I am finally over 'The Simpsons'

[vixen1700]

paul99 said:

South Park on the other hand, aside from a couple of poorish series just seems to get funnier.

Absolutely. South Park just has to be the funniest thing ever.

Family Guy I can take or leave, but it generally gets a laugh or two each episode.

Haven't watched The Simpsons in years.

[Zaxxon]

Still watch the Simpsons but it's usually on in the background whilst cooking. There will always be a time in any programmes life when it gets a bit samey (usually when Sky repeat it to death).

Futurama is my favorite. Family Guy can still surprise and cause a chuckle. I like the old man peado.

[omgus]

The Simpsons has been getting weaker for a long time, FG does still make me laugh sometimes (although "to live and die in dixie" from season one will have me in stiches every time) and i never really liked AD always seemed more miss than hit.

However i love Futurama, so gutted they didn't re-commision it for a proper series. And South Park is brilliant, it did have a duff period for a while, but it appears to be right back on form now.

[tractorguy]

I like watching the newer episodes of the Simpsons. The older ones may be more funny but like someone else has mentioned, they get repeted to death on Sky.

Futurama, Family Guy and King Of The Hill are my favorites.

[youngsyr]

Zaxxon said:

Still watch the Simpsons but it's usually on in the background whilst cooking. There will always be a time in any programmes life when it gets a bit samey (usually when Sky repeat it to death).

Futurama is my favorite. Family Guy can still surprise and cause a chuckle. I like the old man peado.

[y2blade]

youngsyr said:

Zaxxon said:

Still watch the Simpsons but it's usually on in the background whilst cooking. There will always be a time in any programmes life when it gets a bit samey (usually when Sky repeat it to death).

Futurama is my favorite. Family Guy can still surprise and cause a chuckle. I like the old man peado.

coffee>keyboard

[shirt]

youngsyr said:

Get out! Family Guy is hilarious and I won't hear a bird bird bird, bird is the word said against it.

[vdubbin]

Simpsons writing is as sharp as ever, though they've change tack a little recently.

[Pesty]

Ive hated the simpsons since it came out. Preachy wholesome unfunny sexist drivel.

I realise i am in teh minority but really it always has been st.

[Tsippy]

Pesty said:

Ive hated the simpsons since it came out. Preachy wholesome unfunny sexist drivel.

I realise i am in teh minority but really it always has been st.

Agree, I think it's why I prefer Family Guy, American Dad & South Park as they simply take the piss out of current events rather than attempting to have a 'deep' meaning to them. The Simpsons has always had a 'religous' feel to it I think.

[Pesty]

Tsippy said:

The Simpsons has always had a 'religous' feel to it I think.

wow thank you. I have had this conversation many times and this is the first time anybody has ever agreed with me.

The whole homer/bart does bad but comes good at the end with the power of the family/forgivness etc etc. doesnt matter if it all goes wrong there is always his loving family blah blah

[Mr Dave]

What tends to be really funny to me is setting up a punchline and then totally subverting your expectations to get a laugh. I find Family Guy does this very well at times. Such as....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZOEkod39BE&fea...

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAKM-VGT-3c&pla...

[okgo]

That's just how life is though isn't it?

The reason its so popular is because often the things they do are not too far from things that happen in family life. I.e. everyone can relate to it...

[Stu R]

Simpsons went very average after season 10, then poor after season 14. Now it's just genuinely bad.

Family Guy got tiresome for me for a year or two, but I love it again now.

American Dad and the Cleveland show have been dire from day one.

[Pesty]

okgo said:

That's just how life is though isn't it?

The reason its so popular is because often the things they do are not too far from things that happen in family life. I.e. everyone can relate to it...

I can't relate to it

I don't get how anybody can think its anything close to real life.

Yeah my billionair car company owning long lost brother is always asking me to design a car for him I have to keep saying no because I have to farm my tomacho plants etc etc.

South park for me or this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHWmNBQEcUM&fea...

Edited by Pesty on Wednesday 30th March 17:29

[okgo]

I said often, not always.

The basics of the episodes are usually very simple ideas, like fables almost.

[Pesty]

I don't want more school when I get in from school and want politically incorrect violence and laughs.

Some thick bloke saying beer every three minutes and being saved by the clever women in his life aint funny to me. Each to their own

ps I hated Ony fools and horses too, but thats another story

[bexVN]

The Simpsons, still laugh occasionally but older ones were better, must admit it doesn't have the same impact as it used to but it's been going a long time so I'm not suprised

American Dad, it has grown on me but not quite laugh out loud for me.

Family Guy, brilliant, so crude but so funny though took me a few episodes to get into it

Futurama, Love it my favourite of all

South Park, still very very good even after all these years, just never seem to get to watch a whole series. I guess whilst there is stuff in the world to be controversial about SP will keep going strong!

[Langweilig]

jr123 said:

youngsyr said:

Get out! Family Guy is hilarious and I won't hear a bad word said against it.

+1 and american dad is pretty good

I agree.

"If you don't like it, just go on the internet and complain." - Brian Griffin.

Edited by Langweilig on Wednesday 30th March 19:33

[smith_oli]

I found that right around series 10 The Simpsons took a dramatic nose dive and has been getting worse ever since. I can even pin point the episode it started to go south: the one where Homer becomes Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger's PA. It was the first time I was totally ambivalent to the story they were trying to tell.

It's sad really, as I believe that the first 10 series includes some of the finest TV ever broadcast; certainly in terms of satire it is just as sharp today as it was 20 years ago, a sure sign of greatness. Things like Family Guy play a distant second fiddle to me, I can't stand how the jokes are so interchangeable, you could take a joke from the start of the episode, put it at the end and it would still fit in: 'do you remember the time I...' 'oh that's just like when I...' 'you think that's bad, how about the time I...'. I prefer jokes that come about as part of a situation, rather than being the situation themselves. I could watch early Simpsons episodes almost endlessly and I'd find another layer or in joke that has been crammed in. Family Guy loses it's lustre on repeat watchings. Not that I'm wishing to turn this into a Simpsons vs Family Guy thread!