Episode 6 - Quagmires Baby
22 March 2012
Synopsis: Quagmire is left a baby but doesn’t think he can raise her. He gives her up for adoption but soon regrets it. Stewie clones himself in order to have a dumb assistant. Brian asks for one too but they don’t last long.
The Good: The Quagmire adoption story follows a predictable path of affectionate parenthood.
Flashback ratio (good-medium-bad): 0-1-4
The Bad: But I don’t know what the point of the Quagmire story was as it hardly provided many laughs. Similarly the clones story just played out in its own weird way without making a point or indeed providing many jokes.
That’s the frustrating thing about Family Guy, you get the impression that the writers just allow their imaginations to run wild and slot in whatever jokes they think of along the way without considering how the whole episode fits together.
Practically every scene feels like that here. We get some bizarre parody of what sounds like the BBC World Service, though it just sounded like someone writing nonsense words for their own amusement. Then we got Peter’s ham radio causing feedback noise on a karaoke microphone several times, is that even a joke? We get our usual dose of perversion with Stewie wanting some kind of weird stroke motion from Brian in exchange for making him a clone. Followed by Lois giving a graphic account of the damage which giving birth to Chris caused. Again are those jokes? Or are they just writers with no censor just trying to amuse themselves? Finally we have Joe unable to go up steps and so needing a running commentary on what’s going on and the clones disintegrating to end that plot. Each scene feels a bit like the writers just plugged in whatever they felt like and the whole just didn’t make me laugh once.
Best Joke: The Flintstones car chase was at least an understandable parody.
The Bottom Line: I find the lack of effort put in to entertain viewers pretty disrespectful.
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