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Positive:
22
Mixed:
8
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Critic Reviews
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
"Family Guy" stands to become the best satire of all-American dysfunction next to "The Simpsons." [29 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Fans of the show can rest easily: The season premiere is quintessential Quahog. Traditions are trampled. Envelopes of taste are pushed -- heck, shoved. Sacred cows sizzle on the grill. [28 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Sunday's premiere episode is one of the most cleverly outrageous half-hours of TV I've seen in a while. [28 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
It's all raucous nonsense, but the debate will rage as to whether "Family Guy" contributes to, or merely reflects, the demise of civility. As with most TV fare, it's doing a little of both, and it's doing it with a sharp eye for detail. [9 Apr 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
This kind of material would wear thin after a while if the characters weren't as distinct and endearing as they are. [30 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
A veritable treasure trove of frat-house humor. [1 May 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
If you loved this show for its split-second pop culture spoofs and absurd, sometimes sophomoric humor, then you'll be happy with the new, unimproved 'Guy.' [1 May 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
MacFarlane is back - and on his game. [28 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
"Family Guy" isn't for everyone. Obviously. It's also not as fully-realized or intelligent as "The Simpsons." It's extremely fast-paced and obsessed with a nonstop stream of jokes, jokes, jokes. And the humor is often hit and miss. But when it hits, look out. [29 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
If such quickie pop-culture jokes are the show's strength, its current weakness is the stories that revolve around the Griffins themselves and characters that, even when they're amusing, aren't very interesting. They certainly don't suggest the kind of richness that the characters of "The Simpsons" do. [9 Apr 1999]
Jun 27, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Crass Peter's couch-potato tendencies give MacFarlane the pretext for one quick TV spoof after another, and some of them are hilarious. I find these satirical flights far funnier than the frustrated schemes of Stewie Griffin, a sinister baby bent on world domination.
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Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
"Family Guy" consistently falls short of excellence, thanks to its monotonously unvaried structure, which consists of a character describing an outrageous situation, followed by a clip depicting that same situation. [28 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Always an acquired taste -- one most likely to be acquired by the politically incorrect -- this new "Guy" is just as rude, attention deficit disordered and funny as past episodes. [28 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Has enough chuckles to make it worth your while, providing you have an irreverent sense of humor. [29 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Does it work? Mostly, but only if you can handle what is now commonly called "edge." [29 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Clever, slightly twisted and occasionally very funny. [30 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Both subversively funny and sophomorically silly. [11 Apr 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The show is fast-paced, and it's often genuinely funny. Dastardly Stewie is a break-out character if ever one was drawn. But "Family Guy" isn't a bolt from the blue. The crude edge that separates it from, say, "The Simpsons" only drives it deep into "South Park" territory. [12 Apr 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
The new "Family Guy" is much like the first, an animated family sitcom that tries too hard to be quirky and is only sporadically funny. [29 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Family Guy has yuks - and an enfant terrible who could double as the Soup Nazi - but it's nowhere near Seinfeld in wit and sophistication. [30 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Like other animated series, Family Guy revels in sending up popular culture. The Simpsons does it with wit and affection. Family Guy prefers shock value. [1 May 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
"Family Guy" begins its new life with a slightly more assured mix of satire and non sequiturs while still displaying the kind of hit-miss joke ratio that doesn't quite belong in the major leagues. [28 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
"Family Guy" is occasionally quite funny -- but only occasionally. And it's often rather crude -- quite often. ... "Family Guy" does have possibilities. But the writing needs to improve -- it's nowhere near as clever as its producers think it is. [29 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Even if you find the show odd, awful or freakish, at least it won't bore you. [29 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Both undeniably clever and utterly bizarre --- not always for the better. [28 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
We fear [Family Guy] already may be out of material. [9 Apr 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Oft-funny but problematic. ... {The] humor ranges from inspired to cheap and sophomoric. [29 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
"Family Guy" ... consists of almost nothing but pop culture references. ... Now, some of these gags are side-splittingly funny ... but there are way too many of them. [9 Apr 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Three years off the air has not made the "Family Guy" team that much more creative. [30 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Family Guy aims to be outrageous, but the frantic farce veers to the tiresome and mean-spirited. [11 Apr 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Family Guy's asinine asides are thuddingly predictable, inserted roughly into the thread of the cartoon sitcom narrative as a kind of cry for attention, in complete contrast to the organic satire that runs through The Simpsons. [28 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The Family Guy is worse than dumb; it's not funny. [30 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Nasty without being particularly amusing, cynical without being perceptive, and ugly as sin. [29 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A mean, miserable, nasty-minded excuse for a comedy. [29 Jan 1999]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review:
[An] infantile sleaze-a-thon. [30 Apr 2005]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Utterly excremental. ... May the room in which "Family Guy" is drawn be sacked, emptied, disinfected and burned to a cinder. Anything to keep them from making any more episodes of this smug and amateurish tripe. [30 Jan 1999]
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