handbasket, one seat
There's this vague sense of guilt I feel each Sunday night for laughing at so many of the jokes on Family Guy. Not so guilty that I stop watching it, though. And it doesn't stop me from laughing at the next over-the-top offensive-to-nearly-everyone joke. In fact, I sometimes cry when the show ends because I don't want it to be over yet.
If there's a hell, Family Guy is what's going to push that handbasket I'm in downward.
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You say it like it's a bad thing, Michele...say, you got room in that basket for me, too?
Posted by: david | June 19, 2005 10:14 PM
I know the feeling. I feel really guilty for laughing at the "you've got AIDS" bit in last week's episode, but I've used the TIVO to watch just that song 4 or 5 times.
Posted by: C Bassett | June 19, 2005 10:57 PM
FG is what the Simpsons wishes it could be.
So why does American Dad bite so hard? How can the same mind produce one show that is ball/ovary-breakingly funny and one show that blows monkey cocks?
Posted by: JimK | June 20, 2005 12:34 AM
nooo don't guilt me for watching Family Guy. I had a clean conscious about it it... damn.
Posted by: Winston | June 20, 2005 02:24 AM
Wife stares at me in what seem abject loathing/amazement when it comes to Family Guy. "You think this is funny?" she practically sneers while I'm jotting notes about timestamps to rip riffs of the TiVo.
"Honey, Stewie is a freaking god. You don't get it; I can't explain it. The guns are over there...shoot me. But c'mon...the mom slutted out with Gene Simmons!"
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | June 20, 2005 04:02 AM
michele, can I PLEASE beat the dog boy within a byte of his server's life?
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | June 20, 2005 05:06 AM
Oy, woke up to a zillion of his comments, TC. But they are all gone now. Bless the power of Blacklist.
Posted by: michele | June 20, 2005 05:28 AM
Yay! The Mighty Blacklist plugin is wise and beneficent....
I still like pointing a couple of servers and a load of mindless apps at such idiots who pull that crap, and let them know how picking the wrong URL can be a real pain in the keister, and how "viral" marketing can give your ass the plague.
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | June 20, 2005 07:56 AM
I'm tumor I'm a tumor I'm a tumor....
Posted by: Shinobi | June 20, 2005 10:29 AM
I've always been a Simpsons guy.
I've given Family Guy multiple tries and while I do find it funny. It strikes me as South Park-esque where eventually the shock value becomes stale. That doesn't mean Family Guy is kicked off Tivo but it has slide farther down the priority list.
Posted by: Ryan | June 20, 2005 12:40 PM
Its going to be a damn large handbasket with all the FG and South Park people in it. Sounds like a great party. Everyone will be doing their best Stewie and Cartman impersonations.
Posted by: Frank at work | June 20, 2005 07:46 PM
The Simpsons can be touching at times. FG never.
Posted by: lucia | June 21, 2005 04:13 PM