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FOX-y Lady

Another lame ass episode.

I laughed once, and that was at the Ann Coulter frigid joke.

The Peter and Chris walking out of the room to talk in private joke, repeated and got old fast.

Very stale episode.

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*YAWN*

Somebody call me when The Empire Strikes Back parody episode comes up.

Also, how could they have a scene set in the FOX Plaza building and not make any Die Hard jokes?

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So...Joe has no objection whatsoever to "Handi-Quacks"? Admittedly Peter's pitch was the best part of the show though.

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Excellent point.

I enjoy the show for the mindless laugh that it is. But I have to agree that recently it has been pretty stale.

Seth, time to start huffin' the green again yo.

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I think it wa kind of weird that both this show, and American dad that follows, stopped and talked to the audience. In both cases it was sort of lazy they simply used it as a pretense to drop a plot item like how the wife left the tv station.

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It better be damn good, as the only way I can rationalize these recent lame episodes is that they're spending extra time and effort on the ESB episode and these other episodes are suffering for it.

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I think the ESB parody is the season premiere in the fall. And it's not really a surprise but they recently announced a Return Of The Jedi parody too (entitled Episode VI- The Great Muppet Caper) which will probably close the 09-10 season or start the 10-11 season.

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I think that title is funny.
But it would have been funny if they made fun of the original title
Call it Jedi's CAN Revenge

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aren't they also doing a wrath of kahn parody? when is that coming out?

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I figured it was going to be called "Something, Something, Something..Complete!"

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This coming Sunday's episode will make fun of Star Trek Generations and it's conventions.
Star Trek Generations cast will be making an appearance.

Not sure about a Star Trek II episode, which if done right, would be funny.

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Due to the nature of tonight's episode, I can't elaborate too much on my thoughts. But my bottom line opinion, it that this is another example of how McFarlane is a thought bully. While I certainly have my criticisms of the subject of this episode, this one still seemed especially condescending.

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what the hell are you talking about.

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I assume he means the very strong anti-religion part of the episode, which I had absolutely no problem with but at the same time I could see how others would.

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Like I said, I can't fully elaborate very much on my opinions without breaking forum rules, but Joe kind of generally hit on it. Look, McFarlane has every right to his opinions, but sometimes I find the way he presents them is very condescending to people who might not think the way he does. He basically called people who think differently from him on the subject of this episode stupid.

There was another episode in which he (thorough his mouthpiece, Brian) pretty much called a person on an opposing side from him on another controversial issue a c**t. It just makes him, to me, come off as a jerk.

To me, South Park does a much better job at this sort of thing. Matt and Trey certainly have their opinions, but usually they're either respectful to the other other side, or they make fun of both sides equally.

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Ok I really didn't even notice anti "that" in this ep.
Usually I don't pay attentio to that stuff.

now back to the funny parts......

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Will,

I couldn't agree more with out on your comment.

Without getting to deep, Seth seems to degrade an opinion that contradicts his own point of view. I stopped watching American Dad after last season because I got so tired of the main character's lifestyle belittled throughout the whole episode. Every show seemed to be him feeling strong about his point and by the end of the episode, he had 'learned his lesson' on how he was such an idiot for believing in what he did. You never seen in FG or AD anyone of the other spectrum 'learn their lesson'.

These show's are basically Seth's bully pulpit and AD wouldn't be on the air if FG had not been brought back a few years ago.

Paul

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I'll just go on record and also say that I agree with Will's points.

Speaking as a Christian I was mildly offended by this weeks episode, I mean can laugh at myself just as much as the next guy but to equate believing in God to nazism is, I don't know, too much lol.

Yeah, I think i've finally had enough of McFarlane, i'm bowing out until the Star Wars episode.

I will say this, though, all the Star Trek stuff and Peter throwing the soup and milk at Meg was funny, I want more of that.

BTW, with the way the jokes have been falling flat this season I wouldn't call encouraging people to change the channel a smart move on Seth's part lol.

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The religious stuff was pretty weak and, thankfully, forgettable (and I can easily see where people might take issue with it).

I did, however, get a laugh at the still of Brian on the news with the words "WORSE THAN HITLER" underneath. It was silly and tasteless, but it's "Family Guy" we're talking about here.

And the Star Trek stuff had me howling. That was the best material they have had on that show in quite some time.

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the "worse than Hitler" remark was no doubt in reference to Fox News' "Red Eye" where host Greg Gutfeld's nightly commentary always ends with the remark, "...and if you disagree with me than you, sir, are worse than Hitler!"

Red Eye is my favorite news program--when I'm awake to watch it.

