Season 18 was really lackluster with some even outright-bad episodes. But Season 19 isn't neccessarily a trainwreck that you can't look away from. For the most part, from these 3 episodes gathered (and it may be too early to judge), the show has just gotten boring. The reasoning behind this is simple: They're running out of ideas. One thing you will notice in the newer seasons of FG is they will introduce a plot then immediately scrap it 10 minutes into the episode then introduce a new one. Then throw in a filler cutaway gag that takes up way too much time and you get a bunch of writers who are simply just phoning it in at this point. FG started to decline in quality after it was revived in 2004-ish. However, the show experimented with many things from 04-12 (Chicken fights, Stewie and Brian episodes became more interesting and outlandish, Star Wars and history parodies, attempting to evoke emotion while having little to no humor and thank god we never got a clip show). Some of these things worked, some of them didn't. I noticed the show became more gory around 08-ish but it only worsened. Not to Ren and Stimpy levels where they could make it funny, but the writers seem to get off on making the viewer uncomfortable and it be an inside joke between them alone. This is an example that the show is objectively not well-written at all (which would be a fine excuse if the show was always bad but it wasn't). The first season however that told me things were taking a turn for the worse, where I knew the writers were running out of material and stopped caring was definitely Season 12. There were still some decent episodes that season. Then Season 13 was all of the flaws of season 12 taken and amped up. I've been told excuses, that the writers love experimenting with the characters and storylines and ignore continuity for this reason and that they like having more freedom. This WAS true at some point but not anymore. Introducing a plot, scrapping it once you realize it can't go anywhere and only works to introduce a few one-liners, introducing the main synopsis 10 minutes into the episode and rushing it with a half-assed end would be one thing if they were phoning it for that week.. We've BEEN getting that several times on modern FG. Some of the banter on FG between some side characters still evokes a couple chuckles out of me, sometimes the show is so ridiculous you want to tune in just to see where they're going to go with the plot, and believe it or not: Even the bad episodes have atleast one funny cutaway gag. This one was just a forgettable episode. The plastic wrap gag would've been fine if they didn't drag it out for 2 minutes. We're never getting S1-3 classic FG again and I've accepted that but the show can still be fixed... or cancelled. It's obvious Seth wanted it to end after 9 or 10 seasons but that's FOX for you.