Why Did Family Guy Get Rid of Brian

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Family Guy

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Genre:	Fantasy "Comedy"
Running Time:	22 minutes
Country:	Us
Release Date:	September 27, 2009 - present
Network(southward):	Fox (US) Adult Swim (2003-21, US) FXX (2021-present, US) Seven Network (1999-2010, Australia) 7mate (2010-2021, Australia) 7flix (2022, Commonwealth of australia)
Created past:	Seth MacFarlane
Distributed by:	20th Goggle box (on behalf of Disney-ABC Domestic Television)
Starring:	Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green Lacey Chabert (Seasons ane-2) Mila Kunis (Season 2-nowadays) Mike Henry
Seasons:	20
Episodes:	369

Family Guy is an adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Dissemination Visitor. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children, Meg, Chris, and Stewie, and their anthropomorphic pet dog, Brian. The show is gear up in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island.

Since season 8, the prove used to be a smash hit, just has been criticized by critics and audiences for many reasons, and these seasons accept gone down as one of the worst examples of seasonal rot and flanderization.

Why It'southward Not Our Family Guy Anymore

These seasons lack the charm and cleverness of the first 5 seasons, and to lesser extents, the sixth and seventh seasons. In 1 of the most tragic negative-180's in idiot box, the writing downgraded from beingness clever and funny to completely atrocious and catastrophic, virtually to the point of irredeemability. Information technology's fifty-fifty worse when knowing that the writing staff behind this show is huge, with 14 writers and a multi-million dollar upkeep (more specifically, $2 million), both of which are impressive for a TV series, and nonetheless they come up upwards with this stuff.
- Not only that, just the writers as well clearly lack any respect for the fans or the audience in general, like how they decided to impale off Brian because he was hated so much and and so bring him back two episodes later. They did absolutely nothing to redeem his flanderization and but kept him only as, mayhap even more unlikeable, nonetheless the creators make information technology clear that, in a way, they can kill him once and if the audience gets mad, they have the ability to exercise it again. This is a tactic known as "leverage."
- These seasons are filled with a whole parade of bad episodes, examples are, simply are not limited to:
  - "Family Goy" (which started the downfall of the series)
  - "Send in Stewie, Please"
  - "Life of Brian" (Often considered the worst episode by fans and the episode that killed the show from having any chances of always recovering from its darkest age)
  - "Seahorse Seashell Party" (Possibly considered the worst episode past critics)
  - "Brian Writes a Bestseller"
  - "Quagmire'due south Dad"
  - "Brian'south a Bad Begetter" (also regarded as 1 of the worst episodes)
  - "Peter-assment"
  - "Connie's Celica"
  - "Stewie is Enceinte"
  - "Quagmire and Meg"
  - "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q" (Likewise qualifies every bit ane of the worst episodes past critics)
  - "Fresh Heir"
  - "A Fistful of Meg"
  - "Ratings Guy"
  - "One time Bitten"
  - "A Shot in the Dark"
  - "Peter's Sister" (which created a massive plot hole in the series)
  - "Peter'south Def Jam"
  - "Undergrounded"
  - "Hot-Pocket Dial"
  - "Peter Problems"
  - "The Marrying Kind"
  - "Mister Act"
  - "Must Love Dogs"
  - "You Can't Handle the Berth!" (likewise counts as the worst by fans and is the everyman rated episode on IMDb, though it may take been intentionally bad)
  - "Road to India" (non only the worst episode out of all the "Road to...", simply also ended the "Road to..." series on a sour note)
- This is also not helped past the fact that seasons 10, 12, 17, and 18 merely sped up the evidence'south reject in quality, as they include some of the worst episodes of the entire series, similar "Seahorse Seashell Party", "Trump Guy" (which almost looked like the show had a crossover episode with "Our Cartoon President") and "Meliorate Off Meg".
- Out of all of these seasons, Seasons 8, 12, thirteen and 17 are considered the worst of the bunch (especially season 12) because information technology not simply showed then much flanderization and had few more bad episodes than the remainder of the bad seasons, simply these seasons hold some of the all-time worst episodes of the series in general.
In that location are several problems with the characters, as almost all of them have been flanderized to the point that they're unlikeable and/or hopeless (particularly the Griffin family unit).
