Family Guy, a popular adult animated TV show, was initially canceled after its third season due to low ratings. However, strong DVD sales and high viewership in reruns prompted Fox to revive the show in 2005. The show is now in its 25th year and shows no signs of stopping as creator Seth MacFarlane plans to continue the series due to fan interest.
Despite a timeslot change, Family Guy remains a ratings winner and a pop culture phenomenon. Disney is holding episodes for release in the UK in a more steady weekly format, similar to how it used to happen with Family Guy. There are massive scheduling gaps in the US between episodes after episode 9, so Disney is holding them to ensure they can be released in the UK in a more steady weekly format.
Family Guy has been a cornerstone of adult animated comedy for nearly 23 years, making it almost unbelievable that Fox originally canceled the series after. Critics have targeted the show’s reliance on cutaway gags, panning it for its characterization, excessive pop culture references, and writing outside of Stewie’s character. The show was canceled in 2002 but found a second life after Turner’s Adult Swim picked up reruns.
The high ratings on Turner’s late-night Family Guy display a lack of purpose and humor in its use of cutaways, which shows a misunderstanding of their function both visually and dramatically. Despite the challenges faced by the show, creator Seth MacFarlane remains committed to continuing the show and funding good causes.
| Article | Description | Site |
|---|---|---|
| Cutaway gags – Family Guy Wiki – Fandom | A Cutaway Gag is a comic element found in some comedy television shows. The sequence generally opens up with character saying a completely random line. | familyguy.fandom.com |
| Family Guy cutaway removal time (before/after) | Page 2 | If you cut the cutaways, TV segment, Kool-Aid Man, intro, and credits from Stewie Kills Lois, it goes from 23 minutes, to 17 minutes. | nohomers.net |
| Family Guy controversies | Critics have targeted Family Guy‘s reliance on cutaway gags, panning the show for its characterization, excessive pop culture references and writing outside of … | en.wikipedia.org |
📹 Trapped In A Family Guy Cutaway
Thanks for watching! Animators: Jerb: https://twitter.com/jerbjpg?s=20 Vudujin: https://twitter.com/Vudujin DublyMike: …
📹 South Park- How Family Guy Jokes Are Made (Good Quality)
This is the actual way the Family Guy writers come up with their jokes. I own none of the rights to these clips from South Park.
I love the range of feelings the Peters have. Resenting the watcher for no longer enjoying the show, the desperation to spark nostalgia, the admittance of the show’s downward quality and overall just remembering when things were good and just wanting them to remember that too. It’s all they have left.
okay, time to analyze it as if it was a literature essay so each peter griffin represents each season of family guy, the more deformed ones are the newer seasons with less and less quality, which is why each next peter we see is even more distorted, then there are the peter griffins left alone in the basement, they represent the older seasons, they are way nicer and are not forcing the viewer to love them, the reason why the “newer peters” are so forceful is representation on how new family guy tries to be funny way too hard, forcing the viewer to love the show. the new peters also keep reminding the viewer about old nostalgic gags of the show which is obviously a technique used by dying tv shows called “nostalgia bait”, honestly i really love all those details in this article. thank you for reading my essay, see ya on the next article
After hearing you say how burned out you are and how much pressure you’re under and I watch these productions and see how quality this stuff is I totally get it. I wish this were more fun for you bud. It’s awesome and enjoyable. Thanks for having done these as long as you did. They are art treasures. I wish you all the happiness you deserve. Take care my friend.
1:43 “you will never be satisfied.” “EVERYTHING will dissapoint you.” “you think all the things that bring you joy now will be able to stand up on that pedestal?” “they will be standing right next to me before you even know it.” “this was all for you…” “THIS, WAS ALL FOR YOU.” unironically really good writing, good job
For those who didn’t see it, the dialogue during the muted segment is: (Surfin’ Bird music starts) (Peters start randomly saying “bird”) Peter: How can you possibly not like Family Guy now? You can’t just write this all off as bad! Can you? Hee. Hee hee. You entitled little worm. What loyalty do you have?
