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PSA: Family Guy & Top Gear are overrated

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Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
I have absolutely no idea what Top Gear is, but I do know that it's impossible to overrate Family Guy.
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*Looks at your signature* Did you used to be lirion? 😕
 
Originally posted by: brigden
Originally posted by: maziwanka
i lost a lot of respect for top gear when they ragged on the c6.
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Why? Look at what they have to compare it to.
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Exactly. And they came to a fair conclusion: the C6 is a GREAT car for what it is, and a great bargain. But it isn't a Ferrari. It never was, and it never will be. That doesn't mean the Corvette is a bad car, and like they said, it can be a lot of fun.
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: brigden
Originally posted by: maziwanka
i lost a lot of respect for top gear when they ragged on the c6.
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Why? Look at what they have to compare it to.
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Exactly. And they came to a fair conclusion: the C6 is a GREAT car for what it is, and a great bargain. But it isn't a Ferrari. It never was, and it never will be. That doesn't mean the Corvette is a bad car, and like they said, it can be a lot of fun.
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what i find interesting is how the stig got it around the track in the same time as he did the 575M
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: brigden
Originally posted by: maziwanka
i lost a lot of respect for top gear when they ragged on the c6.
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Why? Look at what they have to compare it to.
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Exactly. And they came to a fair conclusion: the C6 is a GREAT car for what it is, and a great bargain. But it isn't a Ferrari. It never was, and it never will be. That doesn't mean the Corvette is a bad car, and like they said, it can be a lot of fun.
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what i find interesting is how the stig got it around the track in the same time as he did the 575M
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Yeah and? Maybe it's just as fast as a 575? I don't understand why people think Ferrari's are so unbeatable. Why? Just because it's expensive? So what? There's a lot of other cars out there that are just as fast if not faster and cheaper. But tell me this, given a choice between a Corvette and a 575, you'd have to be one big fvcking idiot to pick a Corvette.
 
At its end, Futurama did everything but eclipse the great years of The Simpsons. Both were the spawn of the same creator and various interchangable writers, and remain the pinnacle of smart, witty, and entertaining cartoon comedy. The amount of satire and reality expressed remains unchallenged, even by the famed South Park. The indirectness and realism with which they proceeded each week will, for many years to come, remain the pinnacle of representative satire as a whole.

Family Guy, SouthPark, and King of the Hill proceed directly to inform the viewer of everything. The good shows do quite the opposite.



As for top gear, comaprative jibberish as I have read on here is incoherent at best. Comparing a live-action show concerning the sepcifations and performance numbers of combustion-powered transport vechicles to saterical cartoons in just plain stupid.

Is Top Gear more entertaining than Futurama? Probably not, but is it more informative; definitely.

Comapring such things is like comparing a newspaper comic in the Sunday paper with the latest issue of Scientific American.
 
Ross_has_deplorable_taste++

My opinion of what early/classic Simpsons would be is anything from season 3 to 8 or 9, with a bit of 2 in there as well. That is where you get all the classic lines and bits. I had a pop culture class, part of it focusing on the Simpsons as a modern satire. At the end of the lecture I told the prof that the only line I did not get was one he repeated from the most recent episode, and I hadn't seen a new Simpsons in probably 3 years. The series should have left gracefully around season 10, IMO. At least it's finally being retired this season.

KOTH, OTOH, should not have lasted past its first season, let alone be in season 9.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
At its end, Futurama did everything but eclipse the great years of The Simpsons. Both were the spawn of the same creator and various interchangable writers, and remain the pinnacle of smart, witty, and entertaining cartoon comedy. The amount of satire and reality expressed remains unchallenged, even by the famed South Park. The indirectness and realism with which they proceeded each week will, for many years to come, remain the pinnacle of representative satire as a whole.

Family Guy, SouthPark, and King of the Hill proceed directly to inform the viewer of everything. The good shows do quite the opposite.



As for top gear, comaprative jibberish as I have read on here is incoherent at best. Comparing a live-action show concerning the sepcifations and performance numbers of combustion-powered transport vechicles to saterical cartoons in just plain stupid.

Is Top Gear more entertaining than Futurama? Probably not, but is it more informative; definitely.

Comapring such things is like comparing a newspaper comic in the Sunday paper with the latest issue of Scientific American.
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Maybe you don't watch the same Family Guy I do, or South Park, but both of those shows can carry some obscene subtleties at times - it's part of what makes them so funny.
 
Family Guy is just so great. Simpsons was also great, but as has been established, it been getting to the point of horse crap. KotH has its moments too, it's just that those moments are sparse and few. Futurama... I think it's overrated.
 
Originally posted by: Legendary
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
At its end, Futurama did everything but eclipse the great years of The Simpsons. Both were the spawn of the same creator and various interchangable writers, and remain the pinnacle of smart, witty, and entertaining cartoon comedy. The amount of satire and reality expressed remains unchallenged, even by the famed South Park. The indirectness and realism with which they proceeded each week will, for many years to come, remain the pinnacle of representative satire as a whole.

Family Guy, SouthPark, and King of the Hill proceed directly to inform the viewer of everything. The good shows do quite the opposite.



As for top gear, comaprative jibberish as I have read on here is incoherent at best. Comparing a live-action show concerning the sepcifations and performance numbers of combustion-powered transport vechicles to saterical cartoons in just plain stupid.

Is Top Gear more entertaining than Futurama? Probably not, but is it more informative; definitely.

Comapring such things is like comparing a newspaper comic in the Sunday paper with the latest issue of Scientific American.
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Maybe you don't watch the same Family Guy I do, or South Park, but both of those shows can carry some obscene subtleties at times - it's part of what makes them so funny.
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Yes, but they are still far too direct and inflmatory. They are good, but not great. They are not as brilliant as the Simpson's and Futurama old satirical episodes.
 
that order is almost completely backwards.

nothing else on the list aside from Family Guy and Top Gear are even worth watching.
 
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