FOX Once Again Sleeps With Seth McFarlane...

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artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/was-simpsons-episode-edited-to-spare-seth-macfarlanes-feelings/

Someone get Chief Wiggum on the case! A special 20th anniversary episode of “The Simpsons” ended with a thank-you message from the show’s producers to viewers, but appeared to omit a joke at the expense of their Fox colleague and sometime-rival Seth MacFarlane.

The episode, which was broadcast on Sunday, ended with an on-screen display that read...

“Thanks for 20 wonderful years. The best is yet to come.”

But in a version of the show that was sent in advance to critics, the message read slightly differently: as Alessandra Stanley noted in her review of the episode, it said...

“Thanks for 20 wonderful years. Now stay tuned for three Seth MacFarlane shows.”

Mr. MacFarlane, the producer of the Fox animated series “Family Guy,” “The Cleveland Show” and “American Dad,” has occasionally been the target of jokes on “The Simpsons,” whose writers have skewered him for creating programs similar to theirs. Mr. MacFarlane has often said that “The Simpsons” helped inspire him to create “Family Guy,” and was one of many celebrities who offered testimonials to “The Simpsons” in a documentary that followed the anniversary episode on Sunday night.

A Fox spokeswoman said that the “Simpsons” episode given to reporters and critics was a rough cut and that show elements are often added and taken out before broadcast.

Even though it's probably BS...not really. Why did they cut the joke out? Because there weren't 3 McFarlane shows on after The Simpsons last night...they held that special.

Then again...you never know these days.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

sour grapes much? as bad as Family Guy can be, it's nowhere near as bad as the Simpsons is.

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I didn't think there was 3 Seth shows after Simpsons last night. I think it was just TCS and maybe FG.

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Maybe they realized a joke is supposed to be funny lol

[slasher911]

I thought it was funny. Maybe because I don't think Seth MacFarlane is nearly as funny as he thinks he is.

[Ultimo Chocula]

Jan 11, 2010 18:43:34 GMT -5 @slasher911 said:

I thought it was funny. Maybe because I don't think Seth MacFarlane is nearly as funny as he thinks he is.

Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

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Jan 11, 2010 18:43:34 GMT -5 @slasher911 said:

I thought it was funny. Maybe because I don't think Seth MacFarlane is nearly as funny as he thinks he is.

See I didn't think it was funny just because I was thinking "Well thats more a fact than a joke", if they had said "Thanks for 20 years and taking you through the night until 7am.....Seth McFarlane 20 show extravaganza" then at least then I could see that as an attempt at a joke

[Yami Daimao]

Jan 11, 2010 18:31:00 GMT -5 @cyclonechyno said:

Maybe they realized a joke is supposed to be funny lol

[Malcolm]

I see it more as a take that against Fox than Seth macFarlane himself.

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

Jan 11, 2010 18:31:00 GMT -5 @cyclonechyno said:

Maybe they realized a joke is supposed to be funny lol

Then why would they have three Seth McFarlane shows on?

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Jan 11, 2010 20:34:26 GMT -5 Non Banjoble Tokens said:

Jan 11, 2010 18:31:00 GMT -5 @cyclonechyno said:

Maybe they realized a joke is supposed to be funny lol

Then why would they have three Seth McFarlane shows on?

Where's the Citizen Kane Clapping gif when you need it?

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I like the way Matt Greoning and crew are supposed to be so anti- Seth McFarlane, yet they had him sing the theme to one of the Futurama movies.

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Jan 11, 2010 18:31:00 GMT -5 @cyclonechyno said:

Maybe they realized a joke is supposed to be funny lol

Agreed. The jokes about Seth pretty much running Sunday nights on Fox is getting about as old as the Tiger Woods jokes.

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Yeah, I gotta imagine this was FOX's idea. I can't believe McFarlane would have a problem with it. At the least, it's a little bit of publicity.

[spagett]

Jan 12, 2010 3:15:03 GMT -5 @therealoblivion said:

I like the way Matt Greoning and crew are supposed to be so anti- Seth McFarlane, yet they had him sing the theme to one of the Futurama movies.

According to Seth Macfarlane him and Matt Groening are friends and any "rivalry" between them is just friendly banter.

However he has said to have fallen out with Al Jean, The Simpsons head writer over that gag where Quagmire slept with Marge and then shot everyone.

[The Ichi]

Jan 11, 2010 18:28:31 GMT -5 Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! said:

as bad as Family Guy can be, it's nowhere near as bad as the Simpsons is.

I feel like I should sig this.

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Jan 12, 2010 8:48:46 GMT -5 The Ichi said:

Jan 11, 2010 18:28:31 GMT -5 Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! said:

as bad as Family Guy can be, it's nowhere near as bad as the Simpsons is.

I feel like I should sig this.

feel free.

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Seth McFarlane is actually pretty humble and modest about his criticism. He often jokes about his hack writing of his shows and doesn't deny his criticism. In the case of the South Park episodes were they ripped into Family Guy, he congratulated Trey Parker and Matt Stone and he and his writers often refer to their jokes as "Manatee" jokes. With that being said he is apparently very arrogant and believes in his own hype as well.

[SAJ Forth]

I'm guessing it was omited to avoid discussions more extreme than this(Not that this is).

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Jan 11, 2010 20:34:26 GMT -5 Non Banjoble Tokens said:

Jan 11, 2010 18:31:00 GMT -5 @cyclonechyno said:

Maybe they realized a joke is supposed to be funny lol

Then why would they have three Seth McFarlane shows on?

Hey if we're talking the Cleveland Show, I'm with ya

I think people are assuming that I've picked a side in the Seth vs Matt war that exists only on the internet however I'd just like to be clear that I just thought it was a s*** joke

Which is was, seriously Simpsons writers, it sucked