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Show: Family Guy
Episode: S14 E6
Year: 2015

Writer(s): Tom Devanney
Director(s): John Holmquist

It seems like whenever I run into an episode that dealt with a family member being a bully, they end up being among the worst of the series. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic had "One Bad Apple", South Park had "Butterballs", and then there's Family Guy with "Peter's Sister"! Let's shoo the elephant out of the room first: it's been established Peter never had a sister prior to this episode and was the bastard child of a drunken Irishman. Now, when SpongeBob SquarePants did something similar to this in "Big Sister Sam", I could accept Patrick's sister despite prior episode’s evidence to the contrary for these reasons: SpongeBob doesn't have any continuity, Patrick is a moron, we've only ever seen his family once who're also stupid, and that comment about not having a sister in "Something Smells" was meant to be a joke.* Family Guy has an exceptionally strong continuity for a comedy show, so something like Peter having a sister out of nowhere is just an asspull.

With someone like Karen "Heavy Flo" Griffin, she's your stereotypical butch lesbian aunt character who also acted as a bully towards the main character in their childhood. She acts pretty much like Peter does to his own children to the man himself only she's more passive aggressive and physically violent. Rugrats actually kind of did this concept better with the episode "Aunt Miriam", and in that episode, it was shown that the titular aunt regretted being such a bitch to Lou in their childhood and wanted to patch things up. Here, Karen is just the nastiest kind of physical bully, especially when she pulls real wrestling moves on Peter and makes him piss his pants. This is supposed to be some kind of catharsis or schadenfreude for all the horrible shit Peter has done in the show, I guess, but that doesn't work because of what happens with Meg.

For some reason, Meg actually feels sorry for Peter getting bullied by Karen, even though he's done FAR FAR WORSE to Meg and other people like murder and rape! Even with the fact that events don't carry over from episode to episode here, you can't ignore Peter is an abusive prick now and has been for the majority of Family Guy's post-revival runtime. We get a whole FUCKING MONTAGE of many of the times Peter has bullied (i.e. assaulted) Meg, and it just proves to me the poor dumb creature needs therapy or a foster home. Trying to go the whole cycle of abuse route doesn't make any of this any better or justify Peter's behavior throughout the years, and instead of any sympathy, I just hate everyone in this episode. Also, this is completely unrelated, but that hypnotism scene freaked me out a lot more than it should've. What even was that? Was that a bible reference or something? Is Peter the devil? I don't get the joke.

The wrestling match goes about as well as you expect with Peter getting his ass kicked, and I don't give a fuck. I'm out of fucks to give for this man and everything his family has done. The good this show can still churn out doesn't make up for how horrendously bad the show can really get and just proves to me it's time for it to die. Also, Teen LaQUEEFa? I didn't like the queef jokes in South Park, and I don't like them here. There's just something about them that makes me uncomfortable... Why did Meg even bother saving Peter? Doesn't she realize Peter and her family will NEVER change and never love her? Of course, what do I expect from another sufferer of Stockholm syndrome, and she really does suffer from Stockholm syndrome. Also, they're happy that Karen gets put into a near-death coma; if you know my history, you'll know why I take offense to this. As much as I hate Peter, I wouldn't wish death on the guy or any of the Griffins because I'm better than that, and Karen was just another forgotten cutaway gag that we'll never see again because she died! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to Chico's Monkey Farm to choke the episode outta my brain.

*Though surprisingly, as of Season 10, Sam has yet to appear again. Or maybe she won't appear again at all probably because Stephen Hillenburg hates that character.

