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Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Char Aznable wrote:

I don't mind South Park, but I haven't seen any of the new ones this season. It's kind of a turn off when the only time I hear about it is from some idiots saying "DID YOU SEE THE NEW SOUTH PARK DUR HURR HURR!!!"

Season 12: Breast Cancer Show Ever

"DID YOU SEE THE NEW SOUTH PARK DUR HURR HURR!!!"

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

I'm really not enjoying either South Park nor Family Guy. It seems the vast bulk of South Park episodes are beginning with an ignorant or intolerant act by Cartman lead to some big apocalyptic deal. Both shows should just give it a rest. Even Stone and Parker have admitted that they only keep the show up for the money, and that they flat-out hate making it.

Posted: Oct 16 2008 07:40 pm

Greg the White wrote:

I'm really not enjoying either South Park nor Family Guy. It seems the vast bulk of South Park episodes are beginning with an ignorant or intolerant act by Cartman lead to some big apocalyptic deal. Both shows should just give it a rest. Even Stone and Parker have admitted that they only keep the show up for the money, and that they flat-out hate making it.

That how life is, you gotta milk stuff dry because every other project they have done has been unsuccesful.

I did like Team America but didnt make money

Posted: Oct 17 2008 01:04 am

GPFontaine wrote:

Clearly Cattivo... you haven't heard.

THE BIRD IS THE WORD!!!

CUZ EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD!!

haha sorry i had to do it, that episode was semi funny but even i fuckin started to hate that song by the end of the episode, they fuckin played it 100 times atleast Evil

but at first i though it was funnny Confused

Joined: Oct 06 2008 Posts: 43

Seth also did Johnny bravo any one remember him?

Posted: Oct 20 2008 07:41 am

Seth McFarlane and Fairly Oddparents creator Butch Hartman both wrote for JB. Seth also had a failed pilot he did for Cartoon Network.

And Matt and Trey don't hate doing SP. Trey had wanted to move on to other projects, but his movies haven't done great financially and the deal Comedy Central offered him and Matt was too lucrative to pass up.

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Syd Lexia wrote:

Seth McFarlane and Fairly Oddparents creator Butch Hartman both wrote for JB. Seth also had a failed pilot he did for Cartoon Network.

And Matt and Trey don't hate doing SP. Trey had wanted to move on to other projects, but his movies haven't done great financially and the deal Comedy Central offered him and Matt was too lucrative to pass up.

I remember reading an interview in Rolling Stone where they said they were tired of doing it. I guess that's different from "hating" but still.

And that Seth McFarlane pilot for Cartoon Network in the 90's (Larry and Steve I think) was awesome. One of my favorite jokes of all time is that "euthanasia" bit.

Posted: Oct 20 2008 03:19 pm

I did like the pilot. But if that succeeded, we may have never got Family Guy.

Posted: Oct 20 2008 07:09 pm

Larry and Steve became Family Guy.

You can see alot of simularities.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Knyte wrote:

Larry and Steve became Family Guy.

You can see alot of simularities.

Larry and Steve was actually an offshoot of a college project he did called "Life of Larry" which was almost exactly like Family Guy (even using jokes that were to be used in later episodes of Family Guy).

I actually saw an episode of American Dad last night (The one where Stan accidentally thought the apocalypse happened), and laughed at it more than any recent episode of Family Guy. The bit with them leaving Roger behind and seeing him just looking confused through the window had me almost yelling with laughter.

Joined: Feb 16 2008 Posts: 832

comedy cartoons are rarely funny.

Posted: Oct 22 2008 09:38 pm

Kojjiro! wrote:

comedy cartoons are rarely funny.

What about Spongebob Squarepants Question

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Cam-win wrote:

Kojjiro! wrote:

comedy cartoons are rarely funny.

What about Spongebob Squarepants Question

I wish nickelodeon would have gotten behind other cartoons as much as they do spongebob

Title: Armed to the teeth Joined: Mar 06 2007 Posts: 139

While I admit the cut-out jokes are funny, there is no shortage of lame ones, so it's easy to understand why they would cut down on them.

Seriously, what the bloody fucking hell were they thinking when the made the antisemitic Cyrano scene?

Posted: Oct 23 2008 03:39 pm

Jaguar wrote:

While I admit the cut-out jokes are funny, there is no shortage of lame ones, so it's easy to understand why they would cut down on them.

Seriously, what the bloody fucking hell were they thinking when the made the antisemitic Cyrano scene?

No kidding. The Jesus stuff has progressed from hilarious to downright stupid nowadays, as well.

I'm all for some good blaspheming humor, but at least make it funny.

Posted: Oct 23 2008 05:06 pm

I think I've stated about a thousand times that I dislike Family Guy. However, still sometimes amused at Southpark, I think it started going down hill when the animation started getting actually pretty decent, and they started regularly incorporating the epic soundtrack. I can't say whether it is a coincidence or not, but that's just my observation. If I happen upon it, I will watch it, but I no longer anticipate watching it like i used to.

Posted: Oct 23 2008 06:08 pm

Family Guy started losing when they introduced the perverted old pedo neighbor.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

I definitely got a kick out of the European See 'n Say.

Posted: Oct 25 2008 12:08 am

i dont mind family guy but they can be hit or miss w/their jokes and the unnecessary repetition that happens in every episode.

also the real long drawn out jokes can get annoying. and the long song numbers too.

american dad isnt too bad either. it has decent storytelling and doesnt have to resort to non sequitur cut away scenes to tell the jokes

Posted: Oct 25 2008 10:55 am

I'm getting tired of the "Put Roger in a shitty costume and everyone thinks he's a human" angle. Actually I'm just getting sick of Roger period. Confused

Posted: Oct 26 2008 04:39 am

Roger isnt bad at all. Steve is the one who annoys me. id fuck hailey. thats all

Posted: Oct 29 2008 03:51 pm

Cattivo wrote:

There's another criticism, the use of repetition to get laughs taken to an absurd extreme. Every ep doesn't need a "Peter gets hit in the shin and spends ten minutes agonizing over the pain" joke. This time, it looked like the entire first act was solely Peter saying that. Not funny. Annoying.

I still think they ripped off that concept from Sideshow Bob's imfamous "stepping on the rakes" scene.

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I still think South Park is one of the smartest, most entertaining shows on all of TV. Some of the episodes are a bit weird, but I've always laughed out loud (and hard) several times during any episode.

I used to think Family Guy was funny until, ironically, South Park pointed out that the laughs come from random cut scenes that have nothing to do with the plot. Since that episode of South Park, I just don't find Family Guy good at all.

Posted: Oct 31 2008 02:54 am

Kubo wrote:

I used to think Family Guy was funny until, ironically, South Park pointed out that the laughs come from random cut scenes that have nothing to do with the plot. Since that episode of South Park, I just don't find Family Guy good at all.

THIS, for days son.

ever since then, i been hugely critical about that w/my friends. and they hate me for that

Posted: Oct 31 2008 03:36 am

Anyone want to try their hand at editing Family Guy into an abridged version, like the Yu-Gi-Oh stuff, buy instead of also dubbing just run the episode sans cutaways. I wonder how much time that'd shave.