The episode starts with Stewie lost at an air show, so Brian asks a radio booth to use their microphone to find Stewie, annoying and overdone radio jokes ensue. Yadda yadda yadda, Brian gets his own radio show for some reason, then for no reason Stewie becomes his co-host much to Brian's displeasure(seriously, there's no explanation given as to why the studio would pick a 1-year-old to host a radio program). More annoying and overdone radio jokes ensue. Meanwhile Peter's mom gets freaky with Tom Tucker [shudders], then she leaves and Tucker has to take care of Peter alone in a gripping, dramatic tale of epic pro..., Peter acts like a 3-year-old the whole episode. Then comes the reset where the characters learn their lessons very halfassedly. A plot where Peter’s mom divorces and reenters the ‘market’ would have been a good place for some character development. Obviously FG isn’t the best source for masterful plots but the show would be so much better if the writers would try to develop the story instead of stuffing the show with as many jokes as possible. Some dialog would be better off without a random fart or hotdog thrown in every 10 seconds.

As for the jokes, well there were mainly just 2, radio stations suck and Peter is a 3-year-old. These 2 jokes were repeated over and over in slight variety. Peter acts like a child in McDonald’s, Peter acts like a child at home. Oh I get joke, Peter not child he adult, but he is acting like the child, which he normally doesn’t, HILARIOUS. As for the radio jokes, the show decided to show how annoying and repetitive radio programs are by being annoying and repetitive, sounds like a good idea on paper, sort of. Needless to say after 30 seconds the wacky radio sounds stopped being funny, after 5 minutes you’ll wish you were dead. Other jokes included an idiotic joke about Darth Vader that made me wish Star Wars didn’t exist, a ‘brilliant’ tribute to ‘Master and Commander’(do I have to tell you where it goes?) and so on. There were a few good quick gags like Peter’s brother and the ‘Mannequin’ jab. Still, reusing the same joke every three minutes just isn’t something a show like FG should be doing. More is expected of FG then paper-thin plots meant to push repeating jokes again and again.

Here it is, the FG season finale. This season was more then just a little disappointing, I'd call it the worst season easily, season 4 started out ok then went down the toilet, season 5 started out in the toilet and each episode was like another nail in said toilet. This episode was by no means fantastic but it was well ahead of most of the season. 'Meet the Quagmires' takes inspiration from time-travel stories mainly 'Back to the Future'. The episode had what I like to call a plot where there is a conflict and a resolution instead of things randomly occurring. The story asks the question of what would happen if Peter didn’t follow Grandpas legendary advice of 'If you ever do back in time don't touch anything' Of course Peter screws up(multiple times)and as such in the new present features Lois married to Quagmire instead of Peter. Peter now has to figure out how to fix it. The story was enjoyable and while it was just a cliched idea the episode still had you wanting to see what happens next. The problems with this episode included the fact that the plot was predictable, the song at the end was just filler and naturally there was more political propaganda. These 'I hate republican' jokes, besides being devoid of any comedic value, are also getting annoying with the same weekly radical views. While none of the jokes were hysterical funny there weren’t too many roll-your-eyes bad moments.

A good plot and a lack of annoying 'jokes' makes this easily the best episode of the season.

Well here we are, the 400th episode of the Simpsons. Who knew this show could make it this far. But milestone aside was this episode worth the historic spot, well it definitely was better then most episodes in the past couple of seasons.

I must say this episode started out very slow and disappointing. The episode starts with Marge running home through the town past many of the characters that have appeared in the show over the years. Homer's AAA card was a funny scene. However this scene was tedious and pretty boring. The dentist scene was even worse topped off Bart being overly cruel to Skinner. Thankfully the episode picked up after that and was able to close out as a decent episode. At the ice cream shop, Homer buys the 1,000,000th cone to commemorate the 400th episode and is then interviewed on 'Smartline' by Kent Brockman. Homer then spills coffee on Kent making him say a swear and getting him fired. What I find great about this episode is that you really feel for Kent, the little guy who was fired not because his employer was offended but because his employer didnt want to be connected to Kent, which is somewhat true in heartless Corporate America. The ability to identify with the characters is important in any dramatic scene and that makes this plot sincere. Of course all that goes to hell when Brockman resigns with the network, but thats the reset button for you. The jabs at Fox made their point without getting overly pushy which is a plus.

