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Old 11-04-2008, 10:06 PM   #41
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So will this new Cleveland family also be popping up in Family Guy...? is it set in the future (knowingly) from the time period occupied by Family Guy...? will Cleveland no longer appear in FG...?

Not that I'd care if he didn't because he's a nothing character whose basic premise for years was how boring he was, and now they think 'let's take the boring black guy and give him his own show'. White middle-class scribes writing black shows featuring black characters does not work.

Anybody who has seen BBC's The Croutches in the UK will vouch for that. Britain's "first black sitcom" (which it wasn't), written by the white, Scottish creator of Rab C. Nesbitt.
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Old 11-05-2008, 12:32 PM   #42
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Family Guy is oversaturating. It's something The Simpsons never did, despite their much larger popularity. There were never spinoffs (aside fromt he genius spinoff showcase episode mocking stuff like this.)
There wasn't even a "sister" show until over 10 years later when they brough Futurama in. Aside from animation style it wasn't the same at all. Family Guy and American Dad are very similar in almost every aspect. Basically it's a rehash, and has the same style of writing and humor.

Family Guy, and it's spinoffs, don't have much depth to character or humor past the pop culture references and "ballsy" taboo stuff.

It has gotten old fast, and I think soon the fad will die.
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Old 11-05-2008, 01:08 PM   #43
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wow of all characters to spin off... cleveland

i had to do a google search to make sure he was the character i was thinking of when i read the name, just because of how ridiculous this choice is.. and i watch family guy a lot ... that's how much of an impression that character leaves on me -.-
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Old 11-05-2008, 04:23 PM   #44
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Wasn't The Critic a Simpsons spin-off/sister show?
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Old 11-05-2008, 04:33 PM   #45
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The people that created it were writers for the Simpsons Gracie Films produced it. Jay Sherman was in an episode of the Simpsons, but that was more like a cross-over/guest spot. So no, and sort of.
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Old 11-05-2008, 08:04 PM   #46
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It wasn't. Just because he appeared on the Simpsons doesn't matter. Plus people in animation work all over the place.
It wasn't a spinoff from the animation style, or the actual "universe", nor the overall creator Matt Groening.

The King of the Hill cast made a brief cameo on an episode of the Simpsons. Some of the writers may have bounced around too. Not a spinoff.
By that logic Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien is a spinoff of The Simpsons
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Old 11-05-2008, 08:41 PM   #47
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No, an animation from the head writers of The Simpsons, produced by the same studio as The Simpsons, featuring a character who also appeared in The Simpsons, concurrently running alongside The Simpsons... certainly not a spin-off, but a sister show wouldn't be a far out description for it.
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Old 11-05-2008, 08:46 PM   #48
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On a semi-related note, I never realized how short The Critic's run actually was. Only 23 episodes.
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Old 11-05-2008, 08:48 PM   #49
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It had its moments, definitely a precursor to the cut-scene style of humour later "borrowed" by Family Guy, but it was pretty boring overall too. I have all the shows, and enjoy watching them because there are a few good laughs in each episode, but I can't get anybody else into it, because it really is rather boring to just sit and watch.
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That is what I was getting at. I would call them sister shows in the same sense that Full House and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper were sister shows. They had the same creator and they were paired together on TGIF night. And it is a different scenario for Jay Sherman to appear than Conan O' Brian. One is a guest character, one is a guest star. Now we're talking cross-overs.
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It had its moments, definitely a precursor to the cut-scene style of humour later "borrowed" by Family Guy, but it was pretty boring overall too. I have all the shows, and enjoy watching them because there are a few good laughs in each episode, but I can't get anybody else into it, because it really is rather boring to just sit and watch.
That is the same problem with Duckman. Sometimes it is really funny, sometimes it is terrible.
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And it is a different scenario for Jay Sherman to appear than Conan O' Brian. One is a guest character, one is a guest star. Now we're talking cross-overs.
I think Conan used to write for the Simpsons. That's what he was getting at.
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Oh, I thought he meant the time Conan was actually on.
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Old 11-06-2008, 12:42 AM   #54
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No he wrote, and so did some of his writers
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This I realize, however, I was not thinking on that wavelength.
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Old 11-06-2008, 01:03 AM   #56
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You need to start thinking outside the bun
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