Out of all the series that Trick has tried to make to emulate The Simpsons, Family Guy has by far been the most successful. For well-nigh 20 years, the story of the Griffins has entertained millions of homes, providing millions of laughs week later week. Information technology'south an blithe giant that has more than made its mark on the manufacture, only not always in positive ways.

While at that place are enough of smashing elements to Family Guy (lasting every bit long as information technology has, there should be), the series hasn't been free of problems or legitimate complaints. There is a legacy of fun and memorable jokes that have gone into the series, but there are also years of controversial, offensive, and, more than often than non, lazy writing that has tested the audition's patience more than information technology has entertained. Weighing the bad with the expert, this list will exist running downwards Family Guy's all-time running gags along a few of the ones everyone is ill and tired of.

ten Worst: Buzz Killington

What is fifty-fifty the betoken of Fizz Killington? His entire schtick is that every now and then, when the group is having fun, he arrives at the scene to bring everything down, bringing up old facts and manifestly jokes with a tardily 19th century aesthetic. The important question hither existence: Does anyone really know or can relate to a guy similar him?

Sure, there are people that are buzzkills, simply Killington's portrayed in such a specific way that no one can really tie him to real life. If annihilation, he does his job actually well and interrupts the pace of the show for no exact reason.

9 All-time: Cleveland's Bathtub

This is one of the most time-honoredFamily unit Guy gags and only gets funnier with each new iteration. Peter preps a wacky item, similar a cannon or a tank, and so it somehow knocks off the top forepart department of Cleveland'south home, making him slowly autumn to the outside while he'south in the bathtub. Cleveland winding upwardly his "No, no, no, no, no" line is but icing on top.

Adding to the facts that the things destroying Cleveland's firm just get stranger, his reaction gets more and more than tired. The one fourth dimension that the gag somehow happened when he was living in Virginia hands make this one of the series most creative outlets.

viii Worst: Surfin' Bird

A huge commonality between some of the "Worst" gags on this list is the fact that, instead of being charmingly abrasive, they are just regular annoying, waste time, and dull the entire episode downwardly.

The "Surfin' Bird" gag was born from an entire episode defended to it that somehow keeps coming dorsum to bite people. The audience is supposed to exist laughing at the fact that everyone else is bellyaching and that Peter is having fun, but they are instead, surprisingly, merely not having fun. The law of diminishing returns already works really fast with music, and they cashed this in during the start half of this episode'south premiere.

seven Best: Brian is a Bad Author

Family unit Guy at its all-time harshly mocks the grievances of the creative world around it. For a while, that meant former television tropes and celebrity tabloid cloth but in contempo years, they've constitute an outlet to satirize one of the nearly increasingly cocky-interested and swollen industries in the earth, writers.

The "Brian is a Bad Author" gag works well when information technology pokes fun at and enough of holes in the level of pretension existing in the writing profession. This includes everything from writing at Starbucks, trying too hard with just the names and championship, going through tons of concentration drugs, and misquoting and misrepresenting archetype authors. This isn't even counting the fact that Brian'south book, Faster Than the Speed of Love notoriously hasn't been selling well and that he's had to stoop to gimmicks and pandering inside his later on works.

vi Worst: Scraped Knees

Why do they keep doing this bit? How oftentimes is does this joke have to happen to united states before it dies? Its formula is always the same, every bit a Griffin excitedly runs home and trips, and goes through an extended flake where they agree their articulatio genus (or, in Lois' case, her boob) while exaggeratedly hissing in pain.

To be fair, this strange and intimate gag could exist funny the get-go time around. However, seeing it multiple times just shows that the creators just didn't want to write a joke or spend as well much time animating, a concept that tin merely be one-upped past one other infamous gag.

5 Best: Kool-Aid Man

In a refreshing display of variety, this gag has rarely appeared the same style twice. It's initial incarnation saw a courtroom progressively go "Oh, no!" inciting the iconic Kool-Aid Human to inappropriately and awkwardly break through the wall.

This has transformed into him breaking through already stock-still walls, tripping and spilling his "guts," and even an eviler 1 where Stewie tried to trick him into an ambush. Kool-Aid Human being has become a fond recurring graphic symbol, just oozing with curiosity and affection for whatever the heck he is and any it is he thinks he's doing.

4 Worst: Whaaat?

Sound furnishings and silly voices tin can only go so far in stand-upward comedy. Family unit Guy brings the low-concept even lower by constantly bringing up a dizzy discussion. Not a sentence. Non a consistently used accent. A word.

When one of the Griffins is surprised past something, their mouth goes widely afraid and they lean forward to go "Whaaat?" in as low a voice as they can. For a while, one would be forgiven for thinking if this was some sort of reference to something because Family Guy is known for inexpensive referential gags, and information technology's hard to imagine a author thinking this counts as a joke on its ain.

three Best: Craven Fight

An easy fan favorite, the Chicken Fight has brought virtually some of the series' almost dynamic and memorable sequences. Information technology e'er starts off out of nowhere, which would exist lazy writing in any other case but, given the set pieces and how creative these fights take become, that isn't the case here.

The sequence and then transforms into an oddly-well choreographed fight between man and chicken that would sometimes run into an entire town destroyed. Peter and his fowl foe have fought through time, in infinite, and even backward in an increasingly wondrous gag.

2 Worst: Conway Twitty

The laziest, virtually abrasive gag of them all, the "Conway Twitty" gag is a deliberate attempt by the creative team to exercise the least amount of work possible while even so filling upwards a big portion of air time. It'southward also such a weird and out-of-place move, too. A character literally just introduces Conway Twitty, so they evidence a grainy video of one of his performances.

The about artistic use of this was when they loosely edited a Justin Bieber wig onto Twitty's head, but that was it. At no point in fourth dimension has this gag ever made anyone laugh. The serial has fifty-fifty acknowledged that people don't like the joke if it's even a joke. It'south a harsh waste matter of time and if information technology wasn't so cheap and like shooting fish in a barrel to exercise, they wouldn't exercise information technology at all.

1 Best: Shut up, Million

"Shut up, Meg" is ane of the series' longest-lasting gags that lives dangerously on the knife's edge between playfully mean and downright sadistic. Even so, it manages to land on the "All-time" category, every bit the concept of the whipping boy in any sitcom has not only become increasingly common, but Family Guy has even managed to lead the charge with its cool level of panache implementing this gag.

The family harshly ignores Million, punishes her, farts on her, essentially does anything they can to mess with her. And while Meg isn't exactly a character that deserves this or that fans even love, each humiliation further exemplifies club'south weird tendency to ignore teenage girl problems while simultaneously adding to One thousand thousand's lonely, outcast character. Each prank adds to an uncanny tragedy that works both in its crudeness and its sympathy.

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