Next week we will be back with a full review. Also, we have decided what we will be doing for Disneycember this year....Disney Channel Original Movies. Send help!
Gola245 I think Seth owns the characters, since he's the sole creator and technically didn't create them for CN, he made them for his own project, but it's also possible that CN got some exclusive rights on all the What A Cartoon creations by contract, regardless of whose creations they are... Either way they could easily include a cameo without any authorization, like they do for all the characters that are not theirs... Of course if you want to see a full crossover, then they would absolutely need that license.
Fun Fact: The Griffin's physician, Dr. Hartman, was named as a purposeful nod to Seth's former Cartoon Network colleague, Butch Hartman. Cartoon trivia is fun.
Dr hartman is Dr Elmer hartman. Elmer of course being Butches birth name. Also in the pre pilot episode Burch voiced Dr weed Peter's boss for the first 2 seasons of family guy. After family guy got picked up Seth got the voice actor Carlos Alazraqui To take over the role. When Burch found out he enjoyed the talent that Carlos had so he invited him to audition for a character he had in his own show Fairly Odd Parents and he got it. Carlos has been Mr Crocker ever since (except the live action versions) Butch also continued to do various background character voices for Family Guy until around season 4.
I think the concept of "What A Cartoon!" Should come back, where a whole 30 minute segment is dedicated to two cartoon shorts being shown, n in the end viewers get to review the cartoon short to see if they liked, loved it, hated it or just meh... This would not only be cheaper for Nick and Cartoon Network as well as possible Adult Swim if they jump on the band wagon, but it would also take out part of the work for him. Because of "What A Cartoon" it was really competitive and some of the best shows came out of it.
Walking Corpse yeah but then they'd all be fucking terrible. maybe a meh every once a year at that. modern cartoons are the embarrasment of this country, pandering to the lowest denominator, and loaded with pop culture references and smartphone usage and...*shudder*... social media usage.... honestly I rather that that segment be left in its place in history as a treasured moment in our time as children. Not tainted in the modern day cartoon filth.
"Modern cartoons are the embarrassment of this country" ......I'm guessing you haven't watched anything on Disney XD, Cartoon Network, or Nick, have you?
The Larry and Steve "What a Cartoon" short is actually quite witty, especially for Family Guy standards, and in an alternate universe, I would've loved to see how a more 'kid-friendly' version of the animated sitcom would've panned out. "I didn't spend 12 years in kindergarten because I'm stupid!" "Why then?" "I got my foot stuck in a radiator."
"I'm a dog, in case you're uh... well... stupid." Heh, that made me crack a smile. I like the idea of a kids' show with the cynical humour of Family Guy back when it itself wasn't... well... stupid.
Willcraft You mean back when it was worse, as it is actually a show that gets better as it goes along, but yet it's a cool bandwagon for idiots to jump on to say that it used to be better, even though that makes no sense? Okay, whatever.
TheSefirosu200x I hear it's also a cool bandwagon to try to have the opposite opinion of most people even though that makes no sense. Listen kid, everyone have their own opinions. Mine is that the show's had some good episodes in the past but for the last few years have gotten more and more reliant on shock value just for the sake of shock value with no clever humour behind it, leading to nothing but a more mean-spirited experience with none of the laughs. Maybe they still have the occasional good episode, I wouldn't know because I don't actively watch the show, but every time I see anything from the new episodes it's dogshit. That isn't to say I praise the brilliance of older seasons. As a matter of fact, I'm not big on Family Guy whatsoever. As far as I'm concerned, it's a show that doesn't suit my tastes that still has some episodes I find enjoyable, and I have yet to see a single such episode in recent times.
"You will be indirectly responsible for the resulting euthanasia." "Oh boy, they got enough kids over there as it is." This is fucking brilliant. I love this joke!
Hey Doug! Thanks for the shout out to the Marine Mammal Center! My wife just started volunteering there a month ago and we can attest to the great work the volunteers and scientists strive for every day. Have a great day!!
I'm surprised that whenever people talk about Family Guy or The Simpsons, no one talks about Married with Children, even though that show is live action. If it wasn't for Married with Children, there wouldn't be The Simpsons, which in turn means no Family Guy. We need to support Married with Children more.
French Paul 1988: There's a difference between a family that isn't perfect and a family where everyone constantly expresses their dislike for one another.
The only thing I remember from watching Married with Children is me constantly wishing for the couple to *divorce* and seek healthier relationships. It took place during what? 80s? 90s? Even in a socially backwards country like USA surely divorce was a legal and socially acceptable solution to objectively horrible marriages back then?
Hey does anyone remember if the first episode of Courage The Cowardly Dog was on What A Cartoon? You know the one with the evil space chicken and the bad eggs?
@@goodnewsgeek42 Also people should be glad SpongeBob is still on Nickelodeon it's the only good show we have left on Nickelodeon. There's worser cartoons than Modern SpongeBob.
This is quite intriguing to watch as a Family Guy fan myself. It’s cool how Seth never gave up his vision of Family Guy and someone that dedicated to his art you do have to admire.
