"Family Guy" [Fox, 2009] Season 8

Being truly miraculous in its awesomeness solely because the producers can deconstruct, condense, simplify, hyperbolize especially, all of the aspects of everyday life; and then rearrange them so as to “milk” them for humor, MacFarlane concentrates instead on only that humor which survives for just a moment—then dies. Therefore, one is left staring, aghast, into the void—in fact, it’s actually as though the jokes collapse in on themselves. But of course this is all just an effect of the notorious “selling-out/downhill” effect to which every (AC) show must fall victim sooner or later. And indeed, isn’t this one kind of overdue? Bwah ha ha! GRADE: C-