Post by shadowgriffin18z on Jul 8, 2018 23:14:52 GMT
According to Tvtropes.org Family Guy, as you can see by the number of entries, is a show with very unlikable characters, at least in the audience:Due to the massive Flanderization, Lois is also falling into scrappy territory, since she becomes more of a Jerkass each episode. The fact that she's arguably the most consistent Karma Houdini after Peter likely doesn't help.
Quagmire reached these levels after his vicious Reason You Suck Speech to Brian. The writers have attempted to correct Brian's ways, while Quagmire kept getting worse. In fact, some fans have pointed out that Quagmire did some of the same things Brian did, which made a huge chunk of Quagmire's rant at Brian sound hypocritical. It came to the point where Quagmire just ran over Brian after the loves of their lives dumped them for acting childish. Aside from his petty hatred of Brian, ever since Season 9 or so he's also been reduced to a selfish, non-empathetic, annoying sex maniac.
Another Scrappy is Jasper. Calling him Camp Gay is too liberal; instead suffice it to say that he's a rude conglomeration of almost every offensive gay stereotype ever conceived. He became even worse when the writers decided to make him a key player in an episode advocating gay rights, in one of the most counter-effective attempts at activism ever on the show. This same problem occurred with Quagmire's transexual father way later on. Despite many people considering Jasper to be the homosexual equivalent of the Ethnic Scrappy (especially other gays), Seth Mac Farlane stated in an interview that Jasper was supposed to appeal to the gay audience. To say that backfired is a understatement. Convincing Brian to hurt Stewie's feelings and sabotage his play certainly hasn't made him any more endearing.
Carl, Chris's boss. He seems to exist solely for saying random things and adding nothing to the plot. And yet, they made him Yoda (instead of a more suitable character, like Joe or Meg) in their Star Wars episodes. This is probably the reason why he's been Demoted to Extra. On the plus side, he is voiced by H Jon Benjamin (Coach McGuirk, Bob Belcher, Sterling Archer).
Herbert is considered this by some of the fanbase. This is probably due to the fact that he's a one-joke character and because of what he... ahem... hunts for.
Conway - You Can Take A Bathroom Break Now Twitty. The fact that he hasn't appeared since the episode which he had a nearly three-minute long scene (in a 23 minute long ep no less) and it was rated the worst episode in the series probably states that the writers got the hint. This was eventually acknowledged in "3 Acts of God" when God tells Peter "Oh, by the way, Conway Twitty says, 'Cut it out! Just write a joke!'".
Vinny, who replaced Brian for a few episodes following "The Life of Brian". Vinny is an interesting case, because despite relying a little too heavily on Italian-American stereotypes, he was one of the more genuinely kind—if somewhat flat—characters on the series during his tenure, and was established to have a very sympathetic backstory. A great deal of fans'ire was probably focused on the unceremonious way in which he replaced Brian. He has some fans, though, and his departure from the show, in which he gave up his happiness to bring back Brian, prompted an Alas, Poor Scrappy response from some of his haters. Vinny's biggest issue was being a textbook example of a Replacement Scrappy - he wouldn't have been nearly as hated if he hadn't replaced Brian.
Vern and Johnny, who were two vaudeville actors placed in the show as a gag, were severely hated by fans for being very annoying and bland. They got so much hate that the creators of the show eventually decided to kill them both off and treated fans to seeing them meet their demise at the hands of Stewie in "Saving Private Brian", only for them to appear one last time in "Back to the Woods" (Vern as a ghost and Johnny in Hell, because he was attracted to underaged boys). These two characters were also wearing out their welcome with the writers: on the DVD commentary for "Saving Private Brian", it's stated that one of the reasons they were killed off is because the writers felt they were becoming overly reliant on Vern and Johnny, cutting to them whenever the writers couldn't come up with anything better.
Loretta Brown as some fans noticed that she only existed on the show just to be Cleveland's wife. Her day in the limelight episode even involved her cheating on Cleveland with Quagmire just because her husband's laid back personality didn't provide her any passion. She is even considered to be a Scrappy by her own voice actress, Alex Bornstein, as she found the character to be too difficult for her to voice.
