July 13th, 2005 at 14:30 by C J Davies
Beatles Vs. Stones. Oasis Vs.
Blur. Pete Doherty Vs. Anyone With A Sense Of Taste.
The music world has always had its feuds. Of course, TV Land is bereft of such things, right? It s all one multi-channel love-in, beaming programme makers linking hands across the airwaves, isn t it?
Until now.
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has taken the insult quite well, revealing how he was definitely influenced by yellow-skinned antics of those peculiar Springfield dwellers. Because The Simpsons and Family Guy are really the only two shows of their kind of television, he shrugged, there ll be comparisons made.
He did, however, sign up to the growing consensus that Matt Groening s finest well, you know simply isn t as good as it used to be.
In its prime, it was one of the greatest comedy shows of all time, he said. But it s not the show it was.
It can t be. You can t do 16 seasons and be consistent.
It pains hecklerspray to say that we agree.
Remember when Homer Simpson used to be a genuinely lovable character, rather than the vindictive oaf the scriptwriters favour of late? Remember when the jokes used to be fresh and off-the-wall rather than the obvious, ten-miles-on-the-horizon-a coming misfires they are now?
Sure.
You ll still watch the show. But only because you can t be arsed with The Six O Clock News.
Needless to say, Family Guy has revenge on the agenda.
And that s a formidable set of knives to be sharpening, especially when we re talking about a show which portrays a baby as a sociopath and Death as a drunkard.
So what do you think? Simpson or Griffin?
Maggie or Stewie? Hey - why not leave your comments below? You might as well put em somewhere
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Let’s not forget that Family Guy already lost round one of this heavy weight fight, when fox first canceled the show.
Fox canceled the show, but due to how great the show proved to be for many people, it was brought back almost 4 years after being cancelled something no other tv show ever managed to do.
The Simpsons still in my book takes the cake for subtle humor where family guy puts much more random things, such as peter breaking out with “that guy” or random cut to scenes that are meaningless towards the shows plot.
There s a fairy deel of subtle humour on Family Guy too. And the random scene need not be connected to the plot (if you notice, simpsons does this sometimes too). It is a non-sequiter gag in a often non-sequiter, absurdist show.
Other shows that utilized the random scene cuts were funny too, for instance the ones on Dream On. It s a technique to evoke laughter, it is only what any good comedy show should do: to use any means necessary to evoke real laughter. Let the simpsons countdown Begin!
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I dare any one who reads this message to respond to me.]
Family guy and Simpsons sok now.
no family guy eeze good.
WHAT AM I .A TROLL.
fuck the stigma of TROLL!
I d do you if you answer me, that s why you don t answer, i d do you!!
Homer is a horrible horrible ..Marge is too perfect for a woman.
heh heh this is fu.
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