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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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Just before I begin, in-case you were wondering what a HTPC was, it stands for Home Theatre Personal Computer.

Okay, now we can move on. It must have been a few days ago now when I really felt like watching a movie I had downloaded obtained with my father. Now although I have the movie on my computer, I would have liked to watch the movie on our 42″ Plasma TV instead. In order for me to have done this I would need to have taken the family laptop, unplugged the VGA cable from my current set top box, and used that cable to plug my laptop so that my movie would play on the Plamsa. Now don’t get me wrong, the setup doesn’t take long, but it is a pain in the arse when you want to play a movie through the plasma and then at the same time my mother sometimes uses the laptop to browse some Russian social sites

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