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same wrote:

Bartok wrote:yeah I know there are very few stories left (perhaps none)

um, check out curb your enthuusiasm.

very few, and perhaps.

and I and my DVD box sets know who larry david is.

I didn't pay any attention to this TV show until a friend of mine forced me to watch the movie:

Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story

Not perfect but very funny.

Brian Griffin: You're drunk!
Stewie Griffin: [slurred] You're sexy!

Not Crap!

Nothing wrong with a good cheap laugh.

barbershop quartet giving an AIDS diagnosis?

"you've got the good AIDS"

oh...my...god



NOT CRAP!

While I normally don't watch much South Park, I stumbled upon an episode mocking Family Guy that excited me by saying what I've been bitching about the show for years.
The jokes have no relation to the plot.
No fucking relation.
What the hell? Seriously- what the fuck? Drives me crazy. Family Guy has occasional funny moments, but they aren't worth sitting through the entire show. It's borderline unwatchable.

I vote not crap based on jokes I found funny.

I don't like it as a programme and prefer "King of the Hill", which I think has more substance. I prefer the more langourous style of "King of the Hill" than the gag-a-second approach of "Family Guy".

I have a problem with Family Guy. My problem with it is that it's not funny. Or clever. Or insightful. Or anything. If the comparisons are going to be other cartoons (which seems fair enough), I can appreciate King Of The Hill for its restraint and its gentle observations about family life, The Simpsons for its speedy wit and great characters, Beavis And Butthead for its outright puerility, Futurama for its atmosphere and satire, and South Park for its vicious and incisive piss-taking. Family Guy just seems like a witless ricochet from other, bolder, better things that preceded it.

In some ways I see it as the cartoon version of the band Bush. I just don't believe it - which is a weird thing to find yourself saying about a cartoon, but there you go.

-A

[edit] i got beat

wiggins wrote:"you like popcicles?"


n/c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsOcmkWLPAY

"I'll take a Z, a 4...

a Q.....another Q........................................a third Q,

and the Batman symbol"