WE REALLY WANT MORE SEGMENTS OF "WHAT YOU NEVER KNEW" AND MAYBE IT'LL BE ABOUT THE SCOOBY DOO FRANCHISE,LILO AND STITCH, AND RUGRATS!! WE MUST SEE MORE OF THOSE"WHAT YOU NEVER KNEW" SEGEMENTS!!
I loved the Larry and Steve episode as a kid. That bit when the bed takes Steve and whacks the wall with him always had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. Not the whacking itself but the buildup was always what got me
Butch Hartman AND Seth MacFarlane really loved Adam West, as evidenced in that both their most popular shows have Adam West Also, both were inspired by both the Flintstones and the Simpsons
NC: I'm the nostalgia critic. I remember it so you don't have to. Me: Don't hurt your knee. Don't hurt your knee. Don't hurt your knee. Don't hurt your knee. Don't hurt- NC: *Trips and falls* Me: Goddamn it.
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"I- I think I know what I'm talking about, alright? I didn't spend 12 years in kindergarten 'cause I'm stupid!" "Why did you then? " "My foot got caught in the radiator."
+ARB Pride - There was one Family Guy episode that made me cry. It was an early episode called "Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows" where Brian befriends a cranky old recluse who used to be an opera singer. The ending actually made me cry. As maligned as the episode "Brian & Stewie" is, there are also moments that are genuinely poignant and heartwarming. Only problem? It's sandwiched in between gags involving Brian eating Stewie's shit. Yeah... This show has a tone problem.
I have no idea if it was the season finale, but one of the most recent episodes of Family Guy had him find a bunch of his kids who looked like him. The main one he eventually had conflicts with the most was named Larry
Tad Strange that was what we called liberalism back in the early 2000s, that and simpsons too ironically. They used to speak out against neocons who were censoring media, now they’re censoring themselves out of shame like an east german in the 50s
I have another bit to add to this. On the DVDs of The Weird Al Show, on the audio commentary for one of the episodes (I forget which one), Weird Al says that when they were planning out the show, they were approached by Seth McFarland with his early cartoon sketches. He says they couldn’t use it cuz it was too adult for their kids show, but they wished him luck. He then goes on to speculate that their show could’ve almost been for Family Guy what The Tracey Ulman Show was for The Simpsons.
I remember seeing Larry and Steve as a kid and was amazed to see who created it when I saw it again years later. I think it would've been a funny kids show. I also think it's a shame Fox made Seth add more too it.
Since he talked about a cartoon network short, i would like to see him review a cartoon network movie wether its Dexter's ego trip, or the powerpuff girls movie. I know both of those movies are good but i would like to see his take on one of those.
While I agree The Powerpuff Girls movie was pretty decent, it actually was a huge financial failure which makes it the main reason we don't have any other Cartoon Network movies going to theaters. A shame really.
Nicholas Borg I find it amazing there was a similar show drawn by the same people who made the Rugrats with a different, but at the same time different concept decades before
Damn! I perfectly remember Larry and Steve, even their dialogue in its spanish dub (I'm mexican), but I would have NEVER guessed there was a pilot of the pilot itself!
I'm surprised how much I recognized Larry and Steve from watching it as a kid. Steve talking to the camera, being picked up from the pound, their car getting split and that green laser lamp. I barely even got to watch cartoon network either since only my dad had the channel and I only stayed there every other weekend.
In an alternate universe, Larry and Steve was a Saturday morning cartoon that ran from 1998 to 2003, and The Intertidal Zone became a comic book series lasting from 1984 to 2016, Adventure Time was on Nicktoons from 2007 to 2009, and Pixar was still part of Lucasfilm.
That was very educational, and inspiring. It shows that over time, an idea may take multiple forms before it turns into something specific that could be a hit.
I knew about most of this and now I'm wondering why I do even know this much about Seth MacFarlane. Can't even name all 50 states in the US after 27 years living here but I can name the two shorts MacFarlane did in the 90s. #sadpriorities
I'm glad you brought that up. I knew Family Guy looked familiar and I couldn't put my finger on it for years. I used to watch Larry & Steve and then I forgot about it
I thought Seasons 1 through 9 were all good. Season 10 had a lot of controversial episodes that didn't really click with me. Now the humor is lazy and uninspired. The only things I can remember now are the random one liners from Stewie and sometimes they may be funny but it's overused making it clear to everyone that this show is needs to be put to rest. Nah, I still watch it regardless. I fell in love with these characters and I still love them today. So I don't care if it's not as funny as it used to be, It just warms my heart to see these characters at all. I don't know why, there's that weird charm it has for me.
Y'know, I haven't watched the show for going on six years, but my favorite episodes from Family Guy were always the Brian and Stewie episodes wherein they would travel through time/ dimensions/ get into hi-jinks of some variety. I like to think of it as if Mr Peabody and Sherman was a black comedy. Honestly, if MacFarlene just made a spin-off of just Brian and Stewie, I'd watch it. Probably alone on this idea, but just figured I'd share in case someone felt the same.
