The Scream and Its Episode: Thoughts on Family Guy’s “The Munchurian Candidate”
Note that this piece contains complete spoilers for the Family Guy episode in the title and also features NSFW discussion more or less throughout. I also spoil The Simpsons episode “Stark Raving Dad” and certain narrative elements from The Cleveland Show . While I don’t think there was ever a point where I would have identified myself as a fan of the long-running animated adult sitcom Family Guy , there was a period of time a few years back when I did watch the show regularly—both the new episodes on Sunday nights and the re-runs in the evenings during the week. Part of that interest and time investment arose from the simple fact that we didn’t have much in the way of animation or weird or interesting stuff available on the channels we received, unless you wanted to watch PBS, I guess. Part of it was also genuine interest, though. I did (and still do) think the show is funny. I believe there’s a very valid critique of its style of humor to be made , but I still like it...