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Kep!
03-20-2007, 10:38 PM
I dropped it from my appointment TV roster so i could spend more time with my cat...whatever happened to the Jeweled Turd of Death storyline?
The Scribe
03-20-2007, 10:43 PM
I dropped it from my appointment TV roster so i could spend more time with my cat...whatever happened to the Jeweled Turd of Death storyline?

:huh:

You can't watch television and pet your cat?

Is American Dad canceled?
Kep!
03-20-2007, 10:44 PM
:huh:

You can't watch television and pet your cat?


Who said anything about petting?
The Scribe
03-20-2007, 10:44 PM
Who said anything about petting?

:confused: I don't want to know.
JasonM
03-21-2007, 09:17 AM
:confused: I don't want to know.

Sure you do!

Tell him Kep!

TELL HIM!!!!
spider
03-21-2007, 11:21 AM
Am I the only one mildly dissapointed with Amercan dad because it's not nearly as funny as family guy?
Theres nothing wrong with it, but I hoped it'd play Futurama to the Simpsons where they're both equals.
compton
03-21-2007, 03:34 PM
yep american dad sucks :(
kdmelrose
03-21-2007, 03:47 PM
American Dad is the least-funny elements of Family Guy in concentrated form.

I've tried to like it, because the alien can be really funny. But it's just painful to watch.
JamieRoberts
03-21-2007, 04:21 PM
Serious? I flick from Family Guy to American Dad all the time, in terms of favourites. I kill myself laughing at that show.
pi0trov
03-21-2007, 04:29 PM
Personally, I find I get more quality jokes-per-episode from American Dad than FG nowadays. I'm getting sick of the "let's drag this joke out and beat you over the head with it till you think you're watching SNL" style of writing that FG's been favoring in the last year or more.

I'll admit it took me a bit to warm up to American Dad, but now it's one of my favorite shows currently on TV, when it's actually on TV - I'm kinda sick of FOX giving up it's time slot to "hot new shows" like The Winner and The Loop....
kdmelrose
03-21-2007, 04:35 PM
Family Guy has its moments, usually involving Stewie and Brian. Otherwise, though, I think it's pretty much unwatchable.

Anything approaching a narrative is sacrificed in favor of a pop-culture "joke" (preferably something from '70s TV). Everything just comes to a screeching halt. And the "jokes" are interchangeable. You could mix and match those gags from different episodes and it wouldn't change a thing.

I used to be able to shut off part of my brain and enjoy it. But now every time I hear the beginnings of one of Peter's "It's worse than that time I ______ with _____" gags, I reach for the remote.
spider
03-21-2007, 04:37 PM
It's not so much that its a bad show, it has it's moments but they rarely make me laugh out loud like Family guy.
I've always seen it as being like the PJs or Father of the pride, an animated show using the popularity of someone (in this case something) as a springboard because it can't cut it on its own.
Not really a bad thing but if it came before Family guy I doubt it'd be nearly as popular.

Take this as you will, I've only seen 2 or 3 episodes.
Buckyrig
03-21-2007, 04:49 PM
Family Guy has its moments, usually involving Stewie and Brian. Otherwise, though, I think it's pretty much unwatchable.

Anything approaching a narrative is sacrificed in favor of a pop-culture "joke" (preferably something from '70s TV). Everything just comes to a screeching halt. And the "jokes" are interchangeable. You could mix and match those gags from different episodes and it wouldn't change a thing.

I used to be able to shut off part of my brain and enjoy it. But now every time I hear the beginnings of one of Peter's "It's worse than that time I ______ with _____" gags, I reach for the remote.

See South Park for details. :laugh:

It's not so much that its a bad show, it has it's moments but they rarely make me laugh out loud like Family guy.
I've always seen it as being like the PJs or Father of the pride, an animated show using the popularity of someone (in this case something) as a springboard because it can't cut it on its own.

I never got into The PJs, but it did have one of the funniest lines I've ever heard. Guy gets up from sitting in a circle and says, "Well, gotta go. Crack don't smoke itself." :laugh: :laugh:
kdmelrose
03-21-2007, 04:52 PM
See South Park for details. :laugh:

Ha! I'd forgotten about that.

Manatees. Few things are funnier than manatees.
JamieRoberts
03-21-2007, 05:25 PM
Oh, the huge manatee...








I am so, so, so sorry.
Mike225
03-21-2007, 05:27 PM
http://homepage.mac.com/barthold.van.acker/realbasic/ohthehumanity.jpg
JamieRoberts
03-21-2007, 06:16 PM
That is fantastic.

I'm..... I'm in awe.
spider
03-21-2007, 07:06 PM
Family Guy has its moments, usually involving Stewie and Brian. Otherwise, though, I think it's pretty much unwatchable.

Anything approaching a narrative is sacrificed in favor of a pop-culture "joke" (preferably something from '70s TV). Everything just comes to a screeching halt. And the "jokes" are interchangeable. You could mix and match those gags from different episodes and it wouldn't change a thing.

I used to be able to shut off part of my brain and enjoy it. But now every time I hear the beginnings of one of Peter's "It's worse than that time I ______ with _____" gags, I reach for the remote.

I think that is part of it's appeal though, the gags drive the story rather than vice versa and theres no 'moral to the story', very little that requires an emotional response and when someone dies we all have a good laugh.
You can't tell me you don't bust a gut when Peter forgets how to sit down, or when he guest appears on Rosanne, or when he was a cartoon on the Tracy Ulman show, that's gold! :laugh:
kdmelrose
03-21-2007, 07:08 PM
But the gags don't drive the story; they interrupt it. They're like commercials, only less funny (that's even taking the Geico "cavemen" ads into account).
spider
03-21-2007, 07:25 PM
Well, I do agree with the "let's drag this joke out and beat you over the head with it till you think you're watching SNL" comment, sometimes I get the joke long before its finished.
Buckyrig
03-21-2007, 09:54 PM
Well, I do agree with the "let's drag this joke out and beat you over the head with it till you think you're watching SNL" comment, sometimes I get the joke long before its finished.

That's how Natural Born Killers was to me. :har:
ponyrl
03-21-2007, 11:18 PM
I dropped it from my appointment TV roster so i could spend more time with my cat...whatever happened to the Jeweled Turd of Death storyline?
Is kitty stroking a new past time?

:huh:

heh-heh

Some things never go outta fashion.

:laugh:
The Scribe
03-21-2007, 11:53 PM
But the gags don't drive the story; they interrupt it. They're like commercials, only less funny (that's even taking the Geico "cavemen" ads into account).

http://www.cinemablend.com/images/sections/3078/3078.jpg

:har: