which do you like best?

too hard to decide, though, I like futurama less than the other 3

Originally posted by ThirteenInchEscape
too hard to decide, though, I like futurama less than the other 3

same here, Futurama's good, but not a show I'd own on DVD, whereas with Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park, definately

I had never seen Futurama before I bought the first season on DVD blind. I love this show. Since then I have picked up the other box sets and I actaully sold my first two seasons on Simpsons on eBay. That's just my opinion though.

While I love the Simpsons and I think that show is the best adult cartoon show; I had to vote for Futurama because its way underrated. Futurama is as clever and original as Simpsons and the characters are just as great. This show could've been so much but its too bad it wasn't in the right time slot and was canceled. I think its stupid to bring back Family Guy and not Futurama. Family Guy is unoriginal and stupid. Its a total take off of the simpsons but in the worst way. At least Homor has some redeeming traits.

Futurama

Why does "King of the Hill" always get left out of these things? It's my favorite of the bunch: best characters, best stories, most original and interesting and funny.

My current favorite is "South Park," but "The Simpsons" was better in its prime. "Futurama" wasn't bad.

"Family Guy" was badly written, badly acted, badly animated; an unfunny, overrrated show with not an original joke or good story for most of its run. Bad, bad, awful show.

Family Guy. Love the show.

I'm thinking about starting my Futurama DVD collction too.

Originally posted by jaime_weinman

"Family Guy" was badly written, badly acted, badly animated; an unfunny, overrrated show with not an original joke or good story for most of its run. Bad, bad, awful show.

Thats just plain not true

Family Guy was extreemly original, well acted, and as well animated as the othershows mentioned, there were great jokes in everyepisode, and great stories in most of them

futurama but other than that i liked "undergrads" which was a teen toon really - it wasnt the best thing in the world but intresting

i dont like the other choices i find cant stand their "jokes". they just try too hard, IMO

I love them all, with The Simpsons being the cream of the crop.
Followed by Family Guy, then Futurama and then South Park (which I still like, and plan to get on DVD, someday)

I haven't seen Futurama at all, haven't watched the Simpsons regularly in years and occasionally watch South Park. Just this week watched Family Guy for the first time and love it. It's exactly my kind of comedy, so that's the one I voted for.

The Simpsons followed by Futurama.

Futurama is my favorite of the 4.

Followed by Family Guy and The Simpsons. I hate South Park.

Family Guy is a show that I like and laugh at but when someone insults it, it doesn't bother me. Whereas whenever anyone insults, say Futurama, I get defensive.

The Simpsons I used to love and still like.

Originally posted by jaime_weinman
Why does "King of the Hill" always get left out of these things?





Because everyone knows that show is stupid as hell and shouldn't be assicoated with the best cartoons. I'm just guessing. :)


I vote for The Simpsons. It's actually funny.

Originally posted by jaime_weinman
Why does "King of the Hill" always get left out of these things?

Because everyone knows that show is stupid as hell and shouldn't be assicoated with the best cartoons. I'm just guessing.

You're actually talking about "Family Guy" there. (Family Guy is stupid as hell, doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the best cartoons; it all fits.) It's a common mistake, at least on the Internet. :)

Originally posted by Christopher
Because everyone knows that show is stupid as hell and shouldn't be assicoated with the best cartoons. I'm just guessing. :)


I vote for The Simpsons. It's actually funny.

Actually, I think "King of the Hill" is better than "The Simpsons", "Family Guy", and "South Park". My guess to why it wasn't listed with the other shows is because it's on a different level. It's more like an actual sitcom. It just happens to be animated. Whereas the rest take advantage of being cartoons and do more cartoonish things. KOTH is on a slower pace compared to the other shows and their fast paced episodes.

Originally posted by jaime_weinman
You're actually talking about "Family Guy" there. (Family Guy is stupid as hell, doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the best cartoons; it all fits.) It's a common mistake, at least on the Internet. :)




Not too long ago I would have agreed with you. I thought FG was a stupid show and deserved getting cancelled, but then I watched it and it was funny. But KOTH, that cartoon needs to be put out of its misery. I regret ever watching that show. They picked great actors to voice the characters, they just didn't get the right writers. That's just my opinion.

Originally posted by barwars
I like the 4 in the poll, but I HATE KOTH.
Rednecks suck.

me too

plus I still haven't forgiven Mike Judge for killing Beavis And Butt-Head as soon as KOTH looked set to get successful.

Even tho I like Futurama, with all my heart I do believe the reason the show never quite caught on was because viewers were afraid if Futurama really took off, Matt Groening would do the same thing to The Simpsons as Mike Judge did B&B.

Originally posted by jaime_weinman
You're actually talking about "Family Guy" there. (Family Guy is stupid as hell, doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the best cartoons; it all fits.) It's a common mistake, at least on the Internet. :)

I think you're outnumbered here when it comes to Family Guy

They picked great actors to voice the characters, they just didn't get the right writers. That's just my opinion.

