This messageboard is like a Klan meeting

[DotheBartman]

I don't know........ Cutting edge is why I love Family Guy so much, and illustrates my point. Seth MacFarlane doesn't give a shit who gets offended, and that attitude really works. Two examples are the "Prom Night Dumpster Babies" scene, and the entire episode that has Chris dating the Down Syndrome girl. Both could be considered extremely offensive, but they were hilarious. And when Palin got pissy, I shit myself laughing again (it's like a joke that keeps on giving).

A. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (which I'm sort of obsessed with at the moment so bear with me) did an entire episode about a dumpster baby. And it was funny. Funnier than any Family Guy sequence ever. THAT show proves that it's possible to be edgy and potentially offensive while also being funny and still deriving the humor from the plotlines and characters. Or, for that matter, to do such a show and actually have humor in the first place.

B. Palin's reaction to that joke was hilarious but partially because the joke itself was so fucking lame and easy anyway. It was barely even a joke and made no sense; it was at best a passing reference with no real target in particular. Palin's actual kid is a male and much younger so it was clear that some writer just thought "down syndrome=Palin" and called it a day. This, when Palin is practically a fucking walking joke in herself. A legitimate attack on her actual politics, or for that matter her tendency to trot her child around as a political accessory (a point the "down syndrome girl" actress made herself in a statement much funnier and more spot-on than that Family Guy joke), would have been much funnier and actually possibly contained some edge. The only thing Palin's reaction proved is that it's possible for some people to be overly sensitive to even the most toothless joke. And most of the supposedly "edgy" jokes on Family Guy are, at best, just as toothless.

If you want edgy, don't watch The Simpsons and don't watch Family Guy. There are better programs than either of them that are still, legitimately, pushing the envelope and not just providing some cheap simulacrum of edge just to impress high school students.

[Haoie]

Does anyone have a pointy hat they could borrow me?

Wizard robe, optional.

[Mira]

Does anyone have a pointy hat they could borrow me?

Wizard robe, optional.

[Bombadil]

A....Funnier than any Family Guy sequence ever.
B. Palin's reaction to that joke was hilarious but partially because the joke itself was so fucking lame and easy anyway....A legitimate attack on her actual politics, or for that matter her tendency to trot her child around as a political accessory (a point the "down syndrome girl" actress made herself in a statement much funnier and more spot-on than that Family Guy joke), would have been much funnier and actually possibly contained some edge.... And most of the supposedly "edgy" jokes on Family Guy are, at best, just as toothless.

If you want edgy, don't watch The Simpsons and don't watch Family Guy. There are better programs than either of them that are still, legitimately, pushing the envelope and not just providing some cheap simulacrum of edge just to impress high school students.

DAMN! OK, DotheBartman doesn't like Family Guy. Got it.

And if that high school jab was for me, think again. I graduated in the 70's. And they must not have taught me right because I had to look up simulacrum.

[DotheBartman]

I realize that there are older folk who watch Family Guy and I know some of them. But the actual humor is at a high-school level. Recent Simpsons might be at a college freshman level.

[Bombadil]

I realize that there are older folk who watch Family Guy.......

You damn kids get off of my lawn! [shakes fist}

(I'm an apprentice Grumpy Old Man)

[The Sovereign]

Thread's potential has been almost completely wasted :fail:

[Bombadil]

Thread's potential has been almost completely wasted :fail:

By all means, add something useful.

[The Sovereign]

[D'ohmer]

So much hate going on here. I literally have to search hours to see something positive on this site. I just don't get it. Why do you have to have every episode after season 8 or 9??? It doesn't make any sense.... Just think about it this is where all the true Simpsons fans come, but you don't like the last 11 or so seasons :/

I'm happy that you had the courage to express your opinion. I agree that it can sometimes feel like it and I can see where you're coming from. However, at least most of the people in the Simpsons section don't hate seasons 1-8/9. Many people here, not including me, don't think highly of the way the show has been since season 10 and, therefore, tend to have a negative attitude towards the show nowadays. It doesn't mean that they hate what made them fans in the first place (the classic era) they just don't really care for the current state of the show.

[Jesse Pinkman]

KKK, Simpsons Board?

Some people want Al jean dead (different thread recently).

has anyone noticed we're talking about a TV show here?

[D'ohmer]

Some people want Al jean dead (different thread recently).

Hate his era if you want, but wishing for his death over a TV SHOW really crosses the line.

[Jesse Pinkman]

exactly the point i was trying to make.

[Capt Hammer]

Fun Fact #436: The No Homers Club is modelled after the KKK messageboard, the only difference being that "No Homers Club" has replaced "kill all blacks"


Too far?

[merzitar]

Wishing he was dead is just silly and immature. I personally love a lot of Al Jean episodes.

[Magnum]

wait, the middle is a good show? that one with patricia heaton?

[raheem]

I take offense to the suggestion in this thread title, at least storm front has the common decency to not openly share porn

[The Sovereign]

We don't want Al Jean dead, we just want him to go back to Africa

[Snaked]

What about Russia?

[Dark Homer]

well if you want to get all racist about it

[Mt. Doom]

Being from the South, I wholeheartedly approve of this thread

[thugie]

To me the cranked up pacing of the show doesn't help it. That's why I prefer the early seasons. Though I have been enjoying more of the recent episodes.