14th June 2011, 3:54 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Oh well. They do the same thing. I remember some thanksgiving episode where after something about a turkey it cut away to some montage of people "learning lessons", completely unrelated to the rest of the show.
I know that humor is subjective, but this was at least clever and funny, satirizing heavily dramatic moments in movies and TV. It was a cutaway that made fun of what was happening in the main plot, where most of Family Guy's cutaways are shoe-horned in.
Also, Family Guy's cutaways are typically just pop-culture references with the characters inserted. I remember a recent episode where they take the clip of Christian Bale flipping out on a director-of-photography and put in responses by Peter, as though Bale were yelling at him. Or when they put in a "Chuck Norris has a fist behind his beard!" joke, about 2 years after the meme was already dead and buried.
I'm with you on South Park's Imaginationland trilogy, though. It's like they had a weak script and punchline and wanted to pad it out a full three episodes.