American Dad

[Bostana]

How many of you watch American Dad?

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[JustMovement]

Nah- family guy had its moments though, i remember when it came out and i was 12 i laughed till i cried i dont care if its badly drawn and derivative

[Nox]

Its shit so is family guy SOUTH PARK 4 LIFE!!!1111111111111111

[Blake's Baby]

Guys, Family Guy is the Simpsons with fart jokes. American Dad is a huge satire on the whole military-industrial complex.

[NewLeft]

I don't get the jokes? Nevermind, I never laugh. lol

[eyeheartlenin]

I can't stand Family Guy; the episodes depend on constant flashbacks that merely confirm that Peter G is, sadly, very limited as regards intelligence. How many times does that point need to be made, per twenty-two-minute episode? The show is a one-trick pony that ran out of steam a long time ago. Boring, repetitious and offensive, after a while.

In contrast, American Dad is really quite funny; in an episode this week, the hyper US chauvinist CIA agent was yelling, "Paddington Bear, die in an alley," which had us in stitches.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I don't like pretty much anything Seth MacFarlane has been involved in creating.

[Ele'ill]

None of those types of shows are funny.

[Bostana]

None of those types of shows are funny.

Seriously?

Seriously?

[NoOneIsIllegal]

"Osama, is that you?"

[Leonid Brozhnev]

All these shows are quickly running out or have run out of steam, American Dad may be the only one that still has funny bits in it, but I don't find Family Guy, South Park or the Simpsons funny anymore. Futurama has it's moments, the new series was disappointing though.

[Quail]

American Dad is okay actually, I quite like it.
Family Guy is pretty terrible though. The writing is just so lazy and a lot of the jokes are quite offensive.

[The Douche]

I voted for each option, because sometimes I watch it, which means that I do watch it, but it also means that I don't watch it.

[Agent Ducky]

I've only watched the communist episode (with Sergei the former KGB agent) and I found it amusing.

[ColonelCossack]

Its shit so is family guy SOUTH PARK 4 LIFE!!!1111111111111111

yeah this a bit.



Anyway, why do you ask?

[Bostana]

yeah this a bit.



Anyway, why do you ask?

EHH, I thought it would be fun to ask this question on a Leftist sight. I mean American Dad does mock and make fun of Right Wing programs.

[Искра]

None of those types of shows are funny.
This.

[MarxSchmarx]

American dad fails on many levels, but it is perhaps to its credit one of the most politically engaged television show that isn't a talk show.

Indeed, American dad captured a certain Zeitgeist in America around 2003-2007, after GW Bush was triumphant electorally and everything that was desperately dysfunctional about American "liberal democracy" with its supposedly deep divide between devout right-wingers and everyone else.

Fortunately that moment has largely passed. Bush-era rabid rightwing proto-fascism has been so thoroughly discredited and transmogrified in the popular imagination into the irrelevant joke that is the tea party. It may still have some ability to bring the country down with it, but I think the worst of this authoritarian strain of American conservatism won't be able to replicate the tremendous reach of the bush years of the early 2000s for some time. American dad satirized the sort of reflexive neocon/neoliberal synthesis and its symbols (glib jingoism, blond wife, black suvs, flag pins) that appeared dominant but have since been largely abandoned. This reactionary euphoria, which was funded by the real estate bubble and the explosion of bedroom communities like the kind that the show takes place in, has since largely vanished.

That's also why American dad's protagonist has shifted from the father to the alien character. It also gives the show something of a dated quality, and its attempts to move beyond the 2003-2007 have been IMO rather mixed, but I think its nakedly political satire may yet prove a successful draw.

[Ostrinski]

Shit sucks. I hate TV.

[Grenzer]

I haven't watched TV in like fifteen years.

[The Old Man from Scene 24]

Family Guy: The first few seasons were funny, when it was mostly composed of practical jokes. Now it's humor has switched to offensive topics with sad stories.

American Dad: Entertaining, but not something I like to watch on a regular basis.

Futurama: I don't watch it much, but the ones that I have seen are funny.

The Simpsons: Probably the only adult cartoon that has kept its steam. It came out in 1985 and I still think it's funny and creative.

South Park: It's somewhat funny, but I pretty much always disagree with the 'morals' that they have at the end of their episodes. I also think that Matt Stone and Trey Parker are shitheads in real life.

[MarxSchmarx]

South Park: It's somewhat funny, but I pretty much always disagree with the 'morals' that they have at the end of their episodes. I also think that Matt Stone and Trey Parker are shitheads in real life.

