Its a show that's good for a laugh, but there's a lot of ick factor with it, seems like a lot of cartoon vomit happens for no good reason...but i have a fear of any vomit, cartoon or real so...yeah.

Overall, it's decent. I am starting to find that it is starting to wear on me a little and it's starting to feel a little predictable. Some episodes are very funny, but overall it seems like a show more suited for the junior high and high school crowd (even though they might not understand some of the references). Unless they can make some episodes with completely new stuff, I'll pass on this for now and watch my season 5 DVD, which is one of the better ones.

Arbitary and just plain stupid. What is the point of this random and childish show. 5th grade humor.

i like tottaly love this show it is so funny and it is sofunny how peter is a fat lard

this should get 0 stars

It's cute but I don't understand the hype? I'd give 3 stars but I'm deducting to 2 because I'm disappointed because other people have overhyped it for me.

I won't over-praise this show. . .it has legions of followers that (I believe) tend to oversell it- I find several misses with the hits BUT-

Some of the scalding satire is quite funny and you have to really know your shite to get some of the jokes. Hit or miss for me. . .inconsistent. . .but it's a solid three or four. . .

I wouldn't even give this show one star. but apparently I'm forced to. One episode was enough to not want to watch it again. It is degrading to women and the show makes fun of things that anyone with any decency would not find funny. The humor is SICK and a show like this should not be on at a time when kids could have the opportunity to watch it if their parents weren't careful. This show is just another example of why this generation is going down the tubes with perverts everyone corrupting our innocent children.
God help us.

i think that the people that think this show is inapropiate should stop bein a big f ing baby and grow up..its a cartoon get over it people...but i think the show has always been funny..true there are some episodes that are not as great as others but a bad episode of family guy is better than a episode of any of that other crap u people watch that think family guy is inapropriate. So Family guy is the bomb!!! oh yea

Deteriorating fast, but the new episodes are still good and worth watching. At its best, Family Guy is quite simply unparalleled in this millenium (but I suppose it hasn't had much competition...).

Its still going strong, and almost everybody knows at least one quote from the series.

Good show.  As someone mentioned, Stewie (the baby) and Brian (the dog) are by far the best two characters.

This is a pretty funny show about a loser and his family who live in Rhode Island. I only gave it a 3 because the show has dropped down in quality.

Barely a 90's show, I don't think Family Guy qualifies. It is definitely a new millennium show.

A VERY poor man's The Simpsons...

I love this show. It is one of my favorites and I never get tired of watching reruns of it.

love it

  Lets not take ourselves so seriously.

And what if there are random flash backs, they are all funny! People also said Archie Bunker was distasteful, but then put things in perspective.

I love this show. My wife does think I am nots, but I love it.

Don't get me wrong i love family guy but its a bit degrading to some people. I laugh out loud at some of the things but it gets very repetitive, random flashback after random flashback after random flashback.. but all the same family guy is a pretty cool show. 6/10

I think family guy is stupid and very degrading to women. Most of the people that like this are men. I can see why.

Family Guy is AWESOME!! Clever and unique jokes that even though people say anyone can come up with it, It only happens on Family Guy. A Laugh Out Loud Show. LOVE IT!!

Anyone watching this program is sick. Its vulgar and disrespectful to say the least.

The problem I have with Family Guy, is since being revived back from the dead, its always been the same kind of stuff. Random pointless flashbacks every minute or so and not focusing enough on the plot at all. Peter has become dumber and all the other characters are out of place, I'm just finding the series repetitive now and Family Guy used to be so good back in its early years (Seasons 1-3). Why can't things go back the way they were?
There are a couple of fairly decent episodes here and there, but the series is just not the same as it used to be.

Sometimes I feel that maybe the series should have stayed cancelled, and shows like The Simpsons and South Park managed to stay fresh and enjoyable for at least 10 years. How long will Family Guy last? How could this have happened to one of my favourite shows? If you've run out of ideas, then just cancel it and stop giving us recycled ideas and jokes!

Me and my dad love this show and watch it all the time! It can be gross and vulgar more than we like at times but seriously people if you don't like the show or think it's bad for the kids then simply just don't watch it and block the channel from the kids. It is funny more often than not and the characters are hillarious! Family Guy gets my vote!!!

While Family Guy is entertaining, it is not something children should watch. The time slot allows this to happen daily? What happened to protecting our childrens value system? Not all of the people, or children are conditioned to this type of content on primetime! Take a step back and get a accurate perspective! The Simpsons and South Park fair no better. It is a sad state of affairs for the average American family to have their children influenced by such vulgar programing. Michael Venable

I honestly despise this show, but I gave it 2 stars, instead of 1, because it can be very funny at times. But for me, it's not worth it. I think it's pure trash. And anyone who creates a pedaphile character and makes fun of child molestation seriously needs their head checked. For me, it's not about just offending people. If something is actually traumatic, especially involving children, you shouldn't mock it.

Way funnier than the simpsons! I love it I laugh everytime

so wrong but oh so right....and hilarious

cant stand the show its not appropreit

What's not to love about an animated dysfunctional family with a talking baby & dog?

HILLARIOUS tv show!  Peter Griffin is stupid but thats what makes the show funny!!  I love the different character on the show too.  The only reason I'm giving it 4 stars is while it is one of my favorite adult cartoons, some episodes are too silly and off the wall lol.

Family Guy used to be funny until they got obsessed with 80's pop culture references. IT'S THE 21ST CENTURY, DAMNIT!

