good lord, American Dad

[Josh Seipp]

It's just not....funny. At ALL.

"Hi, we are not funny!"

 

[goatschool]

dilbert for snarks

 

[goatschool]

(forced to watch 2 eps of FG and both went down like a hairball)

 

[NAD]

I watched the first one and liked the "goldfish with the brain of a German guy" but have since declined to watch any new episodes.

 

[chupe666]

just because it's from the 'creator of family guy' doesn't mean the animation/drawing has to look EXACTLY LIKE fg - does it? i mean there are other ways of drawing cartoons, right?

 

[xfer]

ask mike judge or matt grow-nig

 

[mindspell]

Yeah, it is pretty terrible so far. It seems that every successful show has a good balance between the stupid and the normal people and in American Dad everybody is bloody dumb. The alien, the dad, the mom, the son are all extremely stupid and the daughter is only marginally better. The goldfish is a good idea but is not very present..

 

[avi]

I like FG, but I do not like AD. I think I made it through the first 5 minutes of an episode, that's it.

 

[Josh Seipp]

goldfish: blatant stewie ripoff
alien: blatant brian ripoff
humans: dumbed-down stereotypes

overall the show is incredibly ham-fisted and derivative

 

[Greg B.]

I have to like AMerican Dad b/c Seth McFarlane is a local hero. I mean the lead character of Family Guy apparently got his name from a mutual "friend." However, I am planning to move an hour north for the express purpose of not liking American Dad. I mean fuck if I want boneheaded patriotism that tries to parody social issues and terrorism... AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!

 

[deadair]

i've only seen a few minutes... that's all i needed

 

[Baliset]

the sad thing is that the new family guy episodes are really awesome in my opinion. so i guess seth macfarlane should just stick with one cartoon show.

 

[Josh Seipp]

yeah seriously - the new FG episodes seem to have a bit of the problems the Simpsons ran into, where they rely a bit too much on previous bits that have happened in the show and run the risk of either becoming too self referential or just become stock story ideas (brian & stewie off by themselves has featured heavily in both new episodes, but not in a particularly clever way) but on a whole they're pretty good. the intro of the first new one where peter lists all the fox shows...oh man

 

[FrostGiant]

I thought the Pinnocchio clip in the first FG was funny.

 

[Burzumite]

I have not seen the new season of FG, but I thought American Dad blew balls. American Dad is too much like FG, recycled garbage.