No need for a long post here. You've all seen Family Guy a few dozen times, and regardless of when you stopped watching it, you haven't missed out on anything groundbreaking in the interim. So here are a few basic things I liked about this season.
My favorite episode - and probably most people's favorite from this season - was called "Back to the Pilot," and featured Brian and Stewie going back in time to the Family Guy pilot. While it could have been a really awful self-congratulatory experience, it was instead loaded with what felt like contempt; large chunks of it were essentially just Brian and Stewie offering commentary on the very rugged and sometimes messy appearance of the show back in 1999, pointing out things like Peter's eyes somehow slipping in front of his nose for a few frames, or how a TV that people were ostensibly watching wasn't even plugged into a wall. Well worth the twenty minutes if you feel like finding it on Hulu or Netflix or wherever.
The rest were a mixed bag, but not terrible. I can't pretend I've been keeping track of Family Guy through the years enough to break it down into these brief little eras of good and bad quality, but I'm comfortable saying that in general the show's last few DVD volumes haven't been nearly as groan-inducing or anger-instigating as the show was during its creative nadir a few years ago.
Yeah, you heard me. Family Guy is better than it was when it was terrible. Take that one at face value.
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