classicswim | [The Edible Arrangement]

I fell off from here.

Just been too miserable to watch even good TV because of how stuff has been.

I ditched Family Guy *again* awhile ago and only kept this ep on my radar with the endorsement from the staff. Lois & Stewie talking being the selling point for me, not the haha weed stuff.

People took the piss on this from the advertising, and I’m not one to deny the show not being what it used to be; But I think Family Guy of all comedies since... comedy ever shouldn’t be shamed for making weed jokes they always fucking made.

It’s one thing if a new cartoon or whatever is doing obnoxious stoner bits, but to knock a show who has downright seniority over derpy marijuana humor I find redundant.

I gave this a fair shot. It doesn’t make me want to watch the show again, and I’m not visceral toward the material either.

Making this episode earlier into revival vs the start of its 20 something season to me would mean more whacky bits and less dull exposition leading to what the episode wanted to sell you.

Did bring back sour memories to the last time the show wanted to have a big dialogue. I say ‘sour’ because that episode with Stewie talking to his therapist was shit on ruthlessly as it aired, and by general standards the last time most gave Family Guy as it aired the time of day.

The therapist episode gave Stewie a dumb revelation about himself that the audience didn’t have to think too hard about. This episode is leagues better in comparison but they equally provide strange/forced closure on irrelevant bits that don’t at all speak toward whatever the show chooses to be now.

If you’ve watched any of the new Family Guys in the past few years... it feels very out of place for Lois to talk about Brian loving her still. That was more weird to me than referential of anything because the ship has long sailed and that’s not what those two characters are much like anymore.

I exhausted very negatively to Stewie explaining the kill Lois thing yet again because THAT moment was most absolutely the show wanting to jerk itself off.

When the show reached its 100th milestone, Family Guy retired a bit that in retrospect was never that important even before the show went back on the air. You might think I’m bullshitting on that but really, watch Family Guy’s third season and you would see they wanted to fuck around with Stewie more than having to keep up with the evil antics. The Dixie episode had him taking up the banjo.

The two-parter of Stewie killing Lois gave the whole thing a sendoff it didn’t need that bad, and regurgitating it a few hundred fifty episodes later for a fake deep explanation was just dumb and tacky to me.

I got unnecessarily annoyed with how large their pupils were, simply because it’s just really fucking ugly and obnoxious to look at for an entire episode. When Family Guy characters got high in the earlier episodes you didn’t need that big attention to detail. The wrinkle under their eyes and the closing of the eyelids was more than enough.

The character bonding was okay and you can tell again from staff PR that this was what they seriously liked when writing it, so good for them.