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After watching yesterdays episode (Season 7, episode 11 – Not All Dogs Go to Heaven) I was again for the third week running incredibly disappointed by the quality of the episode the makers of Family Guy are churning out.

Family Guy, a cartoon that for so many years was one of the funniest, most random and most enjoyable to watch looks like it has run out of ideas. The characters don’t seem like themselves anymore. In the latest episode Peter tells the audience something along the lines of “this is going to be a Meg episode, here’s the clicker, no one will blame you”. I mean seriously? A colleague told me something last week that I believe is 100% true, Family Guy these past couple of episodes seems to be written by someone who is bagging Family Guy.

Even reading the posts TV.com’s Family Guy forum you can see that Family Guy isn’t what it use to be.

- episode sucks so far
- So far it’s not going too well. only laughed at doggy Brian. Let’s wait and see if something exciting happens
- yes it was pretty good but really, they gotta get rid of that “Cool Hwip” joke, they’ve recycled it like 5 times and it wasn’t even a great joke to begin with.
- I thought this episode was great. It was the first episode in a long time that i actually laughed at for an elongated period of time.

Even though the episode was pretty bad, people still thought it was the best this season. How bad do the other episodes have to be for this to be the best of the season?

As mentioned above, Family Guy is reusing old jokes, but over using them and ruining their original charm.

I don’t totally agree with most of the people, I think some of the first episodes this season were pretty good, but the last three (The Juice Is Loose, FOX-y Lady & Not All Dogs Go to Heaven) are just not up to par with their older episodes.

For Family Guy’s sake, I hope their pick up their game or I suspect they are going to lose a lot of dedicated fans, myself included.
Thanks,

Marat

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