which one ends first: simpsons, south park, family guy?

south park because it's not on fox

Simpsons will never end

i think all these shows are going to go on until an irreplaceable voice actor dies, and Castallellaneta, Kavner, etc. are 10-20 years older than MacFarlane or Parker/Stone, so I voted for The Simpsons.

i mean there is an infuriatingly plausible reality in which The Simpsons keeps going with a new Homer voice, but I'm gonna put my money on that not happening for the sake of my sanity.

maybe MacFarlane will take over when the original Simpsons voice cast dies

I can see people eventually getting sick of Family Guy

already happened surely

Simpsons have never replaced a voice actor

I mean, Family Guy is so one-note, I can imagine it just running out of steam and popularity eventually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_the_world_turns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_our_lives

I think Fox will milk The Simpsons like Dr Who

Family Guy might lose steam and get canceled for poor ratings eventually, but i kinda doubt it. i feel like the more likely scenario is that one of the new shows FOX gives MacFarlane every couple years takes off big time and/or he keeps making movies as popular as Ted every couple years and he finally goes "Family Guy has run its course, i'm going to focus on other projects."

I mean, Family Guy is so one-note, I can imagine it just running out of steam and popularity eventually.

― imago-er not a show-er (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, November 25, 2013 1:26 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

you realize this dude has three shows on fox right? no one is sick of him

two, Cleveland Show is cancelled

i'm voting "south park" only cuz i think it seems most likely that parker & stone get bored with the tv show and go and do something else

DJP you forgot Cosmos

American Dad is moving to TBS isn't it? Not immediately, but next season I think.

South Park is probably the least-watched, but it's on Comedy Central so the demand for eyeballs is lessened. Even so, I agree that Parker & Stone will eventually want to do about a thousand other things and South Park will have to wind down.

there's some financial incentive for fox letting the simpsons end iirc from talk from when they almost canceled it a couple of years ago though i think that maybe got cleared up between then and whatever they announced a couple of weeks ago w/ streaming simpsons, simpsons reruns on fxx, whatever. voting south park.

"Dads" hasn't been canceled yet and apparently he has another new show called "Bordertown" debuting next year, so the number of MacFarlane shows on FOX is still hovering around 3

dad went into hiatus though, along w/ ilx fave the mindy project

you realize this dude has three shows on fox right? no one is sick of him

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 25, 2013 1:39 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eventually

I mean also, FG is so nihilistic/inconsistent that viewers probably can't form the same affinity for the characters as they would a Homer Simpson or Eric Cartman

i mean... there are people genuinely upset as we speak that they "killed" the dog character that has the same voice and personality as 50 other MacFarlane characters. people are mourning a poor drawing of a dog right now.

and he finally goes "Family Guy has run its course, i'm going to focus on other projects."

didn't he basically say this a year ago?

I voted South Park because unlike Seth I feel like Parker/Stone have legitimate talent outside of that show and in watching their interviews and that documentary that came out a few years ago it seems like they're kinda sick of doing SP and don't really have the time to make it as good as they want to. Then again I thought the show was going to end after "You're Getting Old" and here we (still) are

Simpsons will probably never consider ending until one of the voice actors dies

family guy dying first is wishful thinking. if the simpsons can last so long after so many boring seasons clawing its way back to mediocrity, easy stuff like FG will last

Stone/Parker just getting sick of it seems most likely out of the three to me. or them just sitting on their asses watching cable TV instead of going into "work" permanently instead of just every other day

brian died? i guess i should watch the episode...

FG is the only one whose creator has actually said it's gone on too long, so that one.

South Park averages 3-5 good-to-great episodes a season, which is way more than the other two can say.

had no idea south park was still putting out new episodes, is it any good anymore?

i mean... there are people genuinely upset as we speak that they "killed" the dog character that has the same voice and personality as 50 other MacFarlane characters. people are mourning a poor drawing of a dog right now.

― some dude, Monday, November 25, 2013 2:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd love to do an ilx search and find all the people who cried when the dog died on futurama

SP is the same as it ever was

brian died? i guess i should watch the episode...

Yeah, that's news to me. I haven't watched a "new" episode of FG since probably its first season back from cancellation, though.

