# Futurama better than The Simpsons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-better-than-the-simpsons/149900 "2003-01-21T00:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-better-than-the-simpsons/149900/41 "2003-01-22T01:50:21Z")
I suppose I will be in line with **Hail Ants** also. FG was sleep-inducing. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-better-than-the-simpsons/149900/42 "2003-01-22T02:49:30Z")
Add me to the list. I found the “humor” in **Family Guy** to be mean spirited and incredibly unfunny. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-better-than-the-simpsons/149900/43 "2003-01-22T03:35:04Z")
The reason I liked Family Guy because the humor was so routinely coming from out of nowhere. I guess I’m just wired that way. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-better-than-the-simpsons/149900/44 "2003-01-22T04:35:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hail Ants \* > \*\*And something that was tellingly bad about the writing was they way that literally half the jokes were told in flashback…The Simpsons does this too, but not every other freakin’ line! \*\* This is exactly my problem with The Family Guy. Yea it was funny at times but it was extremely unoriginal and the flashbacks _screamed_ Simpsons. They were overdone and with a lot less grace than on the Simpsons though. I brought this up in another thread when someone actually tried to tell me that the Family Guy was better (and more offensive!) than South Park! :eek: Note that I still watch the Family Guy but it’s just kind of something to scratch that itch when you’ve seen every single Simpsons/South Park/Futurama five times over. ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-better-than-the-simpsons/149900/45 "2003-01-22T08:30:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beajerry \* > \*\* > But, King of the Hill??!! I know NO ONE in my personal life who watches that show. Myself, I cannot stand rednecks nor their humor. And I agree with the observation about the lack of need for it to be animated. Nothing inventive is done, so why animate? \*\* I really wouldn’t concider KOTH redneck humor (Hank Hill really isn’t much of a redneck anyway), it works on a whole other level of say the dukes of hazzard or hee haw. You kind of have to know the characters and know people like them to get the humor. I didn’t find the show funny until i had seen at least 5 or 6 episodes. I expected it to be like Bevis and Butthead (a great show too IMHO) The humor is very subtle and relys a lot on context. It has many sides to it in that it both gently mocks texas town life but also in a weird way praises it too. Although some people find it kind of slow I enjoy it way more than any other cartoon now (it blows futurama away), even the simpsons (although the simpsons were better at its peak). I don’t know about the rest of the country but the show is pretty popular in Austin and Houston and usually comes on two or three times a day. Most people I know watch it quite often. Also does anybody know if it airs outside of North America. ---
**Author:** ![bifar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bifar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bifar)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-better-than-the-simpsons/149900/46 "2003-01-22T11:49:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Also does anybody know if it airs outside of North America. Oh yes, we get it in the UK too. It has a smallish cult following. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-better-than-the-simpsons/149900/47 "2003-01-22T15:42:25Z")
I’d like to bring up the under-rated “The PJ’s”, quite possibly the last funny thing Eddie Murphy was involved in. The Survivor parody, with Muriel calling her tribe “Sun” and Thurgoode naming his “Sanford” is a particular high point for me. -Myron [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-better-than-the-simpsons/149900.md?page=2)