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Eh, by this point Family Guy isn't even really about the characters anymore. Which is why the Simpsons has persisted for decades: it is about the characters. The jokes especially, are jokes th3 characters would make naturally. The characters have changed, grown, or regressed. But they've stayed themselves. Every character in Family Guy is basically Peter at this point.

For the Pulp Fiction reference, The Simpsons scene is distinct enough where it could be its own thing ( Lou is sitting down with Eddie and Chief Wiggum at Krusty Burger and comparing it to McDonalds vs Jules and Vincent diving around, comparing American and European McDonald’s). If it was Family Guy, they would recreate the scene from Pulp Fiction but just have two Family Guy characters dressed up as Jules and Vincent with little dialogue change from the original. Hoping the comedy comes from “our characters are doing this scene, isn’t that whacky?”

Another big part of it is that Family Guy, the show itself is just making a reference, while in the Simpsons the _characters_ are making the reference. Keeping it in-universe doesn't break the flow or suspension of disbelief. Sometimes even the Simpsons will do a cutaway gag, but it's to other known characters doing something instead of a random scene with no lead up or consequence. I was trying to think of how the Simpsons could make the exact same joke with the owl work, and I realized it would be someone watching that on TV. If Homer was sitting on the couch watching Owl & Costello, it would go from just a reference to a joke about Homer being easily entertained, the unoriginality of TV writing, or really anything but "haha owl make noise."

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How many here caught the Dr. Strangelove reference?

So Family Guy's writers are just a bunch of thieves. Duly noted.

One thing I think you missed is what the two jokes say about Abbott and Costello as performers and comedians. The Simpsons treats them with the respect they deserve by showing how to lesser performers will fail to capture the magic of the original joke. Family Guy implies that you could replace one of them with an owl and it would have the same effect as the original joke. Simpsons treats Abbott and Costello as comedy professionals, whereas Family Guy treats them (and especially Bud Abbott) as replaceable.

5:50 For those that want to nitpick this bit of comparing Simpsons to Family Guy He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs came out on Sept 23, 2007 (Simpsons) Tales of a Third Grade Nothing came out on Nov 16, 2008 (Family Guy) Since it takes at least 6 months to animate an episode of Family Guy, this means that they roughly had 8 months to look at what the Simpsons did, and just out their own twist on the idea, but gave up after the first act. I only noticed that time difference while looking through my TV guide.

As someone who loves Airplane and Naked Gun, the way Family Guy 'referenced' them has always kinda rubbed me the wrong way. At best, it's like they're referencing the joke because they don't have enough good material of their own, and at worst, it's like they assume they can get away with stealing it. The weird thing is, South Park has done similar skits referencing the Dead Parrot sketch and Aristocrats joke, but those actually changed the jokes subtly to make them fit the characters, and they were clearly advertised as referencing them instead of being sneaked into episodes.

I thought Owl and Costello was funnier than any Simpson's slop

A Family Guy joke being late to the party and inferior to the Simpsons one? Now I've seen everything.

Proof that the Simpsons do reference Humor better than Family Guy, when people think of the "I Don't Care " scene from the Fugitive odds are its the Simpsons version that comes to mind first rather than the original

Family Guy is referential humor. Part of Peter’s core character is that he watches and himself references a lot of media content. They don’t shy away from making references that people might not have seen. You’ve either seen Amadeus or you haven’t. I’m unmoved by the criticism that Family Guy is “too much cutaway humor” because, yes, it’s a core part of the show. But it’s pretty uninspired to portray Family Guy’s style as “objectively bad” because they “do it wrong”. It’s just different. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn’t. You could easily make an argument that The Simpson’s style is too “mushy” and slow vs. Family Guy’s willingness to quickly detach from the setting of the show and jump back. Or that South Park is too gross and loud and obnoxious. They’re all different styles with different appeals at different times. But you can’t be mad at a tomato sandwich because it has “too many tomatos”.

Slovin and Allen's "Tito Martinez the player on first base" is my favorite anti-humor variant of this bit

The Simpsons is funnier if you don't get the reference. But Family Guy is funnier if you get it.

When I got to the part about Shipoopi, I genuinely rolled my eyes and thought to myself, "Oh come on, tearing down one of the Family Guy classics to get at its sense of humor, this video author clearly just has a grudge against this show." And then you dropped the bomb that it's just a song from something else covered by Family Guy. For years I thought it was just some original Family Guy song, one of their most well received, and it's just stolen from a movie completely removing the context that it's a reference. Fantastic video.

Peter had already developed tendencies of hurting children by the fourth season, in the episode "The Cleveland Loretta Quagmire" and it can be said that he was already a psychopath in the first three seasons due to his battles against the giant chicken

With the Chinese food thing, some Italian food has the same problem. It is the rice/pasta which is just starch and water and breaks down quickly. In the US at least, most chain Chinese food is a huge amount of rice and small portions of not rice.

