Family Guy 7 x 11 - Not All Dogs Go To Heaven.

[Cky]

Did anyone else watch this? I thought it was amazing.

I love what LeVar Burton sees through his visor. I wasn't expecting much for ths episode to be honest, I thought it was just going to rip on Star Trek fans, but I really enjoyed it.

Anyone else got an opinion?

(Sorry if this has been posted)

 

[Robotech Master]

I thought it was dull as dirt.

If you want to see a real homage to Trek watch Futurama's 'Where No Fan Has Gone Before.'

This episode wasn't even really about the TNG cast. It was about Meg finding religion or somesuch.

 

[Gojirob]

I felt they could have done a lot more, though what they had was hilarious in spots, and almost made up for that Conway Twitty 'Just Why?!' ep two weeks ago. I really expected Meg's battle with Brian to dovetail in somehow, especially since TNG had high-handed eps like 'Who Watches The Watchers?'. And to not have the TNGers interact with the other Griffins was just wrong. Also, Brian? No God? Then what Son Of stayed over your house a few months back? I'm surprised they didn't mock-ref it :

Lois : Brian, how can you say that there's no God? I mean,Jesus stayed with us, not too long ago.

Brian : Uh, Lois. I was talking about GOD, not Jesus.

Lois : Oh, I'm so sorry.

Peter : Yeah, get with the program, Lois!

Another good one would have been Wil Wheaton seeing Chris's Evil Monkey and recognizing him from the TNG set, or something.

Wheaton : Remember the court order, Pal!

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The two minutes out of the entire episode that were actually about the TNG cast were good.

 

[TheBrew]

The part where Peter goes "Yes, this is a Meg episode." and gestures for the audience to turn off the TV was prescient.

 

[Sephiroth]

whats the deal with the griffins treating meg like that? Is Seth MacFarlane going somewhere with it, or is it just part of his plan to add more Doucheyness to the show?

 

[ExcaliburZeta]

I thought it pretty boring. I had assumed the entire episode was going to focus on the TNG cast interacting with everybody, but we got a few scenes (the only good parts of the entire episode). A lot of effort to get everybody together only for Gates McFadden to get a line or two and the others to not get a ton.

The rest of the episode was just boring. I watched Family Guy for the first time in over a year for this and it was a waste sadly. Maybe if Futurama ever did come back as a series they could give the TNG cast a true featured episode...

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I think it was incredibly stupid to get so many guest voices to just do a B story. An entire episdoe could've (and should've) been written around the cast. They wasted time with the Meg story, and frankly, I was insulted by that storyline as well.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I got a few good laughs out of the episode, which is more than I expect from Family Guy nowadays.

 

[SeerSGB]

Dull predictable episode and ending. An man Brian was a fucking douche in this episode. Granted I'm not big cheerleader of religion, but come on Meg found something that made her feel accepted and loved, they could have dodged the easy shots about book burning and bashing on religion and just ended with Meg being religious and that's that. Taking shots at religion is easy, too easy and unoriginal.

As for the TNG bit: Yawn. Pretty much what I figured it was going to be.

 

[Kryton]

whats the deal with the griffins treating meg like that? Is Seth MacFarlane going somewhere with it, or is it just part of his plan to add more Doucheyness to the show?

A co-worker's girlfriend went to Seth's school and one of her friends apparently dated McFarlane for a while. He tells me she dresses and even looks somewhat like Meg. If this is the case (you know "friend of a friend" has urban legend's stink on it), Seth may be taking out his "problems" with their break-up on a character that resembles the girl

 

[Sephiroth]

Seth realy needs some help

 

[Christopher]

I loathe Family Guy, so I was trepidacious even to look at the preview clip that was posted on TrekMovie. But I gathered that David H. Goodman, author of Futurama's brilliant "Where No Fan Has Gone Before," was involved either as a producer or writer, so I hoped that maybe the episode might be an exception to the show's usual crushing unfunniness. But the clip was dreadful. It wasn't a TNG homage, it wasn't a tribute to or parody of the actors -- it was just the annoying baby character and the TNG actors acting out a routine, tedious family outing with the baby as the father and the actors as the children. That could've been done with anybody. That's the perennial problem with FG -- MacFarlane thinks that just presenting a pop-culture allusion or an odd juxtaposition constitutes a joke in and of itself, so he doesn't think it's necessary to do anything further that might actually involve creativity or wit.

Although I did laugh when Wheaton was asking for all sorts of stuff at the drive-thru and Stewart smacked him and said "You'll get nothing and like it!" That was the one part of the clip that even approached having anything to do with TNG.

 

[The Wormhole]

First Family Guy I've watched in nearly a year. Disappointed. "This is a Meg episode. Here's the clicker, no one will blame you." One, that's good advice that should have been followed. And two, how sad is it that the Family Guy episodes themselves are indicating how bad they are?

The actual storyline itself was bad. Brian's aetheism has been obvious to anyone who has any kind of familiarity with the character, so making it a big revelation here seemed stupid. And what's with everyone being so against him for it? Aetheism is very common today, so much so that I see more people ridiculed for having religious beliefs than not having any.

And the TNG bit? Disappointing. There is plenty of material that they could have made an entire episode about the TNG cast. Hell, some of them have real life personalities that lend themselves perfectly to humour, and from what I've heard they did a lot of goofing around on set back in the day. But we got nothing of the sort. And there were barely any Trek-specific referances anyway, which is ironic since what pissed Stewie off at the convention was the lack of Trek-related discussion.

The only time I did laugh was the very beginning when Brian described the sci-fi convention as "the one time of the year when nerds pull their lips away from a loaded pistol and venture off into sunlight and attempt face-to-face interaction with other humans."

 

[Warp Coil]

I haven't even watched the episode, and I'm not all that excited to. And this is coming from a Family Guy fan. The show just hasn't been funny for the last year or so.

 

[Praetor]

My advice to everyone: if you haven't watched it, don't. Christopher and The Wormhole are spot-on. It's horrible. (This is coming from someone who once thought FG was great.)

Wait for someone to clip together all the TNG cast moments on Youtube. I'm sure it's under ten minutes.

 

[Sephiroth]

My advice to everyone: if you haven't watched it, don't. Christopher and The Wormhole are spot-on. It's horrible. (This is coming from someone who once thought FG was great.)

Wait for someone to clip together all the TNG cast moments on Youtube. I'm sure it's under ten minutes.

ten? hell, it's under 5

 

[Praetor]

My advice to everyone: if you haven't watched it, don't. Christopher and The Wormhole are spot-on. It's horrible. (This is coming from someone who once thought FG was great.)

Wait for someone to clip together all the TNG cast moments on Youtube. I'm sure it's under ten minutes.

ten? hell, it's under 5

I thought I was being overly generous.

 

[Sephiroth]

seriously, it's like 4 30 second shots, Thats. It.

 

[Brent]

I wish they would do a full on Trek parody or homage, like they did with Star Wars.