The Glade 4.0

I *knew* they all seemed similar...

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Holy shitsnacks!

Hahaha, it's funny because it's true!

Although I have to say Cleveland show has better writing than Family Guy now and American Dad has always sucked.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Seth Macfarlane is a **** idiot, and the crap he peddles is not welcome in my home.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I've been enjoying Family Guy less and less because it seems the further the show goes on, the heavier handed he gets with the politics. I can't stand any episode where it focuses on Brian(though, I've always hated him). It's getting to the point to where I just don't feel like watching anymore.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

I watched family guy for a couple of minutes for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and that was the first time I ever watched anything from MacFarlane.

It was garbage. I don't remember what it was, but it was one ignorant statement after another, seemingly for the sole intent to be shocking.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Bingo. The only thing in my house with permission to be that crass is me.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Yeah, I am not digging the heavy-handed stuff lately either. But I still watch. There are still small nuggets in the river of mud.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Those aren't nuggets, and that isn't mud.

The corn in the poop?

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Holy shitsnacks!

Family guy is only good to watch on youtube, in 16 second clips.

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Ron Paul 2012

Brian is basically a personal vehicle for Seth MacFarlane to say what he wants in the show. Yes, it's becoming browbeating, where originally the show wasn't. The Cleveland Show has become what Family Guy started as. If you hate Brian, you'll love this clip:

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As for browbeating, somehow I enjoy the way South Park does it.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

south park kicks ***!

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Ron Paul 2012

That rant from Quagmire was dead on, and long over due. It has been Macfarlane's strident political views that honestly drove me away from watching Family guy, that and combined a vague sense of repetition.

Give me southpark!

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

The douchey preachiness of Family Guy isn't any worse than South Park or the Simpsons *shrug*.

FG is nothing but a long serious of non sequiters, a word which isn't in firefox's spell checking list and is only slightly above puns in the inventory of the low hanging fruits of humor. I've enjoyed some of the earlier seasons and a few bits stick out as pretty funny, but there are a lot of reasons to hate it.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

That's the weird thing. Even though on paper this is true, South Park kicks the **** out of Family Guy.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

They at least try to keep it fresh. I can also watch SP for free on teh internets!

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I've a feeling the people complaining about Family Guy's political content but giving South Park a pass are doing so because South Park's politics line up more closely with their own (Family Guy, on of the occasions that it does get political, skews more toward liberalism, whereas South Park is pretty firmly entrenched in libertarianism).

What I find mostly of note is that neither Family Guy nor The Simpsons (since it got a mention) is an overtly political show, with both taking occasional one-off jabs at political targets and only rarely making an entire episode a thirty-minute screed on a particular issue, whereas South Park has, since around the fifth season, been comprises almost solely of full-length episodes for Trey Parker to lambast anyone or anything political with which he takes issue. Neither approach is inherently bad, but there is a pretty clear double-standard that any screen time offered a viewpoint with which you don't agree is having an agenda shoved down your throat while you're just trying to watch mindless entertainment, but entire half-hours of the same, when belittling people you believe should be belittled, is absolutely fine.

Preachy is preachy, no matter the viewpoint.

sadly... the preachy-ness of all three shows (Family Guy, South Park and Simpsons) is what made me stop watching all three shows.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

South Park trashes everyone in the political spectrum. More often than not, they just go after contemporary cultural topics

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

That's actually what I like about South Park, they have a "no idea is too sacred to assault" attitude that I agree with.