The laugh track was intended to give it that classic "recorded in front of a live audience" sitcom feel which was phased out ironically, at then end of the 90's. Its funny how every decade has that thing. That signature thing that defines a decade when you are asked what is the first thing that comes to mind when fill in the blank.
I want to congratulate you Doug , for taking the time to talk about all these charities, they certainly made me reflect and do something so thank you and congratulations for talking about them, and last but not least i wanna tell you that I'm a huge fan and thanks for all the good laughs! Since I was in high school I used to watch you! Greetings all the way from Texas!
I think that's part of the joke, making the show seem more innocent if you've never seen it. Because in the theme song, they say Family Guy is full of good old-fashioned values, but when you watch the show it's not.
and you know whats actually funny mr i have deadpool in my account picture. family guy is leaning towards more obnoxious "humor" that is so obnoxious at times it drains any funny in it.
I'm always fascinated by how these easy animation projects evolve into prominent series. Like how Hey Arnold started with that claymation short of him trying to help a duck fly.
To be fair Fox has been really copyright claim happy when it comes to negative claims to Family Guy. Hell a guy I watched named TheMysteriousMrEnter gets his Family Guy reviews claimed constantly by Fox and he tackles the worst episodes the show has to offer (Seahorse Seashell Party, Brian is a Bad Father, Screams of Silence). So Doug picking on the least offensive joke in the series run is pretty excusable.
The knee joke is a RECURRING joke. It isn't like the rest of the jokes in the show. It's overused, while the other, awful jokes are a one occasion thing. He was saying that the knee joke isn't funny anymore and needs to stop, so i don't see what's the problem with saying that.
The hurt knee was never funny. I'm glad Doug seems to agree. edit: Well, the self-aware corruptions of the joke lampshading how terrible it was can be funny.
Seasons 1-3 are definitely better than Family Guy after the show was revived in 2005. I haven't watched the show in a long time, but the show definitely became more focused on offending people instead of being funny. You can be offensive and funny, but the show just went out of its way to shock people and that becomes tiresome after a few seasons.
'Sup, Critic. I'm the guy from FanimeCon who made the card game and told you about the Christopher Walken VS T-Rex idea. I just wanted to let you know that hearing you liking the idea meant a lot to me... Beyond that, it meant a ton to me. As an animator and a movie nerd, knowing that one of my favorite TH-camrs is looking forward to a project of mine is purely mind-blowing. Right now, I'm working on a new better draft of the script and I hope to have something to show you soon. I won't let you down, Mr. Algia Critic.
Family Guy is like the bad parody movies from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, their show has become unfunny and they have no more ideas. It's a show that got lucky the first time, and Fox turned it into fart jokes.
Surrealist Gal That's because American Dad has more of Seth Macfarlane's input. He doesn't even write for Family Guy anymore, all his other writers do. Which explains why there are so many bad episodes.
Myeh, I still like Family Guy, people just hate anything that's been on a long time, that's what the Members berries were taking the piss out of in South Park, people constantly saying "Member" when in reality the past wasn't that great as you think, it's just nostalgia.
The passion in people who hate the show is much too strong for it to be a "it's a good show that's been on for too long" kinda show. It's just a shitty show now.
So as long as tons of people have passion they can't be wrong? Shitty logic, to quote a line from Men In Black "A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat" Basically the whole "lots of people think it so it must be true" argument is horse shit.
Kyle, dip is too strong of a words, the shows just changed, and people hate change, they fear change, when something changes we equate it to getting worse, in reality most people are just dumb and can't handle any sort of change. As someone who has never really been a massive fan of family guy, but had to watch every season due to my gf love for it, it hasn't gotten worse, it's just it lacks nostalgia.
I'm saying that the intensity of the people who used to like the show now hating the show isn't coincidence. They were and still are the show's demographic, so they didn't "grow out of it" like one could argue. More than half the comments section is saying the same thing: It used to be good until season 5-6, and then it went to shit. These are people who used to be fans of the show, all saying the same thing. It's not nostalgia making the old episodes look good, but the new episodes actually being really bad.
The only reason why the Larry and Steve short was so kid-friendly was because Seth was working for Cartoon Network at the time and wanted to make a short that he could put on TV on, and everything on Cartoon Network had to be Y or Y7 back in those days. There was an earlier Larry and Steve short that was much more adult than this one, and that earlier short was the one that he originally tried to pitch
Next week we will be back with a full review. Also, we have decided what we will be doing for Disneycember this year....Disney Channel Original Movies. Send help!
Sorry, Roblox but Nostalgia critic is here to stay
Unfortunately there is no help
NO DONT DO IT, YOU CANT CHEAT DEATH FOR MUCH LONGER!!
Channel Awesome YES! I WOULD LOVE YOU TO REVIEW HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
May the luck of the Irish be with you Doug! Can't Wait
Family Guy should seriously make an episode where Peter and Brian end up meeting Larry and Steve somehow.
