when it comes to Family Guy. It is largely smut strung together on an unrelated set of "pop-culture references" with a blatant lack of any relevant underlying plot. Modern American society has went into a deep crisis of creativity, if you watch VH1 and all the "reminiscing" shows on toys, music, movies, celebrities of yesteryear, you realize that there's nothing really novel anymore out there today. And if there is, people complain it's beyond them because of it's "hi-falutin'" attitude. Point being, Americans never really shared the European's love of Monty Python. "Pop-Culture reference" is by today's standards, at least over there, perceived as intelligence and wit far superior to real cultural reference. In Europe it is still "cool" to quote the pearls of wisdom that survived the onslaught of history. In America, doing that, by and large alienates people. But I digress Americans were always the practical types, and they unlike anyone else, were forced to build a distinct culture out of only rudimentary European foundations...