This perfectly summarizes why I love the Simpsons and hate Family Guy.
Yup.
So this.
I watched that episode with my family and I could just feel how uncomfortable everyone was. Honestly, it was a really jarring, unpleasant episode.
Homer is a terrible dad. So is Peter. But Homer’s saving grace has always been that he tries—he’s bad at it and he fucks it up a lot, but he loves his family and he wants to be better than he is.
One of my favorite Homer moments is in “Diatribe of a Mad Housewife.” Tl;dr Marge writes a steamy romance novel starring herself and Ned, and when Homer finds out, he chases down Ned and, rather than attack him, asks him to teach him how to be a better husband.
There’s some part of his stupid self that wants to do better.
I never got that impression with Peter. Instead, the family has gotten more and more abusive towards Meg. It’s really unsettling for me when I started realizing that’s what happens sometimes in abusive families. Abusers sometimes single out one child to abuse, and quite often the other family members take the abuser’s side. After all, it’s easier to side with an abuser than to run the risk of becoming the target yourself.
There’s never really a point where it seems like Peter cares at all that his shitty behavior impacts his family. It actually seems to have gotten worse over the years. He expects everyone to clean up his messes because that’s always what happens; there’s really no reason for him not to be shitty.
And it’s easy to see how Meg is affected. She doesn’t have much of a character, really, because so much her screen time is devoted to being abused. The bits of character development all seem to hinge on her being this sad, neglected person who’s trying her best but never really gets any help from anyone. Quite the opposite; there have been a lot of episodes where her family sabotages any attempts to be herself.
It can be easy to forget how awful this behavior is when the only context is the show itself (frankly, everyone on Family Guy is kind of terrible). Seeing it played against the Simpsons, who are a flawed and dysfunctional but ultimately loving family, was painful to watch.
Omg it was a funny episode -_- if you don’t like it, don’t watch. Yes, you have a valid point, but holy crap.
HAHA OKAY NO
“If you don’t like it shut up and don’t watch it” has its place. This is not it. Allow me to educate you on why you’re wrong.
Family Guy is a detriment. Plain and simple. Vox wasn’t too far off when they called this show “a blight on humanity”. Yeah, it has its moments where a couple of the quips they make get a laugh out of the audience. The show having long since lost its funniness isn’t the issue.
Everything this show stands for is absolutely sickening, and its more prominent in this episode than it has been in years.
Literally everything wrong with Family guy is jam packed into this episode. Here’s a list of just some of the things I can rattle off the top of my head.
It’s generally just unpleasant. There are a lot of moments that stood out in this episode as being really fucking awful, even by Family Guy standards (Stewie kidnapping/torturing people and telling Moe his daughter is being raped as a “prank call”, Meg carving Lisa’s name into her arm, etc). Family Guy has a nasty habit of thinking shocking/disturbing = funny. It doesn’t. It’s just unpleasant and not fun to watch.
The gags are unfunny/drag on for too long. This happens in almost every modern FG episode, but it’s really bad in this one. (The car wash scene, Homer and Peter’s fight, and just the majority of the episode really).
MacFarlane is using this series as a means to jerk himself off. The amount of self gratifying bullshit that Seth threw into Simpsons Guy was nausea inducing. The entire first—what, ten minutes of the episode was about how everyone calling out MacFarlane on his racist, sexist, and generally awful bullshit are, in his eyes, a load of oversensitive braindead idiots with no senses of humor. There are ways to respectfully make jokes about awful subjects. South Park does it all the time. Family Guy does not. Not only that, but MacFarlane plugs his other shows left and right and even goes so far as to shit on Bob’s Burgers—an INFINITELY superior show—in order to fuel his own ego. He’s a LITERAL MANCHILD.
Now, let’s get to the big issue. Family Guy’s messages are absolute trash, and the fact that it still makes money means that PEOPLE ARE BUYING IT. This show’s morals are just horrific. “Sexism is what makes men men” (I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar), “Abuse victims should stay in abusive relationships for their abusers’ benefits (Seahorse Seashell Party), and that’s definitely not the worst of it. This show is teaching its primary audience everything that is wrong with society. It doesn’t matter that these ass backwards lessons are being told in the form of jokes, they’re still normalizing and enforcing ideas that NEED TO STOP.
