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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2014 7:11:11 GMT -5
a steady decline in the Simpsons to jumping off a building in FG. Do you think so? I just bought Seasons 13 and 14 of Family Guy and laughed my head off. I guess the humour of Family Guy appeals to me, whereas I know a few people who could only take a few episodes of it at a time Family Guy just can't get it together. For example: There's only actually been 12 seasons. (13th's just started) Their DVDs are messed up.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Nov 28, 2014 7:12:06 GMT -5
Ok so 5 other people voted for Family Guy- where are you?! I feel like I'm fighting this on my own here!
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Post by Harry The Arrow was Wrong! on Nov 28, 2014 7:19:37 GMT -5
The worst of the Simpsons is better than the best of Family Guy. Oh I don't know about that, The Simpsons has had some absolute stinkers. "That 90's Show" is probably one of the worst episodes I've ever seen in all of tv, not just The Simpsons. I did not get a single laugh out of it and it completely destroys continuity. That being said I'd still pick The Simpsons. I love Family Guy but it can't even compete with first seven seasons of The Simpsons.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2014 7:20:10 GMT -5
Ok so 5 other people voted for Family Guy- where are you?! I feel like I'm fighting this on my own here! I still find Family Guy entertaining and think current episodes are better than current Simpsons, it's just that The Simpsons are better overall.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2014 8:00:10 GMT -5
As somebody who only started watching Simpsons like, 16 or 17 seasons in (don't ask why), and who'd watched Family Guy since day one, I dont have nostalgia for The Simpsons like most of you.
So of course, I'm voting Simpsons. Even at its worst, it tries.
Many of Family Guy's gags come from cutaways to dated pop culture references; even a caveman could write stuff like that. Peter and Stewie were really the only funny things about the show due to their hilarious voices (and after season 2 or 3 Stewie no longer counts).
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Post by Milkman Norm on Nov 28, 2014 10:02:07 GMT -5
Even when Family Guy was good it was no where near The Simpsons was at it's best. Like not in even in the same conversation.
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Post by Arrow on Nov 28, 2014 10:26:51 GMT -5
Many of Family Guy's gags come from cutaways to dated pop culture references; even a caveman could write stuff like that. Peter and Stewie were really the only funny things about the show due to their hilarious voices (and after season 2 or 3 Stewie no longer counts). See, I feel like Peter is one of the worst things about Family Guy these days. He's gone from being a mostly likable person (albeit a bit too similar to Homer Simpson, IMHO) to a complete asshole whose stupidly has just become obnoxious and irritating to watch. Stewie, meanwhile, is one of FG's few redeeming points nowadays. As far as the poll goes, it's easily The Simpsons. Both shows went to shit a long time ago, but the first eight seasons of The Simpsons beats anything Family Guy has ever done in either of its runs. And I find the post-classic eras of both series to be equally bad in their own way, so that doesn't influence my decision at all. Plus, FG fell off quicker than Simpsons did.
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Post by Red Impact on Nov 28, 2014 10:27:25 GMT -5
The Simpsons. The comedy style has more longevity than the shock humor/radom reference style of Family Guy, which loses the bulk of it's laughs when you know what's coming, and The Simpsons can sneak in the odd emotional moment that lets you connect with it a different way. Family Guy has tried that, but they're nowhere near as good. Family Guy has some funny moments and eps that still stand up, but The Simpsons just has a lot more, and if I'm forced to hunker down and watch the same episodes of something over and over gain, I'd rather have much more episodes than much fewer. Of course, the disks that have no good episodes could always be used to construct a giant signaling mirror. The worst of the Simpsons is better than the best of Family Guy. Oh I don't know about that, The Simpsons has had some absolute stinkers. "That 90's Show" is probably one of the worst episodes I've ever seen in all of tv, not just The Simpsons. I did not get a single laugh out of it and it completely destroys continuity. That being said I'd still pick The Simpsons. I love Family Guy but it can't even compete with first seven seasons of The Simpsons. I think the issue is that the Simpsons has random continuity with itself. Sometimes they'll reference things, the vast majority of the time it's like no two episodes take place in the same universe. It's one of the reasons why I liked Futurama more.
