ManaAdvent said:
My favorite shows would be Simpsons, Futurama, Boondocks, Robot Chicken, and Venture Bros.
I like Family Guy before the revival episodes which heavily rely on those cut away gags and should be called the Seth MacFarlane Show because of how Seth shoves his atheist liberal views down our throats. Also, writing has gone down the crapper too and becomes too offensive and totally unfunny.
Yeah, I've seen way too many episodes of Family Guy with annoying political and atheistic messages. It was really bad in the episode where Brian openly admits he's an atheist and the whole town starts to hate him. I mean, I know there's negative stigma toward atheists at times, but it also exists toward the religious folks too. And I've never seen it escalate to such a point where it did in the show. And the whole thing was composed of the same recycled arguments for an against atheism, it offered no original social commentary at all, it didn't even feel like an original opinion.
With shows like The Boondocks, I actually like the "deeper" parts of it, because they often aren't as preachy and are done with more finesse, and it feels like a true message and not just the same old political views. The "Return of the King" episode of The Boondocks, specifically, was done brilliantly.
commasplice said:
I have to admit that I haven't read all there is of the comic, either. Just a collection of the first year or two (since that's all I could find at my local library). If you ask me, both the show and the comic are great, but the show feels like it has been dumbed down at many points to make it more "accessible" to the general public. That's really the only problem I have with it. Oh, and
Caesar. In the strips that I read, Caesar was featured so often that he was actually a more central character to the comic than Riley. I really have no idea why we haven't seen him, yet.
Yeah, it always bothers me when that happens, and I'm really starting to notice it too. The first two seasons always made me laugh, because they were filled with Uncle Ruckus's racism, but now that and a lot of the racial jokes are sort of getting old, and I'm itching to see more of the more intelligent stuff, but the show isn't quite delivering. I mean, I'm not asking for all out political commentary, because that gets old really fast too, but just more intelligence in general, instead of kind of pushing it into the background. Like the way they parodied black romantic comedy shows in one episode, sure it's not fucking deep, but it's still intelligent, because they are pointing out the absurdities of shows that so many people like, and it's hilarious.
I think I might check out the comic.
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