Being a relative newcomer, I find that one of my favorite things about Family Guy is the various movie references in each and every episode. It’s hard to avoid noticing them. Back to the Future has been a recent favorite, with Jurassic Park getting a nice mention this week.
The very notion of someone not getting promoted due to their not successfully completing a grade school course is rather far-fetched, so it’s hard to take much of the plot in this week’s episode all that seriously.
When it comes right down to it, what I look for in a comedy is simply whether or not the show is able to make me laugh. Family Guy is usually capable of doing that with relative ease, but I found myself barely making a smirk through much of “Tales of a Third Grade Nothing.”
The little Jurassic Park venture was very nice, as was the cameo by Yosemite Sam, one of my favorite characters from when I was a kid. It’s not often that you see him or anything resembling him in anything nowadays.
“Tales of a Third Grade Nothing” had potential, but fell flat for the most part. I was not only expecting more of the main plot, but also the same of the Stewie/Brian/Frank Sinatra Jr. plot as well. The only thing remotely funny here was the jokes surrounding Andy Dick and some of the other club nonsense. I would like to see Sinatra on more, though. I love the music aspect of the show.
Rating: 6.5
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