I'd love to do an ilx search and find all the people who knew there was a dog on futurama

SP is tough to stick to. they do good episodes once in a while but i'd peg it more like 1 out of 10. i was amused by the minecraft/murderous housewifes episode I guess

i'll tell you what DID die first: me giving a SHIT about ANY of them!!! suck it!

i respect South Park more than Family Guy from a humor/writing perspective but the voices on SP are so annoying i feel like i could get a migraine just thinking about them, so i never watch it.

kind of lolling that a shock character death that just happened yesterday is being greeted with "well that's news to me!" IT'S NEWS TO EVERYONE, SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE STATUS REVOKED

I'd love to do an ilx search and find all the people who knew there was a dog on futurama

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 25, 2013 2:14 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dog dying on futurama is the JFK assassination for millenial Tumblr whites

it's just kind of obvious that not many of us are still watching Family Guy, and the rest here already hate it. i was still watching consistently up until a few seasons ago

xp does the dog thing really exist far beyond this board?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/14-of-futuramas-saddest-moments-ranked-from-least-devastatin

Futurama ended last night, leaving behind some pretty emotional episodes. Fair warning, though…this post contains references to Fry’s dog.

Futurama ended last night, leaving behind some pretty emotional episodes. Fair warning, though…this post contains references to Fry’s dog.

Futurama ended last night, leaving behind some pretty emotional episodes. Fair warning, though…this post contains references to Fry’s dog.

Futurama ended last night, leaving behind some pretty emotional episodes. Fair warning, though…this post contains references to Fry’s dog.

Futurama ended last night, leaving behind some pretty emotional episodes. Fair warning, though…this post contains references to Fry’s dog.

I rarely watch FG anymore but last night's Bob's Burgers was so great that I just never bothered to turn the TV off, plus I was slightly high. So I wonder if Brian's dead for good. Hope so - I appreciate the perversity of such a move.

xp good lord

i'm not gonna lie though, i found that dog thing pretty sad

There's a SP episode about Minecraft? Oh damn, on board for that

yeah i wont lie either, that was a real bummer ending that may have gotten a bit overromanticized by the internet (apparently only by white people though right WGW? we're so lame!)

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When I first saw that Futurama episode I went "aw, that's sweet" and was impressed that the show was able to earn that type of sentiment, and then I started seeing online reaction to it years after the fact and I realized that most people are crazy.

I'd love to do an ilx search and find all the people who cried when the dog died on futurama

but that episode was genuinely affecting in a way FG could never dream of managing

xp obvs

Futurama did heartstring tugging really, really well imo.

I mean, it felt deliberate but never cheap.

aka don't hate the game, hate the players

in ten years it'll be Adventure Time episodes that get this treatment by wistful folks

both the dog ep + the fry's brother ep revolved around last-minute revelations that were GENUINELY UNEXPECTED to deliver their gutwrenching emotional payloads. there was craftsmanship! also, the music

dog dying on futurama is the JFK assassination for millenial Tumblr whites

you are like the infowars.com of amateur social anthropology

anyway i thought the south park dudes had already quit their show so that one i guess

guys I hate to break it to all of you but all three of these are going to keep going until they don't make money

If one of the key simpsons voice actors died or walked would they be more likely to recast or try some kind of spin off?

they would probably invest in writing some complicated algorithm that would allow them to compose new dialogue from old recordings

The Simpsons guys have said that they will never recast a character and so far they haven't

I think they recast Lunch Lady Doris after the original actress died? Obviously not a major character, though.

i wonder how long they went with the Mel Blanc machine

How long do you think it will be before there is some kind of official live action simpsons project, a la the John Goodman flintstones movie?

Oh god, I hope never.

South Park, since Fox will never, ever end the other shows

Eagerly awaiting Tim Allen as Homer Simpson

So who died? The Futurama dog's been dead for awhile. Was Santa's Little Helper the primary character from the Simpsons killed?

Because if it was really Brian, then there's no other way to vote for this poll except Family Guy. That character was Seth MacFarlane incarnate and if he's dead, the whole show's about to go.

[cut to JON LOVITZ wearing DOG SUIT in front of PROVIDENCE CITY SKYLINE]

LOVITZ: Hey guys, I was a great friend of Brian's! Trust me, this show still has LEGS!

