Loud Night

Alot of things happened in this episode. Because it was Christmas the father makes a wish & has a toy truck come to life. Ted thinks he's Jesus after going to church & the cousin comes out as lesbian. The father has a disagreement with her over it which later gets figured out. This one was probably my least favorite so far but I think the toy truck was pretty funny.

Why is it that one personality type always feels that another personality type should be the one to apologize for being who they are? They demand that they be accepted for who they are, yet cannot accept others for who they are. They think everyone should come around to their way of thinking, the very thing they have fought against for the past 100 years. They have become that which they fought against. They refuse to accept this, but neither did their predecessors. I don't know which is worse, but I don't want to be associated with either.

They've fallen for the oldest trick in the book, divide and conquer. And that Seth has succumbed to the whims of the mob in having to shoehorn this pedestrian laden nonsense in the midst of a hilarious first season is absolutely pathetic. There are some genuine laugh out loud moments in this episode, but just when the ride is at its heighth, it hits a brick wall and there's no picking up the pieces.

We've been bludgeoned with this codswallop in every flicking show for the past several years. Put a fork in it. It's done.

This episode was terrible. I've enjoyed most of this show, but this was complete trash ruined by current day politics. This takes place in the 90's, but we get rhetoric and buzzwords that weren't prevalent in that decade. No matter how hard they try to mask it with references to Bill Clinton, it still comes off as current day and it completely takes me out of the universe this show sets up. They treat issues like gay rights and execute it in a way that's very 2024. Did anyone say fluid in the 90's? Doubt it.

The problem isn't even that this episode got political. The anti-conservative snark was a little annoying, but it's par for the course with Seth shows and I can let it slide if it's funny, but this episode wasn't. It was very preachy and portrayed in a way that's not realistic in this show's climate. If you wanted this show to tackle current day politics, maybe don't make this show take place in the past.

It feels like a strong case of not knowing your audience as every episode before this one plays off as a funny, care-free comedy that comes off as a more of a feel-good comfort show with some of that trademark politically incorrect humor that Seth MacFarlane is known for. Then 6 episodes in, we get this botched attempt at social commentary. Now there were a few off-hand remarks delving into politics before, but they were small jokes and they didn't really feel all that out of place to me. They were jokes and I laughed, but here it felt like a preachy lecture and feels like it went against the tone the show was setting up.

Started off funny, but the more it went on, it devolved into preachy garbage. I really hope this episode was just a fluke because this was pretty bad.

Heads up, if you found this entertaining put down the crack pipe and check into rehab.

This father character is such a tired cliche it's just lazy writing.

After watching this garbage episode, I'm rethinking about this show. I mean a talking Ted bear is one thing but a talking trunk. Just when you thought modern comedy couldn't get any lower on the IQ scale, this sets the bar lower than I ever thought possible. Based on this episode alone they should cancel the series. This show seems to just get worse as the episodes go on. I won't know if that's true cause I've given up on this show after this train wreck of an episode. Everyone involved should be ashamed.

This Ted series has been fabulous, start to finish. Where it could have risked getting stale was by not challenging the toxic 70's achetype the parents embody, but they do - and they do it surprisingly quickly into the series run. Blair may be a 90's kid, but she's as progressive as at least a 2010's one. In this episode we get to see Maddy really have to confront his preconceptions - and its also a heavy-handed metaphor for extremist points of view getting exacerbated by surrounding yourself with yes-men... aka, far right news media embodied in a anthropomorphic toy firetruck. My only wish was to have someone besides Seth voice the firetruck just to make the most of the opportunity, but besides that it was pitch perfect as the rest of the season. I would have considered it the weakest ep overall just by a hair if it wasn't for how heartwarming the ending is with the karaoke machine - now its probably my second favourite behind episode 5. Its great to see Maddy show real character growth - and accept family comes before defending Hitler. And for anyone who thinks this is propoganda - if accepting someone who for they are is propoganda to you, then you're never going to be able to accept yourself or figure yourself out either.