The Simpsons movie
The Simpsons were funny a decade ago. Now they have been eclipsed by Family Guy and everything on Adult Swim.
I predict their movie will be a big hit with people who think Family Circus has been or is a good read.
On a similar topic, anyone know the fate of American Dad? Did they run out of episodes, put it on hiatis, or cancel it?
10 years too late
Nothing in TV will ever come close to years 3-8 of the Simpsons and it definatly feel off while Futurama was on but once that went off the it got good again. Except for the occasional left wing nutjob comments the last season have been 2nd only to The Office.
I think family guy has really fallen off. Still like it but it use to be laughs the whole way through when it came back it is still funny but not close to the first seasons.
Adult Swim is just a shell of its former self. Both family guy and adult swim were at their peaks during the Simpsons lull.
I think family guy has really fallen off. Still like it but it use to be laughs the whole way through when it came back it is still funny but not close to the first seasons.
Adult Swim is just a shell of its former self. Both family guy and adult swim were at their peaks during the Simpsons lull.
Adult Swim, for me at least, has risen & fallen w\ the amount of spare drunken time I get to spend watching Sealab & ATHF. Once that time ran shot, Adult Swim was nothing more than a lineup of quick-fixes to distract me from me daily work/school shit. Once Captain Murphy died, it was only a matter of time.
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I think you can point to Capt. Murphys passing as the beginning of the end. They stopped making new braks at that time also which was fucking stupid. Aqua Teen held on for a while longer but the demise of Brak and the loss of Capt. Murphy were just too much and it never recovered.
Robot Chicken still gives good laughs and squidbillys has had me laughing but I have only seen a couple shows that I though were worth my time.
But a few years back with Aqua Teen, Harvey Birdman, Brak, Space Ghost(reruns), and Sealab was great.
I will see the Aqua Teen movie because the lure of Carl and the Mooninites is just too great.
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Robot Chicken still gives good laughs and squidbillys has had me laughing but I have only seen a couple shows that I though were worth my time.
But a few years back with Aqua Teen, Harvey Birdman, Brak, Space Ghost(reruns), and Sealab was great.
I will see the Aqua Teen movie because the lure of Carl and the Mooninites is just too great.
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Nothing in TV will ever come close to years 3-8 of the Simpsons and it definatly feel off while Futurama was on but once that went off the it got good again. Except for the occasional left wing nutjob comments the last season have been 2nd only to The Office.
Send me some of what you're smoking. I've laughed an average of once per episode during the Simpsons this year. (I remember last year being their worst ever.)
Family Guy, The Office, South Park, My Name is Earl, and Scrubs (the best sitcom on TV) are all far superior and funnier than the Simpsons.
I think family guy has really fallen off. Still like it but it use to be laughs the whole way through when it came back it is still funny but not close to the first seasons.
You can blame this on American Dad, ala Futurama/Simpsons.
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Earl is good but has gotten to feel good and has really dropped off.
The Ricky Gervais episode of the simpsons was great and I will definatly get the last two seaons on DVD. I won't bother with a couple before that unless the price is good. It had definatly fallen off from it previous form and will never get back to that point(unless conan comes back) but it has definatly turned itself around.
At this point I wish family guy would have stayed cancelled. I use to have to stop watching the old ones just so I could take a moment to laugh but I don't even bother rewatching the new ones. Some of that may be because the first three seasons kicked so much ass but I watch it out of loyalty more then anything else now.
I will bump south park up there with the office and the simpsons as the funniest shows on TV though. I forgot to mention it.
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The Ricky Gervais episode of the simpsons was great and I will definatly get the last two seaons on DVD. I won't bother with a couple before that unless the price is good. It had definatly fallen off from it previous form and will never get back to that point(unless conan comes back) but it has definatly turned itself around.
At this point I wish family guy would have stayed cancelled. I use to have to stop watching the old ones just so I could take a moment to laugh but I don't even bother rewatching the new ones. Some of that may be because the first three seasons kicked so much ass but I watch it out of loyalty more then anything else now.
I will bump south park up there with the office and the simpsons as the funniest shows on TV though. I forgot to mention it.
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It feels to me like they're swinging their comedy toward the stoner crowd, and that's a shame.
Dead spot-on there. ATHF is alright, Venture Brothers, Futurama, Family Guy, Birdman if they ever get new fucking episodes, Robot Chicken, & the Boondocks. I ain't seen much else worth watching. We're talking maybe one or two shows a night worth seeing, if that.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