[BRIDGE in PROVIDENCE CITY SKYLINE falls into the WATER]

[Like in the opening scenes of THE CRITIC. Get it?]

maybe this is naive but i kind of assume that The Simpsons exists more to fatten the pockets of Groenig/the main voice cast than the network or anyone else, and that core group has worked together for 25 years and seems pretty loyal to each other. i just kinda see them going out more like the Beastie Boys than The Who.

Haha, what? Trying to remember people hating The Beastie Boys ever since Hello Nasty.

i meant in the "one of our guys died, we're gonna pack it in" sense, not any other sense.

they've all been about as shit and about as funny as each other for a long time so the only way to judge this is on flakiest driving force in which case i surprise myself by betting on South Park

none of these shows will ever be cancelled. everyone on this thread will have been dead for 10,000 years and the shows will just go on & on & on. there is a terrible darkness enveloping the heart of the world

How long do you think it will be before there is some kind of official live action simpsons project, a la the John Goodman flintstones movie?

before Phil Hartman died there were vague plans to make a live action Troy McClure movie, perhaps based around the making of The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel.

I would put money on there being some sort of live action instalment of the Simpsons as a gimmick episode at some point in the next 10 years, probably starring famous people doing cameos as various long running characters.

I would put money on there being some sort of live action instalment of the Simpsons as a gimmick episode at some point in the next 10 years, probably starring famous people doing cameos as various long running characters.

Huh, very surprised this hasn't happened already

I forgot which website suggested the Simpsons do a season long story arc, but I bet that would get message board hipsters watching again

message board hipsters haven't stopped watching, they need to be able to tell us how terrible it is

I would put money on there being some sort of live action instalment of the Simpsons as a gimmick episode at some point in the next 10 years, probably starring famous people doing cameos as various long running characters.

beaten to the punch by Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Hahaha you guys are hilarious

Like the Simpsons would ever do a live action gimmick

http://i.imgur.com/jRXuVJp.jpg

lol I forgot about that

Tim Burton's _Bart Simpson_, starring Johnny Depp as the adult Bart Simpsons, who has huge anger-management issues because of his abusive father. Can't wait.

also starring Helena Bonham Carter as a gothy version of Lisa

all cgi'ed like alice in wonderland

and gary oldman as all the hank azaria parts.

die, all of youse

there was actually supposed to be a live-action krusty sitcom, starring dan castellaneta as krusty. matt groening talked about it in an interview once. apparently every single idea they had for the show -- krusty was supposed to live in a house on stilts -- turned out to be impossibly expensive.

I think they recast Lunch Lady Doris after the original actress died? Obviously not a major character, though.

― including 'weird men' who fancy the mermaids (soref), Monday, November 25, 2013 6:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She's (jarringly and unconvincingly) voiced by Tress MacNeille now. But the character had been retired for 10 years after Doris Grau's death. Dunno why they decided to resurrect her, other than that the writers had run out of shitty ideas, and had to dip into really shitty ideas.

Well tbf I can't think of the last time a sitcom didn't have a prominent lunchlady character. They were really going against the grain for a while there.

http://splitsider.com/2012/06/the-lost-simpsons-spin-offs/

This probably makes me part of the problem, but I enjoyed this so much:

http://splitsider.com/2011/10/ranking-every-treehouse-of-horror-segment-from-worst-to-first/

Putting the Pierce Brosnan Robot House story at #63 is just insane, though.

jesus, is there any movie they haven't parodied at this stage?

Possibly The Simpsons Movie.

there was an episode where Lisa makes a movie about her family for a film festival and Marge says something at the end like, "just don't make any more movies...one Simpsons movie was enough"

kind of a funny episode actually

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maybe this was the thread to bump, 8 1/2 years later and all three of these shows are still on somehow

someone needs to take Family Guy out back and Old Yeller it

Also the other two

easy enough for me to ignore/ avoid Simpsons and FG. despite some undeniably classic eps, SP is still the one I’m convinced has encouraged the most eDgY fuckwits who’ve ever logged on

also, I fucking HATE those kids’ voices. absolute nails on a chalkboard. the other two at least had talented voice actors