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“Family Guy’s attack on The Simpsons was much worse than the other way around.”

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“Family Guy’s attack on The Simpsons was much worse than the other way around.”

Since then Family Guy showed up to explode The Simpsons‘ video on New Year’s Eve 1999, Matt Groening The show has blithely taken a beating at Fox’s schedule every few years against its competing series. But like everyone else The Simpsons ever made, Seth MacFarlane copied them – only in a cruder, more drawn-out and less funny form.

“Friendly” rivalry between Family Guy And The Simpsons radically different from the hostility between Family Guy and other shows such as South Park. Bye Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided to explain to their viewers exactly why Family Guy was a bottom-tier comedy in the classic 2006 two-part episode “Cartoon Wars” by The Simpsons decided to take a lighter approach, poking fun at the quirky copycat of their series with background jokes and throwaway lines that only served to highlight the “inspiration” behind it. Family Guythe whole premise.

If your only impact The Simpsons/Family Guy there was enmity between people The Simpsons Sharing a snapshot on Twitter showing visual gags referencing MacFarlane’s projects suggests that the whole connection between The Simpsons and his painfully derivative impostor was the big brother/little brother situation.

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Well, that’s partly true in the sense of Cain and Abel – or it would be if Abel was not only a murderer, but also a sexual predator.

A 75-second rape joke without a punchline that‘The footage shown above is from season six. Family Guy episode “Movin”‘ Gone (Brian‘s Song)”, and Fox pulled it off the air several times due to MacFarlane’s protests. Fox executives deemed the “joke” too “personal” regarding the attack on The Simpsonsbut Macfarlane argued that since The Simpsons dared to show Peter Griffin on screen for half a second in the episode “Treehouse of Horror”, he had the power to have Quagmire rape Marge and kill her family for almost a minute and a half on air.

In the DVD commentary Family Guy In season six, MacFarlane recalls telling Fox executives who were struggling with a rape joke, “You’re afraid of James L. Brooks. …And this‘that’s why we can‘I won’t do this.” And, hearing about a long sequence of murders and sex crimes that MacFarlane found amusing, Brooks and his comrades The Simpsons writer and producer Al Jean were understandably upset, resulting in Fox banning the two series from filming each other anymore.

Unfortunately, the fact that MacFarlane crossed the line so badly that the network had to step in means that Family Guy got the last laugh in his feud with The Simpsonsdoubly so when you consider that the cringe-inducing 2014 crossover of the two shows was technically Family Guy episode instead The Simpsons one.

God forbid some other comedy series makes a joke of him. Ted series, or we could get an entire season of sex crimes without a single laugh.