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Cartoonists feud: jabs thrown between Simpsons and Family Guy
NEW YORK (AP) — The Simpsons took a shot at fellow Fox cartoon Family Guy. So that series’ creator is taking a shot right back.
Seth MacFarlane said an episode of The Simpsons where a Homer Simpson clone was identified as Family Guy dad Peter Griffin was “definitely a slam.”
But since the Family Guy team dishes out plenty of its own insults, it should be able to take some, MacFarlane told Blender magazine.
“To me, Peter is much more similar to Ralph Kramden than he is to Homer, right down to his voice,” he said, referring to the character from The Honeymooners. “That’s what I see. But because The Simpsons and Family Guy are really the only two shows of their kind of television, there’ll be comparisons made.”
MacFarlane said he was definitely influenced by The Simpsons.
“I mean, in its prime, it was one of the greatest comedy shows of all time,” he said. “But it’s not the show it was. It can’t be. You can’t do 16 seasons and be consistent.”

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

“To me, Peter is much more similar to Ralph Kramden than he is to Homer, right down to his voice,” he said, referring to the character from The Honeymooners.

My Fred Flinstone is better than your Fred Flinstone!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Fred could take both of those desk jockeys on. Dude drives a car WITH HIS FEET!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Apples and oranges.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Apples and horse apples!

(Sorry, I just wanted to say that.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Both left out in the sun too long.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

family guy's success makes me feel like the world is taking crazy pills

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Family Guy is pretty unfunny.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I laughed at the first episode when the Kool-Aid man burst into the courtroom. Not since.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand what the jokes are supposed to be on Family Guy, what I am supposed to find funny, etc. It seems like just a bunch of non-sequiturs with that animation style that looked crappy the first time around when it was used on "The Critic".

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

It looked good on the Critic!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

family guy's success makes me feel like the world is taking crazy pills

-- jones

OTM. People I have a lot in common with, taste-wise, often find Family Guy funny, and I find it utterly unwatchable.

― Richard K (Richard K), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Ditto. Double ditto for Trailer Park Boys.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

seriously, what is with otherwise good-tasted individuals loving this show?

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Family Guy is the only reason I even bother switching on my tv (when it's not connected to the DVD player).

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

it's a bad, bad show, that Family Guy. and just how Groening and co. showed more evidence of their cleverness via Futurama, Macfarlane showed his talent on American Dad.

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

God I love me some Family Guy

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen American Dad, what's the deal with it?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, WTF? Family Guy is beyond classic.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

family guy is funny, in small doses.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Don't pay any attention to the mentalists, Andrew. Just nod and smile.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty lousy and even Family Guy fans I know think it sucks.

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Not enough celebrity cameos on Family Guy for my taste.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

family ties>>>family matters>>family guy

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

dan OTM.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

[insert Barney Miller reference]

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

They probably hate classical music and babies with earrings too.

x-post

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

It's by no means the best show ever, but I certainly enjoy it enough to catch every episode. I gues for some people there's no middle ground.

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

[insert random John Travolta in Michael reference]

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

I almost think that they came up with "American Dad" to make "Family Guy" look better. It's still not working.

Example of "Family Guy" not working? Peter stripping him and his friend naked before the "Bachelor" auditions. "Shocking" just to be shocking ain't funny. If Kyle had unpantsed Cartman, you can be damn sure that there would've been a very funny point to it all.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Nnnyaaah

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't aware that cartoon asses were meant to be shocking!

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Family Guy is extremely funny in both small and large doses (like watching both DVD sets in one sitting).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

[insert random Golden Girls reference]

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

None of these things are as funny as Chris Morris' face so fuck it, let's all give up.

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

The new season of Family Guy has been really disappointing. Like new Simpsons episode disappointing.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

I mean, in its prime, it was one of the greatest comedy shows of all time. But it’s not the show it was. It can’t be. You can’t do two and a half seasons and be consistent.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

It has not been as good as the earlier episodes, no.

But I love that "Lois, you dirty girl...you filthy stinky prostitute" exchange.

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

None of these things are as funny as Chris Morris' face so fuck it, let's all give up.

