Seth MacFarlane Gets Go-ahead to Reboot The Flintstones

[Weapon X]

Originally Posted by Jester

I hate Family Guy.

Really? Didn't you use to have a huge hard on for it?

Hmmm, maybe If The Flintstones were doing more then selling a cereal for the past 40 years, I'd care at all about this.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Weapon X

Really? Didn't you use to have a huge hard on for it?

I did...that's what makes it so hard. I guess my sense of humor has changed...or I'm more easily offended.

[oldmanwinters]

My take on Family Guy is that once you get past all the clever pop-culture cut-away jokes and gags, all you have left is a show that really doesn't have any heart to it and simply tries everything it can to get a cheap laugh by trashing anything and everything. It's basically narcissism and self-indulgence.

[Jester]

Maybe that's why I used to like it...the well of pop culture jokes was still somewhat deep...now it's tapped and the "references" are little more than "Ladies and gentlemen...Mr. Conway Twitty." for 10 minutes.

[Redeemer]

Originally Posted by deadpoolRKO

the clevland show , that's right.

& oh i thought bob's burgers was his too. my fault.

I thought he did Bob's Burgers as well.... Robot chicken and Futurama??? Or is that Matt Groaning???

I will give this show a shot, but I dont think I will like it, bc Seth McFarland show are mostly "stupid" commedy, basically its commedy come from the stupidity of the characters.

The Flintstones however has a completely different style of commedy. I dont know what exactly to call it though...hmm....

[Jester]

Robot Chicken is Seth Green. Futurama is Groening. Bob's Burgers if created by Loren Bouchard, who created Home Movies.

[ssjup81]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

My take on Family Guy is that once you get past all the clever pop-culture cut-away jokes and gags, all you have left is a show that really doesn't have any heart to it and simply tries everything it can to get a cheap laugh by trashing anything and everything. It's basically narcissism and self-indulgence.

And this is why I feel that early Family Guy is better then later Family Guy. I can still get a bit of a laugh out of the later eps because it's just so stupid, but the earlier eps were better to me.

[KROW]

Flintstones reboot? Comparatively speaking, didn't The Simpsons do this already by... being The Simpsons? McFarlane doesn't reboot, he rehashes.

[Tuxedo Moroboshi]

Originally Posted by Jester

DINO TALKS!!!

Actually, I think Dino did talk in one episode of the original cartoon... heck, I think it may have even been in his first appearance. Me memory's a bit sketchy, though, and I sadly do not own any Flintstones DVDs to try and confirm this.

Whatever the case, though, it seemed like that was retconned afterwards.

Originally Posted by ssjup81

And this is why I feel that early Family Guy is better then later Family Guy. I can still get a bit of a laugh out of the later eps because it's just so stupid, but the earlier eps were better to me.

I'd have to agree. Not to mention the fact that the later episodes try too hard to be edgy, and just come off as offensive to me. I know that happened occasionally with the earlier episodes, too, but it wasn't common, whereas the later episodes tend to often do it in rapid-fire succession. Sometimes it feels like Seth MacFarlane is merely using Family Guy as his own personal soapbox.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Clown Prince of Crime

Actually, I think Dino did talk in one episode of the original cartoon... heck, I think it may have even been in his first appearance. Me memory's a bit sketchy, though, and I sadly do not own any Flintstones DVDs to try and confirm this.

Whatever the case, though, it seemed like that was retconned afterwards.

Cracked ran an article about it, actually...kinda made me double take considering my post.