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** I hadn't watched FG for a while, until that episode came on, and I figured it'd be a lighthearted Stewie-Brian musical episode. Nonetheless, I said to myself that I'd see how long it was before the writer's views on religion and politics were shoehorned in. Four minutes. I haven't watched any of the new episodes since.

** This was also the point where ''Family Guy'' pretty much completely messed up in it's dedication to anti-religiousness. Lots of people who don't know their history like to say "religion caused the Dark Ages," but the real reasons are much, much more complex than that and, in fact, the only people hanging on to knowledge, science, and literacy in the Dark Ages were the religious in the first place. So not only is it a tired assumption, completely transparent, and more than a little subtly hateful besides, it's also completely inaccurate. [[Sarcasm Mode|Good job giving us irreligious folk a good name]], MacFarlane.

** The skit where Brian and Stewie go to the universe where Japan won WWII. They have the family as [[Unfortunate Implications|racist characters]] that would make [[Star Wars|Jar Jar]] look politically correct. First, he tells Japanese!Meg to commit seppuku for being ugly, which she does, and then beats Lois for something stupid. This is why I'm convinced the writers hate Asians.

* ''Family Goy'', the [[Dude, Not Funny|anti-semitism of this episode is just so... ugghhhh]]. Adding to this is Brian's [[Black Hole Sue]] moment of him and Jesus agreeing that [[Straw Political|'all religions are crap']]. And also...Peter mimicking [[Complete Monster|Amon Goeth]] from ''[[Schindler's List]]''.

** I am Jewish. I am almost certainly descended from Schindlerjuden (I've never researched it, but all things considered, it wouldn't be surprising). To see this episode was the equivalent of being punched in the face. Repeatedly. It's bad enough that they are playing one of the worst genocides in history for laughs (is there anything about that statement that seems all right to you?), but to have one of the characters emulate one of the worst monsters in history, and attempt to kill his wife just because she's Jewish, as a fucking joke?? It is an affront, an abomination, an insult of the worst kind. [[Seth MacFarlane]] should be ashamed of himself for even thinking this might be funny.

** My problem with this episode is how fucking stupid Peter is being. Yes, I know Peter's stupid as hell but this is a new low, he goes gung-ho into being Jewish, then he goes into full on imitating a Nazi.

** The DMOS for this troper in this episode has to be Peter beating up Lucy Van Pelt. I know Lucy is always a bitch for always pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, but, aside from the fact that Lucy is my favorite Peanuts character, she doesn't deserve such a harsh punishment from a grown-up who has to resolve certain situations with unnecessary violence, even when they have to sink to child abuse.

** Not to mention they did this once before. Remember when Lois was training in Karate in Lethal Weapons? She had the ball gag done on her there, which resulted in her kicking her in the face. I will admit - I got a laugh out of it there. But then they pulled that stunt with Peter kicking the crap out of her. Too far.

* The episode where Stewie cracks his head open and spends the entire episode with a coma and [[Nausea Fuel|his brains falling out]]. Ok, people, there's [[Dead Baby Comedy]], and then there's this. It's not funny, it's just cruel and disgusting. Remember, [[Dead Baby Comedy]] only works when it's so ridiculously over-the-top that it becomes hilarious. Stewie being seriously injured and/or dying is NOT ridiculously over the top and therefore is NOT hilarious. It'd be like someone stabbing a puppy and ripping out its intestines. [[Dude, Not Funny|That's just sick, man]].

* The Brian and Stewie episode. You know the one. Brian gets locked in a vault with Stewie and what follows are the most unwatchable "humor scenes" in history. The only humor in that episode appears to be quite a few minutes of Stewie telling Brian to eat his poop and then Brian actual doing it. There were no laughs to be found in the entire first half of the episode. However, the serious scenes should have saved it, right? It should have, but it felt too much like [[Character Derailment]]. Brian has been occasionally unhappy but never showed signs of depression or suicidal thinking. And the last part, where Brian and Stewie admit they love each other after having spent the entire first half of the episode abusing each other, just felt forced. Bottom line: no humor and a very hollow emotional theme. Please ''[[Family Guy]]'', stick to what you do best: raunchy offensive humor, not mediocre poop jokes and soap opera dramatics.

** As someone who knows the very real discrimination that most transsexuals still face by even the most enlightened societies, this episode was made all the more horrific to me when I realized the people who put their names on it. These are people who created the ridiculously-Aesoped "Family Gay", which created the most bizarre reasoning for supporting gay couples and the gay gene theory I've ever heard, yet their opinions on transsexuals amounts to what? "Don't ever have sex with one or [[Badass|Glenn Quagmire]] will beat your head in"? "Transsexuals are only worth mentioning to create fodder for jokes"? And, perhaps the worst assertion that the episode never gives any clear answer for, [[Unfortunate Implications|"gay people are all transgendered on the inside"?]] This episode's complete idiocy transcends political bounds - it's downright cruel, thoroughly wrong about transsexuals and their motives, and a hypocritical slide away from the liberal ideals that other FG episodes were content with shoving down our throats.

