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Simpsons or family guy?

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Family Guy is awesome, I reckon the humour is far funnier than anything in the Simpsons except for Homer. Put Homer in Family Guy and nobody would need the Simpsons.

Of course, you have to remember that Simpsons has been going for years, so most of us have seen all it can really offer, Family Guy on the other hand is still very young in comparison, especilly going by episode count.


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Never seen Family Guy - but The Simpsons is great - along with Futurama and Stressed Eric

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I would say family guy has the funniest moemnts, simpsons is far more subtle. I've laughed out loud more watching family guy, but been touched by a sense of realism and understanding of real life family by the Simpsons. both are great I alos love King of the Hill, and South Park, all are REALLY different shows, and funny and clever in different ways

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King of the Hill was great - South Park started to go down hill. Didn't help C4 show it so late.

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Simpsons started out boring, then climbed to super-funny, then back to boring. I definatly had my moments with the old Simpsons episodes...it was..."realistic humour". Family Guy's version of humour is a Breakfast machine that shoots you with a handgun, and a random violent bird. Not saying Family Guy isn't funny, it's just funny NOW. How funny will it be in 4-5 years?


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The Simpsons to me are funnier.

Never really seen family guy, is it the one with a dog in it or somthing?

So I really can't compare, but Simpsons All The Way!

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Family guy makes me laugh more, but the Simpsons has my attention more. There's a soul to the Simpsons that makes it timeless. Where as Family Guy just has awesomely random humour. I'd prefer to watch a new episode of Family Guy over the Simpsons, but I'd rather watch Simpsons reruns than Family Guy reruns.

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Haven't seen many Family Guys but I'd definitely prefer the Simpsons based on what I've seen. Homer does make the show though . I'd agree with Megaton about the realistic humour, but in the later Simpsons episodes the some of the jokes are a bit OTT. Eg. the episode where Homer gets a hole ripped in his stomach by a badger, and just shrugs it off and watches TV or something. That kind of humour would be ok in Family Guy, but in the Simpsons it seems out of place and kind of unrealistically stupid. I also don't like the way the writers seem to be leaning more towards the blatent in your face humour for the Simpsons, and the way the story lines seem to be getting more and more abstract and random. It just takes away from the realism that was there for the earlier episodes.

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"South Park started to go down hill"
Yes it did. But season 8 has some great episodes - the michale Jackson and A.w.e.s.o.m.o ones are particularly well observed humor.

"I'd prefer to watch a new episode of Family Guy over the Simpsons, but I'd rather watch Simpsons reruns than Family Guy reruns."
I actually think that says what I was trying to say in the first place better than I did. And that sentence proves I can't type coherantly after a few beers.

"I also don't like the way the writers seem to be leaning more towards the blatent in your face humour for the Simpsons, and the way the story lines seem to be getting more and more abstract and random. It just takes away from the realism that was there for the earlier episodes."
Thats a shame, I haven't seen many of the very latest ones yet, I don't have time to watch much sky (only got it in the lounge!) although to be fair, after all these years is there a piece of observational humor the simpsons hasn't done yet? It must be hard to come up with fresh ideas.

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Family guy, hands down. I used to like the Simpsons, but for some reason - I cannot explain - I've taken a certain disliking to it over the past few years, maybe they're running out of ideas... or maybe I've realised that the comedy in it actually sucks as i've gotten older.

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Quote: " The Simpsons to me are funnier.

Never really seen family guy, is it the one with a dog in it or somthing?"


That is just stupid. You've just admitted to favouring Simpsons over Family Guy when you never watched Family Guy before? Just ticks me off when people do that.

Hamish: Completly agree. The older Simpsons episodes were a different kind of funny, with actual political/cultural/stereotypical-fun-making humour. The Family Guy series is very funny the first 2-3 times you watch a rerun, but Simpsons reruns never get old.


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Family Guy is just dirty, it has funny parts, definitely, but it's not something I can watch with my children, like Simpsons.

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Quote: " Family Guy is just dirty, it has funny parts, definitely, but it's not something I can watch with my children, like Simpsons."

so true.
Family guy is just REALLY REALLY random, who comes up with these things?
Simpsons is funny, but not what it is cracked up to be.