So so true.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

"It's esy to kill a ferret...you just kick its face off"

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

"Remember, the safety word is banana"

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

best family guy scene ever: peter and stewie are stranded in a saudi arabian desert. they're delusional with fear and in danger of freezing to death. amidst total nothingness, stewie encounters a camel and convinces peter that their only chance for survival involves slicing it open and crawling inside. an incredibly prolonged scene (this is absolutely the show's strength -- its willingness to tap into the awkwardness of these drawn out moments for laughs) follows wherein stewie cuts the camel open, sermonizes about how fucking disgusting it is, crawls inside, complains some more about how unspeakably awful it is, nestles into its intestines, and finally, after some more time, gets acclimated. after all that (and it really does take a while), peter looks over to his right and the lens follows to reveal a comfort inn just off camera.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Family Guy is barely better than new Simpsons, and equally devoid of humanity/emotion, same sense of it being total hackwork.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Simpsons>>>South Park>>>KingoftheHill>>>The Critic>>>Family Guy

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't aware that cartoon asses were meant to be shocking!

By themselves, they aren't. However, "Family Guy" and FOX think so, or they wouldn't run that disclaimer at the beginning of the program that makes one think that they're about to see Heavy Metal or something.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

It's been said before, but: Stewie and Brian are the best thing about Family Guy (and the only reason to watch it.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Family Guy is barely better than new Simpsons, and equally devoid of humanity/emotion, same sense of it being total hackwork.

PAHAHAHAHA

― cousin larry bundgee: the next generation, season two (bundgee), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Simpsons>>>South Park>>>KingoftheHill>>>The Critic>>>Family Guy

switch around the critic and family guy and i'm with you. all of them make me laugh, some more than the rest.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Neither of the bits mentioned in this thread that I've also seen is funny.

― Leeeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/wel.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

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would you like to buy a vowel or two?

― Ô¿Ô (eman), Monday, 18 July 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

all of these shows (even nu-simpsons, though it mostly makes me cringe) have their moments, but NOTHING beats prime simpsons.

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Monday, 18 July 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

ws the other word kids sd, ignant?
-----
would you like to buy a vowel or two?

Tha's ignant.

http://webpages.charter.net/kennethburns/Club%205%20-%20Madison,%20Wisconsin_files/shirleyq.gif

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 18 July 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

myb yr rgt, srry

― Ô¿Ô (eman), Monday, 18 July 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

I hate to plagiarize myself and ILC but I fashion myself after Prometheus bestowing light upon benighted ILE:

SIMPSONS POOBAH GROENING COMPARES FAMILY GUY TO HITLER.

― Leeeeeee (Leee), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

"Mrs. Lockhart, our son would like to.... plow you."

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

omg, there's a woman on the radio (CBC 1) who sounds *exactly* like Stewie. I can't even listen to what she's saying, I'm so caught up in *how* she's saying it. hahaha, it's too much. Name later.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh! It's Margaret V1sser! still funny.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

okay, let's just say that the forthcoming DVD flick will make some of you hate the show even more, and the rest of you love it muchly.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 24 July 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

not only is family guy v. unfunny, I also think the drawing is really bad. clean and "well done" but the character designs are awful and annoying, in my opinion

if I find out that someone likes family guy, I often but not always think, like someone said, upthread, "that is strange because most of the other stuff you like isn't complete rubbish"

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 July 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

http://images.saluteyourshorts.net/blog/fg_01.jpg http://images.saluteyourshorts.net/blog/fg_02.jpg http://images.saluteyourshorts.net/blog/fg_03.jpg

also, fuck you

― Marco Salvetti - FAMILY GUY DVD MOVIE LEAKED ON THE INTERNET (moustache), Sunday, 24 July 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it's great that you hotlinked those, right from the guy's site...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 24 July 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

also, fuck you

-- Marco Salvetti - FAMILY GUY DVD MOVIE LEAKED ON THE INTERNET (salvetti12...), July 24th, 2005.

― Marco Salvetti (moustache), Sunday, 24 July 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

I, for one, welcome our new troll

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Sunday, 24 July 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

MOUSTACHE'D

― Marco Salvetti (moustache), Sunday, 24 July 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Other possible "funny" Family Guy gags:

* The Trix Rabbit locked inside an insane asylum
* The Griffen son dancing in a hula skirt, complete with coconut bra.
* Stewie in a Napoleon outfit at Waterloo.
* Quagmire in a Pulp Fiction parody where he has sex with an overdosed and unconcious Mia Wallace. Cue Dick Dale music and Quagmire dancing at the end doing the V's-across-the-eyes thing while going Giggety-giggety.