- Peter has gone from a silly doofus simply likable father who cares a lot well-nigh his family unit and is incredibly respectful to One thousand thousand (one episode involved him saying he'd have a bullet for her) into a psychopathic idiot, a very arrogant jerk, and a very selfish, kittenish brat who causes misery to many of the people around him and rarely feels appreciating towards his family, and even with Lois, who he has shown a not bad deal of disrespect towards her, and cheats on her on several occasions. He does bad things in about every episode and is e'er excused for his actions as he's said to do that stuff out of idiocy, which makes him a Karma Houdini. He is likewise a rotten friend, having shot Joe in the eye and Quagmire in the arm on two divide occasions.
- Brian has gone from a smart-mouthed but likable voice-of-reason dog to a cocky-absorbed, pretentious, alcoholic, egotist, and "occasionally" atheist fundamentalist (in other words, essentially a political soapbox) who tells lies to get attractive women to like him and thinks religions are for idiots. He is also a conniving and ungrateful scoundrel who will exercise anything to accelerate whatsoever of his careers, peculiarly if it means hurting his loved ones, screwing over the people who helped him, or letting them die. He's also a massive hypocrite by saying Lois having an affair with anyone other than him is incorrect.
- Lois has gone from a dainty and compassionate married woman of and to Peter to a short-tempered, immature, and psychotic dominatrix wanna-be who sometimes abuses him, acts like she has control over her family's life, is a massive hypocrite who calls Peter out on things she's guilty of and is very loud and obnoxious. She'due south an even bigger Karma Houdini than him.
- Chris went from a normal, kind, slightly-dimwitted teenager who is an incredibly talented artist to a completely-dimwitted, uninteresting character whose but known for just masturbating all the time, going total idiot style, and is only used when Peter has too much screen time. Simply he didn't see too much decline in grapheme.
- Meg went from a socially awkward girl trying to make friends to her family's routinely driveling personal punching bag, until she finally snapped, such as trying to plan a sexual set on on Chris just then she could accept closure from a gay boy, going all Fatal Attraction on Brian, trying to replace Bonnie as Joe's married woman by framing her and breastfeeding their baby, or engaging in a deadly fight at the school deli. However, since Season 16 she's been abused less oft.
- Stewie has gone from being a genius babe bent on killing his mother and destroying the world to beingness a flamboyant gay stereotype. Though eventually, he got improve in the later on seasons, every bit he retained his original personality. Despite how worse the show has gotten, he is one of the few characters that was nonetheless likable throughout (by and large).
- Quagmire has gone from a funny and somewhat perverted ladies' homo to a complete pervert who is used for niggling more than sexual sense of humour and has his perverted qualities exaggerated. Similar Peter and Stewie, there is also an incredible lack of expression from him.
  - In fact, he has as well developed a hatred towards Brian. Not considering of anything personal, just because he'southward become a surrogate for the fans that started hating Brian heavily. If you lot lookout the clip where Quagmire reveals to Brian why he hates him, you'll notice that there is goose egg related that involves Quagmire, and just makes him look like a hypocrite. This subplot got old fast.
- Joe has gone from a stiff and confident constabulary officer who was a skillful role model to a crutch for brutal handicap jokes, an old groaner who screams mode also much, and a cowardly spineless cop who lets Peter go away with everything and never arrests him for any lawbreaking acts similar shooting him in the eye with a BB gun, and for giving his girl a raspberry in the "wrong identify." What also doesn't help is that in the newer seasons, he gets way likewise much screen time. It's like the writers take a new motto: when in doubt, shove him into the scene.
  - In virtually episodes, he is treated horribly for no reason. Like Peter beating him with his wheelchair without hesitation in "Killer Queen", or a bird telling him to hang himself in "The Birthday Bootlegger".
- Bonnie went from Joe's caring and supportive wife to seeing him as an inconvenience and someone to bully, cheat on Joe and impale him. The biggest example of Bonnie wanting to cheat on him is the episode "Strange Affair" in which the principal plot of the episode is her wanting to have an affair in Paris.
- Despite it occurring in his spin-off serial, Cleveland was flanderized from being a slow-talking only friendly and hilarious Blackness human being, into a whiny, young, annoying, unfunny, and literal manchild in his very own testify, as he acts like a literal clone of Peter. Thankfully, he redeemed himself when he moved back to Quahog.
- The character of Ida, Quagmire'due south transgender parent, only exists simply then the writers could make transphobic "jokes", such as how not once after her sexual activity change has she been referred to every bit a woman. What makes this way, way worse is that Seth MacFarlane described her introductory episode as "the well-nigh sympathetic portrayal of a transgender person", when in reality, it was anything just sympathetic. If annihilation, the entire episode spent its fourth dimension mocking the transgender community.
