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Family Guy Spins off Cleveland
E Online is reporting that a new spinoff is currently in the works to feature Cleveland, the soft-spoken neighbor in popular animated sitcom Family Guy. "Not much is known about Cleveland other than the fact it will revolve around the Brown clan. It's unclear whether the series will remain set in the town of Quahog or whether Cleveland, along with his wife and son, will continue to appear on Family Guy, though as both series are animated, the double-billing won't so much be a logistical problem as a creative decision."
Why Cleveland? Why not Quagmire (Cleveland's wife agrees) or any of the other more interesting characters? When I hear Cleveland, I just want to go to sleep until I hear a "Diggity".
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How is this news for nerds or stuff that matters? It's worthless drivel like this that drags the whole site down!
And, because I seriously hate people who say that shit, I'm going to point out that cartoon network's adult swim (which brought the show back from the dead) is largely viewed by nerds, and adult animation is mostly enjoyed by nerds, and dammit, it's a good show.
However, I do hope that it's not just another family guy clone like American Dad. Seriously, why not just do 3x as many family guy episodes and not have american dad or this new cleveland one?
Cleveland's comment about the new show:
Oh, Peter, I don't know about this.
... hopefully the spin-off features original characters, concepts and comedy. Or does this spin-off involve a robot, and one-eye girl, a lobster guy and a elderly professor?
Hope this series focus' on Cleveland's previous occupation as an accomplished auctioneer. Going Once... Going Twice... Its friday and i'm going home!
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That's comedy gold right there.
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Where the hell is my Quagmire spinoff?
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Cleveland is the most tedious, annoying character in the WHOLE of Family Guy. Well, at least maybe they can take Cleveland out of Family Guy now so we can concentrate all the crap of his storyline into this one and ignore it. :-)
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That's true. It's rare for a spinoff to work well, but there are some excellent examples. "Frasier" was never my favorite show, but it was a huge success that won a lot of awards. I can't think of any other examples of good spinoffs, but I can think of a few bad spinoffs.
I'm willing to give this one a chance if it is made by the same funny guys as the original.
Most people familiar with their favorite couple who moved on up, to the East Side, and finally found their piece of the pie, aren't aware that the sitcom actually started as a spin-off of All in the Family, on which Family Guy is itself heavily based. Even the piano playing sequence at the beginning of Family Guy is a callback to the opening sequence of All in the Family.
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Unless it's a prequel of sorts, what clan are they talking about? Cleveland's wife left him, and his son hasn't been seen in who knows how long.
I can think of two older ones from the same show. Laverne and Shirley, and Mork and Mindy. They were both spinoffs of Happy Days.
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as was Joanie Love Chachie
A spin off is neither good or bad, it's the acting and writing. Just like ANY show.
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Cleveland doesnt have a wife they divorced after she slept with Quagmire http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0576966/plotsummary
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Yeah... not seeing how this is gonna work.
We all remember "Joanie Loves Chachi", "Enos", "The Ropers", "Flo" (I may be the only human that remembers this pile), "After M*A*S*H", and that wretched Jeffersons spinoff "Checking In" (seriously, this sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before), and we all know how badly 99.999999999999999999999% of all spinoffs suck. So why, then, does Fox wish to taint the excellence that is Family Guy with a spinoff? And of Cleveland???!!! I'da figured Quagmire, but not mr "Hhhhheeeeeeeellooo Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeetaaaaah" Cleveland!
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Cleveland is funny but only in a laid back and chilled contrast to the rest of the show, like pickled ginger between pieces of sushi. On his own, it just doesn't work. The only spin-off I can imagine that would be worse is giving the fucking pedophile his own show. That whole character is one giant "dude, not funny", but without even eliciting a guilty snicker.
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I think the strongest characters on the show are Stewie, Brian, and Lois. Peter is too much of an idiot to be funny and both Meg and Chris are too one-note. The rest of the neighbors may be one-note but they still manage to be funny every time they toot it -- anything can be forgiven so long as it remains funny.
I'm glad both it and Futurama were uncanceled but what I'm really looking forward to is more Venture Bros.