** 45xxx: "Quagmire's Dad". I cannot, for the life of me, pinpoint one moment in this episode that was the worst of that piece of shit. The unfunny way it talked about sex change, the fact that Peter and Lois find it funny that Brain slept with Quagmire's "mom", even the end where Quagmire beats up Brian within an inch of his life. All of it was horrid, tasteless, and made me entirely give up on the series, especially Quagmire.

* There was an episode where Peter and company embark on a journey to find the source of the world's dirty jokes. It was a decent enough episode, still littered with [[Plot Hole|plot holes]], but still moderately enjoyable. That is, until the gang travels to [[Washington DC]], and to the Vietnam War Memorial. There was a poor caricature of a Vietnamese man bragging to the mourners there about 'winning' [[The Vietnam War]]. Now I know that these writers are the kind that pride themselves on the amount of hate mail they get, but this sincerely broke my heart. I thought, how dare they? How dare you! Vietnamese people are barely represented in the media as it is, and the few depictions are the sort of exotic smuggler gang of the week or as a Vietnam War retrospective (think generic flashback into combat in a jungle). How dare you propagate blatant racism on national television? Why cannot you look to us as ordinary humans and not some inane gimmick plot device? Plus it doesn't even [[Fridge Logic|make sense in context]]. The Vietnamese guy is just randomly at the war memorial? Why? Just to brag? And why does he look like he's 30 when he apparently fought in the Vietnam War?

** What made that joke the final [[D Mo S]] for this troper was the disgusting disrespect Hentemann made toward our servicemen and women. Why Hentemann didn't then show the two veterans beating the living shit out of that man is beyond this troper, but...really, Hentemann? That's the best "Vietnam" joke you could come up with? I mean, seriously, you made Hitler's final days during World War 2 into some of the funniest jokes in Western Animation, and the Simpsons knew how to exploit Skinner's traumatic stint in 'Nam to a laugh every time...and that is the best you could come up with!?

*** I found that the true DMoS was right after that. Paraphrased, Peter said, "Well, you sat through all this, so as a reward, here's a monkey scratching itself. Some charity for cancer kids or something wanted this airtime, but we said screw you." It's like the creators are saying, "We know this episode sucks, but we can't think of a half-decent joke to end it on, so here's some immature stock footage."

* The episode "Brian's House of Payne" wasn't my favorite episode but I still need to bash it.First of all, this was one of the few episodes where Brian wasn't a complete douch bag that was constantly trying to be a author type smart ass.It starts with Brian getting approval from Lois about a script, so naturally Brian decides to take the idea to a studio and it works.It nearly went perfectly, BUT James Woods had to come in and turn Brians original and fairly good script into an immature sitcom while Brian tries to stop him from taking over his script.Once everyone gets to see his "pilot" they blame Brian for every thing and leave after insulting him for the awful episode.Okay, this annoys me because Brian nearly got character development but James Woods obliterates all chances of it and further Flanderizes Brian.And what is with that sub plot?Okay, so Stewie gets a head injury after Chris and Meg idiotically knock him down the stairs while fighting.Guess what?They hide the whole up and the sub plot quickly develops into [[Nausea Fuel]] as Stewie's head injury get infected.Its "resolved" by Peter throwing the unconscious Stewie under the car while Lois drive it.No...just no.If you want to make something dark and disgusting funny, don't make the audience want to stop watching because its to disturbing.

* I officially felt like turning off the TV and never using FOX again when an evil Stewie clone tore a woman in half for no reason.

** That episode was an entire mess. But the main plot with Meg liking Joe was a bigger turnoff for me because not only did I find it rather creepy, but it just got ridiculous when Meg drives all the way to the airport after dark to get Bonnie arrested by smuggling a gun into her bag. Then, because she finds out she and Joe have nothing in common, what does she do? She throws herself in front of a car to get crippled. It's one thing to be a [[Butt Monkey]], but to cripple yourself and get your neighbor's wife arrested just had an unpleasant message to it.

* A relatively mild one when you compare it to the rest of the entries on this page, but I was sickened by the ending of "Tiegs for Two". The basic premise is that Brian joins Quagmires class on picking up women in the hopes it'll help him get with a girl he likes. It doesn't. Blaming Quagmire, he STEALS the woman of Glenn's dreams, Cheryl Tiegs. In revenge, Quagmire steals Jillian from Brian. Long story short, they end up with neither, and they seem to bury the hatchet. As Brian realizes that he needs a ride home, he asks Quagmire for one, who smiles, and then drives off without Brian. This I was expecting, but Quagmire reverses full speed into Brian and then drives off. I was just sickened at the sight of it.

** Yes! Dear god, yes! At the end of the episode, I thought that after going through what [[A Shared Suffering|they've put themselves through that night]] all for petty revenge they would find a new found respect for each other as the realized that they were [[Not So Different]]. Instead, Quagmire commits what's basically murder with a smirk on his face. I mean sure I enjoyed Quagmire's [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to Brian (Let's be honest, [[Author Avatar|he]] did [[Black Hole Sue|had it coming]]), but [[Moral Event Horizon|enough is enough]]!