Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Like The Simpsons, Family Guy kicked off its new season with a themed episode tonight. Surprisingly, of the two it was Family Guy that emerged the clear winner. This series tends to have a solid track record whenever it gets unusually meta, and "Emmy-Winning Episode" was no exception.
Basically, this episode was all about the Family Guy cast acknowledging the lowbrow nature of their show and striving to deliver something actually worthy of an Emmy award for a change. But Family Guy is a series where 90% of the humor is derived from jokes that boil down to "Hey, remember this thing?". So naturally, the Griffin family had no other choice but to parody all those shows that seem to reliably rake in the Emmys year after year. So while this episode was as dominated by referential humor as ever, the self-aware quality definitely helped make it that much more palatable.
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Like The Simpsons, Family Guy kicked off its new season with a themed episode tonight. Surprisingly, of the two it was Family Guy that emerged the clear winner. This series tends to have a solid track record whenever it gets unusually meta, and "Emmy-Winning Episode" was no exception.
Basically, this episode was all about the Family Guy cast acknowledging the lowbrow nature of their show and striving to deliver something actually worthy of an Emmy award for a change. But Family Guy is a series where 90% of the humor is derived from jokes that boil down to "Hey, remember this thing?". So naturally, the Griffin family had no other choice but to parody all those shows that seem to reliably rake in the Emmys year after year. So while this episode was as dominated by referential humor as ever, the self-aware quality definitely helped make it that much more palatable.
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