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Topic: Futurama in Family Guy????
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seattlejohn01
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 Since: May 2007
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posted 04-29-2008 01:21 |
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Gotta say, Futurama, The Simpsons, Family Guy & most cartoons are still heads & tails better than the crap the studios program on TV & call "entertainment". Especially reality TV shows. Yeah, reality; right...
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Frisco17
Liquid Emperor
Since: Aug 2005
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posted 04-29-2008 21:37 |
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Damn straight!
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ShepherdofShark
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Since: Feb 2008
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posted 04-30-2008 14:04 |
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It's so damn straight it's impending a bending.But don't you feel sorry for the people hooked on that crap?
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seattlejohn01
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Since: May 2007
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posted 04-30-2008 18:40 |
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Feeling sorry for someone hooked on crap TV is like feeling sorry for someone who voluntarily moves into a trailer park. It's their choice; they gotta live with it...
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hell-dog
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posted 05-01-2008 03:00 |
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Just like I feel sorry for people that watch family guy, yeah, I said it!
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hobbitboy
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Since: Jan 2006
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posted 05-01-2008 06:56 |
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Originally posted by hell-dog:
Just like I feel sorry for people that watch family guy, yeah, I said it!
I watch it, but then I also like it. I had no idea that the show was reviled by so many people until relatively recently and even now I still don't 'see' the what the problem is.However, given the amount of support for the position contrary to my own it seems that I am the one at fault. I must have particulary non-discerning (Is that a word?) or unrefined tastes. Maybe I'm just not very perceptive. But on this issue I'm happy to say that ignorance is bliss, baby!  I only feel sorry for those Family Guy watchers who don't like it. ------------------
"I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place." Charles Darwin
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Frisco17
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Since: Aug 2005
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posted 05-01-2008 21:20 |
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I like it, I'm just saying that it doesn't even come close to Futurama's level of awesomeness.
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PhilipJ.FryFan
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Since: Aug 2007
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posted 05-01-2008 23:06 |
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I agree with Frisco17. I like it to but not as much as I like Futurama. Sometimes I get tired of Family Guy, where as with Futurama I can never ever get bored of.
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winna
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Since: May 2001
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posted 05-02-2008 06:23 |
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quote:
Originally posted by hobbitboy:
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Originally posted by hell-dog:
Just like I feel sorry for people that watch family guy, yeah, I said it!
I watch it, but then I also like it. I had no idea that the show was reviled by so many people until relatively recently and even now I still don't 'see' the what the problem is.
I think there are a few reasons why Futurama fans have a problem with Family Guy. Futurama is to a large extent a cult based phenomenon; those of us who have been watching the show for all this time are really kind of elitist about what they watch. Family Guy fandom was similar to this in a lot of ways until it came back. It got bandwagoned like a mother*********. I'd see t-shirts and here people talk about family guy for an episode I'd seen 4 years ago... like it was new & fresh. Another reason for people's unreasonable hatred for family guy is the formula for the show. It is very formulaic... such and such happens... flashback... random reference. The concept of the show is even a reference to the Simpsons. What's even more infuriating is that a large portion of Family Guy's audience isn't old enough to get most of the references... and yet they laugh... but they don't even know why it's funny. Don't get me wrong... Family Guy isn't a bad show... and I enjoyed watching it the first time around. Then you compare it to something like Futurama.... which for the most part is true quality television, and it seems a little unfair that Family Guy steals the spotlight. Then again, I'd prefer it that way... I like to secretly think Futurama is mine, as do other fans I suspect.
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Frisco17
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Since: Aug 2005
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posted 05-02-2008 21:46 |
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Once again someone has taken what I was trying to say and said it in a vastly superior way. I agree with everything you just said Winna.
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NastyInThePasty
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Since: Jan 2008
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posted 05-02-2008 23:03 |
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Originally posted by winna:
What's even more infuriating is that a large portion of Family Guy's audience isn't old enough to get most of the references... and yet they laugh... but they don't even know why it's funny.
This is why it baffles me that Family Guy actually has teenage fans, who weren't even born when the 70's and 80's movies and TV shows the series references incessantly were released. Yeah, they get off on the "shock" humor and general misanthropy of the series, but I can't imagine them getting a three minute cutaway joke were the show recreates a musical number from Litte Shop Of Horrors VERBATIM. That's what I love about Futurama. There are some bad taste jokes, a smidgen of vulgarity, and some slapstick for the kiddies, but the show's references aren't just reduced to endless Star Trek/Wars gags (whereas Family Guy sticks at least one Lucasfilm recreation into every single episode), it also touches of the vast wealth of great literary sci-fi, which most of the show's older fanbase will "get". It's not like, "Oh wow, I remember that...!" every fifteen seconds. 
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winna
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posted 05-03-2008 07:23 |
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It's totally the shock humor that the younger audience feeds off of. They don't need to know what it's about to realize that it's completely ridiculous and unexpected.In reality, the references themselves are probably the best part of Family Guy. If you actual get the reference, it's a comment about that particular thing done in a creative way, and it's general a funny way of looking at it. For the most part I'd blame this ignorance on the fact that a lot of people growing up within the last few decades have difficulty keeping an attention span. Each new generation seems more unable than the last to concentrate on something very long; I'd attribute this to television itself; it's a passive medium which doesn't demand a whole lot of thinking, and becomes very hypnotic. In that hypnotic state it's easier to make a point in 5 seconds rather than 30 (probably an exaggeration, the numbers are slightly higher). Less people in this category probably read than watch television... play videogames... everything is fresh when it's for 5 seconds.... they're being trained to have short attention spans. I don't personally like this life perspective, that's probably why I don't think highly much of people who are infatuated with family guy. OH MY GOSH, HE WAS FIGHTING A GUY IN A CHICKEN! DID YOU SEE THAT! A CHICKEN!!!! OH YEAH! Then again... the genre is perfect, it actually is as hilarious as it's made out to be; I even find it enjoyable myself... even if I feel a little dirty afterwards. But it isn't timeless. It gets old and repetitive after awhile... and then it's just the same joke over & over again. Nothing in it has any depth... and it wasn't quite as clever as the pieces that actually pioneered the genre.
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Frisco17
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posted 05-03-2008 21:34 |
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Exactly the Simpsons and Futurama are timeless. Family Guy is funny a few times and then just fizzles out.@Nasty I know what you mean about most people being to young to get alot of it. I don't think it's all age though as much as it is apathy to anything that came before them because as far as they care it didn't exist. I was born near the end of the 80s but I still know about alot of this stuff because I don't automatically ignore something because it was before my time, if anything I try and figure out what it is. This is how I ended up with every Get Smart episode on DVD. Besides TV was better then anyway. With the huge exception of Futurama TV got alot worse in the early 2000s.
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