HTTPete
- Episode aired May 6, 2018
- TV-14
- 21m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
1.5K
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Peter adopts the millennial lifestyle, attracting the attention of a high-powered Silicon Valley executive.Peter adopts the millennial lifestyle, attracting the attention of a high-powered Silicon Valley executive.Peter adopts the millennial lifestyle, attracting the attention of a high-powered Silicon Valley executive.
Seth MacFarlane
- Peter Griffin
- (voice)
- …
Alex Borstein
- Lois Griffin
- (voice)
Seth Green
- Chris Griffin
- (voice)
- …
Mila Kunis
- Meg Griffin
- (voice)
Mike Henry
- Cleveland Brown
- (voice)
- …
Damien Fahey
- Hammer
- (voice)
Darrel Heath
- Black Gif
- (voice)
Phil LaMarr
- Black Gif
- (voice)
Storyline
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- Quotes
Peter Griffin: Okay, don't panic. We'll just do what people did before the internet. We can play charades.
Chris Griffin: Oh, you mean like your marriage?
Peter Griffin: [annoyed] Chris, I told you that in confidence.
- ConnectionsReferences The Twilight Zone (1959)
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Some thought evoked by this episode.
Season 16 has been pretty much hit and miss - just as the two earlier seasons too. Or - to be more exact and completely honest - FG as whole is one big hit and miss. There are some really good moments: jokes, punchlines, gags and gimmicks; funny sequences that are pure billowing comedy. But sometimes it's lame, stale, repetitive, dull, pretentitious or too self-aware; underlining too much the fact that it's just a silly, stupid cartoon that you are watching. Sometime it fails to be funny while trying too much: trying to be too vulgar, ultra-violent, conscious or dramatic. Or whatever it may be - you get the idea, right?
I'd be very offended as a white man to be referred to as a "bro", for 1) I am a white man and 2) the one doing the reference is also a white man. Do we have the right to use words that belong to the black people and their way of communication? At least I should be exasperated, using that millennial, leftist, "liberal", tolerant and "open-minded" "logic". Having said that, it's perfectly acceptable for the blacks to call themselves n-----s. Heck, they even call latinos and us white n-----s! Shouldn't this make the brain of a deeply committed, politically correct liberal just explode? (This reminds of a scene from Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" (1989) in which a Korean guy tells black people that he's black as well. A black guy then in turn asks him: "Where you black at?")
Well, it shouldn't explode. For it is just comedy. The same goes to all the gay jokes on FG: I think that the whole thing started to get pretty old somewhere in the 90s, as it had been going on in the movies and TV for about two decades already by then. FG still somehow doesn't get enough of Stewie/Peter being gay. I have nothing against gay people, per se, and they can be made fun of just like anybody else. But not every other joke has to be a gay joke. A joke being a gay joke by definition doesn't make it automatically funny. This seems to be a rudimentary thing that FG writers and producers haven't quite grasped. Just as not everybody who doesn't like gay sex is a "homophobe".
"Gay Peter" is just done too much. It's not funny that way, but only grotesque.
I'd be very offended as a white man to be referred to as a "bro", for 1) I am a white man and 2) the one doing the reference is also a white man. Do we have the right to use words that belong to the black people and their way of communication? At least I should be exasperated, using that millennial, leftist, "liberal", tolerant and "open-minded" "logic". Having said that, it's perfectly acceptable for the blacks to call themselves n-----s. Heck, they even call latinos and us white n-----s! Shouldn't this make the brain of a deeply committed, politically correct liberal just explode? (This reminds of a scene from Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" (1989) in which a Korean guy tells black people that he's black as well. A black guy then in turn asks him: "Where you black at?")
Well, it shouldn't explode. For it is just comedy. The same goes to all the gay jokes on FG: I think that the whole thing started to get pretty old somewhere in the 90s, as it had been going on in the movies and TV for about two decades already by then. FG still somehow doesn't get enough of Stewie/Peter being gay. I have nothing against gay people, per se, and they can be made fun of just like anybody else. But not every other joke has to be a gay joke. A joke being a gay joke by definition doesn't make it automatically funny. This seems to be a rudimentary thing that FG writers and producers haven't quite grasped. Just as not everybody who doesn't like gay sex is a "homophobe".
"Gay Peter" is just done too much. It's not funny that way, but only grotesque.
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- burteriksson
- Nov 1, 2019
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