Originally Posted By: tfabris
Reference humor is not lazy writing, it's a specific type of humor that appeals to a specific taste; being a longtime MST3K fan, reference humor appeals to me, and they do it particularly skillfully

The problem is that it can be funny when the reference is a punch line to a joke, as it was on MST. On Family Guy, there is no joke for the reference to be a punch line to. Apparently it's supposed to exist as its own joke. And that's just not funny.
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Bitt Faulk