Gola245 I think Seth owns the characters, since he's the sole creator and technically didn't create them for CN, he made them for his own project, but it's also possible that CN got some exclusive rights on all the What A Cartoon creations by contract, regardless of whose creations they are... Either way they could easily include a cameo without any authorization, like they do for all the characters that are not theirs... Of course if you want to see a full crossover, then they would absolutely need that license.
most people don't remeber it
Now? Less new episodes the better
That's actually a great idea!
That would be interesting.
In an alternate dimension, Family Guy is a kids show,and SpongeBob is for adults.
there is some episodes where Mr. Krabs might as well be a Family Guy character
and they're both still good.
(in said alternate dimension I mean.)
In that dimension, Ren & Stimpy is still running.
Spongebob is more directed to all the family rather than just kids tho.
Fun Fact: The Griffin's physician, Dr. Hartman, was named as a purposeful nod to Seth's former Cartoon Network colleague, Butch Hartman.
Cartoon trivia is fun.
SonofMrPeanut
There was a reason I always loved Dr. Hartman as a side character!
SonofMrPeanut a character named after an old friend. That's actually kinda nice.
Couldn't pay attention to the fact. Was distracted by your profile pic
Dr hartman is Dr Elmer hartman. Elmer of course being Butches birth name. Also in the pre pilot episode Burch voiced Dr weed Peter's boss for the first 2 seasons of family guy. After family guy got picked up Seth got the voice actor Carlos Alazraqui
To take over the role. When Burch found out he enjoyed the talent that Carlos had so he invited him to audition for a character he had in his own show Fairly Odd Parents and he got it. Carlos has been Mr Crocker ever since (except the live action versions) Butch also continued to do various background character voices for Family Guy until around season 4.
Wow, so in Family Guy and Fairly Odd Parents, Butch is a doctor. Wonder if the plot thickens from here...
I think the concept of "What A Cartoon!" Should come back, where a whole 30 minute segment is dedicated to two cartoon shorts being shown, n in the end viewers get to review the cartoon short to see if they liked, loved it, hated it or just meh... This would not only be cheaper for Nick and Cartoon Network as well as possible Adult Swim if they jump on the band wagon, but it would also take out part of the work for him. Because of "What A Cartoon" it was really competitive and some of the best shows came out of it.
Agreed.
this is already sort of happening. but instead of a show on tv, the networks post the pilots on youtube directly, where you vote with your views.
Stephen Weir Ya, that's not good enough lol
Walking Corpse yeah but then they'd all be fucking terrible. maybe a meh every once a year at that. modern cartoons are the embarrasment of this country, pandering to the lowest denominator, and loaded with pop culture references and smartphone usage and...*shudder*... social media usage.... honestly I rather that that segment be left in its place in history as a treasured moment in our time as children. Not tainted in the modern day cartoon filth.
"Modern cartoons are the embarrassment of this country"
......I'm guessing you haven't watched anything on Disney XD, Cartoon Network, or Nick, have you?
The Larry and Steve "What a Cartoon" short is actually quite witty, especially for Family Guy standards, and in an alternate universe, I would've loved to see how a more 'kid-friendly' version of the animated sitcom would've panned out.
"I didn't spend 12 years in kindergarten because I'm stupid!"
"Why then?"
"I got my foot stuck in a radiator."
"I'm a dog, in case you're uh... well... stupid." Heh, that made me crack a smile. I like the idea of a kids' show with the cynical humour of Family Guy back when it itself wasn't... well... stupid.
Willcraft "You will be indirectly responsible for euthanasia." "Oh man they got enough kids over there as it is."
Can't remember the exact context, but I swear that euthanasia gag was used on Family Guy.
That got a good chuckle out of me too
Willcraft You mean back when it was worse, as it is actually a show that gets better as it goes along, but yet it's a cool bandwagon for idiots to jump on to say that it used to be better, even though that makes no sense? Okay, whatever.
TheSefirosu200x I hear it's also a cool bandwagon to try to have the opposite opinion of most people even though that makes no sense.
Listen kid, everyone have their own opinions. Mine is that the show's had some good episodes in the past but for the last few years have gotten more and more reliant on shock value just for the sake of shock value with no clever humour behind it, leading to nothing but a more mean-spirited experience with none of the laughs. Maybe they still have the occasional good episode, I wouldn't know because I don't actively watch the show, but every time I see anything from the new episodes it's dogshit. That isn't to say I praise the brilliance of older seasons. As a matter of fact, I'm not big on Family Guy whatsoever. As far as I'm concerned, it's a show that doesn't suit my tastes that still has some episodes I find enjoyable, and I have yet to see a single such episode in recent times.
"You will be indirectly responsible for the resulting euthanasia."
"Oh boy, they got enough kids over there as it is."
This is fucking brilliant. I love this joke!
Marzalieb
I dont get it
euthanasia = youth in Asia
Kool and gang
That is a joke I never got until today
+Brianna B. ... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH okay
Hey Doug! Thanks for the shout out to the Marine Mammal Center! My wife just started volunteering there a month ago and we can attest to the great work the volunteers and scientists strive for every day.
