Why do the early seasons of this show feel so warm even though the show was always darker than the Simpsons?

Why do the early seasons of this show feel so warm even though the show was always darker than the Simpsons?

Because of those good old fashioned values

On which they used to rely.

The characters were characters, not only were the sketch's just a extra charm, but the characters had personalities and plots that would need to fit the characters

The reason of why Family Guy is a shitshow is that the recent formula is a open field for shitty writing, it is:

>The plot can be about= Anything
>This character will act=restricted in their personalities, they will change to fit the plot (ex: Stevie will be: the jerk, a middle aged woman, the nice, the reason, the psycho, the gay, the idiot, anything we want to fit the joke)
>The jokes= Will fit the plot

In the past it would be:

>The plot can be about=Something that fits the concept
>This character will act=restricted in their personalities
>The jokes= Make a lot of random jokes and shove it into show

Also, one of the worst parts of the writing is when it's base on this:

>Character A (often Quagmire) says something mundane related to the plot
>Other B character stards a discussion A
>Character A says "What?"
>Character B and A start discussing more, going more off topic
>Other characters join the discussion
>The discussion keeps getting more agressive or stupid (but the all characters still have that stupid Go Animation "bored" face all the time)
>The discussion was just a cheap way for the writers to fill the time of the episode, and reaches no point
> THAT'S THE JOKE

You weren't jaded about the show and it's characters yet.

Fuck you, you rat faced bastard. There's a literal dip in quality that you can see between early seasons vs. the newer seasons.

I don't think I've ever seen a show so hated yet so popular as this.

Same as The Simpsons, right?

I miss when he was a family guy

He used to be a man who
positively could do
all the things that made us

Early seasons did the whole moral lesson at the end of the episode thing.
Later seasons mocked the idea of that.

F ing cry

>le show didn't change but you grew up meme

The early seasons still had crude humor but also had a corny/cute factor due to taking much inspiration from 80s family sitcoms - hence the name "Family Guy".

Later seasons forgot about this and instead relied more on increasingly cold and edgy humor.

fpbp

He was truly our Family Guy.

Because Peter wasn't a flat-out retard in the early seasons.

>Peter was a dipshit yet caring father and husband
>family felt endearing
>jokes were just silly not ever outright malicious and mean
I will always laugh at "holy crip he's a crapple!"

>Why do the early seasons of this show feel so warm
Do they? Honestly after seeing some older episodes it's just jokes from old movie with bad animation dressed over it, or just pretty dry quips.

the funny thing is it happened with the uptick in animation "quality". When it came back it was better animated but lacked the punch it once had. Where as when it was a bit cheaper and shittier looking as well as (some) of what user said here:
it had more charm.

It's like a shitty garage rock band that falls off when they starte putting out better "quality" music because the sound is completely different.

>jokes were just silly not ever outright malicious and mean
The Benjamin Disraeli joke still gets me to this day.

>jokes were just silly not ever outright malicious and mean
It's funny you say this, because I always think back to this one Meg abuse joke in the early show: Meg's earring gets caught in Peter's lance and he's accidentally dragging her around.

Like, there was Meg abuse, but it wasn't willfully malicious.

The early seasons were, at their heart, about a family. The later seasons are based around non-sequiter; the family members feel more like college roommates.

This.

They did to Peter what they did to Homer.

Early seasons earned their moral lesson by showing the characters actually struggling with problems. Something silly like Peter being jealous of Chris' huge penis ends up into a sincere bonding moment when Peter realizes that his son looks up to him regardless of their physical differences.

Compare that to later seasons where there is an ending speech that reflects nothing of what we've seen in the characters before. Bonnie cheats on Joe, Joe wins her back with a hug and a staged bit of walking on his own, but then they go back to hating each other. The episode stops dead to make it seem like we should care about mean, ignorant cartoons. It's pathetic.

>we should do [activity]
>cut to Peter as/talking to an employee at venue where [activity] takes place
>banter about how [activity] is horrible, no jokes, just listing things that suck about [activity]
Whats your favorite post season 3 type of Family Guy joke, Sup Forums?