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MillennialVulcan posted:Ed and Gordon should have hugged. Between Ed's uncertainties about being a Captain and Gordon just losing another friend, they need something more emotional than just a handshake there. Too true, mate.
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Family Guy is real bad
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Mar 11, 2019 14:29
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Yeah that's the one I was thinking if, I got who delivers the punchline backwards. That aired a couple months ago Iron Crowned posted:Family Guy is real bad That's a solid gag I thought
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Mar 11, 2019 14:30
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Donovan Trip posted:The truth is he's just never acted before, he was a receptionist at the family guy offices since 2005 and became good friends with McFarlane. They're writing and drinking buddies. I'm shocked, just shocked
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Mar 11, 2019 14:33
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Yeah she's still voicing Meg, the only voice changeover(assist from Chabert) I know of is Peters Boss who was Carrie Fisher, and Adam West. It's a general yikes/wtf reaction. It's from a video where a mom tells her 2 kids they're going to Disneyland, and the older one is freaking out but the younger one (Chloe) makes this face  https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/side-eyeing-chloeI use that and  pretty interchangeably.
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Mar 11, 2019 14:34
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:That's a solid gag I thought It’s really not. It probably could have been, but that’s the laziest, least clever way they could have done it.
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Mar 11, 2019 14:34
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Phylodox posted:It’s really not. It probably could have been, but that’s the laziest, least clever way they could have done it. What sells it to me is how bad the not-Peter's voice is.
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Mar 11, 2019 14:39
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It would have worked if that was Peter's voice for the entire episode with no explanation or reaction from the characters, and that specific joke was the very end of the ep.
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Mar 11, 2019 14:43
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That would be way too long a setup.
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Mar 11, 2019 14:44
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:That would be way too long a setup.
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Mar 11, 2019 14:47
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:That would be way too long a setup. Yeah, Family Guy is more of a "way too long an execution" kind of joker.
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bring back old gbs posted:nah, the real funny joke would have been 20 minutes of setup for a single gag, thats what really should have happened. i mean, the show sucks and is bad, but i'll just punch up the jokes a bit to appeal to my evolved tastes Family guy is about loosely related 2-4 minute long jokes. It would be so much better if they ditched the narrative and just made Family Guy into a 5-10 minute Adult Swim show that is on at 2AM. That's basically what it is, only in 30 minute long format for some reason. Family Guy cannot do callbacks at all, they are terrible at it.
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bring back old gbs posted:nah, the real funny joke would have been 20 minutes of setup for a single gag, thats what really should have happened. i mean, the show sucks and is bad, but i'll just punch up the jokes a bit to appeal to my evolved tastes I didn't say it would make the show funny, just that the joke would work
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Mar 11, 2019 14:50
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pixaal posted:Family guy is about loosely related 2-4 minute long jokes. It would be so much better if they ditched the narrative and just made Family Guy into a 5-10 minute Adult Swim show that is on at 2AM. That's basically what it is, only in 30 minute long format for some reason. Isn't that just Robot Chicken
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Family Guy still has at least one episode a year that makes me cry laughing. Last year it was the one where Peter and Lois are trying to rekindle their romance and go to a cabin, and then they both start going over a laundry list of the mundane ways the cabin is completely lovely, all of which were so spot on to various gripes my wife and I have had about hotels we both completely lost it after a couple of minutes of the gag.
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Mar 11, 2019 14:54
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Family Guy still has at least one episode a year that makes me cry laughing. I think that's actually the place where FG does succeed: the observation of petty annoyances, everyday gripes, the kind of "I hate it when..." moments that you don't think about much after but FG takes it to an extreme.
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Brawnfire posted:I think that's actually the place where FG does succeed: the observation of petty annoyances, everyday gripes, the kind of "I hate it when..." moments that you don't think about much after but FG takes it to an extreme. Family Guy is one of the shows that (like Orville has) listened to what people liked and then turned it up to 11. So people liked the chicken, they liked the gag where peter was going "owwwww" for ages. They liked cutaways! The show came back and that's all it was, those things. Over and over. Forever.
