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== Season 6 ==
* The moments in "Blue Harvest" where they just ripped gags off wholesale from ''Airplane''. They don't make sense if you haven't seen Airplane, and if you have, it's nothing more than "Yep, that sure is a reference to Airplane". That's [[Seltzer and Friedberg]]-style humor right there. I hated the episode as a whole, but that just cemented it as the worst episode I've seen.
* The cutaway where Quagmire rapes [[The Simpsons (animation)|Marge Simpson]] and murders her family. Many ''[[Family Guy]]'' fans (including myself) are also fans of [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]], so naturally we do not find this the least bit amusing.
** Agreed. Even Matt Groening (a friend of Seth and a fan of the show) was so disgusted by this it almost ended the friendship between the two of them.
** The worst part is that it honestly could have been a pretty funny visual gag if the writers had the sense to end it before Quagmire murders the entire Simpson family.
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** Besides the pointless "Dancing in the Street" music video, which killed time that could have been used for funnier jokes, I'd like to also add that "Muppet-Style Sightseeing" scene. YMMV on this but really they couldn't have animated a short little montage so they had to use puppets for it instead? Even if it was part of the joke, I can't help but wonder...to be honest the whole plot itself is kind of off putting. Going to Paris so you can have a affair? Couldn't they think of a better reason to go and then somehow work in the affair?
* Next up in the neverending chronicle of how massively the show fails: "It's a Trap." I somewhat enjoyed the first two parodies, but aside from the pillow fight and [[Planes, Trains and Automobiles]] gags, this was just painful. Where do I start? [[They Just Didn't Care|The general mood that the creators phoned it in?]] [[Shaggy Dog Story|The unfunny tangent in the opening crawl?]] [[Overly Long Gag|The nodding gag that goes on for a full minute and a half?]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|The Seth Green bashing?]] And, of course, [[Parody Failure|the lack of jokes aside from tired references]] and beating the "we phoned this in, we didn't want to do this" schtick to death. To quote Peter, "For crying out loud, somebody throw a pie!" Seth MacFarlane, you may not like [[Robot Chicken]], but they actually try with their parodies. Somebody tell him to put the show on hiatus for a while until he remembers how to be entertaining.
** I enjoyed the parody of [[Return of the Jedi]] except for two things. The first the death of Darth Vader which was for awhile faithful to the movie, but then they made Chris/Luke kill him by snapping his neck! Damnit that's just not funny especially considering [[Return of the Jedi]] was my favorite of the saga and that scene was moving originally. Also the cutaway gags sucked. Fantastic episode otherwise, really enjoyed the big [[Take That]] to [[Seth MacFarlane]] himself and how he ripped off [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]], although it was also a [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|missed moment of awesome]] because time could've been used to mention Brian Scully, producer of this episode and writer of some [[Mike Scully]] era Simpsons episodes. [Scully era is generally considered [[Dork Age]]].
** I tolerated the pot shots at the Ewoks and the general phoning-it-in of one of my favourite movies, but what broke the camel's back was the part where Peter/Han freaks out and forces those troopers to dig their own graves, all the while they are crying for their lives. Just too dark, it kills the mood.
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