FOX | Release Date: January 31, 1999
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
8
Negative:
9
30
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarlandJul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review: Three years off the air has not made the "Family Guy" team that much more creative. [30 Apr 2005]
30
Orlando SentinelHal BoedekerJul 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]
30
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan StormJul 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]
25
Houston ChronicleAnn HodgesJul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review: The Family Guy is worse than dumb; it's not funny. [30 Jan 1999]
20
Christian Science MonitorM.S. MasonJul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review: Nasty without being particularly amusing, cynical without being perceptive, and ugly as sin. [29 Jan 1999]
10
San Diego Union-TribuneRobert P. LaurenceJul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review: A mean, miserable, nasty-minded excuse for a comedy. [29 Jan 1999]
0
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan StormJul 10, 2013
Season 4 Review: [An] infantile sleaze-a-thon. [30 Apr 2005]
0
Washington PostTom ShalesJul 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]