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What's the first perfect episode of Family Guy? And how did it change the show forever?
Essay written by Will DiGravio & Adam Tinius
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What do you think is the first perfect episode of Family Guy? Shout it out below!
Road to Rhode Island. Stewie and Brian perfect their chemistry. Well each of them has their moment to shine.
when will you do the day south park was born
I love the title of your channel. I absolutely hate the title of this series. Shows aren’t born and if they were it would be the first episode.
Rhode to Rhode Island is a solid pick. I can do no better.
I'd probably say Da Boom. It had Mila Kunis playing Meg for the first time, the first iconic chicken fight, and overall was the first Family Guy episode where I felt the story remained consistent and funny enough to make the whole episode memorable instead of just a couple gags from it. The ending parodying the season 7 finale of Dallas was also a highlight
Road to rhode island is imo the best episode of the entire show
I think I'd agree.
What about Brian Wallows & Peter Swallows?
That's definitely one of my favourites, so it would be fun to see your thoughts on it.
My favourite as well!
You brought me back in time, my friend. When the uncancellation happened, my family was staying at the ski house of my rich cousins. They had this hideaway under the stairs, just big enough for kids 12 and under, and all the brand-new DVDs. So, during dinner, we'd sneak down there and all of us kids would watch the new seasons of Family Guy. I was 10-12 then, and now I'm 31, so I haven't seen clips from those episodes for a long time!
My friend and I used to watch movies under that at sleepovers too 😂
"I didn't know Biscuit as a dog, but I did know her... as a table." lol great episode, one of my favorites.
Family guy, the simpsons, spongebob have been zombified. American dad and bob's burgers are getting to that point as well.
South Park too, it feels like a husk of the show it used to be
@Hui432 although it seems South Park has adopted a less is more approach recently which seems to be helping it.
American Dad died when it went from FOX to TBS
@@lrb662003 What's funny is that I'm pretty sure that mostly came about for legal reasons. Time Warner Media owns the streaming rights for all South Park episodes but Viacom isn't going to give up one of their most lucrative IPs without a fight and they DESPERATELY need content to get people to buy Paramount Plus. The workaround is a legal loophole where now Paramount Plus can hold onto the show by advertising it not as "episodes" but as "exclusive special events". The technicality being if they're not the run time of television episodes, if they don't air on CC episode or cable television episode blocks and if they're not developed in episodic season cycles, then they're technically not episodes so the contract with Time Warner is not violated.
@@CodeNameAlisonSad but true. There are still funny jokes and some good episodes but much was lost in the move.
I miss the first 7 seasons. Those were fantastic and a great part of my adolescence.
Season 8 episode 1 is good
@@LucasFielding-js6bjlol what about after that
@@vicecityrocks1there’s also that one episode with Stewie and Brian (S8E17) that has literally no cutaway gags.
Meg is not the middle child. She's the first born.
Yeah I was gonna say.
Not a single mention of Chris
Ha. I had a short section dedicated to him, but it didn't feel like anything new or worth mentioning. So he got cut.
@@EntertainTheElk oh my gahd…
@@EntertainTheElkI mean, it’s still kinda odd, though.
Heh, just like the show.
@@ToneTitanIt’s not a major loss
Peter: "I haven't had trouble eating supper since that time the Swedish Chef prepared my meal kits from FACTOR."
:::cut to Muppet Swedish Chef tossing around the ingredients in all the FACTOR packages::;
Why aren't you writing my copy points?
Remember the excellent Brian and Stewie special episodes? They used to be ART
For me, Family Guy’s prime was from Season 3 to Season 6, it’s the era when the show struck a perfect balance of crude, clever, mean, and nice, and when the show found its own voice.
makes sense because seth left the show creatively sometime after this era
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I haven't really been keeping up with Family Guy nowadays, but I love Road To Rhode Island. It's my favorite episode in the whole series.
I agree
People who say this prob haven't watched family guy in like 10 years. Calling Meg the middle child really says it all.
Hahaha
RtRI is a great pick! My personal favorite is Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows. It does such a good job of balancing the funny moments and gags while also having two emotional storylines and also has an amazing song in “You’ve Got a Lot To See”. It’s easily the episode I would recommend to a first time viewer.
Brian and Stewie caught me off guard in the genuinely greatest way possible. I was going through a major depressive episode at the time and it absolutely flabbergasted me. Here I was trying to distract myself with a stupid cartoon I thought and it fucking slapped me in the face with love. Thanks for every laugh Seth. (And insight Elk)
I always looked forward to the "road to" episodes
5:44 meg the oldest
I think there is a strong argument for "Brian & Stewie" being the best episode of Family Guy; glad you gave it a shoutout
My favourite episode is the one where Stewie puts everyone in a simulation of Quahog and gives them amnesia.
