But since he is a cartoonist who did make it to the top from the ground up (he got his start making crudely animated student films from his college, just like Judge Parker and Stone, etc.), shouldn’t this be a cause for celebration?
Kevin: Seth McFarlane is a CARTOONIST ?????????????? LOL !!!!!!!!!!! Sorry I have to say this but this shit makes me sick. The emperor of hacks gets a multi million dollar because he rips off pop culture reference from the eighties.
Isn’t that the truth? If that’s the truth, then this guy I talked to is going to make millions, whilst I starve on the street. He actually said this: “It lacks construction because thats the way I want it. Just look at todays best cartoons like Family Guy, The Simpsons, and SouthPark.”
Is this the apocalpyse of real animation or what? Okay, I’m exaggerating quite a bit there, but seriously? What a hack (though the Larry and Steve pilots were okay). Enough said.
(PC is right. He made it this far just by adding lame pop culture references from random decades, and not to mention lame(er) dialogue)
Errggghhhh!!!!!! Family Guy’s success DOES make me sick! It’s the most uncreative, vapidly-written, unintelligent, COMPLETELY devoid of any humor whatsoever TV show on the entire planet (with the possibly exception of American Dad but that’s ANOTHER Seth MacFarlane show) but when will people finally wake up from their coma and realize that already?! I can’t for the life of me begin to fathom what it is that draws people toward FG when there isn’t the slightest thing appealing, interesting, or entertaining about the entire show.
Four more years???? I don’t think manatees writers can live in a portable tank for that long (sorry for the “South Park” reference there. I kinda like that sick show.).
“Fox is the only TV home MacFarlane has ever known.”
Suddenly, his work at Cartoon Network is no longer valid. :(
“But since he is a cartoonist who did make it to the top from the ground up (he got his start making crudely animated student films from his college, just like Judge Parker and Stone, etc.), shouldn’t this be a cause for celebration?”
I’d be a LOT more enthusiastic more about this news if Family Guy wasn’t sucking so much these days.
“Was it ever ? Sure, it didn’t suck like Family Guy but that dose not give him credibilty.”
I would say it does. As we saw on Larry & Steve and Dexter’s Lab, Seth does not need pop culture rips and shock for its own sake to write good stuff. His comedic timing was what made his early work so awesome.
“I would say it does. As we saw on Larry & Steve and Dexter’s Lab, Seth does not need pop culture rips and shock for its own sake to write good stuff. His comedic timing was what made his early work so awesome.”
I don’t think his early work really is that good. It just looks better because Family Guy is such a horrible show
Yeah his art stinks, and the show is mostly a collection of random pop culture references. But he still has a great ear for dialog and the show is freakin’ hilarious.
Seth McFarlane does his own thing & I think that’s great. Not every cartoon has to be Fantasia or The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, nor does all humor have to be on par with S.J. Perlman or Robert Benchley to be funny. Family Guy doesn’t raise the level of animation any more than The 3 Stooges (big fan) raised the level of comedy.
As Joel McCrea comes to realize at the end of Sullivan’s Travels, making people laugh & forget their troubles for a few minutes ain’t a bad thing, which is what McFarlane is doing very successfully.
MacFarlane is the biggest hack in the industry today. Bland character designs, lame writing, bad voice acting. Even The Simpsons at its worst at least has a great cast.
There’s starving people in the world, and he’s getting millions for ‘jokes’ that require you to have done nothing but watch TV in the 80s to get? I have a feeling fans are going to be really embarrassed by the show in ten years from now.
BTW, how many times a day is Family Guy now? The last time I counted, five here in Pittsburgh.
Also I wonder how badly this is going to blow up in their faces. Brainless frat boys are not completely brainless, eventually they’re going to realize that the show is not so slowly turning into a purer form crap. And the Cleveland Show is bound to fail I bet. I used to watch Family Guy and I never could see anyone giving a fuck about him at all.
As Joel McCrea comes to realize at the end of Sullivan’s Travels, making people laugh & forget their troubles for a few minutes ain’t a bad thing, which is what McFarlane is doing very successfully.
Art is partly a dietary exercise. The common man may not really care about Foie Gras or 18 year old scotch, but that doesn’t mean he should be served an artificially flavored burger made of cow shit, congealed trans fat in the shape of fries and water colored like beer with bum piss.
You miss the point that Sullivan’s Travels is movie that tries to be funny but is also art with some integrity and something to bear, Family Guy has neither.
I used to love Family Guy before realised that their art is a pure joke and the writings is completely random. I don’t understand why McFarlane being huge deals when the half of the world is starving and poor.
There’s starving people in the world, and he’s getting millions for ‘jokes’ that require you to have done nothing but watch TV in the 80s to get?
Even then, the jokes are set up and still don’t have punch lines. McFarlane just seems to think the anecdote itself should be funny because he’s making it. I lived through all those 80s references and recognize pretty much every one of them and still don’t find the gag funny.