This show can be really funny, but there are times when it is too random. You stare at the show and wonder why am I watching this?

The newer episodes are better, I think.

I think that this show is occasionally brilliant and is capable of making me laugh out loud with it's satire. Written by many of the same people that did the Airplane movies. Not every episode is a winner, I have seen some real flops but, in this day and age anything that can amuse me at all on TV is going to get 3-4 stars. I quit watching The Simpsons a long time ago because its humor got too mainstream for me.

This show is just a meaningless parody of everything in pop culture. I guess its many fans, whose viewpoint I can only try to inhabit, must watch it while patting themselves on the back for catching all the references to celebrity culture and whatnot. But why do we need to watch a TV show to catch a parody of Hollywood celebrities? Doesn't this shit already parody itself? The Family Guy is so parasitic on passing fads of our time that no one will be able to laugh at its weak humor in two years. At least South Park often reached for something deeper in the attempt to critique the culture.

So pitiful and immature show. I watched about half of it and was totally amazed that adults would write such trash and put it on Fox!

who's better (or worse) then stewy

A copy of the simpsons? Yes. A copy of the simpsons executed the way a copy of the simpsons SHOULD be executed? YES.

I want to like this show but I can't, because it is very much a rehash of the Simpsons with poorer characters, more potty humour and much less social satire. Only Brian the dog and Stewie the baby are worth listening to at any time.

This is the best in the history of American TV series. Inspirational, powerfull, dirty mouthed (thank u very much), meaningful in an incredibly stupid manner, and a very artistic mockery of human relationships. I'm also a fan of the simpsons, but it's an isult and a disgrace to accuse family guy of being an imitation *chokes* clinevol98, LAY OFF THE DOOBIE! U probably think 'Darma and Greg' is funny! Or maybe when Jim Carrey farts in all his movies . U have no idea what true comedy is about...it's about sex.
And Family Guy is NOT childish, I mean look at Stewie!
...STEWIE 4 GOVERNOR!

I recently watched 3 episodes and was prepared to add another animated program to my list of favorites. Unfortunately, I found the show extremely flat. The fact that something is a non-sequitor does not by default make it funny. Yes, the program has random moments and yes it is at times bizarre but at no time did it make me laugh. Most bizarre of all however is that it has such die-hard fans. I understand why the show was cancelled and think that its resurrection should be held as a minor miracle.

This show is not at all pc and incredibly funny. My favorite characters are Stewey the angry baby and Brian the educated dog.

Usually entertaining, but the lack of plot and the continious non-sequitors make it just OK. Still better than most of the garbage on TV.

BEFORE FAMILY GUY CAME OUT I WAS FORCED TO WATCH CRAP LIKE THE SIMPSONS OR KING OF THE HILL.NOW DONT GET ME WRONG I USED TO ENJOY KING OF THE HILL.NOW NEW EPISODES ARE STUPID.THE SIMPSONS I USED TO THINK I LIKED BUT I WAS KIDDING MYSELF.SIMPSONS IS THE WORST ANIMATED SITCOM OF THEM.ITS EVEN WORSE THAN FUTURERAMA.FAMILY GUY IS THE GREATEST SHOW EVER.ITS BRAND OF COMEDY IS SO UNIQUE AND FRESH.AND NO ITS NOT A RIP OFF OF THE SIMPSONS,SIMPSONS FANS.IF IT WAS A RIP OFF OF THAT THAN IT WOULD SUCK TOO.I REALIZE THERE ARE PLENTY OF SIMPSONS FANS OUT THERE WHO WILL DISAGREE WITH THIS BUT THEY ARE SCARED TO ACCEPT THE FACTS THE FAMILY GUY IS BEGGING TO TAKE OVER AS BEST ANIMATED SITCOM.YOUVE HAD A LONG LAUGHLESS 17 YEARS SIMPSONS BUT PEOPLE YOU NEED TO REALIZE THATS FAMILY GUY IS BETTER.IF YOUVE NEVER WATCHED IT THEN DO IT.ITS PROBALY THE FUNNIEST SHOW ON TV.FAMILY GUYS #1 FAN ZACH

It has occasional moments that are genuinely funny, but overall it is, as others have said, a pale imitation of "The Simpsons", along with a superficial attempt at the shock value which "South Park" does much better and with more genuine wit, and the random cutaway gags are the sort of thing that were much funnier thirty years ago when Monty Python was doing them. It makes me laugh every now and then, but if originality were a novel, Seth McFarlane has yet to write a first paragraph.

i don't know why everyone thinks this show is so funny. it's just a ripoff of the simpsons, which is an unfunny show itself. stupid, childish cartoon characters is all it is. i know some of you are thinking "well, he doesn't watch it" or "he doesn't get the humor." i have watched a few episodes, and i do get the humor. it's just not funny.

my favorite show. always makes me laugh everytime i watch it

The dog and the baby are funny. Thats about it. Having read the commentary from AvidAFfan, I was moved to ponder exactly which college he/she attends. I was further moved to speculate that he may not be majoring in English.

First Off I Can't Stand How Everyone Says Family Guy Is Copying From The Simpsons. It Is Completely Different, And I Don't See You Peoples Problem With Stewie. This Show Is Great And Hilarious, I've Even Wrote A Paper About If For One Of My College Classes. And Everyone Loved The Paper, They've Even Been Inspired To Watch The Television Show. I Can't Wait To Buy Season 4 On Dvd. I'm One Avid Fan ^.^