Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Not plagiarising The Simpsons is nearly impossible.You can either have just The Simpsons, or The Simpsons and all the amazing shows that it has inspired.
-AC
Or maybe just The Simpsons and family sitcoms with original ideas.
Unlike all those cheap and blatant ripoffs: Family Guy, Dinosaurs etc.
Blatant rip offs? Family Guy took an idea The Simpsons created (the whole flashback-as-comedy) and made it their own, even acknowledged by Matt Groening himself, who is actually a big fan of Seth McFarlane, creator of Family Guy.
That said, Seth does many different voices, all of them totally different. He's far more talented than anyone on any other show like that.
Dinosaurs was shit, Family Guy is quite clearly brilliant. Family sitcoms with real people are just shit, because it's never going to have that unrealistic, do-anything cartoon element.
If you'd rather watch Who's the Boss? than Family Guy, go for it. Me? I like my comedy funny.
-AC
Originally posted by dani_californiaIf anything, the simpsons have gotten better, people have just gotten off it because they've seen too many of the same episodes and jokes so it can get pretty boring, repetitive, and people are sick of it. I mean, the pilot was released in 1989.
Atleast Family Guy's funny, the Simpsons jumped the shark a while ago.
I don't think Family Guy is a rip off of the Simpsons much. I mean it is about a cartoon family...that's where the similarities end. I never seen an Episode with Santa's Little Helper working for the New Yorker. Anyways, I think the Simpsons are brilliant and they were the first one of that kind of show, but that doesn't mean that all that followed after are rip offs or not worthy of praise. Family Guy, King of the Hill, South Park, American Dad and Futurama are all great and intelligent shows and I don't think that takes away from the genius the Simpson are....or were (if you are of the opinion that they suck nowadays)