Family Guy

I was wondering how they were going to get Meg back.

His name is Derek. Now Santa knows who not to ask for.

So I guess the resin is Jesus' birthday AND Christmas present.

Stewie DEMANDS the same blouse Timothee Chalamet is wearing in this photo.

The show dunking on Kevin Smith will never get old.

Loud Fox News in the nursing home. Totally worth being disowned by your family.

The Jeff Goldblum stuff was hysterical. I'm still laughing about it. His legs are thinner than his wife's.

Very funny episode. 4 1/2 stars.

I don't much like parody episodes, but I tolerate 'em. And I'm aware we got two Holiday themed Disney+ specials this year, but the show has otherwise been on a pretty long hiatus, and to have the first episode back be a parody is a let-down. But hey, let's steal The Simpsons timeslot while we're being assholes about that sort of thing! Hooray!

I love the observation that the women in the first movie weren't allowed to return in the second because they had the gall to age 40 years later. Shit like this is why I loathe Tom Cruise, and stay away from ALL his movies. Yeah, I don't need to see Top Gun.

And the Scientology bits remind me even more why I purposefully avoid subsidizing this toxic nut's harmful agenda, and yeah, I don't need to see Top Gun.

The bit with Lois being nervous and appalled at the pressure of the musical number in the bar was quite realistic. 80's movies suck.

Rooster is supposed to be 40 and the guy playing him looks 20. And yet, it's the women with the aging problem. Loved them bringing up the fact that bringing back Val Kilmer, even though he literally cannot speak, is another way the men in these movies got a free pass.

The opening slams on San Diego were pretty good.

I don't need to see Top Gun. 3 stars.

The 70's pooping music was great.

Yeah, nobody wants Jared in their thought bubbles.

I love the thing that actually made Joe Ha-Ha.

Love the substitute bully too.

Oh, God, Chris's Real Doll. Trying to return it is part of the dance. Gross.

Lois is extra pathetic in this episode, but they've kind of been devolving her that way for the last few seasons. It's not at Brian Griffin levels of suck yet. But it seems to me to be a similar disturbing trajectory.

Laughed at the old people names. Vivian.

Funny episode. 4 stars.

I wonder if my opinion would have been different if Kamala had won. Probably. But we currently live in this specific nightmare so I can't enjoy this. 2 1/2 stars.

I love the crashed airplane bit. "I'm not sayin', but I'm just sayin'." That's how dumb those people talk.

I really love that Peter protected Lois at the end. Very rarely does the show make Peter's "redemption" actually worth forgiving him, but they did here.

I laughed at Peter's reaction to the giraffe.

The Sir Mix-A-Lot video about kneecaps at the end was SO funny. I love that they got him to voice himself.

Joe doesn't like that everyone is clapping at his routine instead of laughing. That is a pointed observation.

Love Seamus's tree parents. Their other son is a success.

Lois' first set was pretty good. Brian was right that she ought to workshop the name. And yes, Brian, that IS what you sound like.

I love Meg not knowing if Lois was using that right because she's dork too. Mila Kunis' line reading as she's laughing is sublime.

The bit with Lois, Bonnie, and Meg writing "comedy notes" suggests the writers REALLY don't like women. And yet the joke doesn't feel ENTIRELY inaccurate. In fairness they took a lot of fair shots at men too. I am not sure what to think.

Lois' disaster routine shows WHY Quagmire isn't actually funny.

I liked this week. 4 stars.

Danny Smith's voice has aged.

I loved Peter waking up and being mad he never went to college.

Cleveland being disturbed at the point of Peter's clavicle story is the right reaction.

I love the idea that broadcast television is a demotion from YouTube for Corey. All of the Corey stuff was hilarious. Although truthfully the concept of Sex Farm is stupid.

Tyler just isn't that into you, Stewie. His best line of the episode was the last, "Oh, THAT Nugget".

What DOES Meg own anyways? Love the illusionist.

I keep forgetting Kenny Rogers is dead.

That bit about the country singer nobody had ever heard of was great. He was unvaccinated and just a general pain in the ass.

Great episode title too. I liked the episode a lot and thought it was really funny. 4 stars.

The Herbert joke of the moaning in the background went too far. The producers claim that Herbert is supposedly funny because he is too old and feeble to actually hurt anymore. Aside from that idea being bullshit because child porn hurts kids no matter WHO consumes it, that specific joke just made it so the character couldn't even work under that false premise. The character needs to go.

The Jack Ryan show starring the guy who used to smirk on The Office. I sort of have troubling taking John Krasinki seriously as a dramatic actor too (and with a beard). I liked them saying he looked like a guy who stopped combing his hair halfway through.

Pete Davidson's secret? Calling women back immediately. It's not that hard, guys.

Loved the Calliou series finale. Only trouble is I believe that sociopath is in for a far worse ending than Tony Soprano.

Call him Pete. MR. Portnoy is the guy on his court documents. He didn't voice himself because they couldn't take the shots at him they did if he did.

A lot of it was problematic, even if some of the individual jokes worked. 2 1/2 stars.

The boy in front of a tree photography thing was not remotely funny, but it went on long enough to be the funniest thing ever.

Speaking of which that, Roger Clemens bit was hilarious. I was rolling.

I don't feel good about the chiropractor stuff. Just because Brian is the wrong character to do it. I'd feel similarly dismayed if they gave the plot to Quagmire or Herbert. He's too much of a creep.

The tropical fish stuff was funny enough though.

No more mustaches! I am aware what Germany is now most recognized for. I worry what America is now most recognized for too. It was 80 years ago and it's STILL what people think about first when they think about Germany. This kind of thing is not something a country can actually come back from.

I'll tell you what I didn't like about the episode. It feeds into all of society's nonsense about betas and cucks, and that shit is not just toxic, it's stupid. Family Guy is not and probably should not be a Woke show. But sometimes the things it claims to value are fucked up enough to piss me off. This qualifies.

I'm worried about Doug. We haven't see him all season. Last season during his most recent appearance there was a throwaway line at the end of the episode that he died, but it's Family Guy. That should mean nothing (Cleveland's mother has died several times). But the fact that he hasn't appeared since makes me worried they dropped the character. He was the best thing to happen to the show in the later seasons, and if the writers overused him it's only because he always worked. I don't want him gone from the show. Chris Parnell is an asset to any show lucky enough to have him.

Eh. Some really funny jokes but both plotlines were problematic in their own ways. 3 stars.