Family Guy Review: "Brothers and Sisters"

(Should I be specifying the spoiler-alert-ness of these reviews? I'd hardly think it would matter, because Family Guy is less a show than it is random selections from a filthy pop culture-themed jokebook, but, well, erm, just in case....consider yourself warned?)

Ah, weddings. According to the television industry, there's nothing more magical. If your characters get married, that means their relationship has succeeded because, I mean, marriages never go wrong, right? Even if you've been married, say, nine times before, the tenth time's the charm so long as it's on camera, right? What do you mean that isn't right? Are you implying that it's one of the hoariest clichés at work in modern entertainment media? Well, then, surely you'll love the exciting climax of the latest Family Guy episode, I say, with the sarcasm! In all seriousness, though, "Brothers & Sisters" already started off on the wrong foot with me, being about what I tend to think is one of the least interesting things a show can really be about: wedding drama. Despite being major life changes, weddings just don't make for interesting viewing. They just don't. Now, the question is, can a show that has already been lousy viewing with increasingly high frequency already possible mine anything decent out of the topic?

Family Guy Review: "Tiegs for Two"

Ah, the tasteless joke - ever increasingly a staple of the world of humour. Nothing seems to get these kids today off quite like jokes that the previous generation would find horribly distasteful, for better or worse. Now, I consider myself to be someone who, if not quite a fan of the art of the tasteless joke, at least has a thick skin and generally won't bat an eye at this sort of thing. That being said, last Sunday's otherwise fairly good Family Guy found a way to make me bat the hell out of my eye. It made me bat my eye out of the fucking park like it was some sort of generic baseball player, presumably on steroids, as they always are, according to Comedy.