- Sometimes, the show introduces a new character and so immediately either kill them off or just throws them aside with little to no character evolution. Notable examples include Vinny, a new dog the Griffins get when Brian dies, and Jess, a young woman Brian marries who is killed off after two episodes.
- The show continually tries to push a new character named Doug every bit Stewie'southward new nemesis, but the character is and then i-dimensional that it won't take long for viewers to forget him. There are likewise some episodes defended around him in Flavour 20.
- Speaking of Stewie having a rival, once Cleveland returned with his new family, they were completely abandoned and never actually did much on the show, just beingness seen on the background, when Rallo Tubbs could have been the perfect rival/frenemy to Stewie, similar to the rivalry/friendship betwixt Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny or Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, making it a huge missed opportunity.
- Speaking of character development, none of that is given to the characters in any of the episodes. And when there is, it'southward all but forgotten in the following episode, despite this testify'due south episodes being canon.
Some episodes are offensive and mock tragedies in an unfunny taste.
- Most notably, the show makes many references to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which is pretty tasteless, since MacFarlane, the show'due south creator, almost died on that day by missing the flight that would've headed towards the World Merchandise Center.
  - Virtually every single emotional or dramatic moment falls apartment or is very hypocritical and insincere due to its mean-spirited tone, and employ of sense of humor at wrong moments. Like the scene in "Life of Brian" where squirrel kicks and spits on Brian right afterwards he gets run over by a auto, or Quagmire watching baseball on his phone during the funeral, although it'south somewhat justified as he hates Brian.
Most of the episodes have misguided and (sometimes) damaging morals similar in "Peter-assment" proverb information technology's okay for a woman to rape a human being if she's alone.
Well-nigh of the endings to the episodes range from unsatisfying and mean-spirited to fifty-fifty misleading.
- In one episode, "No Giggity, No Uncertainty", Quagmire starts growing more than of a character with his new daughter, Courtney, saying he'southward going to be more of a male parent to her. Even so, in the episodes after that, he's dorsum to his usual, sexual practice-craving self, and the writers completely wrote out Courtney with no caption, as if she never existed.
- Another case is in "The Heartbreak Dog" when Brian apologizes to Joe for kissing his wife Bonnie. Instead of Joe accepting Brian's apology, the onetime just abuses Brian for the entire episode and even shoots him in the leg in the ending.
- Likewise the catastrophe of Cutawayland (despite actually beingness a good episode) is nothing special and it uses a "just a dream" cliche, which is overused a lot.
- In "Family Guy Light", Peter has lost a lot of weight, only in the next episode, he's back to being overweight, and it never explained why.
- In "A Fistful of Meg", Chris walks in and is surprised to run into Stewie and Brian looking like Stewie. Stewie tells the audition that the next episode volition be about this, only in the next episode, everything is dorsum to normal.
- In "One thousand thousand Goes to Higher" (despite really being a skillful episode), One thousand thousand fails to windsurf, so she's sadly out of college, and to add extra common salt to the wound, she is drowning. Lois tells Peter to call an ambulance in worry, only for Peter to tell Lois to do it because Peter's telephone number is blocked by 911 because of making nuisance calls to them, which shows Peter's usual stupidity going likewise far to the point where he's not even funny and is obnoxious.
The fourth wall is cleaved also many times in several episodes (like "The Unkindest Cut", and "Trump Guy"), which has gotten onetime quickly.
- In almost all episodes, the characters will oftentimes talk directly to the audience, which also gets annoying quickly.
There are a lot of problems with its humor, jokes, and gags:
- The humor, in general, is either disgusting, disruptive, mean-spirited, or over-reliant on pop culture references and cutaway gags.
  - For instance, jokes about school shootings and other mass shootings, suicide, domestic abuse, animal abuse, child abuse, Neo-Nazism, terrorism, racism, pedophillia, sexism, and rape are all present. Still, the jokes aren't funny and they come up off as biased and/or tasteless. That is why these jokes don't work.
- The delivery is godawful as many voice actors talk with little to no expression or effort like they're robots.
- Repetitive stereotypes are used as a limited cycle of jokes, such as Jewish people liking money, blackness people beingness sassy, gay people being flamboyant, Asian people speaking broken English, Italian people talking and acting weird, and British people having bad teeth.
- The abuse jokes towards Meg are just unfunny, hateful-spirited, and overused, making the characters seem even more than unlikable.
- There is also overuse of gross-out and toilet humor and fart jokes, similar Peter having musical farts which he uses to sing the Sanford and Son theme song, or even existence a ghost made out of a canis familiaris's fart.