Anyone of these, and FG fans will shit their beds exalting on how rib-splintering this stupid show is.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

nah, the Trix Rabbit joke has already been done.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

KRAMER VS PREDATOR

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I agree with RJG about the bad character design - esepcially Peter himself, ugh. It's easily the thing that puts me off most about the show. That Chris in the "Take on Me" video scene was fantastically done though.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

nah, the Trix Rabbit joke has already been done.

Right, right. And "Family Guy" is never guilty of that.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Everyone has an ass-face. I think the animator traced a few too many Garfield Trapper Keepers in his or her childhood.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Right, right. And "Family Guy" is never guilty of that.

no, i'm telling you, they already did a Trix Rabbit joke.

And then Robot Chicken did it last week, too.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Peter has TESTES for a chin! It really distracts me!

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 24 July 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

as it should.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 25 July 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

The thing I hate about Family Guy is the way it makes people who dislike it become the most boring, one-note curmudgeons on the face of the Earth. GET ONE HOBBY.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 July 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Hahah Dan OTM =) (and I'd apply it to the Simpsons/Futurama hatas also. Hell, hating cartoons in general is WRONGITY WRONGTOWN).

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 25 July 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

you like family guy, dan, and the rest

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

also, it should be noted that the Family Guy DVD is pretty much 3 eps strung together. the first two bits are fookin' great, since brian & stewie are together.

The 3rd one, with Stewie solo, not so much.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 25 July 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Apples and oranges.
-- luna (lunace...), July 12th, 2005.

Your are dumb.

― crash, Monday, 25 July 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

You know there's word of Fox doing this (a direct to dvd movie type thing) with Futurama now as well? That said, its Billy West who's been saying it, but David Cohen is saying "we dont have greenlight yet". So I dunno whats going on.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 25 July 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

did billy west say it in one of his funny voices?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

i hope that they do it, so that american animation can get some sorta regular OAV thing going on, like anime has had for 2 decades.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 25 July 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah that would be cool :) I see so much still unsaid storyline in Futurama.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 25 July 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

Futurama has always seemed more like movie material to me.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 25 July 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

i.e. maybe I am boring but I can't come up with Scene 1 of whatever a "Simpsons" movie might be.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 25 July 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

pick a scene from any episode; it'd probably start out much like that, and have very little to do with the rest of the plot after it gets things going.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 25 July 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

Family Guy - a show so unique it causes RJG to write in whole sentences.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 July 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

also, it's not like the jokes are ONLY lazy pop-culture refs(tho those can slip in there from time to time). there's far more an absurdist element involved; e.g. the Kool-Aid Man showing up, but only crashing thru the wall at Lois' trial, looking sheepish, then slowly backing away.

so, Stewie dressed as Napolean at Waterloo would't be just the joke. It'd have to be something more like using that just as the establishing shot, then showing him going to war against life-size Stratego pieces or somesuch.

Then they'd take a break from fighting to have tea, and do an uncomfortably extended bit where they awkwardly try to fill conversation time.

"So...uh...hmm. Uh, been a Miner for a while, have you?" etc etc etc.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 25 July 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

Futurama has always seemed more like movie material to me.

This is so OTM I dunno why I didnt think of it before! :/

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 25 July 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

I am developing a Family Guy = Noise Board theory.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 25 July 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

b-but I thought you did, Trayce? I was just agreeing with you (in a way that made it seem like I had the idea myself, haha, sweeeeet)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

"What if I said Lt. Worf's head looks like a FANNY?"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

American Dad would be nothing without Patrick Stewart.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm shocked that American Dad is so bad.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

American Dad would be nothing without Patrick Stewart.

This is so OTM! The only times it's ever funny are the episodes he is in!

"SILENCE, MAN-HORSE!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

ugh

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23373451

― sktsh, Saturday, 20 July 2013 18:56 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, news broke a couple days ago. Except for the rare "I'm dumb and think this is a great idea!" response, most people are against this eventuality.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 20 July 2013 18:58 (twelve years ago)

let us never forget the episode where the "joke" was that quagmire raped and killed marge simpson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA_OqFm5mWo

― Does the RS Tsarnaev Cover Offend You, Yeah? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 20 July 2013 19:17 (twelve years ago)

jesus christ

― sktsh, Saturday, 20 July 2013 19:50 (twelve years ago)

most people are against this eventuality.

most people have moved on from both

― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 20 July 2013 23:16 (twelve years ago)

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