I’m not crazy about it… I’ll give it a few more episodes. Sometimes the establishing few episodes are a bit slow, but I’ll give it a chance.
But I did like the line about the golf pencil.
From Entertainment Weekly’s Fall Preview issue:
EW: Why Cleveland? Why not Quagmire?
Seth: Because nobody wants to watch a show about a rapist
Seriously, FOX. You killed Futurama. You sent King of the Hill out to pasture. You HAVEN’T put the Simpsons out of its misery yet, but you’ve now devoted 3/4 of your Sunday nights to Seth McFarland? And only 1 of the 3 shows is even worth a couple chuckles…
I switched channels about five minutes into it, and never came back.
I read somewhere that this was the “Amos and Andy” of the 21st Century. Unfunny black stereotypes done by white voice actors. I didn’t see the show on Sunday, so I can’t say if that’s an accurate description or not.
Cleveland’s voice is done by a white actor, but most of the rest of the cast is black.
Can’t argue with it being unfunny though.
I’d say it was mildly stereotypical, but while Cleveland and Black Stewie were done by a white voice actor, every other black character was voiced by a black actor.
As mentioned, this isn’t entirely true. But what’s weirder is that they make this exact same bloody joke in the episode. And it’s only mildly funny then.
I would have liked to see a Quagmire show.
Parallels with Family Guy:
-Both have hot wives
-Both have 3 kids. Ugly daughter on FG, hot daughter on Cleveland show Fat sons as the middle kid on both shows. Both have prematurely sexual youngest sons, Stewie goes for boys (mostly), the little guy on Cleveland Show goes for women
-Both main characters have friendships with talking animals
-There’s a hangout bar
I’ll watch it for the same reason I watch American Dad, it’s got some reasonably funny bits, and some episodes are pretty decent. Not usually a lot of plot or continuity.
There’s also a friend with a physical limitation. Granted, he’s unusually short and not a paraplegic.
As a fan of OTR (old time radio) I can say one thing, “Amos and Andy” was funny. I mean it was really funny. The only thing that could be called racist was the fact white people did the voices of black people. Every episode was, Kingfish has a plan to cheat someone, usually Andy or he gets Andy’s help. They have wacky adventures then Amos comes in and shows Andy how Kingfish is cheating him or manipulating him. Then the two turn the tables on Kingfish to predictable hillarious results and Kingfish feels remorse for being a con. Of course that is till next week, when it starts all over 
Cleveland is just not funny. Hopefully this will be one of those cases where the pilot will get retooled quickly for the rest of the show.
Cleveland was my least favorite character from Family Guy so I had very very low expectations. But I kind of liked it. It was almost… Heartwarming. And Cleveland is a much less annoying character on his own show than on Family Guy. Only thing I didn’t like so far is the two bar friends besides the Bear, they were utterly forgettable. Right now I’m enjoying it more as a drama than as a comedy. But we’ll see how the next few episodes go.
I’d watch the adventures of Mayor Adam West.
Sure, he’s only funny in small doses. That’s still better than Cleveland.