This previously published blog debuted on Xanga January 13, 2013.
Earlier this morning, I made this Xanga account. I would've published a blog a lot sooner, but I was busy and weighing thoughts. I used to have a Yahoo 360 account ~several years ago. Then, Yahoo decided to discontinue Yahoo 360 in America. Anyway, that's not why I'm publishing this blog, tonight.
Earlier, I watched American Dad and Family Guy. While watching both cartoons, I couldn't help noticing the hidden messages behind each episode. "Brian's Play" on Family Guy had a lot of truth to it.
Personally, I was never a Brian Griffin fan. That dog has always been a pretentious showoff, closet racist, and a pompous, self-righteous hypocrite.
A few years ago, there was a Family Guy episode titled, "Tyrone Is The New Black." In that episode, Brian asked Glen Quagmire why he disliked him. In a huge rant, Quagmire listed all his reasons for hating Brian.
Family Guy: "Glenn Quagmire Explains To Brian WHY He Hates Him" (2013)
I LOVED Quagmire's rant. He was spot on about Brian's sickening personality!
BTW: Stewie and Quagmire have always been my 2 favorite Family Guy characters.
On tonight's episode, The Griffins attended Brian's play to show their support for the play he wrote. It was highly praised by critics.
Shortly after, Stewie asked Brian to give him feedback about the play that he (Stewie) wrote. Once Brian read Stewie's play, he realized that Stewie's play was better than his own.
Out of jealousy and letting his own insecurities get the best of him, Brian stole Stewie's play. He not only stole Stewie's play, but also buried it in the backyard.
Brian then lied to Stewie about his play being badly written because Brian could NOT handle that he was upstaged by a baby, which happened to be Stewie.
Eventually, Stewie came to the realization that Brian lied about his play being inferior to his and confronted Brian about it. Stewie made sure to tell Brian about his play being mediocre and dumbed down for people like Peter.
As I watched "Brian's Play," I noticed that tonight's episode could be easily applied to today's society regarding education and entertainment as a whole. Some critics give Family Guy so much flack.
If more people would see beyond the pop-culture references, inside jokes, and "toilet humor," they would realize there are some hidden messages behind some of Seth MacFarlane's cartoons.
Viewers who watched "Brian's Play," could apply tonight's episode to jealous people. This is especially when those same jealous people are aspiring writers.
Believe or not, some writers are jealous of another writer's work and try plagiarizing it. Otherwise, they might insult someone else' work because they don't want to admit, that someone's work is more superior than their own.
Something similar happened to me, during my college senior year at Carthage College. I took an Advance Fiction night class and wrote my short story, "The Bill Collector."
Once I read it to my night class, so many of my classmates had questions about my story to the extent, that it sparked a debate.
As "The Bill Collector" sparked a debate, a female classmate had the audacity to call my short story "a bunch of fluff." We all looked at her like she was insane.
This female classmate was a classmate from my previous Creative Writing class, mind you.
Wanna know what that space cadet wrote for an Instructional Poem Assignment?
She wrote an Instructional Poem about how to apply make-up! I'm not kidding in the slightest. Could she had been any dumber, if not vapid and shallow?
Her dumb ass literally wrote a poem about how to apply some make-up.
That same superficial space cadet was getting her degree in
Secondary Education. Sweet Jesus. Talk about appalling.
Well, I guess I shouldn't be too hard on her. She could apply for a job as a Cosmetic Technical Writer or something. Secondary Education was the WRONG choice for her.
The point is a space cadet had the audacity to call my work "fluff." Maybe if her dumb ass would've actually LISTENED and PAID ATTENTION to what my story was about, she might have understood it better.
After we attended our next classroom session, she decided to approach me and tried saving face by complimenting me on how good I was at my writing. Those who really know me, know that I will confront their B.S. in a second.
Overall, "Brian's Play" held a lot of truth to it, when looking at tonight's episode of Family Guy from a writer's perspective.
Meanwhile, tonight's episode of American Dad also held a lot of truth to it. It was mostly about Roger being lazy and taking credit for other people's work, while expecting everyone to praise him for it.
Entitlement seems to be a growing epidemic today, if you ask some of us. It's always infuriating to witness lazy and entitled people taking credit for someone else' work.
If you haven't already watched American Dad, Roger Smith is literally an illegal alien and Francine Smith is the housewife of CIA Agent, Stan Smith.
Francine loves enabling Roger for every little thing, whereas Stan and everyone else in their family know how much of a lazy, entitled, manipulating, con artist Roger is for an illegal alien (literally).
The moment Roger doesn't get his way, he cries like a big baby and Francine rushes within seconds to enable him.
In tonight's episode, Roger was supposedly "graduating" from another college and Francine was the only family member to attend his "college graduation."
Once they parked at home, Roger cried like a 2-year-old because no one else attended his so-called "graduation" except Francine.
Hailey, who is Stan and Francine's oldest daughter and the oldest child, told Roger that it was because he's a fraud.
Considering that Roger always has a gajillion alias names with
wigs and wardrobes to match each persona, there is a lot of truth in what was said about Roger being a fraud.
I think he has so many aliases because it's the only way he can assimilate on a planet with mostly human beings. Well, that, along with him always cooking up some scheme.
Francine tried getting Roger to do something, that he could actually take pride in and be able to say, that he honestly did something independently. So, Roger entered a race and literally fell on his face. In usual format, he started crying.
As usual, Francine enabled Roger. She bought him a cone with 3 different ice cream flavors and gave Roger his own custom made "medal," once they got back into the car.
Next, Roger jumped out the car and started running in the race again. He supposedly "won" 1st place, and threw the ice cream cone literally on Francine's face.
Roger also "won" a red Mazda Miata. Eventually, a man beat him up for the car. Because Roger loves confiscating other people's awards, I got the impression, that the red Mazda Miata was a stolen car.
Later, Roger concocted another scheme, claiming that he "built" some island and hired paid actors to pretend they were native people. He even choreographed their dance routines and attacks on he and Francine because he wanted to impress her so badly. That last part was and still is a major eye roll because it's total hogwash.
Regarding tonight's American Dad episode, the hidden message was mostly about lazy and entitled people, that love taking credit for someone else' hard work.
Such an ilk of people has been pissing me off for years. Within the last decade or so, they became a lot worse.
There is always some enabler(s) around the corner, who loves coddling and rewarding somebody for a job, which was not well done, much less a job NOT done.
This reminds me of the fable, The Little Red Hen. All the other animals wanted to reap the benefits but didn't want to do any of the work. That's what today's society has become.
We live in a society filled with lazy and extremely entitled, opportunists, beating and cheating their ways to the top. If someone doesn't belong to a certain clique, he/she is royally screwed. Well, that's enough for tonight.
What are your thoughts? Let me know what you think!
