Great Moments in TV's Family Guy

"Da Boom"
Original Air Date: 12/26/99
The episode ends with Victoria Principal telling Patrick Duffy that she just had a dream in which she saw a crazy episode of Family Guy.

2/01
This idiotic, puerile show is cancelled.

Present
Whining fans, who wouldn't know a joke if it bit them in the hinder (how would they recognize it, since the show doesn't provide any), create such a stink Fox and Cartoon Network brought it back.

The problem with this show (as well as most TV nowadays) is that the audience just settles for less. So they get it. In the case of the Family Guy, all you get is re-tooled jokes from The Simpsons, some shock-value jokes and random references to things many of the TV shows the thirty-somethings grew up with. The problem with this is (and I paraphrase Scott Renshaw) that these are references. The only laughs seem to come from association to other, more interesting things - and references are no substitute for wit.