The funniest joke would be if Seth McFarlane himself said, “I have terminal brain cancer and I will die after the next episode of Family Guy airs” …and was serious. I’d laugh at that. But then again, now that he has millionaire status, all we have to do is wait for another 5 years and he will have succeeded to fry his brain with the same coke he and his team of writers use when they create the show, and will be incapable of authoring an intelligible sentence.
I will admit, the show was funny in its infancy. The humour was razor sharp and the plots had direction. The characters used to have a little bit of depth and the subplots were interesting.
Now it’s nothing but off-the-hand references or long, drawn-out, time-filling sequences with no payoff. Stewie has been turned into a full-fledged homosexual; Meg’s sole purpose is a misogynist’s dumping ground; Chris goes from being and idiot, to brilliant, and back to an idiot again; Brian, well… no longer the ‘uptown’ moral force of the show, he’s more like the uninteresting, transparent, junkie of the show.
Last week’s “new” episode about Peter the Pirate was an outright embarrassment. A room full of animation lovers including myself could barely stand to last out the entire half-hour, a 3rd of which was the empty car chase scene with the Brit. It was painful.
What finally did it for me was the previous episode that featured the live-action segments of McFarlane himself talking to the audience. He revealed himself as a pompous, self-centered arrogant jackass- and when I realized that every joke on that show had become basically the same type of self-righteous, self-validating sophomoric reference, it became clear that this was his way of saying, “HAH, I’m crapping right in your face with this garbage, and you guys are making me millions for doing it.”
And for the last time, McFarlane- pedophiliac jokes featuring that old man ARE NOT FUNNY in any context.
Who brought back FG from the dead? We did. The DVD obsessed public. I never paid much attention to it when it was new, only when it went into syndication. Now it’s influencing my brain like those annoying “pets” of Khan in Star Trek II.
But since he is a cartoonist who did make it to the top from the ground up (he got his start making crudely animated student films from his college, just like Judge Parker and Stone, etc.), shouldn’t this be a cause for celebration?
Kevin: Seth McFarlane is a CARTOONIST ?????????????? LOL !!!!!!!!!!! Sorry I have to say this but this shit makes me sick. The emperor of hacks gets a multi million dollar because he rips off pop culture reference from the eighties.
BTW Kevin Smith was right when said ” In Hollywood, you fail upwards”.
“I’m lucky to be at a place that creatively had been nothing less than 100 percent supportive,”
Too bad that doesn’t apply to the artists on the show too.
“In Hollywood, you fail upwards”
Isn’t that the truth? If that’s the truth, then this guy I talked to is going to make millions, whilst I starve on the street. He actually said this: “It lacks construction because thats the way I want it. Just look at todays best cartoons like Family Guy, The Simpsons, and SouthPark.”
My heart actually skipped a beat.
Is this the apocalpyse of real animation or what? Okay, I’m exaggerating quite a bit there, but seriously? What a hack (though the Larry and Steve pilots were okay). Enough said.
(PC is right. He made it this far just by adding lame pop culture references from random decades, and not to mention lame(er) dialogue)
“Just look at todays best cartoons like Family Guy, The Simpsons, and SouthPark.”
And I thought most of those were animated sitcoms.
Thad, you say you just vomited blood?????
Move over because I’m next!!!!!!!!!!
Errggghhhh!!!!!! Family Guy’s success DOES make me sick! It’s the most uncreative, vapidly-written, unintelligent, COMPLETELY devoid of any humor whatsoever TV show on the entire planet (with the possibly exception of American Dad but that’s ANOTHER Seth MacFarlane show) but when will people finally wake up from their coma and realize that already?! I can’t for the life of me begin to fathom what it is that draws people toward FG when there isn’t the slightest thing appealing, interesting, or entertaining about the entire show.
Urp! [.....] Uh oh, here it goes again….. !
Four more years???? I don’t think manatees writers can live in a portable tank for that long (sorry for the “South Park” reference there. I kinda like that sick show.).
“It lacks construction because thats the way I want it. Just look at todays best cartoons like Family Guy, The Simpsons, and SouthPark.”
I can’t even,just…Jesus.
“Fox is the only TV home MacFarlane has ever known.”
Suddenly, his work at Cartoon Network is no longer valid. :(
“But since he is a cartoonist who did make it to the top from the ground up (he got his start making crudely animated student films from his college, just like Judge Parker and Stone, etc.), shouldn’t this be a cause for celebration?”
I’d be a LOT more enthusiastic more about this news if Family Guy wasn’t sucking so much these days.
“Suddenly, his work at Cartoon Network is no longer valid. :(”
Was it ever ? Sure, it didn’t suck like Family Guy but that dose not give him credibilty.
“Was it ever ? Sure, it didn’t suck like Family Guy but that dose not give him credibilty.”
I would say it does. As we saw on Larry & Steve and Dexter’s Lab, Seth does not need pop culture rips and shock for its own sake to write good stuff. His comedic timing was what made his early work so awesome.