And the only way they’re gonna stop is if we raise fucking hell about it.
Also, no. It was not a funny episode.
I happened to catch part of this episode the night that it premiered, and I was horrified at what I saw. It was uncomfortable to watch. When they put the Griffins in Springfield, everything that was Family Guy related stood out 100000x more, giving us the ability to be more visually horrified by what MacFarlane’s characters portray. His messages and the way he sells his work makes me sick to my stomach. I used to nearly worship the man when I was younger, but fortunately, now that I see it, I see how shitty his work has become and how negatively the messages from his shows impact us.
IHATEthe way they portray Meg. Their character development is mediocre and I have absolutely nothing to pick at with the above comments that go into depth on the subject. It’s bad enough that because of this show, I’m always being made the butt of Meg jokes because we happen to share the same name. But what they do to her is horrific.
What they don’t realize is that there are young girls out there going through the exact thing that Meg faces every time we see her. And it’s possible that because of the influence of this show that it happens. It influenced my siblings into normalizing abusive languages and behaviors that we weren’t only experiencing at home, but were seeing as normal on TV. I grew up watching this show in an environment where I was made fun of every day and everyone would stand behind my stepdad while he made fun of me. They think it’s harmless comedy, but this shit happens to kids everywhere and is a very real issue. It happened to me and continues to happen because men like my former stepdad and men like Peter Griffin really do exist.
They normalize this abusive behavior in such a way that it is seen as okay and part of normal life.
This photoset is a clear view into everythingwrong with Family Guy and yes, something does need to be done about it, because 1.) I am personally tired of becoming the joke because of normalized abusive behavior 2.) teaching this to the viewers is only going to make the current situations we face socially significantly worse. Hopefully now with a full visual comparison between what is smart humor and what is the “Urban Outfitters” of animated comedy, we’ll be able to really take a look at what we watch when we sit in front of a television.
Posting again, because more commentary has been added, which makes it even more relevant.
Not to mention that in every episode of FG I’ve seen, which, unfortunately, is quite a few, there’s at least one rape joke. At least.
Seth MCFarlane is a racist, sexist, lesbophobic, homophobic, transphobic misogynistic sack of SHIT who has literally got absolutely zero fucking talent or skill
His writing is fucking ABYSMAL, as evidenced by the fact that the man has never come up with a single original idea in his entire worthless life…every animated show this cretin has ever created is a rip off of the Simpsons, but lacking any of the things that made the Simpsons remotely funny, memorable or enjoyable for an audience
His characters are two dimensional grotesque abominations who exist only to be what he perceives as ‘Shocking’ in the hope that if they’re awful enough maybe that will compensate for the fact that their not actually funny and we’ll all just laugh out of embarassment over what a disgusting menagerie of repulsive creatures they all are
But the WORST thing about this smug, ugly, bigoted, self satisfied horse fucker?
He’s just NOT FUNNY
He’s so convinced that he’s oh so talented and witty and clever…he forces excuses to make people endure the nightmarish noise that is his ‘Singing voice’ in random episodes by inserting pointless musical numbers that his shitty little Mary Sue character Brian can perform, all of which sound like a drunk at a shitty karaoke bar doing the worlds worst Sinatra impression
The ‘Jokes’ he comes up with himself are clumsy, poorly written and so painfully unfunny that it’s no surprise that he decides to steal most of his material from other people…when your original material is THAT fucking lousy, plagarising the more talented people out there in the world is probably your only hope of success
The show already got cancelled once before enough college aged stoners whined about it on the internet enough to get it brought back by Fox and now we’ve had to endure a dozen more seasons of this shit, each one worse than the last
Family Guy isn’t just a bad show Family Guy is, to quote a character from the show they’ve spent about a decade ripping off: The WORST CARTOON EVER
OMG YES to all of the above. I have been talking about this for a while myself and one of my own posts was quoted in this very post here. And here’s the actual quote (bc I think it’s important):
Interesting read, but I don’t think the author spent enough time analyzing the extremely gendered dynamics of this crossover episode. One aspect in particular that got to me was Meg and Lisa’s story and how they were really the only female characters to GET a story this episode. And I think their story is SO INTERESTING because it compares and contrasts how both shows deal with the social construct of girls and girlhood.
