Nice watch, many jokes landed for me, I liked the callback to the episode with lumpar lebrushnov in it and the plot was interesting enough for me to not yawn. Pretty good episode worth watching. Best part was totally the musical.
8 Reviews
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trinity-destler27 October 2010
The beginning and end of the episode were quick, funny, and genuinely sharp satire. The middle was bogged down with too much partisan mud-slinging and empty-headed rhetoric. This show really, really needs to stop preaching, because the comedy stops dead every time it does, it doesn't serve the issues it attempts to address even remotely competently and it's just not entertaining to watch. Either mock idiocy and extremism on both sides without lecturing the audience or stop harping on politics. Good satire needs to be egalitarian, if they're going to call themselves "equal opportunity offenders", they need to live up to it.
Overall, it was a an okay episode and was something of a step in the right direction, but seemed to take two steps back.
Overall, it was a an okay episode and was something of a step in the right direction, but seemed to take two steps back.
Funny, Satire, Great Musical
saumitrahnlu26 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I am not an American but do get some of the politics there. Many jokes landed for me. Death penalty, taxes, climate change, women issues-I can see why Republicans find this not equal or that much fun. Also the idea of Brian in suit walking into the Republican house and then into the White house to threaten Nancu Pelosi was damn fun. Stewie should have been brought more into this Brian episode.
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Excellence in Broadcasting new storyline
mcclearyr-1156229 November 2023
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Tom and Diane announced their engagement on Tv, Olivia tells Stewie that Tom and Diane adopted Olivia as their daughter which excited him. Brian decides to help McCain with his broadcast to Lois. Lois is worried that Brain is taking it a little to far. Lois wants to help Brian anyway could to help the family. Meanwhile Peter and the Guys had a crazy idea to pull a prank on Horace on his birthday. Tom and Diane introduced a new news reporter Joyce Kinney after they found out Tricia died. At the end of the episode Brian thanks Lois for helping him out in which cases impresses her a lot.
Joyce Kinney introduced as a new recurring character.
Joyce Kinney introduced as a new recurring character.
Sorry, I just can't defend this episode...
mattiasflgrtll61 March 2015
It's so dull you are almost baffled. Am I really watching Family Guy? Is this the show I know and love? The plot is really, really, really uninspired. Brian hates Rush Limbaugh's guts, reads his book, then becomes his best friend, then is taught that he didn't really think his politics were THAT great. If you think the plot sounds boring already, you won't like this episode. I'm not sure what Mark Hentemann was thinking, but I wish he at least had tried to put some damn jokes into the episode. There are almost none. And several of the few jokes that are there are not even good. If the episode had been funnier, I'd have forgiven the bad plot. But since the very little at all humor stops when Brian becomes a fan of Limbaugh, I can't give this episode any positives. Family Guy has handled politics in a way that's both smart and funny, plenty of times. This episode is not an example of that. Limbaugh is very unfunny in his guest role and the ending is F UCKING STUPID. Rush turning into a vulture and flying away? Excuse me, WHAT???? What this episode should have done to work is mocking both political sides equally and write more jokes into it. Hmmmm... Nah, you know what? This episode simply just shouldn't have been made. One of the worst episodes of the whole show.
Dull... yet again...
trevor-mcinsley25 November 2010
Family Guy is funny when it sticks to what it does best, stupid quick jokes, surrealist cut aways and a plot that is essentially irrelevant but serves the purpose. Understand that these are not criticisms of the show, since it can still manage to come up with some good situations and hilarious lines from time to time.
This episode however fails entirely for the fact that it seems to be trying to make some kind of political point, at the cost of humour. Whenever Family Guy attempts parody, satire or a vaguely serious theme it just falls flat on its face and gently suffocates in the mud. The writers need to stop trying to be like South Park and stick to what they do best.
With the first episode of series nine being an hour long yawn fest of a humour devoid parody and this episode being almost entirely boring I can only hope that this was just filler and the rest of the season picks up.
This episode however fails entirely for the fact that it seems to be trying to make some kind of political point, at the cost of humour. Whenever Family Guy attempts parody, satire or a vaguely serious theme it just falls flat on its face and gently suffocates in the mud. The writers need to stop trying to be like South Park and stick to what they do best.
With the first episode of series nine being an hour long yawn fest of a humour devoid parody and this episode being almost entirely boring I can only hope that this was just filler and the rest of the season picks up.
Worst Episode So Far
darad26 July 2022
Whoever thought this was a good idea for a Family Guy episode was terribly mistaken. Rush Limbaugh and Republicans? Really? I'm a huge Family Guy fan but this is the one episode I have to switch or turn off, along with most James Woods' guest appearances. Showing Rush Limbaugh as some hero or nice person is just too unbelievable, even for an animated program.
Republicans?? Really
amirghodsss-255-4126717 December 2020
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