- It even overuses stupor humor and gore, to the bespeak where it's more agonizing and creepy than really funny.
  - Not to mention, some of the graphic imagery is simply outright disgusting and disturbing, such as a scene in the episode "Peter Problems" where Peter kills a beached whale with a forklift truck.
- If we're notwithstanding talking about unfunny and vile jokes, frequently the prove tends to constantly explain the jokes before the punchline is fix. That's considering the writers of the evidence are shallow enough to think the show's audition is brain dead enough to get the joke, and Family Guy has become a more notable instance of being the worst offender. Let's list out some examples, shall we:
  - In "Trump Guy", in that location is a telly gag parodying Pirates of the Caribbean area featuring Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow where they spell out what the joke is before the joke is delivered. They say it's Pirates of the Caribbean" with the microphone being too close to the jangling bracelets and that's all that information technology is.
  - In "Brief Run across", Stewie asks Brian if he would stop the episode with a "To be continued..." meme from JoJo's Bizarre Take chances before Brian gets blown up past Stewie's bazooka while "Roundabout" plays as the episode ends. Not to mention, this meme has been inactive quite after 2019 or 2017, which makes the episode's ending experience dated, and the meme was not even replicated right, since the "to be continued" is supposed to pop upward before the event happens, showing simply how little they know about the meme.
  - Considering Family Guy often explains the joke before even setting up the punchline, most of these jokes are ruined with the writers making the characters explain the joke before the punchline is set. If you lot desire a quote from the Joker: "If you have to explain a joke, at that place is no joke!". While subsequently seasons of The Simpsons are a mixed purse in terms of jokes and humor, at to the lowest degree that show itself hardly had a single moment of the characters explaining the joke to the audience earlier either the punchline is gear up up or because in that location is some other way to insult the audience'southward intelligence considering unlike Family Guy, The Simpsons hardly did this.
- Sometimes, the prove tin throw in-jokes that concluding for way too long, to the betoken where a joke that could take been funny at get-go, ends upwards getting completely ruined in the end due to it taking too long to terminate. Whilst the first seven seasons were also guilty of using this blazon of humor, in these seasons, they're pretty much a long-running theme that the writers seem to like using:
  - The most notable case is in the episode, "Yacht Rocky", which involved a scene where the decapitated caput of One thousand thousand's boyfriend falls to where the residual of the Griffin family are, and Chris tries to throw it back up to Meg, just information technology lasts for a whole minute just for Chris to get it back up there.
  - Another example is in "Boys & Squirrels", which involved a cutaway gag of Peter trying to unwrap the Saran Wrap and to put information technology on his dinner plate, which lasts for twice every bit long as the previously mentioned scene.
  - A great example of this is in the episode "Transport in Stewie, Please" where Stewie goes and explains his doctor's love life, which goes on for a whopping six minutes.
  - The "Star Wars" parody trilogy is also an example of this too. "Blue Harvest" was originally meant to be a single episode that was intended to be a joke as a issue of the show relying too much on "Star Wars" humor at the fourth dimension. Still, Fox forced them to parody the other two movies, and while the episodes are pretty skilful, doing the other two movies ended up ruining the joke, which fifty-fifty the bear witness admitted in "It's A Trap!" via its opening clamber.
- Similar to Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", ane of the main reasons as to what made the original seven seasons of Family Guy beloved past fans was the fact that back when the testify was hampered by network censorship restrictions information technology not but controlled its corporeality of adult and gross-out content, all the same it encouraged the writers of Family unit Guy at the time to be more artistic with their comedic gags and story executions. For case, in various episodes, although information technology does take corruption, violence, deaths, cutaways, and even farting, it wasn't too much since the writes managed to write other gags that are funny and even the deaths are not too graphic since information technology is but for a cursory fourth dimension or fifty-fifty off-screen. Only since the time Family Guy is released from the network censorship restrictions it previously had in the starting time seven seasons as of Flavour viii due to its successful ratings, this resulted in the show losing its inventiveness in favor of overuse of gross-out and raunchy sense of humor without any network censorship interference whatsoever.
- Some of the humor is just people screaming and being over the top, mainly with Lois and Joe.
- The episodes oft steal elements from MacFarlane's other animated show, American Dad! and The Simpsons, the one-time in detail being odd considering both American Dad and Family Guy are created past MacFarlane himself.
