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Family Guy's Season Finale Wastes Its Potential
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Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Family Guy began its sixteenth season on solid ground, using "Emmy-Winning Episode" to spoof the entire TV landscape in true self-aware fashion. Sadly, this season didn't end on anywhere near that level. "Are You There God? It's Me, Peter" took a potentially cool premise and used to recycle one of the oldest plots in the animated sitcom playbook.
This episode started out well enough, with Peter becoming so lazy and slovenly that his body literally fused to the couch. That paved the way for a handful of gross but amusing gags. Even the cutaway jokes in this segment were surprisingly decent, including Oliver Platt's motivational video and the high school choir's terrible rendition of "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)". It's actually a little surprising the writers didn't just stick with the couch fusion bit as the main storyline for this episode. Though granted, it did start to wear out its welcome by the end. The extended callback to the couch scene from "Blue Harvest" didn't help. That brand of humor captures the show at its worst - overly drawn-out and interested only in making references to other things.
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May 21, 2018 at 02:36PM