Duck and Cover

The Cleveland Show

I thought it was a joke or a clip from an episode of Family Guy until Google told me otherwise. There are so many things that make this retarded I'll just mention the obvious. Seth Macfarlane and his crew are talentless unfunny losers (see Family Guy and American Dad) and this spinoff will bury him. It just looks like a brown version of the Family Guy characters with a slutty version of Meg. I hope that's the official theme song because it SUCKS and reminds me of early 80's sitcoms like Three's Company or something else equally terrible. There's something about it that makes it so bad I have to watch it a few times to grasp how shit it is.

Like Peter Griffin in "Family Guy," Cleveland will be surrounded by eccentric characters.

"His next-door-neighbors on one side are the Pennyapple family from Great Britain, with Seth doing the voice of the father, Barrington Pennyapple," Henry says.

"They're basically extremely stuffy and elitist, even though they have no right to be.

"Across the street will be a family of rednecks - the dad is quite open about the fact he's not quite comfortable with black people - and on the other side is a family of bears.

"They're similar to [the talking dog] Brian in 'Family Guy' in that it's not really questioned as to why [the bears] are living in human society," Henry says.

"But they do have bear tendencies - and speak in mildly foreign accents.

german/arabic/canadian

heh heh

In other news there was a monty python marathon on BBC America the other day. Watch that instead.

I somewhat liked Family Guy when I used to watch it even though I haven't really spent the time to watch any of the recent stuff. They have references to things I actually know, usually.

I've always found that the humor in the series is unoriginal and that it tries too hard to be funny. Its either that out of context random-ass joke that's real stupid because it has nothing to do with plot or character development or some joke that references something out of the 1980's. All of their humor is overused and extremely childish. None of its subtle or involves any thinking power. The first few seasons were good but the new episodes after their cancellation are just terrible.

I hate the way they draw the episode out when they dont have any funny jokes to tell, like the one where the baby talks about the dogs book for like an hour.

senisterdenister wrote:I've always found that the humor in the series is unoriginal and that it tries too hard to be funny. Its either that out of context random-ass joke that's real stupid because it has nothing to do with plot or character development or some joke that references something out of the 1980's. All of their humor is overused and extremely childish. None of its subtle or involves any thinking power. The first few seasons were good but the new episodes after their cancellation are just terrible.

Amen...

An episode springs to mind, where Peter is sitting in the back of the car annoying his daughter, until she turns on the backseat tv with spongebob, to which Peter is sitting like some kind of retarded kid, murmuring and giggling "spongebob"...

The "stupid" level of these series, along with american dad and especially simpsons in the last many seasons, is just ridiculous.

Southpark varies from season to season...
I haven't written it completely off, and one of the latest episodes with "Teacher Eric Cartmennez" is just awesome.

My favorite is major boobage.

The thing about Family Guy is you can swap out the second half of any episode with another and you wouldn't know the difference. There are very few story plots I can remember. South Park crushes them in that department.

The last several seasons of The Simpsons is the worst of all. I forget everything I watched the second the credits roll. Not because it's random and unfunny, but because it's boring and unfunny with the same old celebrity guests and music thrown in. Watch the old episodes pre-1997 and it's amazing how good the show was. Jokes work on more than one level, and all sorts of brilliant stuff you never noticed as a kid.
South Park's old episodes kinda sucked. I actually hated the first season and it didn't start picking up until they got smarter. Family Guy is consistently terrible.

Also, Major Boobage was amazing. If you haven't seen it, check out the early 80's animated movie Heavy Metal.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!

Like pretty much everything else on TV. :commercials: :sublime programming:

Mad Max wrote:South Park's old episodes kinda sucked. I actually hated the first season and it didn't start picking up until they got smarter.

I'd rather watch any first season episode of South Park than the kind of shit they're spewing out lately. The second and third seasons were the best. The characters had more personality and didn't just feel like vehicles for Parker and Stone's pet one-liners or iconoclastic political messages. And the humor was smarter, less clunky and obvious.

Family Guy, same deal. They've run out of steam. Eventually every good animated show turns to shit, unless it gets cancelled before it starts to suck (Clone High, The Oblongs). Why is that?

Because things like The Oblongs never were funny to begin with.

Family Guy totally fails at setups and segues, everything is:

"Hey that reminds me of the time that [insert obscure 80s TV reference] yadda yadda yadda." With some non-sequitir cutscene.

That being said, Quagmire has grown on me, he deserves the spinoff. Isn't monotone Cleveland actually the most boring character
:pandering to black demographic:

SOuth park recently : Where the fuck is cartman all of a sudden?

Subhuman wrote:

Mad Max wrote:South Park's old episodes kinda sucked. I actually hated the first season and it didn't start picking up until they got smarter.

I'd rather watch any first season episode of South Park than the kind of shit they're spewing out lately. The second and third seasons were the best. The characters had more personality and didn't just feel like vehicles for Parker and Stone's pet one-liners or iconoclastic political messages. And the humor was smarter, less clunky and obvious.

Word! For example, Cartman is supposed to be Machiavellan psychopath who controls everything that happens and not just a slave to events they use to make the plot make sense - like when he saved some sort of jewcats (of all in the world) in one of the recent episodes. Stan and Kyle and their families get way too much attention for being without doubt the most boring characters of the four at least. I miss the time they actually felt like nine-year olds and not precocious/ageless politically correct and concious individuals that run around in meaningless episodes all created around some current event the creators felt like mocking to the stupid "dramatic music" they put in probably in the name of "irony".

On the other hand I guess every show starts to decline eventually, and it's good South Park could keep up for so many years. There were lots of great episodes not only in the first three seasons but also in season 5 (Kenny dies, Scott Tenorman etc.), 7-9, and occasionally even in the latest ones.

Imagination land part II was not bad.
Also, the one with Christmas Critters was fucking excellent.

I loved the Cartman/Buck Rogers 2-parter. Movie satire is another thing South Park does better than Family Guy. South Park will devote a whole episode to it while still feeling new. The Buck Rogers and Heavy Metal episodes were great because they didn't simply copy and reuse the source material. They adapted them for laughs. Family Guy throws random movie references in there and it doesn't matter because the show sucks. Then there's the piece of shit Family Guy Star Wars movie. I laughed ONCE the entire fucking time. It's when Peter as Han is flying the Millenium Falcon somebody makes a comment like "what? that's it? all you did was kinda hit a few buttons." The rest was like watching a Star Wars remake in cartoon form.