My main problem with south park is the same problem I have with that other American hit King of the Hill show. I think South Park's writing is quite clever. But it is just that - clever, not funny. THe movie had its moments, but I cannot say I find most episodes even remotely comedic. They are somewhat forced and frankly lame, but I do recognize that the writers have a way with words. South Park can work, as does every show, but in my view relies too much on wit, which is much better conveyed in other media.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I only watch those shows when I am sick (like after a surgery) and on some real-shit medication. That is the only way I can stand them. In reality, I think FOX News makes me laugh more than Family Guy or American Dad. Im a super cool nerd :cool:. lol

[Princess Luna]

My views on animated adult comedy shows
God Tier
Archer
Robot Chicken
South Park
King of the Hill
Demi-God Tier
South Park
American Dad
Mortal Tier
South Park
family guy
Something less then mortal but I am to lazy to come up with a name tier
South Park
The Cleveland brown show
Lowest, most wretched scum, that crawls on the bottom of hell tier
Ugly Americans, was this show cancelled? I hope not, it needs to remain on television as a testament to the lowest television can go in terms of making unfunny sex jokes

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

My views on animated adult comedy shows
God Tier
Archer
Robot Chicken
South Park
King of the Hill
Demi-God Tier
South Park
American Dad
Mortal Tier
South Park
family guy
Something less then mortal but I am to lazy to come up with a name tier
South Park
The Cleveland brown show
Lowest, most wretched scum, that crawls on the bottom of hell tier
Ugly Americans, was this show cancelled? I hope not, it needs to remain on television as a testament to the lowest television can go in terms of making unfunny sex jokes

Why is South Park like in all the tiers. Is it just that cool? Oh, and I forgot to mention that I can stand South Park and actually enjoy it.

[Princess Luna]

Why is South Park like in all the tiers. Is it just that cool? Oh, and I forgot to mention that I can stand South Park and actually enjoy it.
Because some episodes are epic (scott tenorman must die,), some episodes are really good (The death of Eric Cartman) some episodes are alright (Manbearpig) some episodes suck (Britney's New Look) and some episodes are painful (The China Problem)

[ComradeGrant]

Fuck yeah man, Archer's the shit.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Its shit so is family guy SOUTH PARK 4 LIFE!!!1111111111111111

...Tell me you're joking. They have a couple of good episodes, but a lot of them are just reactionary political messages, and some toilet humour thrown in now and again.

Don't get me wrong, watch whatever you want, but...South Park? Why?

[Bilan]

...Tell me you're joking. They have a couple of good episodes, but a lot of them are just reactionary political messages, and some toilet humour thrown in now and again.

Don't get me wrong, watch whatever you want, but...South Park? Why?

Which episodes have reactionary political messages?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Which episodes have reactionary political messages?

I remember one episode when the boys were touring a cigarette factory the guide talked to them about how slaves were brought in to help harvest the tobacco crop and eric said,"...so if it wasn't for tabacco we wouldn't have any of our African friends!" Justifying the slave trade and the death sticks all in one stroke, fucking gross.

[Bilan]

I remember one episode when the boys were touring a cigarette factory the guide talked to them about how slaves were brought in to help harvest the tobacco crop and eric said,"...so if it wasn't for tabacco we wouldn't have any of our African friends!" Justifying the slave trade and the death sticks all in one stroke, fucking gross.

You honesty think they were justifying the slave trade? Think about that. 400 years of slavery justified for cigarettes. Said by cartman, a character who is notorious for his chauvinism and his crass opinions.

Edit: not every line from a show is a literal idea held by the authors. Otherwise south park also supports gettin testicular cancer so one is able to get pot legally.

[thriller]

Never liked American Dad, kinda liked Family Guy. Prefer Home Movies or 12oz Mouse for 'adult' cartoons.

[Landsharks eat metal]

Which episodes have reactionary political messages?

I love South Park, but I couldn't watch the entirety of the episode "Mister Garrison's Fancy New Vagina". It seemed really kind of transphobic (and not just in the way they make fun of everything on that show, because everything about transgender people seemed to be a joke), but it could be that I'm just a bit too sensitive about things like that.

[Bilan]

I love South Park, but I couldn't watch the entirety of the episode "Mister Garrison's Fancy New Vagina". It seemed really kind of transphobic (and not just in the way they make fun of everything on that show, because everything about transgender people seemed to be a joke), but it could be that I'm just a bit too sensitive about things like that.

I think that episode is more about how revolting Mr. Garrison is - his way of 'being a woman' is an embodiment of what a chauvinistic male thinks they would do if they were a male.

[Raúl Duke]

I sometimes watch American Dad, as well as South Park and Futurama.
I prefer American Dad over Family Guy; part of it has to do with that "zeitgeist" that MarxSchmarx mentions.

[Luc]

Anything with Jon Benjamin I'll watch his voice is win. I wish I had it:wub:
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Also on the topic of Ugly Americans it's coming back on in March I think :unsure: