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Family Guy is funny when it sticks to what it does best, stupid quick jokes, surrealist cut aways and a plot that is essentially irrelevant but serves the purpose. Understand that these are not criticisms of the show, since it can still manage to come up with some good situations and hilarious lines from time to time.

This episode however fails entirely for the fact that it seems to be trying to make some kind of political point, at the cost of humour. Whenever Family Guy attempts parody, satire or a vaguely serious theme it just falls flat on its face and gently suffocates in the mud. The writers need to stop trying to be like South Park and stick to what they do best.

With the first episode of series nine being an hour long yawn fest of a humour devoid parody and this episode being almost entirely boring I can only hope that this was just filler and the rest of the season picks up.

It's cool that Rush was willing to be on the show, but as usual conservatives are represented as utter stereotypes. In the years since the episode originally aired, too much division has occurred in America, making the mocking of half of the population a bit less humorous. But Rush let himself be the brunt of it all, and that alone makes this an interesting episode, even if it does rub the wrong way...

Whoever thought this was a good idea for a Family Guy episode was terribly mistaken. Rush Limbaugh and Republicans? Really? I'm a huge Family Guy fan but this is the one episode I have to switch or turn off, along with most James Woods' guest appearances. Showing Rush Limbaugh as some hero or nice person is just too unbelievable, even for an animated program.

This has got to be the worst Family Guy episode ever I've ever seen so far. I should've just stopped it on the 5th minute mark after I realised that this may be a dumb political episode. Literally nothing interesting is happening and to top it off they included another 3 or 4 minutes of those lame musicals which at least helped me skip a few more minutes of this travesty. Brian episodes usually suck if Stewie is not involved in the plot. They should just stick to the usual random Peter shenanigans and the cutaway gags, this one simply felt too bland. How did it ever get approved in the first place? Do yourselves a favor and skip this trash.

It's so dull you are almost baffled. Am I really watching Family Guy? Is this the show I know and love? The plot is really, really, really uninspired. Brian hates Rush Limbaugh's guts, reads his book, then becomes his best friend, then is taught that he didn't really think his politics were THAT great. If you think the plot sounds boring already, you won't like this episode. I'm not sure what Mark Hentemann was thinking, but I wish he at least had tried to put some damn jokes into the episode. There are almost none. And several of the few jokes that are there are not even good. If the episode had been funnier, I'd have forgiven the bad plot. But since the very little at all humor stops when Brian becomes a fan of Limbaugh, I can't give this episode any positives. Family Guy has handled politics in a way that's both smart and funny, plenty of times. This episode is not an example of that. Limbaugh is very unfunny in his guest role and the ending is F UCKING STUPID. Rush turning into a vulture and flying away? Excuse me, WHAT???? What this episode should have done to work is mocking both political sides equally and write more jokes into it. Hmmmm... Nah, you know what? This episode simply just shouldn't have been made. One of the worst episodes of the whole show.