There is also Scrappy Brian, created for a one-off gag as a parody to the original Scrappy Doo. He didn't make it through the night.
Quagmire reached these levels after his vicious Reason You Suck Speech to Brian. The writers have attempted to correct Brian's ways, while Quagmire kept getting worse. In fact, some fans have pointed out that Quagmire did some of the same things Brian did, which made a huge chunk of Quagmire's rant at Brian sound hypocritical. It came to the point where Quagmire just ran over Brian after the loves of their lives dumped them for acting childish. Aside from his petty hatred of Brian, ever since Season 9 or so he's also been reduced to a selfish, non-empathetic, annoying sex maniac.
Another Scrappy is Jasper. Calling him Camp Gay is too liberal; instead suffice it to say that he's a rude conglomeration of almost every offensive gay stereotype ever conceived. He became even worse when the writers decided to make him a key player in an episode advocating gay rights, in one of the most counter-effective attempts at activism ever on the show. This same problem occurred with Quagmire's transexual father way later on. Despite many people considering Jasper to be the homosexual equivalent of the Ethnic Scrappy (especially other gays), Seth Mac Farlane stated in an interview that Jasper was supposed to appeal to the gay audience. To say that backfired is a understatement. Convincing Brian to hurt Stewie's feelings and sabotage his play certainly hasn't made him any more endearing.
Carl, Chris's boss. He seems to exist solely for saying random things and adding nothing to the plot. And yet, they made him Yoda (instead of a more suitable character, like Joe or Meg) in their Star Wars episodes. This is probably the reason why he's been Demoted to Extra. On the plus side, he is voiced by H Jon Benjamin (Coach McGuirk, Bob Belcher, Sterling Archer).
Herbert is considered this by some of the fanbase. This is probably due to the fact that he's a one-joke character and because of what he... ahem... hunts for.
Conway - You Can Take A Bathroom Break Now Twitty. The fact that he hasn't appeared since the episode which he had a nearly three-minute long scene (in a 23 minute long ep no less) and it was rated the worst episode in the series probably states that the writers got the hint. This was eventually acknowledged in "3 Acts of God" when God tells Peter "Oh, by the way, Conway Twitty says, 'Cut it out! Just write a joke!'".
Vinny, who replaced Brian for a few episodes following "The Life of Brian". Vinny is an interesting case, because despite relying a little too heavily on Italian-American stereotypes, he was one of the more genuinely kind—if somewhat flat—characters on the series during his tenure, and was established to have a very sympathetic backstory. A great deal of fans'ire was probably focused on the unceremonious way in which he replaced Brian. He has some fans, though, and his departure from the show, in which he gave up his happiness to bring back Brian, prompted an Alas, Poor Scrappy response from some of his haters. Vinny's biggest issue was being a textbook example of a Replacement Scrappy - he wouldn't have been nearly as hated if he hadn't replaced Brian.
Vern and Johnny, who were two vaudeville actors placed in the show as a gag, were severely hated by fans for being very annoying and bland. They got so much hate that the creators of the show eventually decided to kill them both off and treated fans to seeing them meet their demise at the hands of Stewie in "Saving Private Brian", only for them to appear one last time in "Back to the Woods" (Vern as a ghost and Johnny in Hell, because he was attracted to underaged boys). These two characters were also wearing out their welcome with the writers: on the DVD commentary for "Saving Private Brian", it's stated that one of the reasons they were killed off is because the writers felt they were becoming overly reliant on Vern and Johnny, cutting to them whenever the writers couldn't come up with anything better.
Loretta Brown as some fans noticed that she only existed on the show just to be Cleveland's wife. Her day in the limelight episode even involved her cheating on Cleveland with Quagmire just because her husband's laid back personality didn't provide her any passion. She is even considered to be a Scrappy by her own voice actress, Alex Bornstein, as she found the character to be too difficult for her to voice.
There is also Scrappy Brian, created for a one-off gag as a parody to the original Scrappy Doo. He didn't make it through the night.
