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:	post by xmikex at 2009-03-18 12:08:48

This argument is useless, and let me explain why.

You never hear anyone make an argument about which sitcom was funnier between I Love Lucy and Seinfeld. Partially because Seinfeld was hilarious and I Love Lucy was fucking stupid. BUT MOSTLY because the two are from two very different time periods and both did huge things with their representative era.

The Simpsons is still making new episodes, so you might conclude that Family Guy and the Simpsons are of the same point in time, and should be pitted against eachother. However, any real Simpsons fan knows that the show being prostituted as "The Simpsons" in 2009 is total sham.

The last season of the Simpsons that I recognize as true Simpsons is season 9 which began in September of 1997 and ended in March of 1998. This episodes were still funny but included some foreshadowing of what would eventually be the shit show we know in present day. Family Guy made it's debut in January of 1999. The Simpson's was a washed up pile of turds by then, and was dragging Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger into an episode just to fill out the empty dead humorless space. There were talks of pulling the plug on the show, but producers saw the kind of advertising dollars in brought in and low overhead it commanded and continued it for another depressing decade.

While the Simpsons was dying out, South Park picked up the slack. South Park knew that the Simpsons had paved the way for them, and that no matter what they'd be stepping on Matt Groening's toes. They embraced it (as demonstrated by the "Simpson's did it" episode). Family Guy was on the same network with a similar family setup, and a similar premise so retards everywhere insisted that the two had to be jockeying for a throne that didn't exist.

And for those of you who insist on comparing the two, Family Guy may be more random and edgy, but the character development in The Simpsons is something that Family Guy could never (IMO) figure out how to top.

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