Top 10 Reasons Why Family Guy is Better Than The Simpsons
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Family Guy takes risks
Family Guy is funny for adults. The Simpsons is for children. Family Guy will make fun of anything or everything, and they will take it all the way.
They do everything for views! They even wrote a song about the FCC.
It really does.
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Family Guy has better characters
The Simpsons characters are okay, but Family Guy's characters are amazing! They're all funny and most are likeable, maybe excluding Meg. And they still are!
The Simpsons used to have some funny characters, but now they just feel like normal characters due to the writers' obsession with copying Family Guy's approach of giving each character their own story. That route works with Family Guy because they only select a few, as opposed to selecting every single character. It also works because it's supposed to be the anti-family sitcom, and many family sitcoms feel the need to give the characters their own stories - like The Simpsons does nowadays, for example.
I know I seem to be really against The Simpsons, but it's because The Simpsons does so much wrong and never improves on it. The Simpsons never grows. Also, not to mention, Peter is funnier than Homer. Even in the earlier seasons, I never thought Homer was that funny. There was funny stuff surrounding him back then, but he never really provided his own comedy. He just let the stuff around him tie into his comedy. Unfortunately, The Simpsons doesn't do that anymore. Peter provides his own comedy, and I find his more likeable than modern Homer.
Lois is a more interesting character than Marge, Stewie is awesome and way better than Maggie, and Chris provides his own comedy like Peter and is funnier than the boring screw-up kid, Bart. Meg is someone who you just love to hate, which somehow makes her better than Lisa nowadays, who you basically just hate to hate because she's such a selfish person and only cares about herself.... read more
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Stewie
I still prefer The Simpsons, but Stewie and Brian are legendary.
Stewie forever.
Stewie makes Family Guy.
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The Simpsons are trying to be like Family Guy now
I hate The Simpsons nowadays. I used to love it, but now I hate it. I already hated when they called Family Guy "plagiarism" because I felt like they refused to accept that Family Guy is a better show.
Of course, everyone found it funny and hated when Family Guy made fun of other shows because Family Guy is essentially the punching bag for the Internet. I think The Simpsons is just a blatant rip-off of Family Guy, or at least it is nowadays.
The show never acknowledges this because the writers assume that the people who watch their show are too ignorant to notice. Homer Simpson is now doing things only Peter Griffin would do and act like. Marge is turning into the Protestant mother who is Lois Griffin. Lisa is now acting like Brian Griffin at his absolute worst, and Maggie, I hate Maggie the most. I hate how the writers basically stole Stewie's character and claimed it as their own.
The only original character left is Bart, and he's a bad character. As a dedicated Family Guy fan, I am outraged that The Simpsons are doing this. They've basically just become a full-on knockoff of Family Guy at this point. That's why I hate the show and believe Family Guy is way better. I don't even want to think The Simpsons is superior in any way.
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Peter
Peter used to be a better father than Homer, but nowadays they're both tied.
Every Peter cutaway makes me laugh.
Peter is so funny.
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It has so many gags
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It's funnier
I like The Simpsons better, but I have to admit that Family Guy makes me laugh more.
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The Simpsons is dated
The Simpsons was comedy gold for about seven seasons (or more, depending on your opinion). Nowadays, it just reeks of age, and it irritates me to see how much of a sellout it is.
So you just think The Simpsons are just the Stink-sons nowadays.
Watch it, Stink-son!
Anyway, people in 1996 thought it had declined.
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Everyone looks like they would in real life and not yellow
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Family Guy makes funny jokes, The Simpsons are afraid to
In this world of political correctness, despite Family Guy announcing the cancellation of "homophobic" jokes, Family Guy still refuses to adapt to it, which makes Family Guy still great.
People who criticize Family Guy for being too "mean" are missing the point. Family Guy was always like that. It was always supposed to be the anti-family sitcom, and it still is.
While The Simpsons now feels like your average safe family sitcom, Family Guy is still embracing its original spirit and hasn't forgotten it. It still challenges the viewer and tries to make humor out of otherwise dark situations, which was what Family Guy always did, whether you think it was well executed or not.
The Simpsons doesn't have the power to do that anymore because it is now targeted at families, something it was always supposed to go against. But Family Guy has said no, we will not start being "safe." We're willing to ruffle everyone's feathers. They are against those good old-fashioned values, while The Simpsons now feels the need to stay safe and adapt to these good old-fashioned values.
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It's unpredictable
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Family Guy has a pedophile character, Herbert
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The Simpsons should have been cancelled at season 16
No, no, no. The Simpsons needed to be canceled at season 11. Season 10 was the last good season.
The movie should have been the series finale.
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Seth MacFarlane is hosting the Oscars
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Half of The Simpsons' male characters are played by women
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The Simpsons have gone too far
I think this means that it's been on too long, which, I'm sorry to say, it has.
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Bart is so unfunny
He is not funny and too fat.
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The Simpsons relies on celebrity cameos
My favorite celebrity cameo in Family Guy is Michael Jackson. But I like other celebrities too.
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Lisa's jokes are so forced it hurts
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Family Guy has done Star Wars
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Too many episodes about Lisa
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Meg
Meg, Brian, and Stewie make Family Guy!
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Meg's abuse is funnier than Bart's stranglings
Meg's suffering is unrealistic, and Bart getting strangled is actual child abuse.
Yeah! Take that, Meg fanboys!
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Marge constantly criticizes Homer
That is true.
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Milhouse is so annoying
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The Simpsons has Marge
She sours the whole show. Lois is 20 times better.
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The Simpsons once used a Ke$ha song as an intro to an episode