- Several episodes are repetitive in-jokes and plot construction with a lot of recycled elements for previous episodes such equally Peter not listening to Lois at beginning and and so realizing he is incorrect and apologizing, the Meg mistreatment, and the Brian and Quagmire feud.
- This show incessantly has jokes virtually penises and gay stereotypes for what feels similar every two seconds. It tin can't even go half a millisecond without some joke nigh penises, sex, or gay people. It's never funny either -- as this show seems to believe it'due south the funniest thing ever and makes audiences fissure up considering Stewie says "gay" or Lois talking almost dicks.
Annoying and overly hammy vocalism interim for some of the characters, especially Lois Griffin.
Most of the cutaways and scenes portray nothing but filler (example: the Conway Twitty cutaways). This also really harms the episodes in themselves, since if you take out the cutaways, the episodes don't even add together upward to 11 minutes.
More recently, the evidence has been continuously making autism jokes. The most notable occurrence was in Flavour 14 where there was an autism joke in five episodes, with the first four times being sequent.
Overuse of product placements, such as Skittles and Subway, along with celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and Kim Kardashian.
- Part of the non-musical score is merely a bunch of licensed songs from the '80s or '90s.
At that place'due south a lot of overuse on the zoom-in effect to highlight something "dramatic" but just makes information technology lazy.
Although not terrible, the Toon-Boom animation is a pretty big downgrade from the hand-fatigued seasons, due to existence rather potent and limited overall.
- Many times the show, instead of animating something, will instead utilize a stock prototype or live-activeness footage. This is most notable with Conway Twitty (and as well the Hudson brothers in "And Then At that place's Fraud"), which is lazy.
- Fifty-fifty though American Dad!'southward and The Cleveland Show (Season 1)'s animation are not exactly perfect, at least they do brand good use of Toon Boom and made information technology meliorate.
- Even The Simpsons (Seasons eleven-31)'s Toon-Boom animation, starting season 31, is meliorate, since it fabricated the animation looser, fluid, and better.
Executive Meddling: MacFarlane wanted the series to end, but Fox forced him to go along it going. On that note, he all the same can veto scripts, assuasive the series' downfall, likely due to his apathy toward the serial (MacFarlane was frustrated with Fox for how they aired 3 episodes behind his back during the 2007-08 Writers' Guild strike, likely explaining information technology).
- The show often makes incompetent and lilliputian jabs at Play a trick on'due south other cartoon, Bob'due south Burgers, even joking information technology was animated in a moving car. It'southward clear to everyone that this is purely out of jealousy, spite, and incompetence considering Bob'south Burgers really has a few Emmys, more Family Guy has always obtained. This already has shown the writers on this show are incompetent and spiteful people who are sore losers that detest everybody.
The DVDs have various deleted scenes, some of which were cut from the episode for being unfunny. Still, in the case of "Brian's a Bad Father," they cutting a scene of Brian talking to his son Dylan in favor of unfunny cutaways, including ane where Peter wants to "cutting" himself.
The disharmonize in most episodes is extremely forced. For example, in one episode when Peter accidentally shoots Cleveland Jr., Cleveland accuses him of racism, completely out of nowhere.
Almost of the songs are crude and offensive, such as "The Canadian Nudie Bars" and "Tinder is Gross" (while a pretty good and catchy song).
The episode "Run, Chris, Run" used two videos of "Double Dribble" and "Tecmo Bowl" without the permission of the original owners, and Fox took down the originals in an endeavour to cover their tracks. They were eventually re-uploaded, merely the harm was already done.
In June 2020, the protests of George Floyd pressured Mike Henry to stride down from voicing Cleveland, which comes off as hypocritical because the show's writers consistently insert racist jokes. This also heavily panders to political correctness too.
The show often contains animal abuse likewise, like when Brian gets shot and killed by Joe while reimagined as Jay Gatsby, later stabbed to death by Peter while reimagined every bit a pig, and crushed as a puppy by Chris in "High School English," Brian mauling a baby squirrel to death in "Boys & Squirrels", Peter eviscerating a beached whale with a forklift in "Peter Problems", and Brian getting run over by a car in "Life of Brian."
While the character designs are notwithstanding practiced and null changes, some of them expect disturbing, like Brian and Stewie's hybrid children, Brian without fur, and when a character dies.
There are recently as well many episodes that are just parodies/plagiarizing popular fiction or events, such equally "Grimm Job" (Season 12), "High Schoolhouse English" (Season fifteen), "Center Burn" and "Holly Bibble" (Season 18), "Tales of Erstwhile Sports Glory" (Season nineteen), "Rock Hard" and "HBO-No" (Season 20). While these episodes are not all bad, the concept has gotten pretty unoriginal at this bespeak.
