Family Guy Moment
If there is one thing that is noticible about the Family Guy episodes, it would be this: almost every scene there is someone who is referring to the past. For example, at the beginning of a scene, a character would realize that there is a problem or some non-related thing, and then Stewie would have some snarky comment about what Megan’s problem is and the Stewie would say, “Well, thats almost like that one time that I…” and then the frame would go back to that time.
It was a friend of mine who remarked that this kind of humour was not funny because it was artifcial. By artifical, I think he meant that the humour was simply created for the sake of the show, and not simply because it was funny. Lets use the show “Everyone Loves Raymond” as an example. Funny things would happen because of how Raymond would respond to a certain case, i.e., his uncomfortableness with admitting that Ray’s wife cooking is terrible. This remains funny because it is not artifical, it is actually happening, while in Family Guy, an entire new situation is created for the sake of being humorous.
But then I began to think, what is humourous to me may not be funny to someone else because I imagine humor as a reason to laugh. Weird as it is, its true: Family Guy is funny because I look for it to be funny, and it fulfills what I looks for. Whereas Everyone Loves Raymond is just instinctly funny, I don’t have to look for it to be funny, it just is.
Then again, I think, maybe Family Guy’s comedy is just more complex than one can understand, and Raymond’s comedy is just very Blunt. All in all, I find both shows funny, when I get time to watch them that is. But what is more hilarous, Family Guy or Everyone Loves Raymond? What do not you tell me?
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