10 Most Infuriating Seth MacFarlane Habits

1. It's All VERY Hit Or Miss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHXi8h8H2VA There are a few really great MacFarlane episodes in a year: even the rest of them aren't what you'd call humorless. Some jokes really, really miss, but in most episodes, a few of them hit, and as long as that's true and it's comfortable viewing, isn't that good enough? No, it's not. There are lots of series and movies where the good jokes are better and the bad jokes are way better, but more importantly, the joke delivery system is much faster and more efficient. Seth MacFarlane's most profitable idea is that there's as much comedy to be mined from awkward pauses as there is from actual jokes, that a traditional gag is actually more efficient when it's dragged out. In the clip above, the basic joke - "Peter is on ecstasy" - is extended for a full minute when fifteen seconds would've easily been enough. It's a very Eastern idea, and it can only provide so much actual entertainment value in a Western culture, but at this point we lap it up regardless because it's just a Seth MacFarlane thing. Without his MacFarlanisms, he wouldn't be his familiar, comfortable, unchallenging sort of entertainer, and you'd probably have to think a little harder about what you wanted to watch on Sunday nights.