Have a great day!!
I'm surprised that whenever people talk about Family Guy or The Simpsons, no one talks about Married with Children, even though that show is live action. If it wasn't for Married with Children, there wouldn't be The Simpsons, which in turn means no Family Guy. We need to support Married with Children more.
I don't recall much about this one, except that its protagonists weren't a perfect family like you have in countless family sitcoms like Full House.
French Paul 1988: There's a difference between a family that isn't perfect and a family where everyone constantly expresses their dislike for one another.
The only thing I remember from watching Married with Children is me constantly wishing for the couple to *divorce* and seek healthier relationships. It took place during what? 80s? 90s? Even in a socially backwards country like USA surely divorce was a legal and socially acceptable solution to objectively horrible marriages back then?
@@helenanilsson5666 racist
I'd just like to point out that that euthanasia line was funnier than anything I've seen in Family Guy for several seasons now XD
Hey does anyone remember if the first episode of Courage The Cowardly Dog was on What A Cartoon? You know the one with the evil space chicken and the bad eggs?
I do!
I do.
Yup it was.
omg I thought I imagined that
Anthony Ospina That was actually Oscar nominated.
The difference between Family Guy and The Simpsons, Simpsons isn't trying to die despite some immortality
While Family Guy might not have been the greatest animated show ever, (especially in recent years) I think it gets a lot of unjustified hate.
Oh it is absolutely justified.
John Carey I disagree. Family Guy is obscenely overhated.
Oh thank God I thought I was the only one who thought this way, and not just about the show, but Seth himself as well
@@averygamerdude7911
I like Family Guy myself and there are some Modern Family Guy that are actually really good like Episodes of Modern SpongeBob.
@@goodnewsgeek42
Also people should be glad SpongeBob is still on Nickelodeon it's the only good show we have left on Nickelodeon. There's worser cartoons than Modern SpongeBob.
This is quite intriguing to watch as a Family Guy fan myself. It’s cool how Seth never gave up his vision of Family Guy and someone that dedicated to his art you do have to admire.
WE WANT MORE OF THE "WHAT YOU NEVER KNEW" SEGMENTS!!!!
I NEVER KNEW THAT!!!
Err...no we don't. You might, because you're crazy, but the rest of us don't.
Buc Whovian screw you
Is that an offer?
WE REALLY WANT MORE SEGMENTS OF "WHAT YOU NEVER KNEW" AND MAYBE IT'LL BE ABOUT THE SCOOBY DOO FRANCHISE,LILO AND STITCH, AND RUGRATS!!
WE MUST SEE MORE OF THOSE"WHAT YOU NEVER KNEW" SEGEMENTS!!
Mr Enter's probably gonna go nuts if he sees this...
Eh.
PredaPrime That guy makes me cringe. One of the worst youtubers out there.
PredaPrime Would be hilarious to see him rant about it.
timemadscientist Greatscot! He'd most likely blow his top.
I loved the Larry and Steve episode as a kid. That bit when the bed takes Steve and whacks the wall with him always had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. Not the whacking itself but the buildup was always what got me
I would've been fine with Larry & Steve becoming a CN classic.
I actually want to see this...
Same.
Butch Hartman AND Seth MacFarlane really loved Adam West, as evidenced in that both their most popular shows have Adam West
Also, both were inspired by both the Flintstones and the Simpsons
the "euthanasia" joke is genuinely funnier than anything Family Guy has done since, like, 2009.
Oh my god I've actually seen this as a kid. What even!?
This pilot is still way better than modern Family Guy. At least the animation allows the characters to have more than 3 different poses lol
yeah honestly I forgot how good the Animation was in Larry and Steve
That profile pic doe.
way BETER indeed
Not even the pilot, but when they switched to digital. It seems whenever somebody switch to digital, they just get lazy and make everything so 2D.
Tenzing Khedup I'm sure those sound like fightin' words to some (if not all) South Park fans.
I wonder if Seth ever wishes he could go back to Larry and Steve....
NC: I'm the nostalgia critic. I remember it so you don't have to.
Me: Don't hurt your knee. Don't hurt your knee. Don't hurt your knee. Don't hurt your knee. Don't hurt-
NC: *Trips and falls*
Me: Goddamn it.
Doug you should watch Samurai Jack
0:49 The "alpha version of Peter Griffin" looks like Lloyd Kaufman from Troma. :D
Most western "adult" animated comedies might as well be for kids. Haven't pushed the genre much at all in almost two decades.
Awe, but I like the hurt knee joke.
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Why?
Chicken...gave me a bad coupon.....
I liked it too, until Lois ruined it with her version.
"I- I think I know what I'm talking about, alright? I didn't spend 12 years in kindergarten 'cause I'm stupid!"
"Why did you then? "
"My foot got caught in the radiator."
Everybody saying that Family Guy is too cruel clearly have not seen South Park.
I think the mean spirited humor in South Park is supposed to be Ironic. Family Guy might be too, but it doesn't come off as well anymore.