Family Guy died when Seth McFarlane left….its a different show now, its actually a hard watch too.
I find episodes where Stewie is main character to be poor episodes. Best episode ever is the food truck.
Great to see you uploading mate!
Thank you! Hope you enjoy the newest vid.
These Family Guy episodes with Brian and Stewie are amazing.
dont forget that brian eats stewies doodoo in "Brian and Stewie"
"Emotionally deep" that episode is so embarrassing I'm surprised people find value in it
Lois: all I wanted was to be loved
Also Loose Lois: wore increasingly fewer clothes while Peter's friends hooted at her and pretended it didn't mean anything
I actually cried during that bank episode, laughed alot of course but cried hard too
I used to love family guy
Excellent essay!
The first 4 seasons were unbelievable.
I am 30 now but when I was 13 my mom had a mercury villager van. We were lucky enough to have a DVD player in the back of the van with TWO pairs of headphones in it and it was a very nice state of the art system for its time. Me & all my best friends would watch ‘The best of SNL’ ect various tapes. But mostly we would watch the FIRST 4 seasons of family guy. They were unbelievable…. I’ll never forget those episodes 😢😢😢😢😢😢😂😂😂😂😂
My favorite episode maybe ever made was when they get relocated to the Deep South
I always thought that the Stewie and Brain episodes are not only the best episodes but also the most memorable. They are a perfect duo on the classic sense.
Always love a new elk!
And i fully agree; The Road to Road Island was the next level breakthrough episode that cemented it in pop culture for all time. It was beloved by near all and even a few that usually dislike adult or any animation.
Road to the Multiverse is my fave I like seeing all the different forms Family Guy takes
I watched family guys premiere episode when I was a kid when it aired after the superbowl lol
I love the relationship between Brian and Stewie. I wonder if Seth McFarlane's only friend when he was a baby was a dog.
Can you share where that Seth interview came from? I'm collecting old tapes, I wonder if I could find a better copy.
I’ll be real it was the musical numbers for me. Road to Rhode Island was a masterpiece lol.
After the toy factory, Peter worked as a fishing boat captain before the brewery. I would recommend doing the show before doing a video essay. What's more, regardless of what everyone has parroted, a cutaway is NOT lazy writing. It's no different than a punch line but allows for additional elements to the joke. Southpark would love to have the same viewership of Family Guy. I sense a bit of jealousy there. But yes, the show went downhill when Seth stopped working on it.
The only family guy i watch is the 1st 3 seasons. Im old well this i know
I’ve been waiting for this for so long!
This kind of felt more like "Why Brian & Stewie are so great". My pick would be Brian Wallows, Peter's Swallows; it has a lot of the points you had about Brian, it has McFarlane's love and admiration for the golden age of Hollywood, it had good messages, and even Peter in his idiocy still manages to pull at the heartstrings a bit
Road to the multiverse will forever be one of my favourite episodes of any show
You made an error, at 5:17 you refer to Meg as "the middle child" even though she is repeatedly shown to be the oldest of the Griffin kids. She even has her 17th and later 18th birthdays in different episodes of the show, making her the only kid who's become an adult. I imagine maybe this error slipped in when you removed the Chris section like you mention in a different comment
My favorites have always been the parody episodes, especially their Star Wars ones.
I am older than dirt. The first three seasons of Family Guy were fire 🔥
I’m just lightly teasing, but it’s safe* deposit box 🤭
My only consumption of Family Guy these days is looking up old clips of them singing showtunes.
I remember about four years ago deciding to watch family guy again after turning against it and I actually enjoyed an amount of the episodes I watched. Like I get the criticism but it made me laugh and I wasn’t mad so I like seeing others acknowledge that it’s place isn’t completely unearned.
Having rewatched Family Guy a year ago, I find it very funny. Even the newer seasons have their fair share of good episodes.
I am Peter, hear me roar!
The multiverse episode is the second birth of the series. after this, they moved into more science fiction episodes. some of the best episodes of the later seasons.
Bird Is The Word was a game changer.
It was such a treat to the Evenings with Seth McFarland
I find it amazing that the Oh What A Cartoon short Steve and Larry birthed Family Guy I did not find that out till much later.
Did anybody else notice how the first 4 episodes are all about death? “Death has a shadow “Chitty Chitty Bang Death” “Mind over murder” “I never met the dead man” I wonder what Seth was going thru🤣
Unpopular Opinion: Fifteen min of shame is the best family guy episode because it shows that albeit dysfunctional the still love meg😔
I remember seeing the first episode after the Superbowl and watching the reruns on Adult Swim in 2003. I felt that the show came to its own with the Road to Rhode Island episode.