Another important thing with this specific joke is Skinner is funny because he is not funny. He is that guy that would over-explain the joke, like I am doing now. I am Principal Seymour Skinner. Steamed Hams. And to be fair with Abbot and Costello, alot of their material I have heard does follow the following formula: Abbot [the educated one] uses a technical term and Costello [the Homer/Peter common dumbass] misunderstands him for 10 minutes. Another example is "no loafing" where Abbot gets a bakery job making bread and tells Costello about it using insider terms with slang/common meanings. The terms: Dough [which Costello, being in the middle of the Great Depression, takes to mean money] and Loafing [which Abbot uses to describe forming the dough into loaves, and Costello takes to mean slacking off]. the "Who's on first" line: How can you loaf without any dough

I remember my introduction to Family guy, I saw A DVD of it in store once and what caught my eye was a dog that looked like Snoopy and a baby holding a ray gun. My dad came home after work with those DVDs at least a year later and they remained for a week on a stack of other DVDs until I finally asked dad where they come from and he said a friend at work gave them to him thinking he would like it. I suggested we put it on as I was curious about those characters on the cover and right after those amazing opening titles that made me smile widely, I was hooked. Seriously though, whoever owns those DVDs, keep them! They contain the stories you were meant to get, Disney Plus has the TV edits. I lost mine as I kept losing the discs! I just recently checked over the seasons order and I think it declined after that Hanna Montana episode and for my dad, it was screams of silence. I have come back to it with Fighting Irish and the introduction of Wild West but I don't think I can ever forgive them for the abuse of Meg and Brian's terrible 'love life'.

2:28 ...h...huh? I thought family guy invented it

Actually the A Bomb was necessary to win WW2

I hope you meant the family guy Amadeus link with the Fish called Selma episode. It has the Dr Zaius song, a parody of Amadeus - Falco which was inspired by the film.

7 was the last good season I own all 7 on dvd

Early seasons of Family Guy is one of my favorite shows all time. Some people look at me like I have 4 heads when I say it. I actually think the show is quite good all the way up to around season 5. Though 2, and 3 are the peak. They're funny without being overly topical. They're heartfelt, passionate, and creative. When people sit down to watch an episode with me, they're always caught off guard by how much they laugh

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I remember the exact scene that made me drop the show. Carter was trying to get to Peter and slowly destroyed a public bench with a backhoe for what felt like five minutes

Even if you get the references in Family Guy they’re still not funny.

I mean I guess but a solid cutaway makes me laugh harder and more consistently than 22 minutes of world building. Doesn’t make it better but sometimes your brain just wants that chaos.

I have no idea why you said child predation was not a serious issue, as I feel like no matter what country you are in, it is still a pretty damn disgusting crime someone could commit (it is like saying murder isn’t a serious issue lol). My best guess is that you just worded what you said badly, which is probably the case.

well you thoroughly made your point by 2 minutes into the video so I stopped there. Good luck with the rest of this.

The worst example of Family guy plagiarism has to be a "Anchors Aweigh" skit. It's a segment where the animator just traced over Jerry mouse dancing with Gene Kelly replacing him with Stewie. There was no joke either, it just happens. They didn't even trace over jerry very well either, you can see Jerry's reflection in the floor the whole time.

Remember when we had franchises and not "cinematic universe's".

The one way the Family Guy joke could work, hold on the bit long enough for the owl to say something other than "Who".

Well put 👍 That monorail episode has always been one of my all time favorites, and I had no idea it referenced anything until I saw a stage performance of The Music Man just a handful of years ago. The Simpsons did it so well that I came to the realization while watching the play. Now the episode is still just as good whether I would have ever known the reference or not.

I reacted the same way when I saw a vagina, I have no idea why people are attracted to something that looks like rotten meat.. eugghgh...

I'm not British and I say rubbish, probably because I love the British and wish I was.

Mostly unrelated but appreciate you not using that term for the mentally disabled. It may be medical, but it's largely outdated, as a disabled man I appreciate you being cautious about it in a world where so many people still use it maliciously 👍💜

Fyi you mention how the UK seasons on Dvd didnt line up with the television releases - this is actually the same in the US but it was made slightly less confusing by the fact that in the US the dvd releases would be called Volumes rather than seasons so as to avoid the confusion. No idea why that didnt carry over to the UK releases.

this is a great comparison of the two. It speaks to the fact that the simpsons has an idea and message overall along with smaller messages in each episode, while family guy is just 20 minutes of funny with a loose plot to follow. Simpsons will always be better than family guy because it has an actual theme behind it

In my opinion Family Guy had either good or bad episodes from season 7 to 16. I can’t think of a single episode from any episode from season 17 and after that I like… except the one where Peter eats out Babs.

Marge Vs. the monorail is easily one of the best episodes of the simpsons every made, Ive been watching it all my life and have always loved that episode, I never knew or even really thought that lyle lanly was a reference to anything, so point proven. I would bet that 90% of the people who watch that episode do not know that and It is never the less loved universally by fans.

Man I just typed in “why I stopped watching family guy” and this didn’t come up. UA-cam SUCKS. Luckily I remembered I subscribed after the last one so I could find it!

Huh, shipoopi is a lot less funny than I remember

I think futurama also does references great too, like the forwards Time Machine episode, when fry was kneeling in front of the destroyed Statue of Liberty, I feel like that was a reference because family guy did a similar thing with Adam west when he saw the statue of liberty’s foot that Peter had questionably attained as a gift for quagmire

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I think there's a layer to the family guy joke that you've missed, and maybe I'm looking too far into this but since it was Stewie, a baby, who set the joke up, and all he probably knows about Abbott and Costello is the very famous "who's on first" skit. He also probably knows from his children's books that the dog goes woof, the cow goes moo, and the owl goes hoo. So in his baby mind, he has put 2 and 2 together that Abbott must be an owl and thinks people are saying Owl and Costello since they do kinda sorta sound similar.

The best example I have of how modern Family Guy sabotages its own comedic potential is the first episode of Season 15 when Brian and Stewie start a band. At the end, when Stewie asks who Olivia is going to continue the band with, Brian says “probably some dog we’ve never met” before they show Olivia with Vinny. That joke would’ve been really good if Brian never said that. Instead, it completely ruins the joke by making it fairly simple to guess what will happen. Humor should never be lazy or predictable. Family Guy does both way too often.