I haven't seen South Park but I still think South Park is crueler
Holy shit, when that episode where Kenny died - like died-died for a year - I cried my fucking eyes out! :'(
+ARB Pride - There was one Family Guy episode that made me cry. It was an early episode called "Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows" where Brian befriends a cranky old recluse who used to be an opera singer. The ending actually made me cry.
As maligned as the episode "Brian & Stewie" is, there are also moments that are genuinely poignant and heartwarming. Only problem? It's sandwiched in between gags involving Brian eating Stewie's shit.
Yeah... This show has a tone problem.
"What is this, snot soup?"
"Isn't that cute? Your dog walks on two legs~"
"Yeah, isn't that cute, I could- BARK BARK BARK BARK- wave my feet in your make-up."
I have no idea if it was the season finale, but one of the most recent episodes of Family Guy had him find a bunch of his kids who looked like him. The main one he eventually had conflicts with the most was named Larry
I usually despise Seth McFarlane's brand of humour... but that xenophobic Scotsman made me smile.
Dan Wendelstein The thing I find ironic about Seth is that he's very liberal and progressive but still puts a lot of offensive stuff in his show!
R&N RailProductions
How is this ironic?
R&N RailProductions
I think that's because he's an ACTUAL progressive, and not an SJW.
Tad Strange that was what we called liberalism back in the early 2000s, that and simpsons too ironically. They used to speak out against neocons who were censoring media, now they’re censoring themselves out of shame like an east german in the 50s
That joke itself is a borrowed from Looney Tunes’ Gossamer
I have another bit to add to this. On the DVDs of The Weird Al Show, on the audio commentary for one of the episodes (I forget which one), Weird Al says that when they were planning out the show, they were approached by Seth McFarland with his early cartoon sketches. He says they couldn’t use it cuz it was too adult for their kids show, but they wished him luck. He then goes on to speculate that their show could’ve almost been for Family Guy what The Tracey Ulman Show was for The Simpsons.
I remember seeing Larry and Steve as a kid and was amazed to see who created it when I saw it again years later. I think it would've been a funny kids show. I also think it's a shame Fox made Seth add more too it.
Family guy started in two forms, the Simpson's and the critic
Omg, I forgot about The Critic
Since he talked about a cartoon network short, i would like to see him review a cartoon network movie wether its Dexter's ego trip, or the powerpuff girls movie. I know both of those movies are good but i would like to see his take on one of those.
While I agree The Powerpuff Girls movie was pretty decent, it actually was a huge financial failure which makes it the main reason we don't have any other Cartoon Network movies going to theaters. A shame really.
Yeah I want a Cartoon Network month
Hard to imagine Family Guy without without cheap shock "humor"
@Hamburger Argonian Jr. SP at least still good...
@Hamburger Argonian Jr. We agree to disagree then.
2:48 That guy at the table is Francis and Herbert after Potara fusion lol
Bojack horsemen was suppose to be a kids show
Nicholas Borg porn hub was supposed to be a kids game
and it still is
Nicholas Borg I find it amazing there was a similar show drawn by the same people who made the Rugrats with a different, but at the same time different concept decades before
Damn! I perfectly remember Larry and Steve, even their dialogue in its spanish dub (I'm mexican), but I would have NEVER guessed there was a pilot of the pilot itself!
I've never clicked on a Nostalgia Critic video so fast.
I'm surprised how much I recognized Larry and Steve from watching it as a kid. Steve talking to the camera, being picked up from the pound, their car getting split and that green laser lamp. I barely even got to watch cartoon network either since only my dad had the channel and I only stayed there every other weekend.
In an alternate universe, Larry and Steve was a Saturday morning cartoon that ran from 1998 to 2003, and The Intertidal Zone became a comic book series lasting from 1984 to 2016, Adventure Time was on Nicktoons from 2007 to 2009, and Pixar was still part of Lucasfilm.
just to note, i think the simpsons family guy crossover's beer scene is pretty clever.
I wish. Then most episodes (Herpe the Love Sore, Seahorse Seashell Party, Fresh Heir) wouldn't exist for being too mature.
D The Australian Dork if you don't like the show why do u still watch it
Freddy Kruger
Hey, I didn't say that I don't like the show. I just said that there's a lot of bad stuff in it.
D The Australian Dork then why watch it
Mature... riiiight.
funniest joke on family guy is when Peter said that he didn't like the godfather because it insists upon itself
Foreshadowing also includes a piolet how sounds like Quagmire and his sun who resembles Mort
1:40
Okay, that youth in Asia joke is fantastic.
Watching a season five episode called meet the quagmires while watching this
Can you do a Seth McFarlane month with family guy , Ted and American dad
You should review One Thousand Words! like so he can see this please
That was very educational, and inspiring. It shows that over time, an idea may take multiple forms before it turns into something specific that could be a hit.
Whoa, I totally forgot all about Larry and Steve! This is a lot to think about in retrospect!
You have to review "Help! I'm a Fish!"
Yes he should.