All cutaways aside, the animation/ graphics that went into the house, not the peters, but the actual house the character is seeing In first person, is amazing. Meatcanyon could make a sickass horror game with those type Of graphics. That would be pretty amazing, having characters such as the demonic Pinocchio, da baby, and other disturbing figures, all chasing you around as you try to collect items in order to progress the story. Not even just that, an entirely separate game could be made with its own horror and back story. Lot of potential that this website has.
I never thought that a YouTube article would ever make me feel one of the strongest cocktails of fear, nostalgia, and sadness that I’ve ever had. You may never see this Meat Canyon, but you are something special. Thank you. Edit: I would like to politely apologize for my comment. I was like, 13 or 14 when I wrote it, and I thought that shit was cool for some reason. My sincerest apologies
This article is the perfect example of meatcanyon’s incredible talent as a youtuber and storyteller. He can tell us something that we need to know, and yet present it in a way totally unique to this world (i.e. the one with nikocado avocado). Only meatcanyon can make an animation so funny and yet so unsettling and creepy. He has NEVER failed to surprise and startle me. We’re very lucky to have him, and if you (meatcanyon) are reading this, I think you’re doing an amazing job, and I can’t wait to see what you make next. 🙂 (Seriously, that thing at the end – I almost had a heart attack – holy shit)
Damn, this really put some things into perspective for me. Of course, the visuals are amazing as always, but the moral, the meaning… Becoming uninterested in the things you used to love. I myself did like family guy once upon a time. But it slipped my mind soon enough as I moved onto other passions. I recently tried to watch a YouTuber that I used to thoroughly love, but perusal their new stuff just didn’t have the same magic. I can appreciate the times I had, but that passion I once had is gone. It hurts, losing that feeling. That spark, that passion. But, I’m happy to know there’s always something new for me to enjoy in this endless world we call the internet. and even more, Im happy to know someone else will become just as infatuated with my old passion as I was. Thanks MeatCanyon, for another wonderful animation. I know no one will ever grow tired of you <3
“You will never be satisfied. You think all the things that bring you joy now will be able to stand up on that pedestal? They will be standing right next to me before you know it. This was all for you! THIS. WAS ALL. FOR YOU!” I legitimately get terrified when a MeatCanyon article starts getting way too true.
A moment of silence for how amazing meat canon is. He works so hard on ideas and animation and the 2d on 3d was beautiful. It’s weird it’s funny it’s filled with gore everything all us weirdos love. So let’s just appreciate how much work this website puts in to us sickos looking for creepy stuff like these animations.
You are really stepping up your game with these, the atmosphere on this one was so thick with nightmarish helplessness, claustrophobia and vulnerability. I get the most insane fear response perusal this at night, in the dark with headphones, it disturbs me on both a primal survival fear level and a deeper psychological terror level. All while being simultaneously funny and a parody of the franchise and the zeitgeist around it. You’ve also really stepped up your audio game, visuals aside, the music, sound effects and even the voice acting in this was incredibly emotional and just on point to match the dark and oppressive atmosphere and visuals. Keep up the incredible work, papa meat!! 🍖
Basically what I got from this is that people complain about the new things and say: “Wish we could go back to the good old days!”, but at the same time, the things from “the good old days” weren’t actually good to begin with. Old ideas weren’t really better than the new ideas today, people just pick and choose what to like and hate.
The line “Maybe I should’ve left a long time ago” is what pulled the horror together for me. Because it went from “Spooky Peter Griffin” and became a horror where he’s tried to escape but is trapped in an endless realm of suffering by useless writers who just keep using him over and over for the same shitty weed and fart jokes he’s aware nobody likes anymore. It’s one thing to make horror but I always had a soft spot for horror when fictional characters become aware of the hellscape they inhabit.
This short perfectly symbolizes the “state of limbo” the show is in. It’s terrible, a select few arguably think it’s good, but ultimately, the network will never let it die. Even if the creator and team working on it are burnt out of ideas. Like Simpsons and SpongeBob, some can’t decide if it’s still good or bad now, ultimately the thing that these three shows have in common, is that they’re too profitable for the network to let them die. No matter how good or bad these shows get.
I appreciate the 3d effort in this bit. 3d is a new level of pain in animation. It shows that the subject was something of importance to the artist. For the artist to make the character in his native 2d in the twisted 3d of what it’s world has become expresses the dichotomy of then and now. Excellent.
