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Family Guy Vs. Futurama - Page 3

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Fuu
Profile Joined May 2006
198 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-04-20 09:26:44
April 20 2007 09:25 GMT
#41
On April 20 2007 18:06 CharlieMurphy wrote:
I'm seriously trying to watch these with an open mind the only thing that got me to laugh was when fry shot the cyclops guy.


Also what you have to understand is that futurama is not made only to make you laugh. Watching a random episode, I rarely laugh my ass off, but I enjoy it so much for a thousand of other reasons. Don't get me wrong, it's funny as hell but not in the same sense, like others explained before. So if you try to compare them on a pure "laughing" sense, maybe you will prefer FG, especially if you feel the humour in it more reachable.

I strongly recommend you to watch full episodes of futurama to really appreciate it, not only pieces on youtube. It is pure brilliance.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-04-20 09:29:15
April 20 2007 09:27 GMT
#42
On April 20 2007 18:25 Fuu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 20 2007 18:06 CharlieMurphy wrote:
I'm seriously trying to watch these with an open mind the only thing that got me to laugh was when fry shot the cyclops guy.


Also what you have to understand is that futurama is not made only to make you laugh. Watching a random episode, I rarely laugh my ass of, but I enjoy it so much for a thousand of other reasons. Don't get me wrong, it's funny as hell but not in the same sense, like other explained before. So if you try to compare them on a pure "laughing" sense, maybe you will prefer FG, especially if you feel the humour in it more reachable.




I strongly recommend you to watch full episodes of futurama to really appreciate it, not only pieces on youtube. It is pure brilliance.

No, because
On April 20 2007 18:25 SpArK wrote:
Futurama is boring.


The main character is annoying and predictable.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
HeMaN
Profile Joined October 2002
275 Posts
April 20 2007 09:28 GMT
#43
Futurama by far, it's so underrated.

lately family guy been sucking hard, actually I don't think i've ever REALLY enjoyed family guy. reminds me of early south park where all they did was to buy laughs with profanity and fart jokes. gets old fast.

simpsons been improving, i've really enjoyed the last couple of ep's. also south park is on a roll

I still think futurama is the best animated sit com ever
QuietIdiot
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
7004 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-04-20 09:30:28
April 20 2007 09:29 GMT
#44
O yeah? Dave Chapelle's black blind dude as white supremacist > all.
Greatest skit on TV.

Referring to Charlie

Futurama and Family guy are different. Don't compare, they excel at their own categories.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
April 20 2007 09:30 GMT
#45
On April 20 2007 18:29 QuietIdiot wrote:
O yeah? Dave Chapelle's black blind dude as white supremacist > all.
Greatest skit on TV.

Yea, thats funny but thats neither here nor there.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Vin{MBL}
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
5185 Posts
April 20 2007 09:31 GMT
#46
mwhahahwhahawhah my vote for family guy balanced the scales~!!!!!!!!!!!!

^_^
IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32275 Posts
April 20 2007 09:34 GMT
#47
How can this be tied.

GO FAMILY GUY
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GrandInquisitor *
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
New York City13113 Posts
April 20 2007 09:40 GMT
#48
On April 20 2007 18:27 CharlieMurphy wrote:
No, because
Show nested quote +
On April 20 2007 18:25 SpArK wrote:
Futurama is boring.


The main character is annoying and predictable.


Cause Peter Griffin isn't predictable. Oh no, never. Sometimes he's a fat alcoholic misogynistic mean father that learns his lesson in the end, and sometimes he's an unemployed fat alcoholic misogynistic mean father that learns his lesson in the end! And don't forget that episode - the Beautiful People's Club - where he becomes THIN and alcoholic and misogynistic and a mean father that learns his lesson in the end! God Family Guy has such great storylines. They even dovetailed that episode really well and totally did not have a copout ending. People fall into giant vats of lard after liposuction and return to their original appearance all the time.)
What fun is it being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero?
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
April 20 2007 09:41 GMT
#49
On April 20 2007 17:39 QuietIdiot wrote:
family = random ass events with random ass references to movies, music, and culture from the 80's and early 90's.

Futurama is the kind of funny not the type of Family Guy. It has a plot, it has moments of clever-ness, and I think it's fair to say, they have a finer sense of articulation, that makes it so much more entertaining on a whole.

You can watch futurama episodes over and over again and never get old with it, but with family guy, the funny only lasts a few tens of times watching it, and then your rearing to watch for new episodes.
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Blind
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States2528 Posts
April 20 2007 09:46 GMT
#50
Futurama is my vote. Family Guy has gotten repetitive after all these years. I used to love it but now it's gotten incoherent trying to be too funny. Some of Futurama's episodes are amazingly creative and funny. The later episodes were really good as well.

One of my favorites is the one where Fry was put into a coma by a bee sting. Anyone else remember that episode? What did you think of it?
GrandInquisitor *
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
New York City13113 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-04-20 09:50:11
April 20 2007 09:48 GMT
#51
Look, CharlieMurphy, I'm not saying Family Guy isn't funny. It's got the best one-liners of any show I can remember for a long time, and like I've said over and over again, it's really good for quoting and showing YouTube clips of.