What's your favorite Family Guy episode?
Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows
Giovanni Orellana Bart gets an F
Not all Dogs go to Heaven. Star Trek and a religious sub plot. good stuff.
barely watched the show.....The Star Wars Special, thats one I kinda watched through.
Giovanni Orellana PTV; the FCC dance number is still the best part of that episode.
It just had prototypes for Peter and Brian. It wouldn't have been that good if we didn't see similar characters to the other ones
That hurt knee joke still gets me every time I watch it, so simple but so funny.
I still remember every single tv shows you mentioned except these
My boyfriend can do a nearly perfect Peter impression & I can do nearly perfect Lois. Needless to say, we make a great couple. 😻💏👫💘
Cat Santos That's adorable lucky you guys! 💖💕
Fun fact: Seth Macfarlane originally wanted too work for Disney.
That's...an interesting fact.
that explains why road to the multiverse is his current favorite
I knew about most of this and now I'm wondering why I do even know this much about Seth MacFarlane. Can't even name all 50 states in the US after 27 years living here but I can name the two shorts MacFarlane did in the 90s. #sadpriorities
Someone needs to go rewatch "Yakko's World".
I'm glad you brought that up. I knew Family Guy looked familiar and I couldn't put my finger on it for years. I used to watch Larry & Steve and then I forgot about it
In Larry and Steve, they meet an airline pilot who’s appearance, voice and occupation as a commercial airline pilot would inspire Glen Quaqmire
I love Family Guy and still watch even though it's hip too hate everything.
I thought Seasons 1 through 9 were all good. Season 10 had a lot of controversial episodes that didn't really click with me. Now the humor is lazy and uninspired. The only things I can remember now are the random one liners from Stewie and sometimes they may be funny but it's overused making it clear to everyone that this show is needs to be put to rest.
Nah, I still watch it regardless. I fell in love with these characters and I still love them today. So I don't care if it's not as funny as it used to be, It just warms my heart to see these characters at all. I don't know why, there's that weird charm it has for me.
Who else hopes that his next review is The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor?
End Credit Reviews with the Mummy remake coming out I think it would make sense. Although Fraser's mummy was already a remake as well.
True, but we can all agree that the 3rd one was beyond a dumpster fire.
Y'know, I haven't watched the show for going on six years, but my favorite episodes from Family Guy were always the Brian and Stewie episodes wherein they would travel through time/ dimensions/ get into hi-jinks of some variety. I like to think of it as if Mr Peabody and Sherman was a black comedy. Honestly, if MacFarlene just made a spin-off of just Brian and Stewie, I'd watch it. Probably alone on this idea, but just figured I'd share in case someone felt the same.
Oh my God, I'd completely forgotten about Larry and Steve! Watching these clips, the memories just came rushing back in.
Love Family Guy. Still do.
Blame Fox for Family Guy.
Also, Larry and Steve seems more Seth's style.
"I have aids" HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The laugh track was intended to give it that classic "recorded in front of a live audience" sitcom feel which was phased out ironically, at then end of the 90's. Its funny how every decade has that thing. That signature thing that defines a decade when you are asked what is the first thing that comes to mind when fill in the blank.
I want to congratulate you Doug , for taking the time to talk about all these charities, they certainly made me reflect and do something so thank you and congratulations for talking about them, and last but not least i wanna tell you that I'm a huge fan and thanks for all the good laughs! Since I was in high school I used to watch you! Greetings all the way from Texas!
I still like Family Guy and Simpsons ;/
Shade's Insane Chamber yes same 💕
if I made a video on family guy, I'd say all the campaign pictures are just misleading
You mean where the family is all happy, smiling and getting along and hugging?
Gamelover254 yes
I think that's part of the joke, making the show seem more innocent if you've never seen it. Because in the theme song, they say Family Guy is full of good old-fashioned values, but when you watch the show it's not.
Now I think the show is intended for no one...
I remember this show. I didn't remember that I remembered until now. But I do remember it.
"Not so fondly"? Are you kidding me? The hurt knee was one of my favorite jokes. XD
Family Guy used to be good
MegaSoulHero
Time always wins.
and it have more and more people despising it every day and moving away from it since the value of the jokes is decreasing .... that's also a fact.
MegaSoulHero Yeah no doubt.
Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows still one of my Favorite Episode.
MegaSoulHero Ya it was good when they remade it into American Dad. The first few seasons were mediocre, but after 6 family guy became just pure shit.
Here's another video idea: "Was Family Guy Ever Supposed To Be Funny?"
MajoraJongara it is funny
I think so 🧐🧐🧐🧐🤨
and you know whats actually funny mr i have deadpool in my account picture. family guy is leaning towards more obnoxious "humor" that is so obnoxious at times it drains any funny in it.
@Garotao Abodado - You uh.. in the closet there buddy? You seem to like to use the word fag a lot. Kind of defensive there, no?
@@liamlowenthal8476 English cigarette*
Answer To The Title: Yes And No.