While in “The Simpsons” girls are encouraged to educate themselves, be independent, strong, and really to ask questions (through the character of Lisa), the “Family Guy” will throw girls’ attempts to develop themselves as human beings in the trash (like when Peter throws the Saxophone Lisa gives Meg in the trash).
MacFarlane demonstrates here for the zillionth time that Meg’s utility in the show is purely as the (unfunny) punchline of a sexist joke; someone to make fun of, call ugly, physically assault, abuse, and so on. This, I think, is really definitive of how MacFarlane views girls and women in general: An unfunny, sexualized, usable, abusable, disposable, joke. (source, edited)
I’ve also argued elsewhere that:
[MacFarlane’s] trying to use “reductio ad-absurdum” to make his points. This “is a common form of argument which seeks to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that a false, untenable, or absurdresultfollows from its denial,[1] or in turn to demonstrate that a statement is false by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its acceptance” (source). While this sometimes works very well, he’s not doing it right AT ALL!!! He is relying on the individual viewer to understand his humour but really, they (for the most part) would already have to know it was wrong in the first place to really get the supposed “lesson”.
This is because this type of humour ignores (or perhaps exploits?) the very real problem of “confirmation bias.” Which is “also called myside bias, [and] is the tendency to search for, interpret, or prioritize information in a way that confirms one’s beliefs or hypotheses” (source). So, it’s pretty ridiculous to assume that people will simply UNDERSTAND what he’s trying to say. He has to be VERY FUCKING CLEAR and he isn’t. And I think it’s on purpose. I think he knows exactly what he’s doing (playing both sides for profit) and it’s disgusting. (source, edited)
“Can I share something with you from earlier today?”
“What is it, Samus?”
“Well, I sent you a text..”
“Mmhm.”
“…early in the morning”
“Yeah.
“Because I have to go out of town for one weekend this month, and so, I was like, I won’t give specific dates, but “do you have any preference whether I go this weekend, or the next weekend?”.”
“Mmhm.”
“Your response.. At 9:30 in the morning..”
“MOTHERFUCKING JESSE EISENBERG JESUS CHRIST FUCK DUDE MOTHERFUCKING FACEBOOK MOVIE BULLSHIT JESUS CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT!?”
*bursts out laughing*
“No—no…no punctuation…. random captialization.”
“So I respond, “I have no idea what we’re talking about right now.” Forty-five minutes pass. I get a text from you:”
“GODDAMN CREATED FACEBOOK AND FUCKING LAYWERS AND SHIT RIGHT FUCKING WINKLEVOSS TWINS GODDAMN ROWING THE BOAT FUCK YO SHIT I CAN’T EVEN FUCKING BELIEVE THIS SHIT HAVE YOU SEEN THIS SHIT FUCK I JUST WATCHED THIS SHIT FUCK JESSE EISENBERG MAN”
“HAHAHA!!!”
“I respond, “Cynthia, you’re scaring me.” An hour passes. You respond,”
“MOTHERFUCKING SPIDERMAN, SPIDERMAN, YOU PUT IN THE TIME, FUCK PUT IN THE TIME!! MOTHERFUCKING BUILD SHIT WITH HIS BARE HANDS FUCKING BEST FRIEND SHIT JESSE EISENBERG …I’m very tired.”
“PFFFFF”
“I’m just like, “No problem, man. I’ll do most of the talking at the Blondes session today.” Immediate, like, response, I’m talkin’ like five seconds later:”
“NO MAN I’LL JUST TALK ABOUT THE FACEBOOK MOVIE ALL DAY SHIT MAN YOU HAVE TO BE SO INTERESTED IN THE SHIT I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE FACEBOOK MOVIE DUDE FUCK I JUST WATCHED IT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO FUCK JESSE EISENBERG MAN HE FUCKED OVER SPIDERMAN CRAZY WINKLEVOSS TWINS ROWING TRENT RESIN OR DID THE SOUNDTRACK FUCK THIS GUY WHO INVENTED FACEBOOK I DON’T LIKE DYING I CAN’T THINK OF WHO THE FUCK INVENTED FACEBOOK ALL I CAN THINK IS THE GUY WHO PLAYED THE GUY WHO INVENTED FACEBOOK WHO THE FUCK INVENTED FACEBOOK!?”
