Posts by Carter Dotson (Page 2)
Family Guy Review: Breakfast for Dinner is Anarchy!
Family Guy can be a very misanthropic show: the sense that maybe these people just do not like each other sometimes pervades the series, seemingly dependin...
Family Guy Review: The Dog Lies Down on Broadway
This episode of Family Guy, simply entitled "Brian's Play," was off-kilter and left me feeling uncomfortable for many reasons, even though I think I enjoye...
Family Guy Review: Space Idiot
Chris Griffin is not that smart. But he’s not a complete idiot, as the plot proved in "Space Cadet", an otherwise pedestrian episode of Family Guy. W...
Family Guy Review: The King of King of Kings
Family Guy has done Christmas episodes before – maybe nothing quite to the degree of American Dad’s insane holiday outing, but they’ve ce...
Family Guy Review: Heart of Darkness
Well, that was uncomfortable. Really, that's the best way to describe this episode of Family Guy, "Friends Without Benefits". Start with Meg’s arc: s...
Family Guy Review: Conway Bieber & The Old Pack Mule
A running joke on and around Family Guy has been that it’s basically a rip-off of The Simpsons. In particular, a similar thread between the two shows...
Family Guy Review: Second-Degree Burns, First-Degree Fun
I know Family Guy, like many Fox animated comedies, is meant to be something silly that can be watched at random, perfect for casual viewers and syndicatio...
Family Guy Review: Weiver Yug Ylimaf
When Family Guy has a special episode (not to be confused with a VERY special episode like Blossom), the show doesn’t suffer from the marked change i...
South Park Season Finale Review: States Full of Swingers
The Star Wars franchise was purchased by Disney this week. Therefore, South Park, in its standard fashion, decided to use something else as a framework to ...
Family Guy Review: No Cure for Cancer
This week’s Family Guy, "The Old Man and the Big 'C'," had plenty going for it in theory: goofy moments, some funny lines and a selection o...
