Repeat Four Too Many Times
If three's the charm, an average of about 6.3 seems to be the laugh. On both The Family Guy and American Dad, the writers use a comedic technique of repeating something several too many times to make it funny. I'd guess I'd seen this before, but never so often repeated. I guess that's the writer's meta-joke -- if we can give jokes extra oomph by having a punch line repeated ad nauseam, let's do that ad nauseam! I'm not complaining. Just noticing. I think both shows are hilarious and if all goes well, will be taping them both tonight while I go play frisbee.