“And then, in all capital letters, two hours later…”
LOL, here’s a preview from the upcoming Masterpost 6…. (It just tickles me pink).
Some pics I put together showing the “bouncers” at Sphere Music Hall vs. their counterparts, SkinheadandNeckbeard, in Mother3atClub Titiboo.
Sebastian(akaBoney, the loyal dog) is sent away from Sphere Music Hall(akaClub Titiboo)… for not being HUMAN. We have bald and clean-shaven dude (Skinhead) and hairy, bearded dude (Neckbeard).
InMother3,Violet(*cough*Gregory Violet *cough*) later gets LucasandBoneyinto the exclusiveClub Titiboo and even backstage to speak with the band, DCMC, and to remindLuckyhe is really Duster.
NOW, all we need within the next several chapters of Black Butler is for Gregory Violet to get the earlandSebastiannot just back into Sphere Music Hall but also “backstage”,so they can speak with the S4… and findLizzieto remind her who she really is, what she really stands for….
Saw some recent activity on this post and thought to revisit it. Quick update on this.
Our earl doesindeed encounter Gregory Violet when he goes back to Sphere Music Hall for the special “Sirius” event, and you can call that a type of “backstage”… kind of. But Sebastian relies on Nina to get him back inside, where he really does go completely backstage (sees the lab, the blood supply, and the lords’ rooms). Sebastian also encounters Lizzie there, but what she says isn’t very explanatory. Ultimately, he fails to sway her back to our earl’s side, because she won’t even listen to him.
So, not a perfect parallel, but this is actually good. Perfect parallels would have been a bit boring, honestly.
My owner put me in the tub and pissed on me and into my mouth while he took pictures of my degradation. I looked up at him, opened my mouth, and swallowed.
When he was done treating me like the pisswhore I am, he brushed his teeth and dropped the toothpaste/spit combination into my face and hair. Then he told me to clean it up, which I did.
I’m a disgusting little bitch. I asked for all of this. I masturbated thinking about this. I thanked him for doing this. This is exactly how sluts like me need to be treated. Like receptacles for anything men want to put on or into us.
Wow, such a good bitch, she makes for an excellent role model.
I love the lumped position. She has given up!
Actually, that’s just how big the tub was, and I had my head down because we were taking pictures for tumblr. My owner at the time did this at my request. I wanted to try it and thought it would make for some good things for him to say later. It was a whole lot of fun! There might be other experiences that would make me feel broken or like I’d given up, but getting what I want isn’t exactly one of them.
W-why is my old art in the first page of my blog? I freaked out thinking my new content was gone, what’s happening? Was it flagged content..???
EDIT: leaving this post here, may be useful. As said in the comments by @thechekhovand@thepencilriot , if you’re experiencing this issue, edit those posts by doing anything, adding/deleting a tag, editing the description. It’s just a bug, it returns to normal
EDIT 2: if they flagged your post unintentionally, don’t freak out and request a check. I did with a couple of my post and everything returned to normal. As for the nsfw artists, I’m sorry. We should have got the signs by the way they were treating us by forcing the safe mode and deleting accounts like nothing. They want a kid-friendly place, let’s just give them this part of us to them and move our nasty things elsewhere. The safe mode was hella good and did it works majestically for those who didn’t want to see such content, I don’t really get why this change all of sudden. But let’s move on. Nsfw artists, see you on Twitter! (or other socials you’ve listed!)
20/May/2020 Happy 520 everyone! Celebrate with Bucky and Tony!✨ (In case you don’t know 5/20 is kinda like Chinese Valentine’s Day, because the date in Mandarin is pronounced similar to 「我愛你」, it means “I love you”)
