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Hard to believe that The Simpsons will reach 800 episodes close to next year.

And most of them are crap.

That's honestly something to be expected from a cartoon show that's been running since 1989; It's just being bled dry for money, much like Spongebob, Fairly Odd Parents, The Loud House and other such cartoons that have been going on much longer than they should have.

The original run of the Fairly Oddparents died quite some time back but the A New Wish reboot was pretty good.

Xiahou Ba said:

The original run of the Fairly Oddparents died quite some time back but the A New Wish reboot was pretty good.

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Yeah, I was aware of that. I just named the OG Fairly Odd Parents series as an example because that one went on longer than it should have and was only being bled dry for money by the time it had lost its charm.

Honestly considering the latter years of The Fairly OddParents, I don't think you can even say it was being bled dry for money.

Like season 7 took a bit over THREE YEARS to air just 20 episodes, then season 8 aired in its entirety (of 6 episodes) WHILE SEASON 7 WAS STILL AIRING btw and somehow took from February to December 2011 to air 6 friggin episodes.

Then it took another two years from March 2013 to March 2015 to air the 26 episodes of season 9 and season 10 later got shoved to friggin Nicktoons Network for its second half and left to die.

That's not being bled dry for money, that's just a network not giving a damn. Bled try for money would be them not taking several years to air a single season.

Edit: I'm also pretty sure at one point the series just stopped airing reruns on the main Nickelodeon channel as well. Like before new episodes moved to Nicktoons. So the only way you could watch the show on TV was whenever they decided 'Oh yeah let's air a new Fairly OddParents episode' every few months or whatever.

I think Spongebob and The Loud House are still good but Fairly Oddparents I guess has been around too long. Simpsons and Family Guy and American Dad and all that I think have been around way too long and aren't even funny anymore hence the fact hardly anyone watches them anymore. Personally if Family Guy dies I'll be glad because I and surprisingly a lot of other people really don't appreciate its horrible portrayal and treatment of women and its racist caricatures and bigoted racial stereotypes especially towards blacks and probably other cultures and ethnicities too, though I wouldn't know about that last part because I don't watch it.

Like seriously I looked it up; I was surprised to find a lot of people are offended by Family Guy for all the above reasons and it's just controversial in general. I looked up Seth McFarlane and he's not a very nice guy to be honest; he's very sexist in general. Personally I'm disgusted with him for this. I've honestly always hated Family Guy and I always will. I especially don't like how the main character Peter Griffin himself treats women.

Seth MacFarlane has nothing to do with American Dad in terms of production and American Dad is actually legit hilarious and funny.

Also while I have a lot of issues with his shows, MacFarlane is not sexist what the fuck lmao. Sure he has his biases and issues but he's otherwise a fairly bog-standard social liberal.

Classic Sonic said:

I looked up Seth McFarlane and he's not a very nice guy to be honest; he's very sexist in general.

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That's kinda surprising considering Seth McFarlane is a diehard Democrat according to some people, but maybe that's just a case of him being a diehard Democrat because his job depends on it.

Mermaid Man said:

That's kinda surprising considering Seth McFarlane is a diehard Democrat according to some people, but maybe that's just a case of him being a diehard Democrat because his job depends on it.

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The only thing that shows up when you search 'Is Seth MacFarlane sexist' were some criticisms of jokes he did at the Oscars in 2013.

@Bibi Blocksberg Yeah, same for me too, but I still think he's sexist in general. How do you feel about the overall chauvinistic, misogynistic feel of the Family Guy show, Princess Viola? And how misogynistic its character is? I find it disgusting.

It's a friggin cartoon. MacFarlane doesn't even write the episodes, the last episode he wrote was the season 4 premiere in 2005. Going 'Oh he's a misogynist because the characters in the show are' is as ridiculous as claiming George Lucas is a fascist because the Empire in Star Wars were blatant stand-ins for Nazi Germany.

I agree with Viola. If Seth McFarlane doesn't even write the jokes on his shows, then it seems unfair to accuse him of any bigotry just because the characters in his shows hold such views. That's very shortsighted.

@Mermaid Man I only said that because I thought he did write the show. But never mind.

Classic Sonic said:

@Mermaid Man I only said that because I thought he did write the show. But never mind.

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Yeah, that's fair. I thought he wrote his own jokes myself, but apparently not, according to Viola.

It's important to remember that Seth MacFarlane has basically checked out of Family Guy creatively basically forever ago.

You had him in 2011 admitting in an interview that part of him thinks the show should have already ended and that 'seven seasons is probably enough' (at the time, the show was premiering its 10th season).

Then you had his tirade in 2021 against Fox for their utter determination to hold onto Family Guy and Fox S&P going 'Oh Peter can't say 'goddamn' (presumably to avoid offending Christians who may find that offensive, as opposed to all the other content in Family Guy, which is a-okay???) all while being very critical of the stuff allowed to be spewed out on Fox News (not tryna get political but that is what he said) (Although his tirade against Fox was NOT a 'JUST END FAMILY GUY ALREADY' tired it was 'Goddamn I am sick and tired of Fox and all their BS, I wish this show could move to another network instead but they won't let their greedy mitts off this show'

And then just last year he said in an interview that he doesn't see any real reason to stop making Family Guy but specifically cited 'Well it still has an audience and people still enjoy it and it's a way for me to get more money I can donate to charities and causes I Care about'.

So like yeah, MacFarlane absolutely does not creatively care about Family Guy anymore, it's just a 'this is how I get money to donate and my popularity as creator one of Fox's longest running and most popular shows gives me the freedom to do what I actively want to do as well'.

Like, going away from cartoons for a minute here, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - 2014 documentary series that was a followup to the 1980 PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. MacFarlane was instrumental in getting Fox to actually picking that up. He used his financial clout from Family Guy (and the other shows he is involved in) to get Fox to air a friggin science documentary series in primetime.

@Bibi Blocksberg I mean to be honest, I probably was actually making unfair assumptions assuming that the content of his shows and how his characters acted in them towards women showed how McFarlane felt towards women, looking back on my earlier comments. People aren't even sure if the comments he made at the 2013 Oscars even proved that he was against women, given that some people think he was just making those comments to make the Oscars judges agree with him, and trying to show how bigoted THEY were. At the same time, though, I really don't like the things he said there, and I think they were kind of disgusting, regardless if he meant them or not, but especially if he DID mean them. So I guess this is a case of, from the scant evidence, we can't really know WHAT he thinks about that, and for all we know you might have evidence he isn't that way in which case I retract my statement and apologize.