Iamapen15
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SOUTH PARK...... Without it there wouldn't have been the likes of Family Guy!
FWIW this is not even a debate. South Park is much, much better.
I love both but for the writing & satire South Park wins it.
Saw a spoof of the royal wedding the other day. Cracked me up
pole to follow.
Don't now if we've had one of these before bet i'm intrigued.
Family Guy or South Park?
Absolutely.
I'm still amazed by just how supposedly popular Family Guy is in this country. It has had its moments but by and large it's just a collection of unrelated American pop culture references, many of which mean absolutely nothing to us Brits. There's no timeless quality to its gags, they're just cheap jibes at American TV personalities repeated ad nauseum. I got very tired of Family Guy long ago.
Watching the South Park episodes on Family Guy really hits the nail on the head. Anyone could write an episode of Family Guy if you had a list of interchangeable names and references to use in a formulaic sentence format. e.g:
This is just like that time I was <----occupation----> for <----personality---->
[Cut to scene of Peter Griffin serving Columbian roast to a TV quiz show host who's been in the news recently for sexual indecency]
And so on and so forth.
There's no glue binding the episodes together, there's no running theme (aside from dreadfully boring repeated references to an evil monkey or how black people look different to white people). You can't relate to the characters, they have no depth. They're one dimensional puppets for the sake of fitting round whatever obscure pop culture references the writers want to crowbar in that week.
Case in point:
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