I will never understand why Kendrick Lamar thought it was a good idea to collaborate with Swift on "Bad Blood" in particular.

Yeah, this episode was overall pretty decent. However, it was never meant to be epic or thrilling. It was just supposed to give closure and a little taste of where the characters are headed.

It's Arthur. South Park is third.

I think you're thinking of David Zuckerman. Goodman was actually more involved in the post-cancellation era. Zuckerman was basically the show's James L. Brooks. But alongside him, the show had a ton of creative and talented writers like Barker and Weitzman, Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan, and Ricky Blitt. Plus, Alex…

In an alternate universe, the A.V. Club admitted that even though they hate Family Guy, their burning desire to talk about it is undeniable.

You know what I don't understand? Why did Fox greenlight a new show made by MacFarlane when they could have just brought back the same show in the first place?

The only episode Seth MacFarlane had a hand in writing was the pilot, which was with two other guys who were actually responsible for the show's creative direction (Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman).

The scene where Cartman accused Kyle of spying on him and being a hypocrite was pitch perfect. That was some unbelievably hilarious stuff right there. In fact, it was the best scene from this episode.

No, because somewhere along the line, the hatred for Family Guy became terribly overblown and people started treating it like Satan's own personal creation so now, nobody wants anything to do with it.

Well, on that note, would you like to take a look at an episode of my adult cartoon? It's not with animation and voice acting, just scripts but I try to make it as much as the real thing as possible. So it's like a book.

I think whenever they feel like the show is no longer fun to do anymore and it's become an obligation, they just take a look at their check.

That's a pretty good point. The voice acting can really make or break cartoons when they're declining, because it can help mask mediocre writing. If Castellanetta, Kavner, Cartwright, Smith, or Azaria retired/died, the show would be over. Maybe they could continue without Shearer, maybe.

Modern Simpsons can get VERY boring very quickly. I notice there's a huge difference in storytelling, humor, pacing when I watch an episode from the 90s.

It does seem pretty unfair for people to hate Family Guy that much that they can't even let the show have one good episode. What I mean by that is episodes that are genuinely top-level material like "Brian's Play" go under the radar or just get ignored because most people look at them with pessimism and know the show…

Agreed. The weird thing is, South Park used to take this kind of formula and do it really well. I guess Parker and Stone saw more value in pop-culture stories because the well never runs dry with them.

The thing is, when Family Guy has a bad episode, I still get some decent laughs out of it. When South Park has a bad episode, it becomes unwatchable to the point where I never want to see it again. I would rather have some random, amusing gags than satire that barely even understands what it wants to be.

Everything about this was gold.

If it was a joke, why be so offended? That's the kind of joke Family Guy has been known to make for years.

Full House in its last season was more entertaining than The Boondocks in its last season. I'm actually not kidding, there was some funny shit in that season. And the show had declined at this point!

Did anyone get that joke where Robert says that they'll be blacklisted in Hollywood and he'll never host the Oscars? Was that meta or something?