I also thought it was very much like Family Guy. But then again how can you have too much Family Guy? I am gonna wait and see where this one goes, it has the potential to be very funny.
I also thought it was too close to Family Guy. All week long, I kept hearing that joke, “How’s your French toast?”
“Smelly and ungrateful. But this American toast is great.”
Sad to say, I didn’t even stick around to hear the gag. I was pretty bored.
The gay news guys were funny, but it’s not like they were satirical of some newsroom prototype, not as funny as Kent Brockman or the reporters on Family Guy, “we now go to our Asian reporter. . .”
Besides, how about moving in a new direction instead of trying to milk some more news room gags.
On top of that, they had a talking fish, and a son & a daughter.
When Futurama came out Matt Groening didn’t give Fry a bratty son, a brainy daughter, and a mute baby. He tried something completely new.
Speaking of Futurama, I guess after Seth McFarlane took everything he could from “Family Guy” for American Dad, he needed to add a boney, depressed Alien. Why?
It almost seems like you could just make “American Dad” the Griffin’s neighbor and save some gags for that show. Were the “Family Guy” writing sessions so overflowing with gags that they needed a second show to handle them all.
Futhermore, after getting FG cancelled once, how about focussing your efforts on that instead of churning out two shows?
So, if you can’t tell, I was disappointed with American Dad. I’ll give it a couple more chances, but it’s hard to get by the whole set up of the show.
AD got the greenlight before the FG reprieve.
I wanted to like it, but I gave up on the show half way through the episode. I didn’t care much for any of the characters and I got the impression that the writers didn’t like them much either. IMO, you need a certain affection for the characters in order for comedy to work, otherwise you are left with nothing more than straw men to knock over with blunt instruments. Admittedly this is too much analysis for a limited amount of viewing, though I don’t think I’ll be missing much in the future.
I think the early episodes of FG were pretty rough, myself. It takes time for most tv shows to get going properly.
I think the alien’s pseudo-Paul Lynde voice will get old quickly.
And yet many people complained that Fry was just a younger Homer, Bender was a metallic Bart with a butt-related catchphrase, the Professor was Abe in a labcoat, Leela was a cyclopean Marge, etc… etc…
We see similarities first because they’re familiar. Futurama wasn’t love at first sight by any stretch of the imagination.
Hopefully, American Dad will develop a bit more. I love the Paul Williams alien. Hate the goldfish. Love the parents, not so keen on the kids.
It could go either way.
Paul Lynde. :smack: Who the hell is Paul Williams and what is his name doing in my skull?
I don’t know who he is, but you might want to look up his name in the phone book so you can tell him to stop invading you brain. And don your tinfoil hat, fool!
This episode of American Dad was much, much better than the first one, but it still fizzled out about halfway through, IMHO, so I changed the channel.
The gay newscasters were funny. It looked like a parody of the platonic pseudo-eroticism that goes on among real newscasters. Or maybe that occurs only on the stations in my area.
Paul Williams is short little dude who wrote a LOT of songs (“Just an Old Fashioned Love Song” made famous by Three Dog Night, for example).
I like the gay octopus guy.
I really, really disliked this episode. Dunno why, just hit me the wrong way. Perhaps it will grow on me.
Anyone else think the gay jokes were a bit much?
We had the two anchormen, and then we had the alien, who, if not gay, is pretty flamboyant.
Last night’s was the first episode I’ve seen, and I truly hated it. The fifteen mins I could bear to watch where just an unleashed Republican bash-fast. Being a Repub myself, I can certainly enjoy the lighthearted and not-so-lighthearted digs in Family Guy, Southpark, etc., but the ‘jokes’ in AD were so direct and blatantly predictable that they’d be better labeled as outright attacks.
It isn’t just the fact that it’s a liberal perspective, either. If it were cast from the reverse viewpoint, I can’t imagine it would be anything but equally dull. We see this same crap in papers and talk shows every day. Sitcoms (and especially animated sitcoms) are best left as a recluse from all the political inanity.
And my god did I hate that stupid alien…
No, and I didn’t think the kiddie porn joke in Family Guy was too much either.
I’m starting to think some of you people should just stick to “Everybody Loves Raymond” and mother-in-law jokes.
There’s finally something on network TV that doesn’t kowtow to sponsors or pander to the sensitive and people complain about it. No wonder so many sitcoms suck.
I tried watching it.
About 5 minutes in, I realized why I wasn’t laughing: they forgot to bring the funny.
American Dad was AWFUL, especially following the always-hilarious Family Guy. Seth missed with this one, I think.
I liked the pinnichio joke in Family guy(It was wrong, but funny), and frankly, the sooner “Raymond” is canceled, the better.
I wasn’t offended by the gay jokes, I just felt that they overdid it. The gay newscasters were funny at first, but then they were back again, and then the thing in the hottub, and then the gay alien. I wouldn’t have minded so much if they were funny, but they weren’t.
Like in Family guy where I felt the opening joke about canceled shows started out funny but was twice as long as it really needed to be.
The Trump gags were the only moments I really enjoyed. That and “Sweet Sean Hannity!”
It’s…okay, but it might play better if it wasn’t on right after Family Guy. The animation is the same, even one of the son’s friends was obviously Seth Green tweaking Chris Griffin’s voice. They should take *Life on a Stick * or Stacked and put them out of their misery and replace one of them with AD.
I kinda like the alien. Very Paul Lynde.
Why does everyone assume the alien is gay just because he sounds like Paul Lynde?
Anyway, it’s not that AD overdoes the gay jokes. It’s that every other show on television overdoes the hetero-humor.
Well, I only said he sounds like him. Although…he did want to redecorate. 