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Post by Jiren on Nov 28, 2014 10:30:45 GMT -5
The worst of the Simpsons is better than the best of Family Guy. Family Guy is as funny as having food poisoning.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2014 10:31:29 GMT -5
Early-mid Simpsons episodes smash every humor based cartoon.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 28, 2014 10:38:49 GMT -5
The Simpsons in it's prime set a bar that won't be reached for a very long time, if at all. The quality has declined, but there are still a few episodes a season where the show reaches back and finds its fastball.
Family Guy can be good, but the writing and humor level get's a bit too lazy for me more often than not
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Nov 28, 2014 11:11:16 GMT -5
Family Guy has, for a longer period of time, maintained the same level of quality that it started out with, more or less.
However 1. they have mostly shorter seasons 2. that quality level has never come even close to The Simpsons at its peak. Depending on who you ask, The Simpsons has between six and ten of the greatest seasons of television comedy ever made. When both shows are finally over, in the future, they won't even stack up against each other. No matter how bad latter day Simpsons has got, it still doesn't destroy just how good it was in its early days, and Family Guy has almost without exception never reached that same height.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Nov 28, 2014 11:46:08 GMT -5
Bob's Burgers
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Nov 28, 2014 11:47:43 GMT -5
I like Family Guy alright, but if you give me any season from the first 10 of the Simpsons, it's not remotely a fair contest.
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Post by Cyno on Nov 28, 2014 12:07:04 GMT -5
The worst of the Simpsons is still more enjoyable than the average episode of Family Guy.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Nov 28, 2014 12:38:59 GMT -5
I like both, but if I had to pick
The Simpsons has had a bigger impact on my life so easily that.
I haven't watched a new episode in a long time but when I was younger I could quote whole episodes from start to finish, it was pretty much my life.
Family Guy was good when it started, but now a days it feels like its trying a bit to hard to be controversial or indeed go for the shock factor, a lot of the jokes feel really forced.
A fan of both but It has to be Simpsons.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2014 13:18:03 GMT -5
The Simpsons
The best episodes are pure sitcom gold, plus the show went on a much slower decline in quality compared to Family Guy's.
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Post by corndog on Nov 28, 2014 13:33:10 GMT -5
The Simpsons in it's prime set a bar that won't be reached for a very long time, if at all. The quality has declined, but there are still a few episodes a season where the show reaches back and finds its fastball. Family Guy can be good, but the writing and humor level get's a bit too lazy for me more often than not I agree with this completely. The first 9 seasons of Simpsons were great and maintained a consistent level of comedy that almost no show has or ever will reach. Also, although I don't consistently watch new episodes, it does occasionally have a few solid episodes in a season that could at least stand up with the older stuff and make me laugh much more than the newer Family Guy. But I will say that seasons 3-6 of Family Guy were incredibly funny and I enjoyed about as much as peak Simpsons seasons, but it was definitely shorter lived and the decline afterwards was much worse than Simpsons to the point of becoming unwatchable and just offensive, overdone jokes that have no element of surprise. Although I will admit the last season of Family Guy has become a little more watchable and at least the writers look like they might still have a pulse. At least I haven't seen any homeless children have nose bleeds for no reason at all in that time. Then again, I might pick South Park over both, just because it's still funny to me and is a show that has actually gotten better through the years. It went from a very simple show, like Family Guy, to actually much more complex and keeping relevant.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 28, 2014 13:53:26 GMT -5
I will say that if King of the Hill was an option, it would be close.
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Post by adamclark52 on Nov 28, 2014 14:05:43 GMT -5
Oh I don't know about that, The Simpsons has had some absolute stinkers. "That 90's Show" is probably one of the worst episodes I've ever seen in all of tv, not just The Simpsons. I did not get a single laugh out of it and it completely destroys continuity. That being said I'd still pick The Simpsons. I love Family Guy but it can't even compete with first seven seasons of The Simpsons. I think the issue is that the Simpsons has random continuity with itself. Sometimes they'll reference things, the vast majority of the time it's like no two episodes take place in the same universe. It's one of the reasons why I liked Futurama more. I can't find a clip but you guys do remember the ending to Homer Loves Flanders in season five?
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