More of a King of the Hill kind of guy myself. Now that cartoons is underrated. Of course I also liked the first season of ‘Drawn Together’ and I fully admit that might be one of the dumbest shows ever.

Family Guy makes me laugh, the SImpsons does not.

there’s a solid market for gimmick humor, something to be enjoyed about pop culture references, and most importantly, not enough solid esoteric abstraction out there.

Family Guy is NOT a fad. It is a show that can always continue to keep giving, as long as there is pop culture available to reference… last I checked, pop culture continues to shock and amaze, so the well still has solid springwater bubbling.

That being said, Simpsons is the standard bearer, and you can make a debate is one of the greatest SHOWS ever, period— not simply animated. Of course, the fact that the characters are cartoons means they don’t age, the actors don’t get tired and want to flex in other areas or worry about getting typecast, and it is simply a creative genius that found the perfect niche.

but for some reason Family Guy still gets me to consistently laugh. Maybe it’s just the overall absurdity and randomness of it all.

That may be but guess what. Family Guy is still the only show ever to be canceled and then brought back by popular demand.

Simpsons was funny when Conan O’Brien was a writer. Now the Simpsons just suck.

family Guy and SouthPark are still the leaders of the comedic cartoons hands down.

They both pull no punches with their jokes and both spare no culture, religion, race, creed, sexual preference etc from their esoteric abstractions…

Family Guy appealed to me more than the Simpsons did.

Plus, Stewie is the greatest cartoon character ever created. Ever.

Funny too, because I thought that it would look ridiculous if I misspelled his name and even ran the right spelling through a search engine to be humble, and yet!

Ike as Michael Jackson was incredible.

As much as I laughed when we found out who the “problem” was for the other ghosts in purgatory, the rest of the episode just blows. The Chipotle gags were incredibly flat.

Not their best episode.

thanks, all of you

I just thought it was a giant non-homophobic penis with a crook to the left, didn’t even see the stick figure at first. Honestly, I thought like Fearless Frog, it had something to do with another bet against SF fans or some such.

ripped your joke and changed the delivery.

Just hit the rec button and continue.

But like Pip said it doesn’t add anything – Plus if the comment was good enough to Rec in the first place you must have a reason. Giving your reason why could spawn a hilarious/constructive subthread

average 23mpg … oh yeah. saving the world one car ride at a time.

Can I have some too?

I’m cool with that if you are, as for Brian and his stop thing I don’t really care enough about a membership on a free blog to stop if I think I’m right about a matter I will speak my mind.

That said I respect what you guys do and I don’t need to tell people to burn I got a bit worked up sorry if I offended you or anyone else.

As for political posts I won’t go there unless it’s brought up by staff if I see someone else bring it up I’ll just report it because I believe doesn’t belong here.

I do my best man but if it’s not good enough please flag it for deletion if it does not make sense.

I believe what’s important to one person, doesn’t need to be important to everybody to be a valid issue.

I also believe that both moderating a forum, and participating in that same forum, is not an easy task at times. After being metaphorically “pimp-slapped” by BrianL for calling this place a “forum” last year, I decided to study-up blog architecture (I promise I’ll never call a comment a post again). I designed, and have been running my own blog (non-football) for about 6 months now as a mod, and participant. I’m only getting about 900 comments per day at this point (far less than this site I’m sure), but can assure you that the time investment can be very prohibitive to self moderation.

That having been said, John does a pretty good job here of letting water flow under the bridge. I have never sensed a super-ego from his having the “GOD CONTROLS” at his disposal.

The one thing I have learned, is that when 2 people agree to disagree, apologize for any misunderstandings, and move on… in a strange way, it seems to build a better relationship for having waged the war and lived to tell about it.

For what its worth…

PS: John what plugin gives you the “new” comment functionality. I assume the plugin works off a cookie, but I can’t think of the proper query to search for it.