Simpsons vs. Family Guy

[Benji]

I have a friend who's going to be on MTV Canada today about 6/7 EST to defend The Simpsons against Family Guy, any ideas on arguments for and against The Simpsons, both are appreciated, preparation is key!

[MalaCloudy Black]

Shouldn't he have been doing research for this in advance? Did he know he was going to be on doing this?

[YI]

Yellow is the new black.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Bumblebee Man will be ecstatic!

[YI]

Bumblebee Man will be ecstatic!

[Herr Matzat]

The Simpsons Died sometime after season 10 and Famely guy never was to much fun. The yellow guys win caus of the memorys. All hail South Park.

[Lowerdeck]

The Simpsons had quality classics for 7-8 seasons, Family Guy could go about three and hit and miss in a fourth. Now Family Guy is just too reliant on tangents and pop culture references to be funny.

[Rashid]

The Simpsons has sweet, charming, loveable characters.

Everyone on Family Guy is annoying as fuck. Especially Stewey and Peter.

The Simpsons went downhill around Seasons 11-12.

Family Guy went downhill after Season 2.

The Simpsons has/had great writing.

Family Guy relies too much on "random gags". Most of which are too long are unfunny.

[King Ellis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnNsbtsUV0...ted&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DjLTM2UoL0&NR=1

That and Family Guy went downhill after Episode 1. You just can't beat that stellar script and shoddy animation.

Both shows suffer from the protaginist going wackily insane. Simpsons had it with Homer and now Family Guy is having it with Peter. Season 5 just started here in England a month or so back and it seems every episode is Brian and Stewie off doing something whilst Peter goes off on his own doing random shit.

Edited August 1, 2007 by TheEllisComplex

[Farmer Reil]

Family Guy is clearly win.

Simpsons was win, but has just been going for faaar too long.

[Daniel Bryan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnNsbtsUV0...ted&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DjLTM2UoL0&NR=1

[Godfatha]

While it's true the Simpsons did suffer a drop in quality, they're slowly crawling their way back up to producing some quality shows.

As for why the Simpsons is better than Family Guy: I can watch 3 episodes of The Simpsons in a row without a problem. After 2 episodes of Family Guy I want to shoot someone. There's only so many random gags and flimsy storylines I can take.

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

The Simpsons used to be like an actual sitcom that was just animated before it went all cartoony. Family Guy, while funny, is what happens when a bunch of comedy writers put in a bunch of funny gags and pop culture references, then come up with the plot later. Plus, Family Guy is way too preachy.

[Toe]

Tell your friend to hit Daryn Jones in the balls. He should have stayed on his own show when he could have been actually funny, instead of now where he is a lifeless MTV VJ.

[SeanDMan]

He should have just stuck around on Rick Mercer. He's kind of like Steve Carell; he was funny as a sidekick, popping up for three or four minutes and being hilarious, but then they give him an hour and a half to fill and he sucks wind.

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

Yellow is the new black.

[Toe]

He should have just stuck around on Rick Mercer. He's kind of like Steve Carell; he was funny as a sidekick, popping up for three or four minutes and being hilarious, but then they give him an hour and a half to fill and he sucks wind.

[GA!]

Family Guy's problem is that it used to be fun to watch, and to their credit the episodes were storyline driven. Since their return though, they've had the attitude of "whatever FOX wants us to remove, we'll add it onto the DVD instead", so now it's knob gag after knob gag after knob gag after saying fuck after another knob gag. In the old days, the manatee gags were funny and lasted maybe ten seconds a time - now they completely dominate an episode. Skits last for two or three minutes, there's simply no time for a plot to develop or be funny anymore.

The Simpsons has had its problems recently but their episodes age very, very well. Episodes that I thought were crap five years ago now don't seem as crap, not to mention new episodes have improved a lot recently... Maybe if they got rid of the five minute montage at the beginning of an episode, it'd be perfect.

[Liam]

The Simpsons pop culture references on the whole are more implicit and better for it, whilst also they have a lot of jokes that you can take on different levels, something that I've never found with Family Guy.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Futurama > Simpsons > Family Guy