Family Guy (TV Series) #JOLO (2015) User Reviews

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[Edvis-1997 · 6/10 · 19 March 2021]

A little bit better than average but still lack of humour.

It's a surprisingly great modern Family Guy episode! You should really check it out.

[adampkalb · 10/10 · 25 August 2016]

This was a really nice episode of Family Guy in Season 13, and that was the season following Season 12, which seems to have the most disturbing or gory things we've had in this series so far (see A Fistful of Meg, Life of Brian, Peter Problems, Grimm Job, Fresh Heir, Secondhand Spoke, and Herpe the Love Sore for some examples). Season 13 manages to be somewhat of an improvement over Season 12 because it toned down the disturbing content a little and actually had some more decent episodes that I liked, besides The Simpsons Guy. I really liked Baking Bad, The Book of Joe, Turkey Guys, Stewie, Chris, and Brian's Excellent Adventure, Fighting Irish, and Take My Wife (after hitting a few bumps), but this episode really turned out to be an exceptionally great modern episode and the best we've had in Season 13, even better than The Simpsons Guy. How so? Well, for starters, it's not about critiquing every complaints people have had about The Simpsons and Family Guy (e.g. Peter and Homer are too much alike, Pawtucket is a rip- off of Duff because Family Guy is a rip-off of The Simpsons). For another thing, it actually also managed to take the issue of suicide seriously and not break up their pacing with cutaways at the wrong moments (i.e. the cutaways happened at the less serious parts of the episode) and they weren't over-the-top about it like Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q. There was some filler in this episode, but not too much of it like when almost half of Herpe the Love Sore was filler. It also managed to do a much better version of the plot of Spongebob Squarepants's Are You Happy Now because while this episode was about Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland trying to make happy memories for Joe, who wanted to commit suicide because he thought his life was worthless, it didn't have him literally in a depression and they actually took his suicide issue seriously. The best part of this episode is that they didn't make any of the main characters into an antagonist because there was no antagonist in this episode and Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland were good friends for showing genuine concern for Joe and wanted to make him happy, which led to him realizing that they actually made his life worth living even if nothing else did.

An incredibly boring and uninteresting episode

[jpapanone · 4/10 · 27 May 2021]

I was half watching this...bc it just sort of kept going but had no real plot or point to actually be interested in.

I may have smirked at 2 things, but mainly just watched completely stone faced.

It wasn't bad. It was just extremely flat. No point to it. I think it was around this time where I stopped watching on Sunday nights.

I don't need a week's wait for this unfunny. I used to enjoy a sunday evening barbecue/prepare for the work week with a new Family Guy episode...but it was episodes like this that just did absolutely nothing. I don't need it to make sense. I just need it to be funny and stupid and entertaining. Let me turn my brain off for 30 minutes. But this. No. This feels like a waste of 22 minutes to a half hour.

This is why I rate episodes on imdb...so I never have to watch this episode again.