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Personaly I like these episodes:

Good time with weapones - South park
The bart of war - simpsons
goin' to r. island - family guy

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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 23:25
all of family guys humor is made up of "flasbacks" or dream sequences, which is funny in its own way. The simposond keep a basic story going, and have a different type of humor, but has gotten a lil old in the past few years. I also watch south park and king of the hill, all of them are funny in their own ways.

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Posted: 16th Sep 2005 00:03
Famiy Guy is my favourite, and I think it'll still be funny in the future - with the more satricical Simpsons episodes people jut won't get them 50 years in the future when people don't know the circumstances around what people are talking about. Family Guy on the other hand has that timeless randomness that'll keep it funny for years to come.

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futurama is the best, most definitely.

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*cough*bullsh***cough* futurama is just a cheap futuristic whored up version of the simpsons that should have never existed. but it still was kinda funny when ppl watched it.........

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Family Guy

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Quote: "futurama is just a cheap futuristic whored up version of the simpsons"


It was made by the same people, but it is actually very different.

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hell yeah! bender rocks, in some respects he's neck and neck with homer.

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family guy is way better than this past simpsons season


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Family guy is WAY funnyer than simsons.

look at these clips >

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Family Guy owns all, and The Simpsons has gotten stale. I find Futurama to be a lot more funny than The Simpsons.


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Futurama is quite a bit more adult - dealing with death and sex for example.

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I don't laugh that much at Family Guy... I love to watch it, and will execute the frequent smirk or 'heh', but never a full blown 'AAAHAAHAAHAAAAAAAAA!' laughter I got from The Simpsons seasons 4-11 (or a little bit before that). The Simpsons episodes now are just stupid, focusing on weird situations like going in time and crap. I reckon that every show goes down hill though, and I never liked King of the Hill. That show was just stupid. Futurama is similar to Family Guy - a show I like to watch, but will not full out laugh at. For me, South Park has always been funny. That show is just hilarious! It's the only show I really laugh at all the time, and it straight out rocks!

EDIT: By the way, I haven't seen American Dad yet, is that good?


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I agree with Jiffy, Family Guy has good moments but i never laughted a lot like The Simpsons. Family Guy is really really random, The Simspons is more thinked than Family Guy i think.

I would go for The Simpsons

and who know? The Simpsons Movie in 2006 will may be the most funniest thing in the world

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Futurama is easily as good as the Simpsons, but in a different way. It's definitely not just a cash in on the success of the Simpsons. It's a shame it got cancelled, I felt it could have gone so much further.

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Quote: "The Simpsons Movie in 2006 will may be the most funniest thing in the world "


You're joking right? Dear god, making a Simpsons movie would be the biggest selling out mistake in the history of anything (unless it's actually fantastic, which I doubt with the falling quality of the TV series' material).

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Hamish, yea i'm joking, it was sarcastic...

i listen to a rumor that the movie will be in 3D

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I meant you're joking about there being a Simpsons movie? Looking on the internet, it looks like they are. Well, we'd better pray that it has the quality of the older episodes. And 3D, please no!

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The Simpsons Movie should be good. I believe its going to be 2D (ie standard animation system as used in The Simpsons).

The Wallace & Gromit film should be out soon - which should be good.

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I agree with Ham and Mushroom Tagliatelle, the movie should be good...

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Unless it's a total screw up. I think that they might make something fantastic, using similar material from older episodes, just like the 'Itchy & Scratchy Movie' had 53% new footage ! If they muck it up, I'll die. If they make it great, I'll die a couple of years later...


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Yeah, the Wallace and Gromit film looks really good. Though what were the last ones? I guess they were never shown in the cinema, so don't clasify as films.

And I don't disagree that a Simpsons movie could be good, just I seriously doubt how good it will be.

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The other three would be classed as TV programs - certainly weren't feature length!

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Bender just annoys me, I much prefer Zoidburgh, in fact Zoidburgh is the only character in Futurama that does'nt irritate the fillings out of me.

The humour in Family Guy is much like the cruel sort of humour that is so rediculous that you can't help laughing at it. Like when young Death goes on a date and get's so bored with the chick that he ends up killing her to shut her up. There's lots of great bits in the simpsons too of course, but for me the great bits in Family Guy and Southpark are golden. My own personal fave SP episode has to be Timmy vs Jimmy, the part where Cartman empties the church with the cry 'CRIPPLE FIGHT!' is priceless.


