part is that this is true, Family Guy really does write their jokes this way!
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i could unironically see that being a real family guy joke
I love how the music make it look like a real documental showing a truly beatifull moment
As a fan of both shows, this made me laugh.
South Park's best satire: Family Guy
Family Guy's best satire: Pizza place salad
The funny part is that I can actually imagine a cutaway gag like this being in FG
this is great. i love both shows so much lmao even family guy makes fun of themselves for how ridiculous their cutaways are
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Hey dad
It scares me how accurate this is.
I always think of this and feel so embarrassed when a 30 year old millennial edgelord talks to me about how amazing family guy is.
"Edgelord" is a fancy word for jobless loser.
Family Guy is pretty cool tho, some of the jokes are really funny.
the jokes in a vacuum can be funny
but the show itself is not as good as south park or simpsons...or american dad...or futurama
Congrats, you found 1 of the 12 or so millennials that still watch FG.
@@scottgrasser9475 simpsons hasnt been good for decades...
Family Guy was truly ahead of its time. Random TikToks with something vaguely resembling a story between them.
0:00 I like how it’s not Fuzzy Door Productions, it’s just “Family Guy Studios” XD
I think this might be one of the only times Cartman was fighting for us all.
It may have to do with how baked the writing staff is at the time of putting together ideas. But, I can agree with the theory of the manatees
I took this show for granted as a kid. The creators are ballsy for writing this.
Why were you watching South Park as a kid 😭
@@CIPHERINATORits pretty inevitable
A year or two ago, i heard that loads of kids nowadays started watching south park through Tiktok..
But I myself, was introduced to South Park when The Stick of Truth game came out when i was 14.
I love Family Guy (the older episodes) and I think that's funny 😄
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Peter: that's worse then the time when I was in south park
As a Family Guy fan I can say that this is accurate
The thing is: I genuinely used to love Family Guy in its earliest seasons and even though this South Park episode would’ve still been applicable about THOSE EPISODES at the time, it felt like RIGHT AFTER THIS EPISODE AIRED, Family Guy REALLY began to decline and started “taking the piss” with the “lol random” and reference humor.
The first few seasons of Family Guy still have some of the most genuinely funny moments in the entire show, in my opinion.
i think that's how the family guy jokes are made.
Get ready for the Family Guy mob to start arriving
Literally no one gives a shit
cant both exist lol no one is better thanthe other
@@rso823 thats the thing, a small minority of family guy fans hate equality when it comes to southpark
It's not 2006. No one defends Family Guy anymore
@@bigguyCIA4u have you been living under a continent? Just look at this comedy section
They forgot to add unnecessary gory scene which is a typical family guy gag
'Gag' because if you watch it you have to 'gag' yourself.
@@vaimantobe3034 and also the chicken fight 🤣 I've never hated manatees ever like this in my entire life
Or the long scenes they just like to stretch out for no reason because they think it adds some level of comedy or humour to it.
Family Guy wasn’t really gory yet at the time of this episode’s airing.
All I have to do is ask someone if they like Family Guy and I automatically know how much they suck.
There must be more than one Gary Coleman ball.
I remember the "Bird is the Word" episode was fairly popular when it came out. I rewatched it recently and they hammered the joke to death in the first five minutes. I didn’t bother watching the rest of it.
i love how south park demonstrates family guy as some fictitious cartoon in their world like family guy is not good enough to share a universe together
Of course! It does really make sense.
I miss the times when Macfarlane was a writer for Family guy.
South Park has some sort of ultimate access key to all reality.
Louis: Peter, you promised you would stop eating mayonnaise out the jar with your hand!
Peter: You think that's bad, remember the time I boarded the wrong plane at the airport?
*cut away scene: [Peter boards Air Force One, sits next to President Biden who's eating vanilla icecream].
Peter: Hey these seats are great!
President Biden: [Licks icecream, the icecream falls off the cone and rolls onto his lap].
Peter: Hold on there buddy I'll get that for ya. [Peter begins eating the ice cream off President Biden's lap]
[A secret service agent walks in, the agent's eyes get wide as he turns around and goes back to where he came from].
*cuts back to Peter and Louis.
Louis: It took us 3 weeks to get you off that island.
Peter: [stares at the 4th wall]. Yep, we went there.
Not a bad joke at all tbh
@@cal.353 how tf would he end up on air force one when the president was on it?
It doesn't just sit parked with the president on it. It's a terrible joke.
WHO is Louis??
@@johnmullens2857*Lois
Sadly this came to be a far truer reality then we all thought I think…
There should be a Family Guy episode where Peter says “ this is like the time I’ve got a party done South Park and had a repetitive catchphrase before announcing cutaway gags.”
Actually, this was also the plot in one of the episodes of The Avengers in the 1960s. The villains were using as a cover a publishing company that kept churning out all kinds of short novels, which were very popular until the arrival of the Internet, and they worked under the same principle. They had a database of random subjects, verbs, nouns, etc, in cards and they took cards at random and fed a computer with them and the computer came out with the plot for a novel putting all those things together in a logical way.
they predicted family gay!111!!
After seeing this I can’t watch Family Guy the same way- because it’s hilariously accurate 🤣🤣
Peter, you didn't do the laundry today...
It’s the music that gets me every time 🤣 it sounds so groundbreaking yet wholesome.
You can say this is a representation of what Family Guy's humor is today, but they forgot something: They can't have an episode without someone puking or getting horribly injured/killed as a joke
neither can family guy, though..
Best ever, I wish I could erase my memory to watch it again
The Manatees got me laughing so hard, and way more than the last 30+ family guy jokes i seen
surprised i had that laughe in me, but South Park just have some of the best jokes ever.
Yep pretty much on the ball here, Family Guy is as funny as watching a snail which is watching paint dry.