I really liked Family Guy in the beginning. It's been so long since I've thought of that show fondly, this was a nice 20 minutes. I also called it pretty early in the video. In the commentary track for Road to Rhode Island they gush about how important that episode is for the characters and the show in general.
Seth totally ripped off that episode intro bit from South Park, no wonder there's a rivalry.
Wow first just saying but great vidoes man.But you know be interesting to see one on trailer park boys
You are officially first! The video isn't even listed yet. Haha
You should do "the day entertaintheelk was born" and break down your favorite video youve done.
I saw all episodes off that show and I still like it. I quiet not understand what people say that it drastically changed. It didnt.
The Star Wars episodes should have had Joe as R2D2 and Cleveland as Lando
See, this guy gets it! Aha
Back to the pilot was a brilliant episode probably my favourite
Did Seth take that live action intro from Matt and Trey (South Park)? Cause they did the same thing 2 years prior
I didnt even know family guy was still running
How in the world do you have time to make videos with multiple jobs and 2 kids?? I can barely exist with 1 job and no kids. Thanks for making these videos and entertaining us :)
I hate how disney ruined Brian and stewie by removing the gun part of the episode, aka the most important.
Hating on family guy is host popular. It was never great telavision but it's always been funny. That's all it ever needed to be for me
Superb stuff ! Thankyou , regards Coll 🏴🇬🇧 , Road to Rhode Island 4 me ! 💯%👌🏻👍🏻👏🏻
You should do the day South Park was born
5:19 buddy shes the oldest
People that hate on new family guy act like if they weren’t kids they wouldn’t love it when they know they would love it because even old family guy honestly wasn’t super good it ain’t futurama good
You have covered when Family Guy died and when it was born, so how about "The Day Family Guy Peaked", personally I think it was with the so called Fuzzball Trilogy, that time the whole staff was in their element, there were times I laughed hysterically, if they enede the series on the it's a trap episode they would have gone with a bang.
You can tell there's a strong bias in this video. There were different/less sitcomy episodes before Road to Road Island, two examples being Da Boom & Death is a Bitch.
Also, Family Guy always had a bigger emphasis on humour, the difference between the earlier seasons and later seasons is that the humour was more character-driven.
Great stuff sir!
Ah I totally called it before clicking on the video. Fantastic episode!
6:30 read: fursona
16:00 the question is, did rick a d morty do it better with snowball?
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Wait, Peter has a job after season one?
Great video, and I miss when Family Guy was goid
00:20 Answer: South Park.
Yeah, those Road to episodes are great, but both Stewie and Brian ended up being another stereotype: the ambiguos sexuality guy and the failed author pseudointellectual type... Thanx!!!
Old South Park >>>> New South Park
Good video!
do you live in a hotel or did you have a hotel lock installed on your door?
Billy Finn.
Yeah i remember when it was good. It was last week
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I have to say and i have to admit as an avid family guy fan, family guy really had a downfall, in my opinion, around season 11-12 and really didn't rise back up until recently, I'd say starting around season 20 or 21, sort of like a family guy renaissance if you will. Season 13 is an outlier because of the Simpson's guy episode, but I have to disagree and agree that the current family guy is worse than the original first three seasons (which I'd argue in my opinion that the peak of family guy is from seasons 1-8 before they went to HD), but better than it's been in the past.
Kudos for working several jobs for your family ❤
Yea right !!! got my money man ???? Lol
19:27 fin.
I am engaging with this video
peter
Please alter your cadence more. Hearing the same tone for 80% of a video makes the whole thing sound robotic and droning, and is difficult to listen to.
Maybe just pay better attention
I don’t know which season it was, but Family Guy was good until they began using gore and shock value as punchlines unto themselves.
While Brian and stewie centered episodes are undoubtedly the peak, what does that say about the rest of the show?
Family guy was never "good"; it was always amusing at best.
Maybe you should've never had kids then.
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First in my heart.
The Brian and Stewie dynamic has still been pretty strong to this day but what they've done to Brian as a character is so shitty. I mean most of the characters are hollow shells of what they used to be. I long for the days where Peter and Lois had basic sitcom shenanigans instead of them constantly referencing how unhappy they are in their marriage to a depressing degree. But Brian especially has become a pseudo-intellectual to a point he never was in the golden years. Constantly being seen as hated loser or being portrayed as not even reading books. I watch episodes like Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows and it just bums me out how devolved the characters have become. I adore the more generic sitcom stylings of the golden seasons vs what has essentially become a show fixated on making skits that can be compiled into a RUclips playlist more than the thoughtful cleverness the show once had. Hell don't even get me started on what they did to Joe.
But this channel has already covered that Family Guy died a long time ago.