Opinion of random flashbacks and cutaway gags

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Freedom Jokes. Family Guy's sheer use of them is one of its strongpoints. In fact I'd like it if there was an episode that didn't even have a real plot, just characters making off the wall comments to each other and having bland conversation setting up such gags.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

The idea's not bad, but Family Guy is overdoing this.

[Paul Kemp]

Cheap.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Cheap.

The FG is a definition of "cheap".

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

It's alright in Family Guy, but Family Guy was cheap to begin with.

[Deus Naturae]

FJ, but sometimes I get the feeling that Family Guy's extensive use of them is an attempt to parody them.

[King]

This is worse than the time BRTD made a poll about Sneakers O'Toole

[Mr. Morden]

Random flashbacks?  Like the time Boss Tweed criticized Inks over how he entered an LA Times poll in the database by flashing back to a story about "The Group"?

ok, Inks, I won't curse you out.  just don't do that anymore.  because you want the numbers to look a certain way.  we all do.  but hey, it doesn't work out like that.  let me tell you a story, Inks.  back in the summer I hung out with this group.  we called it, The Group.  we hung out from mid-afternoon everyday to past midnight.  but then this girl came in.  well, she was there anyway, but she ed sh**t up hardcore.  and one of my friends was in love with her, but it was painfully obviously he'd never get with her.  then another of my friends fell in love with her around August 10th.  and she actually liked him.  but there was a problem.  my two friends that were in love with the same girl, they had been best friends forever.  literally.  so the friend that.  oh who cares.  the point is, it ed sh**t up.  and now The Group is no longer.  and I've tried to wink towards my past, but winking towards it doesn't work.  I've become obsessed with it.  and I want The Group back, but it's no longer.  I want the numbers to look a certain way.  but they don't.  sorry Inks.  it happens.  so don't mess with my entries and I won't mess with yours.  it's better that way.

Yeah, I don't think they're all that clever.  Usually, when someone does a flashback like that, it's because they're trying too hard.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Random flashbacks?  Like the time Boss Tweed criticized Inks over how he entered an LA Times poll in the database by flashing back to a story about "The Group"?

ok, Inks, I won't curse you out.  just don't do that anymore.  because you want the numbers to look a certain way.  we all do.  but hey, it doesn't work out like that.  let me tell you a story, Inks.  back in the summer I hung out with this group.  we called it, The Group.  we hung out from mid-afternoon everyday to past midnight.  but then this girl came in.  well, she was there anyway, but she ed sh**t up hardcore.  and one of my friends was in love with her, but it was painfully obviously he'd never get with her.  then another of my friends fell in love with her around August 10th.  and she actually liked him.  but there was a problem.  my two friends that were in love with the same girl, they had been best friends forever.  literally.  so the friend that.  oh who cares.  the point is, it ed sh**t up.  and now The Group is no longer.  and I've tried to wink towards my past, but winking towards it doesn't work.  I've become obsessed with it.  and I want The Group back, but it's no longer.  I want the numbers to look a certain way.  but they don't.  sorry Inks.  it happens.  so don't mess with my entries and I won't mess with yours.  it's better that way.

Yeah, I don't think they're all that clever.  Usually, when someone does a flashback like that, it's because they're trying too hard.

Thanks for quoting that. I kind of hold that post needs to be quoted at least once a year, so we got 2014 down.

[Хahar 🤔]

It really is an all-time great thread.

[DINGO Joe]

This is worse than the time BRTD made a poll about Sneakers O'Toole

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty.

[Eraserhead]

They work much better on The Update than they do on Family Guy