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I like Bender - a person after my own heart
I'm quite partial to Amy & Leela too...

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Amy is just pure sex appeal personified... um you know what I mean lol

Futurama was good and otehr than the artistic style HUGELY different from the simpsons, very different style of humor. I think they stopped at the right time though it would have got stale, but some epsidoes were amazing.

Did anyone see the "what if life were a videogame" one? It was absolutely brilliant. General pacman "Destroy all humans wacca wacca wacca wacca load the phasers wacca wacca wacca wacca" etc. And the Sapce Inavders trying to take over the world "They're destroying our ships captain what should we do?" "move formation down, reverse direction and increase speed" I believe they were from the planet Nintendoo 64 Excellent.

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I liked the Star Trek parody episode. The only one I haven't seen is Jurassic Bark - I hear its quite a sad one.

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Quote: "Well, we'd better pray that it has the quality of the older episodes."


Yea i hope as well

Quote: "And 3D, please no!"


Yea if the simpsons movie will be in 3D, it's going to be the biggest mistake in The Simpsons history!

Oh and one more thing, i live in Canada, i speak canadian french naturally (except here ) and the funny guy that do the homer's voice in canadian french is dead! (RIP) So, i hope the Homer movie voice will be funny as the other one.

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hmmm.... would rather watch MASH reruns...

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My wife loes mash, I buy her a dvd box set every christmas along with other stuff. I don't like it much myslef, but its like catnip for wives...

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Quote: "I don't laugh that much at Family Guy... I love to watch it, and will execute the frequent smirk or 'heh', but never a full blown 'AAAHAAHAAHAAAAAAAAA!' laughter"


You obviously haven't seen the one where Stewy told his mother to bend down and he slapped her or the one where Peter and Brian where in jail and peter jumped on the top bunk crushing Brian

I almost fell off the couch when Stewy slapped her.

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Or when Brian tells tells the sexaholic bloke he can smell 3 women on him when he comes back from Thailand. And he responds with something like "No, it was 4 women". Brian then just looks at him. Ho ho ho! Laughed my t**s off at that one. About as much as when the same bloke admits he liked the girl from a band (damn, can't remember name, but think it was the ones that did mbop effort), and it turns out there is no girls in the band. Choked on that one.

Too many things to remember. Overall preferred Family guy. But Simpsons is still very good.

Oh, and Monkey Dust came pretty close to being better. Just not enough episodes.

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Hehe monkey dust...that was dark, near on painfull to watch but was often damn good.
The earlier south park's and Family have always been better in my mind that the simpsons. That feels a bit tired now...dont get me wrong I laugh at least once an episode (if i havnt seen it before) but family guy is just so clever and so sharp with it's wit that it puts it on a different plain to simpsons.

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Family Guy! All the way! however i i watch the simpsons, but i like it better


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@Lost in Thoguht - I actually have seen those episodes, and they were funny, but I certainly didn't find myself dying of laughter. Family Guy is a great show, I'm just not obsessed with it. I love the episode 'Chitty Chitty Death Bang' though. I don't know why, but I just thought it was cool.


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Of course watching them at 4 am might make them a bit funnier.

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Quote: "James Woods: Ooh! A piece of candy. Ooh! A piece of candy. Ooh! A piece of candy. Ooh! A piece of candy. Ooh! A piece of candy."

And then there was the part where Stewy played Marco Polo with Helen Keller.

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I like Family Guy better, the best episode was the very first episode. Most people have already heard this story, but take a look just in case you haven't:

http://forums.gamedaily.com/lofiversion/index.php?t88250.html

read the first post, and then there's a funny one its the 5th post, and theres some more funny comments too. The show is really amazing, I don't get how they think up all that stuff, just amazing. I've only seen like two episodes of American Dad, but thats pretty funny too.

Edit: I've also got two family guys shirts, I wear them constantly, here's a pic of them of a site.

I've got this one: (I LIKE YOU!...When the world is mine your death shall be quick and painless)
http://www.briansbar.com/Shirt-Stewie.gif

and the other one I can't find, but its from the episode where the crash into the satallite and the tv goes out. The news reporters are in the station and since they think nobody can see them the guys decides to spank the girl, and then they realize that other cites are still getting the feed.

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