Am I the only person who prefers the more recent seasons of Family Guy? Although I agree that the newer episodes are either absolutely brilliant or absolutely crap, I find myself despising American Dad. And there's one simple reason for it: it doesn't have Stewie. The only reason I watch F.G. is because it has Stewie and if it didn't, I think it would have been axed permanently a very long time ago. I feel that A.D. has too similar a plot to F.G. (a stupid dad who doesn't like his daughter, a talking pet, a gay family member), so when I compare the two shows of course I think F.G.'s better as A.D. just comes across as very unoriginal. Hopefully the brand new season of F.G. (premiering in September) will centre much more around Stewie - only then will F.G. regain it's title as the best anmated sitcom ever.

I like both shows, but American Dad is by far better. I personally think The Simpsons is still the best, but according to everyone I talk to I am wrong.

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I agree. Family Guy had kind of an off-year, while American Dad has been getting pretty good. I seem to like Roger the most with all his fantasies and self-importance.

Dad was better in Season 2 than Family Guy. FG's 4th season was horrible. The last one was brilliant so it was better than Dad. AD's last season bored me to death.

This is exactly what I've been saying for a few years now. American Dad is by far the superior show of the two.

I think Family Guy just gets worse and worse as AD gets better and better. Even the best part about FG, Stewie, has been turned into a dumb caricature of a homosexual attracted to the family dog. Stewie no longer has weapons and plans to take over the world, destroy Lois, despise Peter. He just wears silly gay costumes, hits on Brian, and often acts as dumb as Peter (even though he sounds smarter with the Rex Harrison voice).

I laugh about once or twice - at the most - during each recent episode of FG. AD totally cracks me up, from the unreasonableness of Roger to the irrational stubbornness of Stan. I've even warmed up to Steve Smith's three friends, who have been developed a little without becoming unnecessary distractions.

I wonder how much time Seth McFarlane spends between the two shows - somehow I don't think it is a 50/50 even split. Now they have that Cleveland Show coming out, right? So it will be even less time per show. I wonder how much of AD's improvement and high quality is due to Seth McFarlane?

Neither are that funny, I did watch some episodes of Surviving Suburbia but think it could have been better if they added a lot more of Bob Sagets perverse sense of humor to the show!

From following FG comments for some time I've concluded that you either get what the show is about and enjoy it or you don't and you don't. It is basically surreal/stream of consciousness silliness that targets everyone and everything with equal loathing and sarcasm. As I commented to a friend the other night, it is also the only show on television that requires you to have a thorough knowledge of the entire history of American/British culture if you want to get all the jokes.

I reject the idea that there is only one good kind of animated show: one with heartwarming characters and traditional sitcom plot development. I have always enjoyed nonsense humor, so I like FG.

I equally enjoy AD for many of the same reasons others here do. These are two very different styles of humor and comparing them seems pointless to me. Depending on individual taste, some people will like one or the other or both, but there is no way to declare one of them objectively "better" than the other.

I really appreciate this article, because I think that AD is the most underrated comedy out there right now.

The problem is that AD had such a shaky start, and it didn't help that it drew such obvious comparisons to FG. But by its third season, AD has not only eclipsed FG's comedy quotient, but regularly blows it away in terms of story-telling and intelligence. Whereas FG is now the epitome of lazy, stupid gag-comedy, AD has become a much subtler, character-based show with much smarter comedy to boot.

Everybody needs to give American Dad at least another chance.

Roger is the funniest character out of any of Seth Mcfarlane's creations. If American Dad ever does get cancelled I hope they bring that character over to Family guy.
Beyond that the show is still funny, but not hilarious. Klaus is a waste of space, I don't know why they don't just kill the character.