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Shufflingdead > Things of the Week > Shameful Human of the Week
Seth MacFarlane
The Shameful Human of the Week is Seth MacFarlane, creator of perhaps the most overrated tv show of all time, Family Guy. One ever-present feature of my life has been my willingness to watch mediocre tv. Quite awhile ago I started watching Family Guy reruns because they fell in the same programming blocks on a couple different channels as The Simpsons, South Park, and Futurama. This was after the show had been cancelled, but before it had been brought back.
I considered the show passable, a decent way to spend time waiting for one of the shows listed above to come on. Despite the boring jokes and forced randomness, the show provided enough offensive "I can't believe they did that" moments and interesting story lines to keep me from changing channels.
A few nights ago, however, I watched one of the new episodes, it was unbearable. The plot line was so thin that it seemed half the show was dedicated to Family Guy's over used "like that one time" flashbacks just to stretch the episode across the required 22 minutes. All of the show's short comings are now more glaring than ever, the boring jokes feel more forced than ever, the randomness is somehow even more forced, and even the once solid offensiveness is, yes, forced and unfunny.
MacFarlane is shameful because he's gotten lucky with this completely unworthy show, and takes up time and resources which should have long ago gone toward a return of the ever-amazing Futurama. My disappointment has been furthered as I have just discovered MacFarlane has made small appearances on Star Trek: Enterprise, Gilmore girls, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the third being a great show, and the first two being my favourite tv shows of all time. A bitter taint shall forever lie over the episodes featuring this man, now that I know.
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