# Bob's Burgers, SERIES PREMIERE (open spoilers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 10, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050 "2011-01-10T01:15:20Z")
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### Author: ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-burgers-series-premiere-open-spoilers/567050/25 "2011-01-10T16:34:41Z")

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Wow. I can’t believe all these people hated one show so much:

> [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/6):
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> I just watched the first half and gave up. Did this meet anyone’s expectations? Was it as bad as it seemed to me? I mean. . . bad.

> [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/9):
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> Yeah, it was pretty weak. It felt and looked like someone trying to imitate _Family Guy_. Two or three good jokes and that was it.

> [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/21):
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> Extremely unoriginal and the opposite of funny.

> [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/23):
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> I thought it was downright horrible. I literally didn’t even crack a smile.

> [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/35):
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> All I could think is that the jokes would have worked on the Family Guy. I could see Stewie or Brian repeating those and having it work. This show? Not so much. I just didn’t care about the characters. They seemed even less than one dimensional.

> [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/46):
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> It was just a poor knockoff of Family Guy. Sort of what you’d see if Hana-Barbera decided to copy it. Really, really bad.

> [@American Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad/288744/50):
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> I thought the _Simpson’s_ episode was half-baked and kinda crappy until this dreck came on. Absolutely unwatchable.

By the way, these comments were actually from Feb 6, 2005 and the pilot episode of American Dad. Just the first page of comments at that. And yet, they seem so familiar.

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