“And if you ever want to visit my show…” – Jay Sherman “Nah, we’re not gonna be doing that.” – Bart Simpson Family Guy has been a raw nerved subject for Simpsons fans pretty much since it began. This owes in part to the fact that no less a person than Harry Shearer has said that it was cooked up by FOX for the express purposes of squeezing the underpaid voice actors on The Simpsons. (I don’t know if that’s actually true or not, but it certainly sounds like something FOX would do and Shearer is orders of magnitude more trustworthy…
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Yeah, They Copied “Family Guy”
“Look Maggie, they have a baby too.” – Homer Simpson “It’s like they saw our lives and put it right up on screen!” – Bart Simpson I have no real use for the perpetual “Simpsons vs. Family Guy” debate for the obvious reason that I don’t consider The Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons to be the same program. Nor do I know whether or not Family Guy was originally intended as a low cost replacement for The Simpsons. I do know that the format of Family Guy resembles that of The Simpsons pretty closely. I also know that Zombie Simpsons sucks…
Does Seth MacFarlane have feelings?
I’ll give the writers of Zombie Simpsons credit where credit is due: when they want to go out on a formulaic note, they don’t hold back. To say that Sunday’s ending was supremely schmaltzy is an understatement, as Krusty and Penelope lovingly floated away on the Seine under a starry sky to an acoustic version of “Moon River.” As if that weren’t enough, the writers took an additional opportunity to blanket the audience with warm fuzzies in the form of a passive aggressive “fuck you” to the haters (i.e., us.): Right. Ignoring the self-delusion in the second line, it’s interesting…
Seth MacFarlane Gets It
I’ve said many times that I find the Family Guy versus The Simpsons arguments unbelievably stupid and pointless. I maintain that stance. Wherever you are on that one though, this interview with Seth MacFarlane speaks truth: “I don’t want to go 20 years like The Simpsons,” MacFarlane told Sun Media. “Ideally we would go another couple of years and then wrap it up. That would be my perfect scenario. “I mean, I can already see it coming. I can already see the … we’re in season eight, and it gets harder, it gets harder and harder to do new stuff. I mean,…
Pointless Show Comparisons
When I was taking that quiz Dave put up yesterday I noticed that there were links to quizzes for Family Guy, South Park and Futurama as well. Rather than add to internet’s already vast archive of arguments over the relative merits of these shows, I’m simply going to point out a telling numerical discrepancy. In raw numbers The Simpsons quiz had 63 characters, the South Park and Family Guy quizzes had 42 each and the Futurama quiz had 30. But the Simpsons quiz doesn’t have more characters because it’s been on longer. In fact, all of the 63 characters were on…
I Can’t Imagine Why Fox Didn’t Like This
I have no insight into why this little musical number from Family Guy wasn’t broadcast. (It looks like it was to have been part of the fall ’07 episode “Lois Kills Stewie”.) The Entertainment Weekly post where I found it thinks it was the network censors, but other than the original YouTube uploader calling it “banned” I don’t see any evidence of that, it may just have not made the final cut. Of course, saying something was “banned” or implying that it’s somehow too “think of the children” for broadcast television certainly makes it more appealing than saying it just didn’t fit in the…
I’d Rather Watch the Dryer Channel
“I lost to Channel Ocho? What the hell is that?” – Krusty the Klown Good news everybody, that abortion last Sunday was the least watched Zombie Simpsons ever: An extended mid-season break has bitten The Simpsons dearly in the ratings, with Sundays episode ‘Lisa The Drama Queen’ fetching just 5.75 million viewers at 8:00pm, a new all time low for the show. Huzzah. But wait, there’s more! How about some insult to go with that injury? a new American Dad scored 5.73 million viewers at 9.30. American Dad? A first run Simpsons episode is just as interesting to people as Family…