HOT TAKE: Family Guy is better than The Simpsons (1 Viewer)

[eoMMan]

 

[jamny]

I gave up on The Simpsons a long time ago but still watch Family Guy every week.

I don't watch reruns of The Simpsons but will always check out Family Guy reruns when I'm scrolling by.

I agree.

 

[MTskibum]

Futurama was better than both of them, however none of them are worth watching anymore.

When my kids get older we can rewatch the first 8 seasons of Simpsons and all of Futurama at least.

 

[MAC_32]

When my kids get older we can rewatch the first 8 seasons of Simpsons and all of Futurama at least.

Did this with my oldest a few years ago, started with our middle one over christmas. Forcing them to sit through the first two seasons are important, but like round one I assume I'll bow out season nine a d they can continue the binge solo.

 

[irish eyes]

Both awful, that is all.

 

[wikkidpissah]

i've watched a lot more Family Guy than Simpsons, but i'd hesitate to call it better. The Simpsons has created a much richer world, one that acknowledges that family dont mean what it used to but wanna celebrate it anyway. Family Guy could care less because, there, it's not about the premise but the joke. Rather than use animation's amnesties to caricature society, they use them to annihilate it. Every FG premise is an excuse for a volume and variety of cutaways, in which comedy writers get to see how far they can take something - whether as far as taste or patience (they drag their bits on to see how long it will take the audience to notice, then laugh that they got to write less stuff because of it) - and still get it on TV. As a longtime lover and purveyor of The Funny, i get a large kick out of that. But the Simpsons has dwarfed it by creating a language and ethos for non-nuclear families to communicate with each other. And that embiggens us all.

 

[jobarules]

Not really a hot take. It's 10x better

 

[[scooter]]

Are we talking about the 2022 incarnations of each show? Because both shows have basically been on autopilot for several years now, and what we've been watching has been less and less of a cultural event and more of a slow march towards irrelevance.

Peak Simpsons is better than Peak Family Guy, though.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

The Simpsons is Playboy and Family guy is Hustler. 
 

Both are great in their own right. 

 

[Northern Voice]

Bob's Burgers >>>>> both.