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Was the "Worse than Hitler" taking a jab at Fox's show Red Eye? (damn someone beat me to it!)

I'm not at all religious. But I do see how Seth McFarlane is really one sided, and everyone is wrong but me.

The only thing I found funny in this episode was the different bottles of alcohol talking to brian. The Zima bottle having a gay lisp and the Jagermeister having the accent.

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lol. if u r truly a Christian u shouldn't be watching this or south park, lulz.

gonna watch this ep 2nite. i luv TNG, hope to get a huge laugh.

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I don't regularly watch this show. I only watched because of the commercial promoting the TNG cast as guests. I didn't think it was that funny, but then I probably am not in the demographic that gets this kind of humor.

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I think Seth and Co. were mocking on the people that say being atheist is worse than Nazism; not that believing in God was worse than Nazism.

The Star Trek: TNG stuff was much funnier than I expected, especially Stewie pronouncing Whil Wheaton's name.

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I'm not a family guy viewer but I usually catch some of these parady shows and this one was pretty funny, but isn't the entire point of this show to offend, so why would anyone watch it if they did'nt want to be offended, I've screened a few eps here and there and there was quite a few pokes at other religions in this series, why would it only offend you if it's your religion? Anyhow as I said I'm not a fan, but just a casual observation.

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But it was Meg, the believer, who was participating in the book burning, that's why I said that.

Meh, this show never used to go to the extremes that it has this season, though, it would on occasion make a Jesus joke, usually during the cutaway jokes but Seth has ramped it up considerably I think.

It used to be fun, relatively light fare with some crude humor in it.

Always hated South Park.

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I don't know about that. I think I would put more as "creating humor through making fun of things" I don't have a problem with people making fun of religion (mine included). But, this episode, at least to me, seemed to go beoynd making fun and into a full blown slam. I mean one of the threads of the episode had Meg have a sort of religious awakening and Brian works to convince her out of it. Maybe I have to watch it again, but the way it seemed to me, it was saying having faith in a God is stupid.

It doesn't really bother me, but I doesn't make me like McFarlane very much either, and I've said it before with other things he's done.

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"You, sir, are worse then Hitler" was a funny line on The Simpsons many, many years ago. It's what Patty and Selma's boss at the D.M.V says to Homer after he pretends he was smoking their two cigarettes (to keep them from getting in trouble as a sweet gesture towards Marge). I abandoned "Family Guy" a long time ago when it became apparent not long after its return that the spark/edge/magic of the early seasons had been lost for good somewhere in the transitional period. I checked out this episode just out of curiosity to see what they would do with the Star Trek cast since I'm a Star Trek fan and was not surprised to see that the show is just as uninspired and unfunny as it was when I left it.

I was not surprised, but I was disappointed that the opportunity to reunite that cast was so wasted with such limp humour. At least when "Futurama" reunited the cast of the original Star Trek, they came up with a lot of clever inside jokes for the fans, like William Shatner lampooning his own karaoke stylings, Leonard Nimoy casually repeating his "Wrath of Khan" final scene dialogue, Walter Koenig being annoyed about "nuclear wessels", and Uhura's fan dance.

The closest we got here was Denise Crosby getting killed off immediately and Patrick Stewart bullying Wil Wheaton, which I guess is kind of a reference to how Picard originally couldn't stand Wesley. Oh well, at least it was nice to hear the voices of people like Sirtis and McFadden again. The others barely had any lines (weird to see "Data" being the one who gets shortsighted in terms of number of lines compared to the rest of the cast for once), and the novelty of hearing Patrick Stewart doing comedic voiceover in animation wore off long ago after his brilliant performance on The Simpsons in the '90s and his many guest spots (as a semi-regular) on "American Dad".

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To be fair, he only tried to convince her out of it after being punished for his own (lack of) faith.

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I completely agree. This episode was as much of a letdown and waste of time and energy (of the viewers, writers, and creators) as the recent Family Guy episode with the three interminable minutes of Conway Twitty.

Here we have this incredible opportunity where the whole cast of STNG was brought together .. and I bet if we added up their scenes we'd have a total of five minutes of STNG content out of this 21 minute episode.

And in the beginning of the episode during the scene where three fans asked three consecutive inane questions, I couldn't escape the feeling that was one more instance of Seth's interest for gags that get stretched out waaaaayyy too long ... like the earlier mentioned scene where Peter stumbles and spends forever moaning and clutching his knee.

This season is the first Family Guy season where, even while I'm watching the episodes on hulu online, I'm now glancing at my watch wondering how soon the episode will be over.