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How is Family Guy more insulting than South Park?
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Family Guy is insulting to specific groups that, in today's world, probably deserve it. When it's insulting to anyone else, it's obviously done as a joke and the character responsible for the joke gets what's coming to them. Or they live happily ever after, ironically (hopefully viewers understand that when it happens).
South Park's messages are more brash. More brutal. Lacking in subtlety. Even if there's something good to be heard, there are more entertaining ways to hear it out there. Family Guy does a better job while still keeping the raunchiness at a healthy level.
All IMO, of course.
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South Park takes a tough subject, lays it out in every horrible way, and then brings it back to show you the truth about it.
Like the Timmy 2000 episode. It spends most of it laughing at Timmy, and his mental condition, and then finally at the end, brings a point to the whole thing.
Family Guy takes a tough subject matter, throws it into a 30 second joke for shock value, and that's it. It's mean spirited.
Like the Michael J Fox Zorro gag. What the ____ is that? That's just mean spirited nasty humor. For no reason. It's just not funny.
If you want to go there, you better have a point. I just can't stand the places that show goes. It's just nasty and mean for the sake of it. In small doses, it's funny...but when that's your whole show....eh.
I miss 1999's Family Guy.
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That's just not true though. South Park is almost ALL subtle.
Family Guy is about as subtle as running you over with a car.
And do tell me how Michael J Fox deserves that Zorro gag? What has he ever done?
Here's one '90s show that I really loved and miss like all hell:
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thenammagazine
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Still sounds more painful than a 30-second gag.
Similar to your inability to sit through a Family Guy episode, I'd find it hard to wade through thirty minutes of horror only for a bow to be hurriedly tied at the end just to make the whole episode okay. Gratification comes sooner with Family Guy for me. At least when they do something mean-spirited, you get another joke almost instantly to wash the taste of the previous one away. With South Park, I stew...
Eh, to each their own.
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100% of the reason I watch Family Guy is because of Stewie and Bryan.
South Park is hit-or-miss and always has been to me, but it does succeed on some levels. The completely random, usually potty humor of Family Guy never really did much for me, though I'll usually get a few laughs in any given episode. They brought Flint from GI Joe in for one bit, so it's hard not to have some appreciation for that.
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I love Family Guy. I used to watch the Simpsons a lot as a kid, so I suppose it's only natural that I gravitated toward Family Guy as an adult.
Can't ****ing stand South Park though. It's not so much the humor, but the entire show, to be honest. I used to like it back in its inception. I didn't stick with it for very long though. Hell, I lasted longer with Beavis and Butthead and that show was about nothing but two ******* dicking around. However, that said, I'll watch both of those shows over the garbage Tim and Eric produces any day of the week!
Can't ****ing stand South Park though. It's not so much the humor, but the entire show, to be honest. I used to like it back in its inception. I didn't stick with it for very long though. Hell, I lasted longer with Beavis and Butthead and that show was about nothing but two ******* dicking around. However, that said, I'll watch both of those shows over the garbage Tim and Eric produces any day of the week!
I really wish they got their own spin off,
they are easily the best and the funniest part of the show, I used to watch of for them too,
but i really hate that show
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Irvy
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South park and family guy are both trash. Simpsons ftw
Although the newer stuff is really going downhill
Although the newer stuff is really going downhill
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I'll kind of give you that. I wish Stewie would go back to being that mad scientist, rather then the weird gay baby. Or they could have both.
And Brian is OK, but the political stuff is meh.
Their characters are funny, at least. I can't stand Peter and his "Meg is a nasty *****" thing. It's really ****ed up. But not ****ed up HA HA, but just...horrible and very sad,
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South park and family guy are both trash. Simpsons ftw
Simpsons is trash now. And has been for years. So was that movie.
But back on topic, why do all the great 90's shows fail to miss the point of life?
DarthBakura
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Uhh, the entire family is against Meg, lol. She's the outcast.
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I love the Home Alone episode.
"Mom! Dad! Chris! Dog! Bryan!"
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Uhh, the entire family is against Meg, lol. She's the outcast.
It's so mean spirited. I hate it.
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I think it's funny. And this coming from the black sheep of my immediate family.
There's aspects to every show that aren't likable. For me, Family Guy, and the Simpsons in it's prime, have less of those. I've tried to watch South Park, after their initial rise, and I just can't do it. It's because I can't sit through an entire episode. Some of their jokes are funny and relevant, but the way they often handle them is "not my thing." Neither is Tim and Eric, but then again, their stuff is just downright chaotic idiocy.
There's aspects to every show that aren't likable. For me, Family Guy, and the Simpsons in it's prime, have less of those. I've tried to watch South Park, after their initial rise, and I just can't do it. It's because I can't sit through an entire episode. Some of their jokes are funny and relevant, but the way they often handle them is "not my thing." Neither is Tim and Eric, but then again, their stuff is just downright chaotic idiocy.
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