Family Guy spin-off

Tom Petty · Mar 1, 2008

Giggity said:

Tom Petty said:

BYH said:

Piotr Rasputin said:

Family Guy is much better today than it used to be. In its old days, it would hold back on the snark in favor of the "Aw, this family loves each other!!" soft stuff that the Simpsons sometimes falls into. Its main "different" identity was the homicidal baby, but those jokes got old pretty quick.

Now, it's 30 minutes of glorious bitterness and snark. The best change was exchanging Stewie's 'I wanna rule the world and kill mommy!!!" plots for "Everyone Hates Meg."

Throw in the inspired guest stars and a pretty clear vibe that the writers are no longer holding back on the sheer evil rips on people ("They let Sarah jessica Parker on TV, and she looks like a foot!") . . .and that is one damn funny show. The only one that genuinely left me cold was the climax of the one where Joe walked again.

I never miss it. I think it has a great, kinetic Robot Chicken quality in the "blink and you may miss the joke" cutaways.
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Agree on everything except I think they really went over the line not in the episode where Joe walked again but the one where Stewie killed Lois, except of course to have her return and engage in a wild gunfight in the White House that ends with Peter killing Stewie. That was some dark, dark, nilhilistic shit. Too far, even for my snarky tastes.
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Fucking fantastic.

Also, American Dad has grown on me to the point I like it better than Family Guy. Either that, or it's gotten better this season. Either that, or the writers' strike destroyed my ability to watch television critically. Either that, or I have no taste. But I still hate when my girlfriend watches Celebrity Apprentice, so I'm pretty sure we can narrow it down to one of the first three.

Not to go off on too much of a tangent, but seriously: Everybody knows reality TV sucks, and Donald Trump is a fucking tooldouche, and that you will, in theory, pay with soul pieces every time you watch the Celebrity Apprentice. But until you actually spend hours of your life watching Big Pussy and Gene Simmons battle over advertising campaigns under the watchful eye of Ivanka Trump, you can't begin to fathom the toll it takes on everything that's precious.
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you, sir, have a bright future at SportsJournalists.com.

Giggity · Mar 1, 2008

Tom Petty said:

Giggity said:

Tom Petty said:

BYH said:

Piotr Rasputin said:

Family Guy is much better today than it used to be. In its old days, it would hold back on the snark in favor of the "Aw, this family loves each other!!" soft stuff that the Simpsons sometimes falls into. Its main "different" identity was the homicidal baby, but those jokes got old pretty quick.

Now, it's 30 minutes of glorious bitterness and snark. The best change was exchanging Stewie's 'I wanna rule the world and kill mommy!!!" plots for "Everyone Hates Meg."

Throw in the inspired guest stars and a pretty clear vibe that the writers are no longer holding back on the sheer evil rips on people ("They let Sarah jessica Parker on TV, and she looks like a foot!") . . .and that is one damn funny show. The only one that genuinely left me cold was the climax of the one where Joe walked again.

I never miss it. I think it has a great, kinetic Robot Chicken quality in the "blink and you may miss the joke" cutaways.
Click to expand...

Agree on everything except I think they really went over the line not in the episode where Joe walked again but the one where Stewie killed Lois, except of course to have her return and engage in a wild gunfight in the White House that ends with Peter killing Stewie. That was some dark, dark, nilhilistic shit. Too far, even for my snarky tastes.
Click to expand...

;D
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Fucking fantastic.

Also, American Dad has grown on me to the point I like it better than Family Guy. Either that, or it's gotten better this season. Either that, or the writers' strike destroyed my ability to watch television critically. Either that, or I have no taste. But I still hate when my girlfriend watches Celebrity Apprentice, so I'm pretty sure we can narrow it down to one of the first three.

Not to go off on too much of a tangent, but seriously: Everybody knows reality TV sucks, and Donald Trump is a fucking tooldouche, and that you will, in theory, pay with soul pieces every time you watch the Celebrity Apprentice. But until you actually spend hours of your life watching Big Pussy and Gene Simmons battle over advertising campaigns under the watchful eye of Ivanka Trump, you can't begin to fathom the toll it takes on everything that's precious.
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you, sir, have a bright future at SportsJournalists.com.
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Bitterness sells.

BYH · Mar 1, 2008

Giggity said:

Tom Petty said:

Giggity said:

Tom Petty said:

BYH said:

Piotr Rasputin said:

Family Guy is much better today than it used to be. In its old days, it would hold back on the snark in favor of the "Aw, this family loves each other!!" soft stuff that the Simpsons sometimes falls into. Its main "different" identity was the homicidal baby, but those jokes got old pretty quick.

Now, it's 30 minutes of glorious bitterness and snark. The best change was exchanging Stewie's 'I wanna rule the world and kill mommy!!!" plots for "Everyone Hates Meg."

Throw in the inspired guest stars and a pretty clear vibe that the writers are no longer holding back on the sheer evil rips on people ("They let Sarah jessica Parker on TV, and she looks like a foot!") . . .and that is one damn funny show. The only one that genuinely left me cold was the climax of the one where Joe walked again.

I never miss it. I think it has a great, kinetic Robot Chicken quality in the "blink and you may miss the joke" cutaways.
Click to expand...

Agree on everything except I think they really went over the line not in the episode where Joe walked again but the one where Stewie killed Lois, except of course to have her return and engage in a wild gunfight in the White House that ends with Peter killing Stewie. That was some dark, dark, nilhilistic shit. Too far, even for my snarky tastes.
Click to expand...

;D
Click to expand...

Fucking fantastic.

Also, American Dad has grown on me to the point I like it better than Family Guy. Either that, or it's gotten better this season. Either that, or the writers' strike destroyed my ability to watch television critically. Either that, or I have no taste. But I still hate when my girlfriend watches Celebrity Apprentice, so I'm pretty sure we can narrow it down to one of the first three.

Not to go off on too much of a tangent, but seriously: Everybody knows reality TV sucks, and Donald Trump is a fucking tooldouche, and that you will, in theory, pay with soul pieces every time you watch the Celebrity Apprentice. But until you actually spend hours of your life watching Big Pussy and Gene Simmons battle over advertising campaigns under the watchful eye of Ivanka Trump, you can't begin to fathom the toll it takes on everything that's precious.
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you, sir, have a bright future at SportsJournalists.com.
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Bitterness sells.
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I've spent the last five years trading in it myself.

bostonbred · Mar 1, 2008

Family Guy is hysterical, but I don't know about the Cleveland spinoff...could be really bad.

dawgpounddiehard · Mar 1, 2008

Cleveland Brown... great character name.

That is all.

Perry White · Apr 30, 2008

UPDATE: Looks like it's gonna happen
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN3035652020080430

Tom Petty · May 1, 2008

Perry White said:

UPDATE: Looks like it's gonna happen
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN3035652020080430
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i'll watch it.

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