In full general, it tries way too hard to seem "edgy" and "absurd", when it always falls flat and resorts to nothing merely pointless shock humor and sex jokes (ex. Peter killing multiple animals and Quagmire being a child molester). It even at times feels like a significantly less funny, less raunchy, less vulgar, and less charming South Park knockoff, which in itself is a style amend prove.
Continuity to past events from the show in these seasons are extremely inconsistent and confusing, mainly in the episode "Peter'south Sister" that reveals that Peter has an older sis called Karen, despite information technology being established in the tenth episode of Season five "Peter's Two Dads" that Peter was born from an thing from his mom and a drunken Irish man called "Mickey McFinnigan" which meant that Peter was an but child, since his parents only met for a day and didn't spend much time with each other since Thelma wasn't pleased with having sex with a drunken Irish man and went to United mexican states to get an abortion and later gave birth to Peter that day, and because that the show had very strong continuity, this completely makes a plot hole in the series.
Despite the show's Goggle box-14 rating, this bear witness isn't appropriate for teens anymore due to its overuse of sex jokes and graphic violence. The content would fit much amend for a Telly-MA rating, which is not new since some episodes have received that rating on rare occasions.
In determination, these seasons destroyed the overall reputation of Family Guy, to the betoken where many people started to consider Family Guy as one of the worst cartoons of all fourth dimension, and these seasons even caused the entire evidence as a whole to go hated by some too. The issues that these seasons have are so bad that the ratings take started to decrease fast, due to how some fans quitted watching the series altogether and also due to fewer people wanting to scout it after the decline in quality, yet Play a joke on is still airing it to this day, due to the bear witness being considered their "cash cow", despite the failing ratings.

Redeeming Qualities

Some guest stars including Ryan Reynolds, Sean Penn, Liam Neeson, David Thewlis, Jimmy Connors, Alan Bennett, Tom Hiddleston, and Cate Blanchett are very corking in the show, with Cate Blanchett listed as one of the best Family unit Guy invitee stars to appointment every bit she gives a great voice performance as Penelope and even had a voice cameo equally Queen Elizabeth Ii.
Some characterizations are still done correct:
- Even though Stewie was flanderized, his flanderization wasn't very astringent compared to all the other characters who were flanderized since flavor 8 he remains the almost likable and enjoyable graphic symbol in the prove to date.
  - Depending on your view, you could also meet his flanderization as character evolution in a way since Stewie is no longer evil and has changed his ways.
- Speaking of Stewie, he and Brian have an awesome, conceivable friendship, and they are usually the principal highlight of episodes involving the 2.
- Meg, during seasons 8-xv, is sometimes tolerable, fifty-fifty if she was nevertheless a punching pocketbook. She has redeemed herself since flavor 16, has gained her original personality back in most episodes, and is a far less punching pocketbook now, making her likable once more, like to the offset seven seasons. She's often seen as ane of the good characters since season 16 that stayed adept even when the bear witness got worse.
  - Around Season 14, the Griffin family (namely Peter, Stewie, and Chris) finally reconcile with One thousand thousand, so there accept been far fewer "Meg Torture" gags.
- Mayor Adam West was still a funny character, although his vox actor of the same name sadly passed away in 2017. His cousin Wild West is a adequately fun new character likewise.
- Bruce is withal a likable and funny character and one of the only nice characters on the testify.
- In that location are a few memorable and interesting one-time characters too, such as Natalia from the episode "Nanny Goats" and Tiny Tom Prowl from the episode "Problem in Piffling Quohog".
- Though Cleveland was also flanderized in The Cleveland Show, he did ameliorate himself in seasons 2-4 of the evidence and when he moved back to Quahog in season 12, he went back to his original personality, thus making himself likable again (apart from some episodes similar A Shot in the Night).
- Whilst Joe was also flanderized, his flanderization wasn't as severe equally the other characters who were flanderized and he did slightly improve in season eleven and started to revert to his original personality.
- While Chris was also flanderized, he didn't come across too much pass up in his character since he wasn't flanderized into becoming psychotic like the residual of the Griffin family unit were, and he notwithstanding kept most of his likable charm.
- Sometimes, a few characters who have suffered from flanderization (such equally Peter, Brian, Quagmire, etc.) can have episodes where they are temporarily reverted to their original personality or at the very least, come across as likable.
