Fat Gun

Out of all the anthology episodes, this is one of the most well written ones ever. It tells a great story, does an amazing job parroting Top Gun, has a great selection of casting choices, and tells all sorts of great jokes. This might be the best anthology episode alongside with the original Star Wars one and the Emmy winner one.

I think this episode is a fresh start to Season 23 (not including the Hulu exclusives), and gave a strong impression of this new season. It's also one of modern Family Guy's great episodes.

Also, I think modern Family Guy is fairly over-hated. It's not the same as it used to be, but it's still funny or at least entertaining, sometimes.

It's definetely not anything too crazy, but if you have all the scenes memorized, and you have just recently watched both Top Gun, this episode feels like a "Both Top Gun in a nutshell" youtube video, if anything, and if you sit down expecting exactly a nutshell montage it does a damn fine and hilarious job, altough I do get that humour is subjective, I had a fun time with it. My two problem with this episode is that for some reason newer Family Guy really focused on turning Stewie into nothing else, but a gay character, and the second is that they really tried to make that "Talk to me Goose" joke funny, which was funny a couple times, but it could've easily took half of the runtime of this episode away.

Season 23 of Family Guy kicks off with a parody of both Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick. Honestly, I really liked this episode. It sort of gave me the same vibes I got when watching S16 E5: "Three Directors" or, hell, the Star Wars specials. This was refreshing, especially after the tragedies of "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater" and "Gift of the White Guy", which were some of the worst things to come from Family Guy in recent years.

Surprisingly, some of the jokes got some chuckles out of me. Stewies bear, Rupert, having a muscular body but the bear head was funny to me. Overall, a really fun episode.

Why did they parody a movie that is several years old? Made the episode feel entirley dated. The episode was not needed and the jokes all fell flat. Once can only hope this is the worst of the new season and they aired it first to get it out of the way, buy why did they make it at all? This does not bode wll for the new season. Many long time fans of the show have given up on it. I did not, but this episode makes me fear that thy are correct. If you have yet to see this episode, my advice is you do not. Just waiy until next week. I do not see how it can be worse than this one and I hope episode 2 is much, much better.

Worst.. episode.. ever..

Family Guy always had a weird obsession about Tom Cruise.

Instead of fresh jokes or creative storytelling, we get tired references and predictable Cruise jokes that have been done a thousand times before-and not really deserved.

It's disappointing to see a show that once pushed boundaries now relying on stale parodies of decades-old movies. The humor feels forced, and the pacing drags because there's simply no substance beyond the lazy spoof.

Top Gun remains one of the most iconic and respected film franchises in cinema history Instead of acknowledging this, Family Guy falls back on tired Cruise jokes and shallow parodies that feel completely out of touch.

Mocking Top Gun at this point feels desperate, like they're punching at something far above their own dwindling relevance.