But for the love of Christ don't attribute it qualities it doesn't have. It doesn't have a great storyline. It doesn't have great characters. What it has (had) is (was) good writing, and that made up for everything else and excused the cheesy plot devices and one-dimensional characters. (Now, of course, without the good writing it's painful to watch.)

Enjoying Futurama isn't about quoting it (though it does have great moments - see the Top 25 Futurama Moments. I don't really agree with the list, but the top 4 are definitely so true), it's about just having fun with the episode overall. It draws you in like a good book and keeps you entertained throughout with a sort of off-the-wall wry humor. And it's indisputably the better show on non-comedic merits - it goes for multi-episode story arcs (one in particular stretches from the very first episode, where a strange shadow is indicative of a plot element two seasons later), character development that make you, for example, really relate to Fry's never-ending quest for Leela and root for him, and evokes a wider range of emotions - the ending of Jurassic Bark (the dog and the pizzeria episode) or the one with Fry's brother and Mars represent moments that Family Guy never even tries for. The depth of the show is what really makes me love it more than Family Guy on the whole.

What fun is it being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero?
QuietIdiot
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
7004 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-04-20 09:56:53
April 20 2007 09:50 GMT
#52
BTW I hear they're making a new season of futurama soon. WHEN DOES IT COME OUT?

And yes that episode where Fry is put into a coma was deeply engaging. Very rare for a cartoon to do that to me.

On a very random note, I love Robot Chicken, anyone know what that is? Its on the same category as Family guy :D

{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
April 20 2007 09:53 GMT
#53
Straight to DVD movies, think they will just separate them and make them as episodes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama:_Bender's_Big_Score
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Newbistic
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
China2912 Posts
April 20 2007 09:53 GMT
#54
Family guy's dialogue is a lot better written, but half of Futurama's value is all the little details that are put in to make it seem like "the future."

Voted for Family Guy though, the guys who write it must be geniuses.
Logic is Overrated
QuietIdiot
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
7004 Posts
April 20 2007 09:55 GMT
#55
On April 20 2007 18:53 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Straight to DVD movies, think they will just separate them and make them as episodes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama:_Bender's_Big_Score

nice its coming out december omg~
Blind
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States2528 Posts
April 20 2007 09:59 GMT
#56
Is the poll asking which show is better, or which show is funnier? Because if it's the former, someone could say Family Guy is funnier, but it wouldn't make it the better show of the two.

There are other elements to making a good show besides just throwing in random jokes to make the viewers laugh, such as the ones already mentioned.

Lastly, I think it's a bit easy to be as funny as Family Guy is (or rather, was) when it has virtually no plot. It does whatever it wants, and then ties it all together in the last 5 minutes of the show.

Futurama is slightly ahead in the polls, but there's an overwhelming favor for Family Guy in the replies. Where are all the Futurama fans?
spammerA
Profile Joined July 2006
China355 Posts
April 20 2007 10:00 GMT
#57
On April 20 2007 18:50 QuietIdiot wrote:
BTW I hear they're making a new season of futurama soon. WHEN DOES IT COME OUT?

And yes that episode where Fry is put into a coma was deeply engaging. Very rare for a cartoon to do that to me.

On a very random note, I love Robot Chicken, anyone know what that is? Its on the same category as Family guy :D
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ziP7_0rHLOI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zA64g3pi97M&mode=related&search=


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama#Show_status

13 (or 16 according to fans) new episodes to air in 2008, I hope it gets a better ratings so it doesn't die after that.

Futurama > Family Guy for plot/characters/etc.

Family Guy > Futurama for comical one-liners.

For me Futurama > Family Guy
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
April 20 2007 10:03 GMT
#58
On April 20 2007 18:19 CharlieMurphy wrote:
I'm not gonna argue anymore, I guess we have to 'agree to disagree'. At least I made it clear that family guy is much funnier, and even got you Futurama guys to admit it.

GrandInquisiter- I don't find Futurama funny at all situational or not, I wasn't saying family guy was unique with using dove-tailing or anything, just saying they have plots and some moral value at the end usually.


Uh what? When did we agree that family guy was funnier? I dont remember being part of that vote.

family guy is crap btw
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dronebabo
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
10866 Posts
April 20 2007 10:05 GMT
#59
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fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
April 20 2007 10:05 GMT
#60
On April 20 2007 18:40 GrandInquisitor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 20 2007 18:27 CharlieMurphy wrote:
No, because
On April 20 2007 18:25 SpArK wrote:
Futurama is boring.


The main character is annoying and predictable.


Cause Peter Griffin isn't predictable. Oh no, never. Sometimes he's a fat alcoholic misogynistic mean father that learns his lesson in the end, and sometimes he's an unemployed fat alcoholic misogynistic mean father that learns his lesson in the end! And don't forget that episode - the Beautiful People's Club - where he becomes THIN and alcoholic and misogynistic and a mean father that learns his lesson in the end! God Family Guy has such great storylines. They even dovetailed that episode really well and totally did not have a copout ending. People fall into giant vats of lard after liposuction and return to their original appearance all the time.)




Bahahahahaha....All of that happened in the simpsons before family guy. art.
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