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Mar 11, 2019 14:59
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Taear posted:Family Guy is one of the shows that (like Orville has) listened to what people liked and then turned it up to 11. The most recent thing with the chicken which also made me laugh, was Lois and the Chicken being friends on Facebook and chatting about how bad their respective marriage are. The chicken types in the chat "You deserve so much better. I would be so much better to you" or something like that, then hurriedly deletes it before pressing send, with a look of guilt on his face
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Mar 11, 2019 15:08
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Here's a pretty succinct explanation of why I think that joke didn't work using The Simpsons as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk&t=1248s "A self-referential, throwaway piece of nothing." I guess that pretty much encapsulates how I feel about it.
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Mar 11, 2019 15:13
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Family Guy still has at least one episode a year that makes me cry laughing. 
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Mar 11, 2019 15:25
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rofl i do not appreciate that meme, i am a important tv watching man
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Mar 11, 2019 15:39
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I think Lamar is fine Some people are just like that. This is, among other things, Working In An Office In Space. I'd take his delivery over Ash Voq Tyler on DISCO any day.
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Besides he actually has gotten to be in the bridge the last couple episodes because Gordon has been off ship. He even got to blow up a Kaylon ship and shout his signature catchphrase "BOOM, bitch!" Oh God I'm not helping his case
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I like Lamar
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It's not a "some people are like that" issue though, he is very clearly reading his lines off a particularly boring piece of cardboard
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So an example of a line read I thought was really good from him: "Who's the lucky lady? Or... fella? Or... Uh, o-object? "
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bring back old gbs posted:It's not a "some people are like that" issue though, he is very clearly reading his lines off a particularly boring piece of cardboard AlBorlantern Corps posted:So an example of a line read I thought was really good from him: "Who's the lucky lady? Or... fella? Or... Uh, o-object? " 
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How do you reconcile his lovely acting with Issac though? A literal robot who is capable of responding to words and sentences as if there are other people in the room? But this human character verbalizes his dialogue like its a text to speech program that doesnt have any context of the previous line of dialogue? How can you watch him interact with other people and think that is acceptable in terms of an actor's performance? Socially stunted, bored genius, autistic, whatever his condition is, people who have those conditions in real life are still humans who respond in context. Lamarr's doing a lovely dalek impression every time he speaks but I am absolutely not convinced that is his choice as an actor, he's done nothing to earn that benefit of the doubt.
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Lamar is alright. It does look like they adjusted his role based on his ability to carry a scene though. As a supporting player he's good. Not everyone can be a Dann.
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The first "Boom, bitch!" was dumb, but the second one was earned and satisfying.
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Donovan Trip posted:Apparently I'm the only one who's excited whenever he turns up. He's in some of my favorite bits ( him and Malloy running up to the deck to gossip about Isaac might be the most I've ever laughed at the show) and hasn't had much of a chance this season to stand out. I'm hopeful he can get some time to develop more on screen. The truth is he's just never acted before, he was a receptionist at the family guy offices since 2005 and became good friends with McFarlane. They're writing and drinking buddies. Lol, is this actually true? Because that would uh, explain it all really.
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bring back old gbs posted:How do you reconcile his lovely acting with Issac though? A literal robot who is capable of responding to words and sentences as if there are other people in the room? But this human character verbalizes his dialogue like its a text to speech program that doesnt have any context of the previous line of dialogue? How can you watch him interact with other people and think that is acceptable in terms of an actor's performance? The fact that Issac is a "robot" is completely immaterial as he is a supercomputer alien AI with a brain the size of a planet. I just don't see Lamarr's character as that unrealistic. Some people are loving weird. In your estimation, the actor is, right? Maybe Lamar is the bored augment Bashir of the Orville
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Tom Guycot posted:Lol, is this actually true? Because that would uh, explain it all really. He's had a bunch of bit parts, did some Seth things, and is on The Orville.
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Lamarr didn't come off as stilted or weird to me, he comes off as mostly normal and natural
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Not all black spacemen can command a room like Sisko, some are just trying to get through the workday like Geordi.
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He comes off to me as half-baked and being like "haha whoa" when something happens
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Lamarr didn't come off as stilted or weird to me, he comes off as mostly normal and natural I know right? Where the hell do some of you live that you've never met anybody like Lamarr before holy poo poo
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