Wow this was fucking amazing. I didn’t expect the “Peter griffin art sketch” to become such a work of art from you man. This is amazing. All of your work to make this… the people that worked on this… the people that inspired this.. the fucking art. This is why I subbed.. this is why I fucking love you and love creativity. Mad love man, and mad love to everyone else
in a way, Peter’s just as trapped in a bad cut away as you are. He knows people dont like him, he knows people are tired of the same jokes; and yet, he has to do what the writers say. He’s trapped in a world he knows has gone to waste also, I just want to say I REALLY like the part where he talks about the times he “joked” about not liking meg. somethings really wholesome about that in a way, that he never really disliked her and that in the beginning it was just a joke for the show and all in good fun- but later he was forced to become more cruel and overdo jokes and cruelty to her by the creators. He has no control of himself, he can’t help being a terrible person. In a way, I view this as a cry for help from Peter- as he desperate pleading with the viewer turns to anger as he realizes they too dislike him for something he has no control over. I wonder if he even wanted to attack the viewer, or if it was just something he was written to do.
A lot of comments here about the quality and how creepy this is (all accurate), but I think what blew me away most is how this actually really spoke to me on a deeper level. I remember a time when Family Guy was THE show. Just like how The Simpsons once was. It makes me weirdly sad to look back and remember how excited I was for every new episode 10-to-15 years ago, compared to the modern ones – when, on the rare occasion I watch, I just end up rolling my eyes and turning it off after a few minutes. There’s a sadness here, like when love dies. I truly loved this show once and that time is gone. Braaaaah
man this even did a good job of capturing how ridiculously weak peter is in a fight despite his size, the way the mc just shrugged the one grabbing him off and shoved past the others several times with minimal effort. outside of the chicken fights peter just loses most fights in like one to two hits.
When there exists no happiness in the present so you reminisce on happier times and promises of returning to those times, only to realize all you ever have anymore ARE those memories. You then start to realize all that exists now is a shell of what once was, just the same old thing over and over again. Sure it was nice at first, but after a while the repetition bores you and you wonder if it really has gotten worse or if its just you.
Besides the amazing visuals everyone is talking about, which are amazing, I absolutely love the true message of this piece. I DID love family guy. I really did. Of course, the decline is undeniable, but that isn’t the product’s fault. The very monster that is us made it what it is. We loved it so much, we smothered it too much. The saying of ‘if you love it let it go’ has never been truer. Maybe this is supposed to represent how you’re feeling, Papa Meat. That you’re afraid of the course that your popularity may have caused your art to go towards. That you might be another family guy, that you don’t believe you’ll be on our pedestal forever, that you’ll fall into obscurity. We’ll, I promise you, if your work continues to have this much love and care out into it, then you will never fall. Your pieces have made me happy, scared, sad, insightful, and now, hopeful. Hopeful that that can strive to be as passionate about my life as you are with your work. I’m sorry if you’ve ever felt that you aren’t good enough for the fanbase you’ve acquired, but you have this because of you. This is your work yieldingresults, and you should be proud. I know I’m proud of you.
the scene where Peter says “maybe I should’ve left a long time ago”, I like to believe this is Peter admitting his time was over & he doesn’t want to repeat the loop. But the company forced the “crazier than that time” joke while throwing him back into that loop, causing him to get aggressive. Even the Peters in the basement kinda backs this up. Instead of being stuck in a running loop, they found somewhere to just exist outside the spotlight within that loop.
I think all the different Peter’s represent the different seasons and that’s why some look like Peter and some are deformed representing the decline as time has passed, loosing the spark it once had, and the Peter’s eating each other shows how the same content is being reused over and over again. Great content as always meatcanyon
“You will never be satisfied! Everything will disappoint you. You think all the things that bring you joy now will be able to stand up on that pedestal? They will be standing right next to me before you know it. This was all for you…THIS WAS ALL FOR YOU!!!” Jesus Christ man, you ain’t gotta call me out like that.
I think I had a dream almost like this, but instead of multiple peter’s, it was one that went from cartoon to looking more and more realistic when it walked closer to me step by step. I remember we were talking about something, but I can’t remember exactly what. All I know is that every time he got agitated, he came a step closer and looked more real. I just wonder what that dream meant.
