Family Guy vs American Dad

Both pale in comparison to Futurama, in my opinion.  Then again, just about every TV show but the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy miniseries from the 80s does for me 

Family Guy, though both are good IMO.

Family Guy is terrible lately. The shocking/disgusting/dark humor is usually not funny (and I'm a fan of dark humor), many jokes are overextended, and they include tons of filler (one episode had 3 minutes of live-action concert footage, wtf)

In the first two seasons, they had a good balance and some restraint. Offensive jokes, but at least no graphic video of a guy beating his wife to take out his frustration, Peter punching Meg, and so on. One of my favorite early-Family Guy scenes are when they have 'death' in the house, he swallows a chicken leg in a couple of seconds and explained how he can do that with something like "Back then, I've done things I'm not proud of" :D :D

Ironically enough, The 2009 Simpsons are bringing quite good entertainment, after 20 years "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe", "Gone Maggie Gone", "How the Test was Won", "No Loan Again".

This reminds me of the time when someone asked if I liked Seinfeld or Friends. No brainer there (Seinfeld), no brainer here. Family Guy...

Edited by mr.cub - April 08 2009 at 13:22

I lost a lot of interest in south park when my republican friend told me that the creators are conservative republicans, and I started to realize that virtually every episode started out making fun of the right wing only to ultimately prreach that the left wing is far loonier.  At least family guy rarely preaches.  And they make fun of everyone, although it's clear their political views are more in line with mine, which I enjoy.

el böthy wrote: Jim Garten wrote: el böthy wrote: rpe9p wrote: Also, from what I have seen family guy is blatantly offensive to many minority groups and religions.  I would be willing to bet most or all of the writers of the show are white atheist males. I don´t know about atheist, but they are mostly jewish and there is one woman... don´t mean to justify anything, just letting you know. And actually they do seem to make fun of a lot of things but actually I think that´s one of the reaosns I like it. I don't think there's any offence generally intended - they send up all sections of society equally, highlighting flaws whenever they see them, but never cruelly. Right, they don´t attack anything in particular, just whatever they think is wrong, sort of...

I would still disagree with this.  I havent seen every episode of the show, but I havent seen them make fun of: whites, men, atheists, democrats, which would probably be a good description of the writers of the show.  It may just be a cartoon, but I think sometimes they go over the line and I would disagree that its ok because they go after everyone

Did anyone see last Sunday´s episode? The one about Brian being an atheist? As I´m not an atheist, but I also don´t identify with Christianity that much, I must say I thought it was well made, but the ending was a bit off. One thing is to show Brian as a atheist, which was pretty obvious by then, but the other is to make the whole show end the way it did... it´s not that I was offended or anything, but it definitly did not end on a high note... but I guess you can´t blame it on the show, Peter did worn us it was going to be a Meg show jejeje "Here is the clicker... no one will blame you"

Family Guy

Jim Garten wrote: el böthy wrote: rpe9p wrote: Also, from what I have seen family guy is blatantly offensive to many minority groups and religions.  I would be willing to bet most or all of the writers of the show are white atheist males. I don´t know about atheist, but they are mostly jewish and there is one woman... don´t mean to justify anything, just letting you know. And actually they do seem to make fun of a lot of things but actually I think that´s one of the reaosns I like it. I don't think there's any offence generally intended - they send up all sections of society equally, highlighting flaws whenever they see them, but never cruelly.

Right, they don´t attack anything in particular, just whatever they think is wrong, sort of...

I've seen a couple of American Dad episodes and it is funny but Family Guy is just much funnier to me.

I agree with El Bothy above, I actually find that part of the show to be amusing. I don't take cartoons too seriously anyway.