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MovieMurderer
Bending Unit
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« Reply #127 on: 06-28-2010 20:12 »
« Last Edit on: 06-28-2010 20:18 »
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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.
Now that annoys me VERY much. I am an early teen... huge fan of Futurama and The Simpsons... also a fan of the first three or four seasons of Family Guy. You know, when it was still hilarious? Anyway, I remember at the beginning of the last school year, we would have football practice, and the receivers would get in a group and wait to catch the ball, giving us time to talk. Y'know those obnoxious a-holes who are only friends with all of the other obnoxious a-holes who tend to be great at sports? I'm in a group with five of them. One last guy is my friend, and he watches FG too, but he realizes it's not the funniest show in the world and tries to get the references. They keep talking about Breakfast Club references and Ferris Bueller references and Home Alone references (I guess Family Guy writers are huge John Hughes fans), and they didn't even know what they were talking about. I told them, "C'mon guys... it's like twenty or less years ago, it won's be the end of the world if you watch one of these movies instead of Family Guy doing a blatant rip-off." and they reply with: "What does blatant mean?" I'm one of those teens who loves old movies... especially good ones. They're great, classic, and they laid the groundwork to all the films we know and love today. Same with TV Shows... The Simpsons isn't too old, but it laid the groundwork for all prime time animated sitcoms, and only Futurama seems to have picked up on that. We began on May 2nd, 2009
May 2nd? HOORAY! MY BIRTHDAY! *Looks around and notices that no one is there* Wha-? Awwww....
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Brock Baker
Crustacean
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Bender was in the Family Guy episode "The Splendid Source" very briefly. No speaking, just him flailing his arms.
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Applepie
Crustacean
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I thought Matt Groening hated family guy..
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Eternium
Professor
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Cool, and for the one's (like me) who don't want to watch that all: at 2:40 as a hologram
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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Also -besides the Bender cameo- when Peter endlessly waited to make up his mind, the background strongly reminded of Fry's 1000 years in the cryo tube).
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Lost My Phone
Professor
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Matt and Seth are friends, but supposedly The Simpsons writing staff despises Seth and anyone related to Family Guy.
Al Jean once said that Family Guy should be more original. And I kind of have to agree with him.
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Lost My Phone
Professor
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Didn't Bender make a cameo in one of the Star Wars parodies?
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Lost My Phone
Professor
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I hear that an upcoming episode of Family Guy will see Peter get a talking boil or something. That concept kind of reminds me of "Attack of the Killer App". I highly doubt that Family Guy is trying to rip off one of the worst ever (in my opinion) Futurama episodes, though. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
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Lost My Phone
Professor
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I thought that at first too. And maybe you're right. But if the Family Guy writers want to rip off a Futurama episode, it might make more sense to rip off a good episode. Then again, maybe they think it's a good episode because they...you know, they're Family Guy writers. They're fucked up in the brain. But if they really are ripping off Futurama, I'm glad they chose to rip off a horrible episode. If they tried to rip off a classic episode, you can bet I'd be on their asses.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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The post you're quoting is almost 4 months old, stum. I haven't watched Family Guy in YEARS, but didn't they do a plot aaaages ago where Chris had a talking pimple? Seems more like a case of Family Guy ripping itself off.
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Monster_Robot_Maniac
Liquid Emperor
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Family Guy - The only show so uncreative that it steals material from it's own self.
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