I remember that short! I remember watching it back in the day.. well who knew .. I just learned something
I'm always fascinated by how these easy animation projects evolve into prominent series. Like how Hey Arnold started with that claymation short of him trying to help a duck fly.
Really? Out of ALL the awful jokes on Family Guy, you choose the knee joke?
OddBall64 He's already walking on eggshells by talking about this show, cut him some slack.
To be fair Fox has been really copyright claim happy when it comes to negative claims to Family Guy. Hell a guy I watched named TheMysteriousMrEnter gets his Family Guy reviews claimed constantly by Fox and he tackles the worst episodes the show has to offer (Seahorse Seashell Party, Brian is a Bad Father, Screams of Silence). So Doug picking on the least offensive joke in the series run is pretty excusable.
The knee joke is a RECURRING joke. It isn't like the rest of the jokes in the show. It's overused, while the other, awful jokes are a one occasion thing.
He was saying that the knee joke isn't funny anymore and needs to stop, so i don't see what's the problem with saying that.
The hurt knee was never funny. I'm glad Doug seems to agree.
edit: Well, the self-aware corruptions of the joke lampshading how terrible it was can be funny.
The Conway Twitty joke is way more obnoxious than the knee joke.
Seasons 1-3 are definitely better than Family Guy after the show was revived in 2005. I haven't watched the show in a long time, but the show definitely became more focused on offending people instead of being funny. You can be offensive and funny, but the show just went out of its way to shock people and that becomes tiresome after a few seasons.
Best season of Family guy are seasons 3 to 9.
No the best is 1-16
'Sup, Critic. I'm the guy from FanimeCon who made the card game and told you about the Christopher Walken VS T-Rex idea. I just wanted to let you know that hearing you liking the idea meant a lot to me... Beyond that, it meant a ton to me. As an animator and a movie nerd, knowing that one of my favorite TH-camrs is looking forward to a project of mine is purely mind-blowing. Right now, I'm working on a new better draft of the script and I hope to have something to show you soon. I won't let you down, Mr. Algia Critic.
The knee joke is family guys version of "TIMING!"
I used to like Family Guy. ...When I was 13.
Matt Wolf That’s when I started watching it
Family Guy is like the bad parody movies from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, their show has become unfunny and they have no more ideas. It's a show that got lucky the first time, and Fox turned it into fart jokes.
Except none of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's movies were EVER good.
FireBlast Studios Family Guy has become like those movies, it's like they make episodes with random cutaways that don't make any sense.
I still have always preferred American Dad. That show is fantastic.
I thought TED was inetersting. Haven't seen Ted 2 though. And Million Ways to Die in West looked ehh.
Surrealist Gal trash
Surrealist Gal That's because American Dad has more of Seth Macfarlane's input. He doesn't even write for Family Guy anymore, all his other writers do. Which explains why there are so many bad episodes.
Surrealist Gal Meh, I prefer FutureRama (Sorry for the spelling)
American Dad is funny but its way too dark Family Guy is tame by comparison i sometimes feel sick to my stomach watching it
2:25 I always imagined that that Cindy lady had the voice of Lois
I love the "hurt knee joke" just as much as I like the fighting chicken. It's awesome
Myeh, I still like Family Guy, people just hate anything that's been on a long time, that's what the Members berries were taking the piss out of in South Park, people constantly saying "Member" when in reality the past wasn't that great as you think, it's just nostalgia.
TheBrownTown007 True, but you admit there is a noticeable dip.
The passion in people who hate the show is much too strong for it to be a "it's a good show that's been on for too long" kinda show. It's just a shitty show now.
So as long as tons of people have passion they can't be wrong? Shitty logic, to quote a line from Men In Black
"A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat"
Basically the whole "lots of people think it so it must be true" argument is horse shit.
Kyle, dip is too strong of a words, the shows just changed, and people hate change, they fear change, when something changes we equate it to getting worse, in reality most people are just dumb and can't handle any sort of change.
As someone who has never really been a massive fan of family guy, but had to watch every season due to my gf love for it, it hasn't gotten worse, it's just it lacks nostalgia.
I'm saying that the intensity of the people who used to like the show now hating the show isn't coincidence. They were and still are the show's demographic, so they didn't "grow out of it" like one could argue. More than half the comments section is saying the same thing: It used to be good until season 5-6, and then it went to shit. These are people who used to be fans of the show, all saying the same thing. It's not nostalgia making the old episodes look good, but the new episodes actually being really bad.
Family Guy still is for kids. I don't know any adults that actually enjoy the show.
Since Family Guy's humour is for 13 year olds, that doesn't surprise me at all.
You probably have not watched the show enough to make such a blunder.
I remember Family Guy being broadcast at about 7:00 PM in the UK, just after the Simpsons on BBC 2.
The only reason why the Larry and Steve short was so kid-friendly was because Seth was working for Cartoon Network at the time and wanted to make a short that he could put on TV on, and everything on Cartoon Network had to be Y or Y7 back in those days. There was an earlier Larry and Steve short that was much more adult than this one, and that earlier short was the one that he originally tried to pitch