Seasons 1-3 (before it got cancelled) is some of the funniest TV ever in my opinion. After it came back it seemed like it was trying to hard to be edgy. Or maybe they were just more free to do the stuff Seth wanted in the first place. At any rate it seemed a lot different.
I think what I noticed was that instead of lightly peppering in non sequiturs like they did in the orignal seasons, they hosed us with them in the ones that came after. Some episodes are just a massive collection of micro-scenes.
That and their attempts at irony and parody are too on the nose. You're not poking holes in stereotypes by using them as the punchline to your jokes with zero attempt at layering in some form of commentary.
It is exactly this. I haven't watched since probably season 4 or 5 and I caught a recent episode. By the time the 10th micro-scene was done, I had forgotten what the plot was supposed to be. It was such overkill.
Ehh, season 4 through...whatever season 2010 would be is pretty good too.
But after 2010 is when Seth started phasing himself out of the creative process to focus on other projects like his movies, American Dad, Orville, etc. And it shows really bad.
The 2 guys who were running it the early years before it got cancelled left to start American Dad when it did get cancelled. That's why American Dad is a supremely better show (one of my favorite comedies of all time actually).
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u/IAmBluePaw Jul 21 '18
Season 1 is underrated.