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I Can't stand Futurama but I think King Of The Hill was underrated, I didn't laugh much when I watched it but I find it more enjoyable than The Simpsons.

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That's because it was funny when they did it.

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boo boo

Ok, fair enough.

Looking back on it that was a really bad comparison.

I love Futurama. I can understand that you prefer Family Guy to it and The Simpsons, but don't try to argue that it's more well written because it isn't.

I like Family Guy but let's be honest, when compared to South Park, The Simpsons, Futurama and King of the Hill. FG obviously takes the least amount of effort to write, anyone can throw in a bunch of pop culture references and shock humor at random and make it work.

It's a lot harder to put jokes into an actual storyline and make it relevant. With all the other shows, the storylines themselves are funny and have some kind of inspiration and theme to them. With Family Guy that is absolutely not the case, it's pretty much impossible to remember what episode a skit came from because they're all interchangable, you can take one of the "how about that time when..." skits and put them in any other episode and it wouldn't make a difference at all.

It's rather lazy actually, but to their credit, they often come up with some hilarious gags, they just can't write an actual story worth the crap.

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someonecompletelyrandom

It's funny, I like pretty much every show mentioned in this thread.

I love Futurama perhaps more than I could ever love the shows, though. It's intelligent writing, geek humor and has to have some of the best character devopment I've ever seen in a cartoon - perhaps topped only by King of the Hill's characters.

boo boo

Family Guy has the least character development of all the shows. Characters more often than not just do their job to deliver whatever random gags the writers come up with, and they very often do things that are out of character.

We all know that Stewie is at his best when he's some maniacal evil genius, that Brian is at his best when he's a wisecracking culture snob, and that Peter is at his best when he's 10x the amount of retarded that Homer is.

But there are several moments of the show where characters will do something that's out of character just for the sake of a joke that probably isn't even funny. That is one of the greatest flaws of Family Guy, much too often it sacrifices the story and characters for the jokes, which is something the other cartoon shows don't do.

When Cartman does something, it's always something you'd expect Cartman to do, same with anything Homer and Bart does, or anything Fry and Bender does, or anything Hank and Bobby does.

But almost all of the characters in Family Guy are just caricatures who never have a consistant backstory, they're not very well defined and their personalities can change in various ways depending on the joke, which is lazy and inconsistant writing.

Again, I like Family Guy, but you gotta admit it has some serious flaws.

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ebakez

SP, for constantly creative and logically sequential scenes
also for taking down 99% of the ridiculous celebrities that everyone wants to do something about but cant for whatever reason (fear?)

family guy is hilarious though i gotta admit but SP is too powerful, plus they have really true morals in most of their shows, now how can you beat that?

never watched simpsons much, more shtick thananything else and futurama has several awkwardly cheezy moments in each episode which steers me away from it, though it does have a lot of good humor

ebakez

oh, also, anyone reading this should check out Curb Your Enthusiasm, its just a newer, edgier, funnier seinfeld. if you dont have hbo watch it online, its pure gold

Fruitonica

I watched the first episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm the other day, and it didn't really impress me that much. It definitely furthered the Seinfeld model of exploring the absurd minutiae of these peoples neurosis, but the jokes just weren't as good. I did really enjoy the absence of a laugh track.

Does it get better?

Captain Awesome

*silently nods in agreement*

- captain awesome signing out

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I tend to watch Futurama everytime its on, everyday. It's awesome.

Veryvery true. I hate to agree, but it's all the truth.

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