Cringe-Inducing Audio: 0
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 6
Lackluster Writing: 7
Annoyance: 5
Disturbing Content: 5
Unnecessary Cruelty: 7
Rancid Morality: 4
Low Production Values: 4
Unfortunate Implications: 8
Character Derailment: 8

Final Score: 54/100

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Description
Show: Family Guy
Episode: S14 E6
Year: 2015

Writer(s): Tom Devanney
Director(s): John Holmquist

It seems like whenever I run into an episode that dealt with a family member being a bully, they end up being among the worst of the series. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic had "One Bad Apple", South Park had "Butterballs", and then there's Family Guy with "Peter's Sister"! Let's shoo the elephant out of the room first: it's been established Peter never had a sister prior to this episode and was the bastard child of a drunken Irishman. Now, when SpongeBob SquarePants did something similar to this in "Big Sister Sam", I could accept Patrick's sister despite prior episode’s evidence to the contrary for these reasons: SpongeBob doesn't have any continuity, Patrick is a moron, we've only ever seen his family once who're also stupid, and that comment about not having a sister in "Something Smells" was meant to be a joke.* Family Guy has an exceptionally strong continuity for a comedy show, so something like Peter having a sister out of nowhere is just an asspull.

With someone like Karen "Heavy Flo" Griffin, she's your stereotypical butch lesbian aunt character who also acted as a bully towards the main character in their childhood. She acts pretty much like Peter does to his own children to the man himself only she's more passive aggressive and physically violent. Rugrats actually kind of did this concept better with the episode "Aunt Miriam", and in that episode, it was shown that the titular aunt regretted being such a bitch to Lou in their childhood and wanted to patch things up. Here, Karen is just the nastiest kind of physical bully, especially when she pulls real wrestling moves on Peter and makes him piss his pants. This is supposed to be some kind of catharsis or schadenfreude for all the horrible shit Peter has done in the show, I guess, but that doesn't work because of what happens with Meg.

For some reason, Meg actually feels sorry for Peter getting bullied by Karen, even though he's done FAR FAR WORSE to Meg and other people like murder and rape! Even with the fact that events don't carry over from episode to episode here, you can't ignore Peter is an abusive prick now and has been for the majority of Family Guy's post-revival runtime. We get a whole FUCKING MONTAGE of many of the times Peter has bullied (i.e. assaulted) Meg, and it just proves to me the poor dumb creature needs therapy or a foster home. Trying to go the whole cycle of abuse route doesn't make any of this any better or justify Peter's behavior throughout the years, and instead of any sympathy, I just hate everyone in this episode. Also, this is completely unrelated, but that hypnotism scene freaked me out a lot more than it should've. What even was that? Was that a bible reference or something? Is Peter the devil? I don't get the joke.

The wrestling match goes about as well as you expect with Peter getting his ass kicked, and I don't give a fuck. I'm out of fucks to give for this man and everything his family has done. The good this show can still churn out doesn't make up for how horrendously bad the show can really get and just proves to me it's time for it to die. Also, Teen LaQUEEFa? I didn't like the queef jokes in South Park, and I don't like them here. There's just something about them that makes me uncomfortable... Why did Meg even bother saving Peter? Doesn't she realize Peter and her family will NEVER change and never love her? Of course, what do I expect from another sufferer of Stockholm syndrome, and she really does suffer from Stockholm syndrome. Also, they're happy that Karen gets put into a near-death coma; if you know my history, you'll know why I take offense to this. As much as I hate Peter, I wouldn't wish death on the guy or any of the Griffins because I'm better than that, and Karen was just another forgotten cutaway gag that we'll never see again because she died! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to Chico's Monkey Farm to choke the episode outta my brain.

*Though surprisingly, as of Season 10, Sam has yet to appear again. Or maybe she won't appear again at all probably because Stephen Hillenburg hates that character.

Cringe-Inducing Audio: 0
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 6
Lackluster Writing: 7
Annoyance: 5
Disturbing Content: 5
Unnecessary Cruelty: 7
Rancid Morality: 4
Low Production Values: 4
Unfortunate Implications: 8
Character Derailment: 8

Final Score: 54/100

Family Guy is owned by FOX.

Animated Atrocities is from

Regulas314