Video: Next ‘Family Guy’ Spoofs ‘The Hills’

COMMENTS (12)

• Ugh, please throw quotes around the word spoof when you’re talking about Family Guy. What that show considers a spoof is to show its characters doing basically line-for-line readings of actual movies/shows.

  I can’t believe FG even employs writers between all it “spoofs” and what it rips off from decades-old Simpsons episodes.

  Comment by StephenRex — Wednesday April 29, 2009 @ 11:06am PDT  Reply to this post

• Family Guy simply isn’t funny, caters to a low class demographic, and is an anemic rip off of The Simpsons.

  Comment by Ecchh — Wednesday April 29, 2009 @ 11:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• Sometimes I feel I’m the only person in the country that doesn’t find The Family Guy amusing.

  Oh well.

  Comment by Ronald — Wednesday April 29, 2009 @ 11:22am PDT  Reply to this post

• Lazy, lazy, lazy. Ah, good ole Family Guy. Don’t work too hard.

  Comment by BTC — Wednesday April 29, 2009 @ 12:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “The Hills….of Quahog”
  that is priceless!
  hahahahahaha! i love it.

  Comment by nick — Wednesday April 29, 2009 @ 1:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Family Guy is to comedians what The Jonas Brothers are to musicians.

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday April 29, 2009 @ 3:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This was an amusing show in its first season but American TV has never known when to quit. Even The Simpsons….how on earth is that still going? Who watches? Baffling.

  P.S. “THE VIDEO YOU ARE TRYING TO WATCH CANNOT BE VIEWED FROM YOUR CURRENT COUNTRY OR LOCATION.”

  Sigh. You should host the vids, Nikki. Don’t limit yourself to US only

  Comment by michael dobrofsky — Wednesday April 29, 2009 @ 6:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Phew, I thought I was the only person in the world who found this show desperately unfunny.

  Comment by Sarah — Wednesday April 29, 2009 @ 7:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• wow that was really lauren’s voice. cool.

  Comment by ctrain — Thursday April 30, 2009 @ 6:12am PDT  Reply to this post

• Ugghhh…I don’t know which is worse. Family Guy or the show it’s “spoofing.”

  Comment by fogfan — Thursday April 30, 2009 @ 7:23am PDT  Reply to this post

• Family Guy represents the new sentiment in entertainment and American. “Legal thievery” FG uses the work of other people to retell old jokes and uses moments that have been done before. They are hacks of the highest order which makes them kings in our business. Music samplers, remakes, file sharers they are all the new jacks of a creatively bankrupt society.

  Comment by CineFileX — Thursday April 30, 2009 @ 10:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s really easy to hate on Family Guy for being “unfunny,” “lazy,” “unfunny,” a “rip-off,” and “unfunny” (just to sample a few of the quotes above). And I agree, the story structure of current episodes is often pretty weak, and the spoofs are nowhere near as inspired as in Season 2 or 3.

  But I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a Family Guy episode that didn’t make me laugh out loud at least once. And that’s an accomplishment that no standard multi-camera sitcom can boast.

  Outside of those few truly great sitcoms (30 Rock, Arrested, et al.), Family Guy remains one of the funniest shows on TV, laugh-per-laugh.

  Comment by Jesse Porter — Thursday April 30, 2009 @ 1:06pm PDT  Reply to this post