I’m usually inclined to like dark humor, but “Family Guy” long ago proved just to be little more than gratutious vileness. Its comedy has a bullying quality that always seems to particularly target the weak and less powerful. The show is almost akin to watching some old person getting shoved down a stairway.
Yeah, haha, that’s some that’s supposed to be automatically hilarious. That whole “detatched irony” context is apparently what it is going for, but it fails miserably. It lacks the necessary cleverness to even remotely attain that. All it conveys is that base meanness is innately funny. It’s a pretty rancid message for young viewers who haven’t even yet learned or developed any intellectual concept of contexts.
Ditto what you said. The show is too mean to be funny. It’s meanness pulls me away from the show itself and makes me think about what a bunch of pricks its creators must be.