When Seth MacFarlane Jumped the Shark

[TMC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki4WOfTjegs

[king of comedy]

Originally Posted by TMC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki4WOfTjegs

This guy nailed everything. He doesn't have to worry about The Cleveland Show. It will be gone in May.

[schmave]

Originally Posted by king of comedy

This guy nailed everything. He doesn't have to worry about The Cleveland Show. It will be gone in May.

I thought it was around 2006, when the number of Republican-bashing jokes and lengthy musical numbers got out of hand. The show was still funny for the most part, and isn't that bad today, but it smacked of lazy writing. Some of the episodes the last three years of the Bush administration just were predictable bashfests.

[king of comedy]

Originally Posted by schmave

I thought it was around 2006, when the number of Republican-bashing jokes and lengthy musical numbers got out of hand. The show was still funny for the most part, and isn't that bad today, but it smacked of lazy writing. Some of the episodes the last three years of the Bush administration just were predictable bashfests.

There were a couple of spinoffs from The Wacky Races. They were Dick Dastardly and Muttley and their flying machines and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop and don't forget The Pebbles and Bam Bam Show. Both were better than The Cleveland Show even though they only lasted a year or two. Carter and Dr.Hartman sound alike, Brian and Tom Tucker sound alike, Peter and Roger sound alike and Stan is in the same range as Brian. This guy still nailed it.

[schmave]

Originally Posted by king of comedy

There were a couple of spinoffs from The Wacky Races. They were Dick Dastardly and Muttley and their flying machines and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop and don't forget The Pebbles and Bam Bam Show. Both were better than The Cleveland Show even though they only lasted a year or two. Carter and Dr.Hartman sound alike, Brian and Tom Tucker sound alike, Peter and Roger sound alike and Stan is in the same range as Brian. This guy still nailed it.

I am not arguing those points at all. There's a reason the show is still on. I think the very early shows are underrated, and the 2005-08 years or so were the best (with the exceptions I listed above).
I am mindboggled at how The Cleveland Show has lasted this long. I watched the first several episodes and couldn't keep going.