Personally, I'm sick of "Family Guy copied The Simpsons" comments being tossed and thrown around.
Never once, while watching the show, did I ever see it as a Simpsons rip-off.
It wasn't until I noticed that people were getting really worked up about it, that I started to notice it.
But I think Family Guy is it's own show. Although it continuously parodies everything, and although it seems to leach off other shows, I've never considered it to be a clone of any TV show.
When it was cancelled, I personally think it should of stayed cancelled. At least it would of ended on a high note.
And the idea of The Simpsons having to compete with FG would hopefully perish too, then maybe it might return to the old style.
This is what I think of the characters:
Peter. It's hard to describe his character. He seems to have a new characteristic, or a catch-phrase every episode.
Now, he's just a little too over the top. They've really crossed the line with him; so much so, that it actually isn't funny anymore. If they take him back to the Season 3 or possibly Season 4 standard, then I might enjoy his character again.
He just annoys me heaps. He's basically everything I'm against, and I find it extremely hard to get into his character after that.
Lois. She really annoys me.
I don't like her voice. And she seems to be a pretty cheap "Marge Simpson" rip-off.
Sometimes she "nags" but she doesn't do it in an innocent, or funny way like Marge, she does it in a bitchy, slutty way, and I find that pretty off-putting. That's how I generally see her character.
Chris. He's not much of a character. He usually has about one line an episode, and it's usually just a cheap joke to fill in time.
Meg. I love Meg. I love it how they're all really horrible to her.
But as the series progressed, they've started doing less and less of that. She's kind of becoming "accepted" into the Family now, so it isn't all that funny to watch her anymore.
Brian. I posted this in another thread, but I'll post it again.
Brian was always my favourite character. In the early seasons, he seemed to be the only "sane" character.
He was opinionated and actually had a soul. A good example of this, is the episode where he goes to jail for drinking from the water fountain or something.
And no, he shouldn't have a girlfriend. That might sound a bit...weird, but it just doesn't work for his character.
He's a dog, they're trying to make him into Peter II.
Stewie. Wow. Stewie's gone from being 100% evil to 94% cute, 6% evil.
It just doesn't work like that. You can't make him that cute, and that evil at the same time.
They did it somehow in the first two or three seasons, and they made it work brilliantly. I don't know how they did it, but that was one of the reasons I really latched onto this show.
But now, it's just like he's two different people. It gets really hard to like, feel for, or get into his character when he's being cute immediately after he's done something cruel or shocking.
I'll finish by saying: Although it isn't one of my favourite shows, I will never deny how brilliant it once was.
It was filled with such excellent, unique humour that I'd never really seen before.
As for my favourite episode? I can't just name one:
I Never Met the Dead Man
Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater
E. Peterbus Unum
Running Mates
Fifteen Minutes of Shame
Da Boom
Lethal Weapons
Emission Impossible
Petarted
PTV
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