“I would say it does. As we saw on Larry & Steve and Dexter’s Lab, Seth does not need pop culture rips and shock for its own sake to write good stuff. His comedic timing was what made his early work so awesome.”
I don’t think his early work really is that good. It just looks better because Family Guy is such a horrible show
Yeah his art stinks, and the show is mostly a collection of random pop culture references. But he still has a great ear for dialog and the show is freakin’ hilarious.
I love the show. Why all the hate?
Seth McFarlane does his own thing & I think that’s great. Not every cartoon has to be Fantasia or The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, nor does all humor have to be on par with S.J. Perlman or Robert Benchley to be funny. Family Guy doesn’t raise the level of animation any more than The 3 Stooges (big fan) raised the level of comedy.
As Joel McCrea comes to realize at the end of Sullivan’s Travels, making people laugh & forget their troubles for a few minutes ain’t a bad thing, which is what McFarlane is doing very successfully.
MacFarlane is the biggest hack in the industry today. Bland character designs, lame writing, bad voice acting. Even The Simpsons at its worst at least has a great cast.
There’s starving people in the world, and he’s getting millions for ‘jokes’ that require you to have done nothing but watch TV in the 80s to get? I have a feeling fans are going to be really embarrassed by the show in ten years from now.
BTW, how many times a day is Family Guy now? The last time I counted, five here in Pittsburgh.
WE HAVE WEIRD SHIT NEXT TO OUR POSTS!!!!
Also I wonder how badly this is going to blow up in their faces. Brainless frat boys are not completely brainless, eventually they’re going to realize that the show is not so slowly turning into a purer form crap. And the Cleveland Show is bound to fail I bet. I used to watch Family Guy and I never could see anyone giving a fuck about him at all.
As Joel McCrea comes to realize at the end of Sullivan’s Travels, making people laugh & forget their troubles for a few minutes ain’t a bad thing, which is what McFarlane is doing very successfully.
Art is partly a dietary exercise. The common man may not really care about Foie Gras or 18 year old scotch, but that doesn’t mean he should be served an artificially flavored burger made of cow shit, congealed trans fat in the shape of fries and water colored like beer with bum piss.
You miss the point that Sullivan’s Travels is movie that tries to be funny but is also art with some integrity and something to bear, Family Guy has neither.
I used to love Family Guy before realised that their art is a pure joke and the writings is completely random. I don’t understand why McFarlane being huge deals when the half of the world is starving and poor.
Like in Quebec tough!
“BTW, how many times a day is Family Guy now? The last time I counted, five here in Pittsburgh.”
Up to six, sometimes ten here.
“But he still has a great ear for dialog”
What ? Rambling ?
There’s starving people in the world, and he’s getting millions for ‘jokes’ that require you to have done nothing but watch TV in the 80s to get?
Even then, the jokes are set up and still don’t have punch lines. McFarlane just seems to think the anecdote itself should be funny because he’s making it. I lived through all those 80s references and recognize pretty much every one of them and still don’t find the gag funny.
The funniest joke would be if Seth McFarlane himself said, “I have terminal brain cancer and I will die after the next episode of Family Guy airs” …and was serious. I’d laugh at that. But then again, now that he has millionaire status, all we have to do is wait for another 5 years and he will have succeeded to fry his brain with the same coke he and his team of writers use when they create the show, and will be incapable of authoring an intelligible sentence.
I will admit, the show was funny in its infancy. The humour was razor sharp and the plots had direction. The characters used to have a little bit of depth and the subplots were interesting.
Now it’s nothing but off-the-hand references or long, drawn-out, time-filling sequences with no payoff. Stewie has been turned into a full-fledged homosexual; Meg’s sole purpose is a misogynist’s dumping ground; Chris goes from being and idiot, to brilliant, and back to an idiot again; Brian, well… no longer the ‘uptown’ moral force of the show, he’s more like the uninteresting, transparent, junkie of the show.
Last week’s “new” episode about Peter the Pirate was an outright embarrassment. A room full of animation lovers including myself could barely stand to last out the entire half-hour, a 3rd of which was the empty car chase scene with the Brit. It was painful.
What finally did it for me was the previous episode that featured the live-action segments of McFarlane himself talking to the audience. He revealed himself as a pompous, self-centered arrogant jackass- and when I realized that every joke on that show had become basically the same type of self-righteous, self-validating sophomoric reference, it became clear that this was his way of saying, “HAH, I’m crapping right in your face with this garbage, and you guys are making me millions for doing it.”
And for the last time, McFarlane- pedophiliac jokes featuring that old man ARE NOT FUNNY in any context.
Rant over.
Who brought back FG from the dead? We did. The DVD obsessed public. I never paid much attention to it when it was new, only when it went into syndication. Now it’s influencing my brain like those annoying “pets” of Khan in Star Trek II.