>>149521461
But that just defeats the purpose of watching Family Guy.

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>>149484113
I feel like R&M came at the tail end of the cable TV model providing this shared experience of media. It CANNOT be overstated how inescapable this show was at it's height there was SO MUCH merch, there were so many ads they animated with R&M hawking Wendy's or the PS5, I distinctly remember a statue of Rick's spaceship installed in a park of a city I was living in at the time. IT WAS EVERYWHERE the wait for S3 was long, but by ratings it also did the best, and the critical reception to S4, while a mixed bag, was also huge, and then after that, out of nowhere people just seemed to move on, it's relevance just vanished overnight, and it's not like it got replaced by some new show. Like I said I think the rise of these streaming services played a huge part in stratifying people's attention, and we'll probably never see something as culturally relevant and widespread as it ever again, for better or worse. (though imo probably for the best, the fandom was absolutely insufferable at it's height.)