Honestly the 3D animation was awesome, the shadows and lighting really must”ve taken a long time so whoever worked on all of that really dedicated themselves to their work on this article and really did an amazing job here. It’s a shame the music was striked, but even so this is one of my favorite animations on meat canyon. The way peter clashes with the 3D atmosphere almost gives a sense that he is an unnatural entity here let alone with his strange transformations and variations in this. My favorite part might be when they run down the stairs and you see the shadow as they run across and peter crawls then pops up in your face.
You know creepiness aside Peter. . . .kind of has a point here. There was a time were a lot of ppl loved family guy. But ppl dont want to admit it because it reminds them of the “good times”. Or when they were immature in their eyes. Peter asked something very interesting. He asked “do you think your show can live up to that pedestal?” He said that at some point all of our shows will end up like FG if stay on the air long enough, and I think hes right. Other than a few exceptions most shows peak at around 5 to 6 seasons at best. After that there waping things up. . .or become Family Guy. 🤷♂️
My God, that animation style is fantastic! Even the 2D animations of Peter Griffin are leagues better than the lazy animation style of the actual show. Those 3D backgrounds and Peter Griffin amalgam really took it to a whole other plane of reality. The caliber of this article is pure gold, mind blown! 👌😲
Meatcanyon is a genius of abstract art expressing modern day societal and media groundbreaking messages. Something that was a small detail here, their were five Peter’s in the basement signifying the start of family guy and its first five seasons when the show was at its best with good clean comedy and the mass of Peter’s that came down to absorb them were the following morbid seasons of family guy. That’s why each one got more horrendous signifying how each season itself became more morbid and less original. Clap…clap…applause true genius sir!
This episode really speaks to me. Not just for Family Guy, but several other franchises I loved. Such as Star Wars, Dr. Who, Halo, Marvel, Megaman, Dragonball, Futurama, Rick and Morty, and several others. “Please! Look past the decline.” “Maybe we should’ve left a long time ago. I can’t control what they do with me. They’re gonna milk me forever.” “You will never be satisfied!” Peter is right. They are standing next to him before I even knew it.
This one hit me hard. My best friend no longer wants me in their life,after all we’ve been through,all the good times, all the laughs and little talks,the intimate times,the times I was able to cheer her up when she was sad. But they won’t come out and say it,just take what I do now for granted,say they care when I can feel the distinct lack of honesty like a vacuum. This article is straight up facts for how the TV sector of the entertainment industry milks shows and in many cases ruins them till they’re unrecognizable. But I guess I’m seeing how it’s a suitable allegory for how relationships whether romantic or just friends decline,and how it can bring out the worst side of people. Disclaimer,I’m stoned so I have no idea what I’m rambling about
Watching this as somebody who has never seen a single Family Guy episode (not counting a handful of seconds-long YouTube clips) is a visceral experience. It’s like someone accusing you of a crime you didn’t commit. No, actually; it’s more like somebody calls you on the phone to expose your various crimes, only to find out they called the wrong number.
This, actually hits quite close to home. That moment when they said “you think all the things that bring you joy now will be able to stand up on that pedestal?” because that’s true. Every show will either end or end up like Family Guy, the Simpsons or Spongebob. Just either ending or being milked until they end up a shell of what they used to be. They all need to end someday, or they’ll become something much worse.
Given the message and the serious, sad music accompanying, I don’t think this article is meant to be taken as a joke. It looks like the article uploader evidently made this article as a cry out for help, given that he’s a big fan of family guy and wishes the show never declined and it was still great like the 1st few seasons. He probably wants Seth McFarlane or other people on the show to see this article
I still love Family Guy. Those first few season were magic. After season six began the decline…apparently they’re trying again with the more recent seasons, but I don’t bother in the fear of them still not being good enough. My favorite characters have always been Joe and Peter. Back when he appeared in his debut episode, Joe was an excellent character and the episode taught a great lesson about being a hero for your family. I miss when Family Guy did that. It was a nice spin on things with bit more comedy and adult humor to watch as a family. If the kids didn’t understand, as the adults, you would talk to them about how it works and what the punchline is. I miss those early seasons. They’ve lost the point of the characters, and what they stand for. They’re complete stereotypes now.