http://www.planet-familyguy.com/pfg/main.php?a=shownews&id=344
According to this site, a new episode of South Park on April 5th will parody Family Guy.
Any opinions?
Well Family Guy is funny. Surely that counts for something. Although I gather that South Park is purportedly a comedy too.
They’re very different. I think I get more laughs from Family Guy, generally.
I watch both shows: South Park I really look forward to and they have had many memorable episode. Family Guy has some funny stuff in a disjointed framework. I am not disappointed when I miss it, but I usually enjoy it when it is on. I have never found its best episodes to measure up to the top South Park, Simpsons or Futurama Episodes.
Jim
Family Guy has fewer smug clouds, and I’m not just talking about those that figure in plots. Parker & Stone, in interviews and on the show, have just gotten way too full of themselves (especially Parker) and it filters into the show. Family Guy seeks to entertain first and anything else a distant distant fading second.
I’m going to agree with the posters saying that both shows try to do different things. I’m, at this point, more of a fan of Family Guy but I think South Park had an absolutely brilliant run of seasons from about 4 - 6. I’m not as crazy about the show now, but I don’t know for sure if that is because the show has changed or whether I’m the one who changed. (And now I sound like a bitter Simpsons fan, great)
Family Guy is more consistently my type of humor, though when South Park makes me laugh, it makes me fall out of my chair, roll around on the floor, kick my feet in the air, gasp for my breath and cry without abandon as I laugh hysterically.
Honest, it does.
Family guy is funnier and much smarter. P&S are as full of themselves as the celebrities they lampoon. They’re at their best with episodes like “Awsemo” and “The return of the fellowship of the ring to the two towers.” When they take on politics it’s painfully clear they have no idea what they’re talking about.
Smarter? Family guy???
Look I get a laugh out of it and there are some good gags but I never could accuse it of being overly clever. It is a series of absurdist gags and some form of loose plot to fill the half hour.
South Park has many gross out moments but there are some really clever bits in there too. Yeah Matt and Trey get too full of themselves but they are pretty smart.
But Both shows lose hands down to Futurama which had to be one of the wittiest cartoons in recent history. There was a show that could do the obvious absurd punches and still have subtle moments of brilliance.
South Park has had higher highs, but on the other hand, Seth MacFarlane has never revealed himself to be an ignorant bigot through his show, so it’s pretty much a wash.
What Sampiro said.
co-sign
The writing for Stewie and Brian is much smarter than anything on South Park, which is nothing but (very funny) gross-out jokes with a bit of “Libruls are self-righteous pricks.” (Pot, meet kettle.) But you’re right that Futurama is smarter than either show.
Garnted when South Park parodies something everyone thinks is stupid (John Edward, Scientology) they can be funny. But when they try and deal with Global Warming, Trans-sexuality, or politics, they’re in hopelessly over their head. Even when I agree with them, like in the smoking episode, I find them trite and obvious, and I wish they’d get back to Cartman farting fire.
My sentiments, exactly. I don’t think Family Guy has done anything as funny as Cartman’s ‘Ginger Kids’ presentation.
Not that I disbelive you but which group, specifically, has not been lampooned and ridiculed by SouthPark. I mean what group do they belong to that they seem to say is superior to the rest?
I mean maybe they are bigots, but they sure seem to be equal oppurtunity bigots who hate everyone.
“Simpsons did it!”
I enjoy South Park more, but that’s probably because there’s simply more SP to enjoy. FG, however, reinforces my politics at a time when it’s trendy to oppose them, so I’ll say that it’s smarter (plus I like their lampoons of mundane social quirks, i.e. “should I get fries? Is anyone else getting fries, because I don’t want to be the only one or else I’ll feel like a fatty”).
I think I look forward more to Family Guy now then South Park, but mostly because South Park has gotten into a mostly"Good episode, not so good episode" pattern during the new ones.
The Chef one was good, the Hybrid episode was lame. Hopefully tonight’s will be good.
I’m of the the demographic and mentality that should like South Park, but I just don’t. They’re just too topical and exceedingly controversial just because they can be. If I could get past that I’m sure I would find a lot of humour, but I can’t get that far.
My vote is definitely for Family Guy, they have many funny bits in most every episode.
Which is “smarter”? I can see why South Park would get that distinction—satirical shows tend to appear that way. Certainly its creators, who make no secret of their loathing for Family Guy and who really have become quite full of themselves, see it that way.
As for which is funnier, that would definitely be Family Guy for me. Even if it’s a little off its game since being uncancelled, it’s still just about the funniest thing on the box.
I eagerly await Trey and Matt’s explanation for how Family Guy is puerile for wallowing in dumb, obnoxious gross-out humor, while South Park is brilliant for doing pretty much the same thing. Talk about two guys ripe for parody on South Park …