As Family Guy nears the shark, the writers sometimes seem to think that the way to spice up the show is with sudden left-field revelations about established characters. And so it turns out that not only is Peter's biological father not Francis Griffin, but Peter was born in Mexico and is not a U. S. citizen. Yawn.
So it filled me with dread when in last night's episode, "Halloween on Spooner Street," Quagmire tells Peter that he's part Japanese. "Here we go: now it's not enough to have these left-field revelations about the main characters, we also need to do it for secondary characters," I thought.
But it turns out that Quagmire's not actually Japanese, he was just saying that to set up a prank in which he frightens Peter aboard an old Japanese plane. That doesn't, however, lessen the extreme unfunniness of the whole storyline.
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Why hate on Family Guy? If you don't like the storylines, just stop watching it. And it's not like you could do any better.. So can it, eh!
When a show used to be good, a lot of us tend to go into a kind of denial, still watching it even though it's no longer half as good as it used to be. Bill has actually stopped watching The Simpsons altogether. I still watch that show, even though I laugh very rarely.
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