But the writers of King of the Hill included mostly writers from The Simpsons, as well as the guy who became the co-creator and showrunner of... Family Guy. Oh, and various other people too who did stuff you like. I don't see how you can say that King of the Hill doesn't have good writers; it's just that it takes an approach you don't like and a style of humor that a lot of people on the net don't get (because people who post on the net like pop-culture humor, and King of the Hill deliberately avoids pop-culture humor). That's one of the reasons King of the Hill is so good, that the writers deliberately make the humor different from other shows, whereas Family Guy steals from other shows (and not just other shows, but comic strips; Stewie is a knockoff of the comic-strip character Jimmy Corrigan (http://www.kempa.com/ware/bigJCFG.gif)).

And for the person who said "rednecks suck": the characters on King of the Hill are not "rednecks"; they're just people who happen to live in Texas. All Texans are no more "rednecks" than all New Yorkers are rude...

Originally posted by jaime_weinman
But the writers of King of the Hill included mostly writers from The Simpsons, as well as the guy who became the co-creator and showrunner of... Family Guy. Oh, and various other people too who did stuff you like. I don't see how you can say that King of the Hill doesn't have good writers; it's just that it takes an approach you don't like and a style of humor that a lot of people on the net don't get (because people who post on the net like pop-culture humor, and King of the Hill deliberately avoids pop-culture humor). That's one of the reasons King of the Hill is so good, that the writers deliberately make the humor different from other shows, whereas Family Guy steals from other shows (and not just other shows, but comic strips; Stewie is a knockoff of the comic-strip character Jimmy Corrigan (http://www.kempa.com/ware/bigJCFG.gif))

I think you're missing the point of Family Guy, "it steals"? No... te show is a melting pot of pop culture parody. They're not stealing from tv shows as much as paying homage and parody to it. I mean, like the episode where they resurrect the Who's The Boss statue of Tony seeing Angela naked in the shower... IT WASN'T STEALING FROM WTB.. it was paying tribute to it.

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
Even tho I like Futurama, with all my heart I do believe the reason the show never quite caught on was because viewers were afraid if Futurama really took off, Matt Groening would do the same thing to The Simpsons as Mike Judge did B&B.

That would have been fine with me. The Simpsons was great at one time. In my opinion, that time has passed.

Didn't you like The Simpsons up until a certain point ?

What was it , the sixth season ?

Are you buying the dvd's & are you going to stop at the sixth season ?

(just asking)

Originally posted by CliffClavin
Didn't you like The Simpsons up until a certain point ?

What was it , the sixth season ?

Are you buying the dvd's & are you going to stop at the sixth season ?

(just asking)

If the question was for me then:

I watched and liked "The Simpsons" from the beginning. I'm not sure what season it was when I quit (it was past the 200th episode). So far I have the first three seasons on DVD and plan on buying the entire series. Only for the reason that I have to complete the series I start. It might sound weird, but even if there's a bad season, I still have to own it if I have the rest of the show.

hi , i love cartoons too like old ones like superfriends on boomerang ted cassidy who was on chico ep help wanted did lots of voice work too , can u make me a copy of that chico ep help wanted?

Simpsons ... :D

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
I think you're missing the point of Family Guy, "it steals"? No... te show is a melting pot of pop culture parody. They're not stealing from tv shows as much as paying homage and parody to it. I mean, like the episode where they resurrect the Who's The Boss statue of Tony seeing Angela naked in the shower... IT WASN'T STEALING FROM WTB.. it was paying tribute to it.

I agree.

One of the reasons "Family Guy" appeals to me is because the show's creator Seth MacFarlane is close to my age, and laces the show with tons of hysterical references from TV shows and movies I grew up on. He's got great taste in pop culture.

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
I think you're missing the point of Family Guy, "it steals"? No... te show is a melting pot of pop culture parody. They're not stealing from tv shows as much as paying homage and parody to it. I mean, like the episode where they resurrect the Who's The Boss statue of Tony seeing Angela naked in the shower... IT WASN'T STEALING FROM WTB.. it was paying tribute to it.

I agree.

One of the reasons "Family Guy" appeals to me is because the show's creator Seth MacFarlane is close to my age, and loads the show with tons of hysterical references from TV shows and movies I grew up on. He's got great taste in pop culture.

Originally posted by TJL
I agree.

One of the reasons "Family Guy" appeals to me is because the show's creator Seth MacFarlane is close to my age, and loads the show with tons of hysterical references from TV shows and movies I grew up on. He's got great taste in pop culture.

exactly, I fail to see how what he did as "stealing". There is a huge difference between paying homage to something and blatantly stealing the idea. And what he did with Family Guy was pay homage to a ton of different pop culture touchstones of the 70's, 80's and 90's. It was NOT stealing.