At least he has some sense.

I think it takes someone who understands the humor to like Family Guy and South Park (and Futurama).I was never into either til i saw a few episodes. I like them a lot (note not love):).My kinda humor.
However the Simpsons should have ended years ago. How is it even still on???..geee

I stopped watching after I didn't find Family Guy funny.

There have been a few funny moments in all the episodes I've seen but the show itself just isn't that good.

Should never have happened in the first place. Not funny.

I like Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama. King of the Hill was okay, but there were only a few early seasons sold over here, and I'll agree that South Park has become a lot better. It's not just swear words and waiting to see how Kenny gets killed. And I'm happy that we don't see Mr Hanky now as that was just one character I couldn't stand.

Reality TV should be over.
We get so much of that crap over here on our local TV network, not that we can choose in the first place, that I basically don't watch TV anymore.

You know, maybe it's just me but I liked seasons 4-6 (or something, I dunno) better, I think I'd be in the minority there though

Oh tell me about it, despite promises it was ending Big Brother is still going, and the celebrity editions are even worse with wannabes, has beens and never have beens.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force is where it's at. Although the humor is way out there so I understand why some people scratch their head at it.

Yah I think it's plateaued work on a new show now :D

It feels like people here are kinda split 50/50, on the first few seasons vs. the later seasons. Some like the original and hate the later, while some like the later and hate the original. I'm almost entirely an original guy - thought South Park was hilarious up until about season 5, Family Guy until (about) season 5, American Dad ... umm, I guess seasons 2 until about now - I prefer it to Family Guy, but it's not lol'ly. I enjoyed Futurama (and was actually kinda touched by the Fry - Leela subplot) until it was revamped this past year.

To me, it feels like now Family Guy is trying to pack too much into one show - comedy, serious dialogue, political stances, action/violence/gore - and it can't decide where it wants to land. This past episode dealt with Meg's anger towards her family and Brian ... on schrooms. Okay, so how am I suppose to feel about that? Am I suppose to care about Meg, a cartoon character who up until now the writers essentially wanted us to laugh /at/? Or was it directed at parents watching the show, to get them to talk to their kids? Okay, that's good, but that's drama, not comedy. Or (maybe most likely) it was directed at the teenagers themselves, those who don't feel a parental connection ...

And ever since Brian became a self-absorbed emulation of the writers' (or Seth's) political and anti-etc. ideals, I've found myself not enjoying virtually any of his screen time, because admittedly, we don't exactly see things eye to eye. But it's not like I can discuss this ideas with him through the TV - I just have to sit there and hope the whole episode doesn't revolve around his thought, or skip ahead and hope I catch something that kinda makes me laugh.

BTW, I found South Park did a much better job of balancing out issues, at least in the mid-seasons. For example, whereas Family Guy seems to vilify anything related to Christianity (but nothing else), South Park makes fun of everything (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, even atheism etc.) here and there. I appreciate a balance.

I don't want to take the show so seriously ("It's just a cartoon!"), but if it's going to try to change my mind rather than letting a story play out...

Anyways, I suppose there's more I could write more, but not now. You can tell this is a strangely touchy issue for me. I hope you all do know this is just my opinion, and in fact I was just kinda writing down my thoughts as they occured; I'm not trying to irritate others.

I do very much enjoy the surrealism in that show. :D Shake's dialogue is actually pretty good, and I do enjoy seeing bizarre creatures in normal situations and dialogue. Robot-from-the-future: "Thousands of years ago, in a time long forgotten..." Shake: "Gawd, who is willing to shove his dick in this guy's outlet to short circuit him and save us from this wretched storytelling?!" Robot: "I don't know, probably yo momma. Thousands of years..."

Well, that's not exactly how it went, but I remember laughing hysterically...

Simpsons had such a big impact on modern culture that new viewers watching the old episodes might wonder what was so groundbreaking. They see and hear so much of it in daily life that the original episodes seem uncreative. Maybe it's the same feeling I get when I watch Flintstones or Scooby Doo, like I'm missing what made them special to so many people.

Flintstones was social commentary, IIRC, and Scooby Doo was purely about a bunch of stoners going about solving "mysteries." Even without comedy in the show itself you could still laugh at your own jokes.

I liked it when the dog's animal instincts took over and he acted like a real dog. That's pretty much all I found funny about the show.

Forgot the Cleveland Show.