At that place are still a scattering of adept story ideas, concepts, and episodes such as:
- "Road To" miniseries (Many consider these to be the all-time of the show in general, except for "Road to Bharat"); these episodes in this season are:
  - "Road to the Multiverse" (which started these seasons on a high note and is the highest-rated episode on IMDb).
  - "Road to the North Pole"
  - "Roads to Vegas"
- "PeTerminator" (often considered one of the best newer episodes and all-time in serial)
- "Into Fat Air"
- "The Fatman Ever Rings Twice"
- "Joe's Revenge" (despite retconning a lot of previous lore)
- "Leggo My One thousand thousand-O"
- "Nanny Goats"
- "Forget-Me-Not"
- "Mr. and Mrs. Stewie"
- "And So There Were Fewer" (not only the best episode of Season 9 only was also a practiced way to start the season)
- "Christmas is Coming"
- "Babe, You Knock Me Out"
- "Hefty Shades of Gray" (Forgiving an insight into how porn can affect your life)
- "Male child's Best Friend"
- "Christmas Offense"
- "Back to the Pilot" (despite mocking the 9/11 attacks)
- "The Large Bang Theory" (not to exist dislocated with the show of the same name)
- "Yug Ylimaf"
- "Three Directors"
- "The Griffin Winter Games"
- "Big Trouble in Little Quahog"
- "Rider Fatty-Seven"
- "Isle Adventure"
- "Fighting Irish"
- "Candy Quahog Marshmallow"
- "Peternormal Activity"
- "A Lot Going on Upstairs"
- "Killer Queen"
- "Domestic dog Bites Carry"
- "Stewie, Chris & Brian's Splendid Risk"
- "Adam West Loftier" (depending on your view)
- "Spies Reminiscent of U.s.a."
- "Follow the Money"
- "Mom's the Word" (despite the bad ending)
- "eighty's Guy"
- "Customer of the Week"
- "Bigfat"
- "Peter & Lois' Nuptials" (depending on your view)
- "Underage Peter" (depending on your view)
- "Chap Stewie" (despite being another time-traveling episode)
- "Five is for Mystery"
- "Brian & Stewie" (despite mixed reviews from critics)
- "Finders Keepers"
- "Quagmire'southward Quagmire"
- "Disney's The Reboot" (depending on your view)
- "The First No L"
- "Rich Onetime Stewie"
- "Stewie's Offset Word"
- "Family Guy Viewer Postal service #2"
- "Cutawayland" (despite the lazy catastrophe)
- "Inside Family Guy"
- "Emmy-Winning Episode"
- "The Simpsons Guy" (depending on your view)
- "New Kidney in Town"
- "The Peter Principal"
- "Meg Stinks!"
- "Dearly Deported"
- "He's Bla-ack!"
- "The Boys in the Ring"
- "Wild Wild Due west"
- "The Blind Side" (depending on your view)
- "Crimes and Meg'due south Demeanor"
- "The Dating Game"
- "Switch The Flip"
- "La Famiglia Guy"
- "LASIK Instinct"
- "Livin' on a Prayer" (depending on your view)
- "Meg Goes to College" (despite the bad ending)
- "Family Cat"
  - The episode, "Hot Shots", is a decent satire of anti-vax parents.
  - The episode, "The D in Apartment 23", gives a skilful representation of how people human action on social media in 2017.
  - Like mentioned before, "Blueish Harvest", "Something, Something, Dark Side", and "It'south a Trap" are considered some of the funniest parodies of Family Guy, despite it beingness a joke that dragged on for too long.
  - The Flavour xix episode, "Fecal Matters" is a funny, still sad episode about Peter and Ernie the Behemothic Craven, The latter was dying from bird flu.
  - Though even so has bad episodes like "Yacht Rocky", "Seashell Seashore Party" and "Send in Stewie, Please", the episodes with little to no cutaways are considered the "improve" episodes since it flows well if y'all remove the cutaways like "Route to the Multiverse", "Back to the Pilot", and "LASIK Instinct".
The newer episodes tin can sometimes have their moments, such every bit Cleveland'south bathtub gag or Quagmire'south gags.
- In fact, there'due south a decently funny running gag in "The Blind Side", where Peter repeatedly falls down new stairs that Lois bought, while swearing outrageously.
The episode "Baby Stewie" airtight off the episode with a Family Guy short starring Cleveland in the veins of the shorts of Pixar, which is okay.
The musical score is still good most of the fourth dimension (when information technology doesn't license random 80's & 90's songs).