Overall the beginning was boring, Ludicrous was a terrible choice for a guest and I don't like how Flanders is becoming more of a bad guy but good political satire makes this a fine milestone.

This latest episode of Family Guy embodies many of the problems that have plagued this show for the past 2 seasons, weak plots that jump too quickly from one plot point to the next, jokes that you already heard so many times before, and gags that rely only on references without any sort of punch line or perspective. This week's episode features Lois running for mayor after she discovers that a local oil company has been dumping waste in the lake. What follows is a debate scene which poked fun at undecided voters, who according to Seth McFarlane(A.K.A. Brian) are big idiots who follow anyone who just spits out controversial topics. The message I got from this is that anyone who isn’t a fanatic political zealot like McFarlane should die. Lois wins the election but (too)quickly becomes corrupt and uses tax dollars and accepts a bribe to buy a purse and a fur coat(apparently she doesn’t get paid as mayor). She then sees that she’s too corrupt and steps down. The plot overall was underdeveloped. Scenes could have been used to showcase Lois doing some more mayorly things or developed the family's displeasure that Lois isn’t homemaking.

The jokes failed to get any sort of interest from me outside of the 'Amadeus' and Jason references, but my brain didn’t tell me 'that’s funny' but rather 'yes, I know that'. Recycled jokes such as Quagmire's couch and West shooting people aren’t funny because its been done before. I know comedy is doomed to be repeated but I can't think of an original joke FG has thought up in the past season. The 'Amadeus' gag was a flat reference, pretty much identical to what happened in the movie. Lois ad-libbing the situations that require taxpayer money(as in the Hitler Legion of Doom stuff) truly sounded like something a drugged up sixth grader would say for a laugh, but this is FG so that’s not exactly a stretch. Jokes about Jimmy Smitts and Donny Most(people that noone knew even existed) didn’t fair much better.

Family Guy sure went from good in early episodes this season to real crap, and this episode is no exception.

After a night at the ballet(complete with an overly-long, underly-funny texting joking), the family finds that Chris's(yeah remember him) school textbooks are pre-1950s. Lois decides to complain at the next PTA meeting and as a result Chris is expelled to boost test scores and funding and joins Morningwood Academy. In-between this Peter fights the chicken which I'll get to later. After the long chicken fight, nobody really cared about the Chris plot anymore but for the record there's a knock on the 'Skull and Bones' club, which by proxy is a knock on Bush(can't get enough of those wonderful jokes). Ol' pedophile Herbert makes a long appearance which is pretty much the same joke that we've been seeing from him for the past 4 seasons(huzzah). This plot could have been good or at least ok with some work and development but thanks to cutaways and more cutaways nothing happened. The chicken fight(clocked at over 5 minutes) was just filler at its finest, minimal thought went into a quarter of the episode time. How minimal? It was just the first 2 chicken fights but with a little more variety and a lot less surprise. If a show is going to waste 5 minutes on that, it better be an impressive fight or damn funny, this one wasn't. The 2 just punched and kicked each other with references to movies with better fight scenes passed by. I The restaurant part was lame as well. If you wanna see comedic fight scenes go watch the 1960s Batman show. The jokes were of mixed results. A few Chris lines had potential, like his line after being expelled, but the delivery was off. The Hancock joke had a ham-fisted and awful setup line, which I figure FG should have perfected by now. The setup line was(courtesy of the quotes section)-'They cut our school's funding if it's got low test scores? This is not what the founding fathers had in mind.', the setup line has nothing to do with Hancock's odd name. A few more decent gags included 'King Friday' and the DeVry crack. A few bad gags included the drawn-out deaf pep rally and Bruce's address. This could have been a good episode but nobody wants to watch 5 minutes of 'man punches chicken'.