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What Family Guy has stolen

by Adam Finley, posted Apr 7th 2006 12:37PM

family guySomebody has created a blog which points out examples in which Family Guy has stolen from other shows. The blog just went up recently, and I have to say I'm having trouble trying to figure out if he's serious about this or is just having a bit of fun with a show he doesn't like. I'd like to think it's the latter, because the examples he has given so far don't really stand up to scrutiny, at least not in my mind. Case in point: I'm fairly certain images of the Grim Reaper have been used in cartoons before, I don't think Family Guy stole it from South Park. Speaking as someone who enjoys the show but isn't blind to its flaws, I have to say there's a lot of examples this guy could have used that would have proved his point better.

However, maybe, just maybe, he actually does like Family Guy, and this blog is a way to satirize those people who nitpick at every detail of the show and call it a rip off, rather than accepting that Family Guy samples from the same pop culture grab bag as everyone else. I don't know, I'm still scratching my head.

[via Cartoon Brew]

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A Punk

i hope your ******* children are born blind and that they ******* walk into a fireplace you stupid piece of **** ************

June 10 2011 at 12:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
A Punk

Are you a ******* retard Adam Finley? How can you be so blind you obviously don't know **** about animation because you would see the huge obvious similarities of the shows. Family guy is obviously plagiarizing the Simpsons you stupid ass ************ i'm talking with your editor. http://www.cracked.com/funny-316-family-guy/

June 10 2011 at 12:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
A Punk

Are you a ******* retard Adam Finley? How can you be so blind you obviously don't know **** about animation because you would see the huge obvious similarities of the shows. Family guy is obviously plagiarizing the Simpsons you stupid ass ************ i'm talking with your editor. http://www.cracked.com/funny-316-family-guy/

June 10 2011 at 12:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
beanspants1

if you watch the simpsons one, Homer's on 19, then gets 20, then 21, then 22, so is that 3 aces in a row?

that's pretty amazing.

April 08 2006 at 1:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mr. Ed

"They don't?http://familyguystealssimpsons.ytmnd.com/"

You know, it's funny... When I went to that website, I laughed harder at the Family Guy "stolen" jokes than the supposed "original" Simpson version of the jokes...

It's not plagiarism; they're taking the same joke and giving it their own spin. Nothing wrong with that.

April 07 2006 at 10:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
B

I'm pretty sure the Simpsons answered this first:
Myers: Okay, maybe my dad did steal Itchy, but so what? Animation is
built on plagiarism!
[lawyer slaps his forehead]
If it weren't for someone plagiarizing the Honeymooners, we
wouldn't have the Flintstones. If someone hadn't ripped off Sgt.
Bilko, they'd be no Top Cat. Huckleberry Hound, Chief Wiggum,
Yogi Bear? Hah! Andy Griffith, Edward G. Robinson, Art Carney.
-- Er, don't forget Yogi Berra, "The Day the Violence Died"



(Woah, does this mean that the guy complaining about Family guy stealing is actually stealing from the Simpsons. My head hurts).

April 07 2006 at 4:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bd

They don't?
http://familyguystealssimpsons.ytmnd.com/

April 07 2006 at 3:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pacino

Let's be real. There are no new ideas, only new takes on old ideas. Same with jokes, let's stop calling everyone 'thieves' if we don't think they're funny or we've seen the joke before.

Now, if it's a bit by bit copy then yeah, but FG doesn't do that.

April 07 2006 at 2:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
family guy and south park fan

I just watched a south park episode last night and the whole episode was about Family Guy. I like South Park a lot but family guy is so much better and I think the producers are jelous they are stuck on comedy central and family guy gets aired on fox. However, in South parks defense, they have been on the air longer and they started cracking on everything and everybody just like family guy does. South Park steals true life material all the time so what if family guy uses ideas already used it is funnier if it is based on real life events anyway!

April 07 2006 at 1:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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