- Some songs are also skilful and tricky, such as "A Wonderful Day for Pie", "Friendship is the Best Matter Always", "Down Syndrome-Daughter" (despite it took three minutes of the episode), "Republican Town", "All I Want For Christmas This Year", "Christmastime is Killing Us", "Mr. Booze" (though it wasn't written for the show and took iii minutes of the episode, information technology'south still a great song sung by the cast), "Thank the Whites", "Processed Quahog Marshmallow", "Frank Sinatra's Eatery", and "Tinder is Gross" (despite being offensive).
Despite the voice acting being annoying for some characters like Lois, information technology'south still great for everyone else, peculiarly Peter, Stewie, Brian, and Quagmire, which is impressive since they are all voiced by MacFarlane, the show'south creator.
- Cleveland's new voice actor, Arif Zahir, does a really expert job at sounding like Mike Henry, fifty-fifty earlier he got his role on the testify, despite what WISN #25 says. His impression can be heard when he was doing gameplays on YouTube.
- This is mainly because many of the bandage and crew still haven't changed.
The activity scenes are still decent, such as the fights between Peter and Ernie, the Giant Craven, despite being generic and overused.
Much like The Simpsons, it at to the lowest degree pays tribute to dead members of the cast and crew similar Doug Lackey and Adam West.
While the animation is downgraded, the backgrounds are better-looking than they were in the early seasons, which is a plus.
- Likewise, the animation is good in some aspects, specially in Peterminator, Dorsum to the Pilot, Chap Stewie, etc.
Some of the cutaways and scenes are funny, memorable, and/or touching:
- The cutaway in "Disney'due south The Reboot" in which merely Chris sings the Family Guy theme vocal for a potential reboot chosen Family Guy Once again is cracking.
- The cutaway scene where Stewie watches Caillou in "Stewie'southward Commencement Word" was funny and fifty-fifty pointed out the flaws of that show. Not to mention the cutaway scene in the same episode where Peter sits with Caillou's dad was quite touching and it also managed to translate the fine art way from Caillou very well into Family Guy's mode.
- The episode "Peter & Lois' Hymeneals" has a hilarious scene in which Beavis and Butt-Caput (voiced by Mike Approximate) cameo.
- Ditto for the cold open of the episode "Bigfat" (which was originally made for "April in Quahog") with characters from American Dad! and even Male monarch of the Loma, the latter of which ended in 2010.
- Sometimes, unproblematic ideas for cutaways for the show can sometimes take hilarious executions, such as the cutaway in "Bri, Robot" that involves Joe Swanson listening to Tubthumping by Chumbawamba while continually saying "Oh no!" afterward the lyric "I go knocked down!" and "Aye!" after the lyric "Simply I get upwardly once more!".
Despite the massive reject, Seasons 9 and xvi are arguably the least bad of the show'due south pass up in later years and can be considered to be major improvements to the previous and afterwards seasons as in that location aren't as many bad episodes. Flavor nine managed to change from 4:three to 16:9 pretty well and in that location are quite a few amazing episodes on both seasons similar "And so At that place Were Fewer" "Babe, You lot Knock Me Out", "Road to the North Pole", "New Kidney in Boondocks", "The Big Bang Theory", "Information technology's a Trap!", "Emmy-Winning Episode", "Nanny Goats", "Follow the Coin", "Three Directors", "The D in Apartment 23", "Crimes and Meg'south Demeanor", "Dog Bites Bear", "Five is for Mystery" and "Switch the Flip". However, they however accept many flaws that are like to the ones in the other seasons.
Seasons eighteen and 19 do take a lot of throwbacks to the colder seasons.
Some episodes tin teach good life lessons/morals.
The video, "Family Guy COVID-19 Vaccine Sensation" is a pretty interesting PSA.

Reception

The seasons in this era originally received a polarizing reception by critics and audiences, but have slowly started to become more than negative in later years. It's to the point where many people started to consider Family Guy as a whole to exist 1 of the worst cartoons of all times thanks to these seasons, although the first seven seasons are skilful. Many fans had to stop watching the series altogether because of how worse it has gotten and this led to it having low ratings. PhantomStrider also ranked this era equally #1 on his Summit ten Worst Mod Cartoons video and Top 6 Cartoons That Got Bad video, having criticized it for its over usage of shock humor, mean-spirited moments, and the heavy flanderization of several characters, etc. He as well considers the show to be ane of the worst examples of a seasonal rot and even claimed there is no cartoon-like Family Guy that deserves to be canceled.