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The Simpsons was spun from the Tracy Ullman Show (can't forget that if you're discussing Family Guy).
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But no really, this is going to suck donkey balls. Who green lit this?! Oh evil monkey, you're the evilest!! Do we have a clip? no, oh. okay then.
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Who the hell's cousing/nephew/son is Seth?
Why does this most mediocre of cartoon comedy flourish, with spin off after spin off when there are WAY better shows that could be given airtime (to see some watch adult swim on the cartoon network).
I just don't get it.. Family is ok, just ok, not even close to South park or futurama but it seems to be promoted and extended forever?
Family guy is like the middle manager who becomes CEO while the smart kid languishes in employee hell.
... is that I actually want to do Lois. Am I alone in this?
What the fuck? You don't see any racist jokes in south park or simpsons? What is Apu? What is Token? What was chef?
I guess you don't get the idea of comedy bringing socially taboo topics into the limelight, and the very fact that a joke can be offensive and funny at the same time allows us to learn a little something about society.
It's attitudes like yours that divide us along racial lines. Shows like Chappelle's show, South Park and Family Guy bring us together by mockery of stereotypes, not by reinforcing them.
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Yes, because non-politically correct humor is the cancer that is killing the youth of USA.
This is exactly why MacFarlane's shows are good - they parody the harsh reality. Thanks to them, we can see what is basically wrong with today's society without all that "be correct, be proper, be good" crap that other more serious shows try to feed us, PLUS wrapped around in some good old stupid, random and wacky gags/jokes. I personally view Family Guy as a show that tries to rope together all the different types of humor, so it appeals to different parts of your sense of humor.
I guess you don't get the idea of comedy bringing socially taboo topics into the limelight, and the very fact that a joke can be offensive and funny at the same time allows us to learn a little something about society.
It's attitudes like yours that divide us along racial lines. Shows like Chappelle's show, South Park and Family Guy bring us together by mockery of stereotypes, not by reinforcing them. Seriously, why is this at -1 while the GP is at 1, Interesting?
Good post.
The Jeffersons and Maude were both spinoffs from All in the Family.
I thought they mean the one in Ohio
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Meg (as she walks in on him):- Oh my god Mr. Quagmire, I'm so sorry
Quagmire: hey that's all right Meg, you probably bought me three more minutes, ohhhh riiiiight giggity diggity giggity!
He says both.
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You have got to be kidding me? Now we have 3 ripoffs of the same show? Wow, Fox is getting desperate to make up for EVERY SINGLE TV SHOW it cancels...
Fox made the Family Guy as a cheap Simpsons clone, and it became popular with teens (why teens? Because they will watch ANYTHING, look at horrible movies like Meet The Spartans). Then came American Dad, a ripoff of the Family Guy.
I love The Simpsons, but it is HARDLY ON anymore because stupid Fox feels the best show on their network should take back seat to a cheap ripoff show. I get 2 Fox channels, one from RI and one from MA. On the RI channel, the new lineup is: 6:30 and 7:30 Family Guy, and 1 Simpsons episode. Wtf??? It's a good thing I don't live in RI, then that would be my only option...
Fox is getting desperate to put out anything not reality related, the Terminator show is a golden example. They ran out of ideas, so they just copied from a dumb 90s movie!
This show will be canned after a few episodes (unless Fox goes after the teens that watch anything).
Can't you tell that this post is a joke, solely meant to rope you suckers in? A Family Guy spinoff featuring Cleveland????? Seriously, if any of you REALLY believed that, you are idiots.
It wasn't a spin-off, it was The Simpsons even when it was aired during Tracy Ullman. It was the same show.
It's a lot, but there are also many notable successes.
If A spin off getsd treated like ti's own series, and is good on it's won merits it will succeed.
well, until Fox screw's around with it.
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You don't see any racist jokes in south park or simpsons? What is Apu?
Besides the most visible, and most respectfully written, Hindu character in mainstream American television?
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That entire storyline was a hypothetical experiment by Stewie.
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A cartoon spinoff is news for nerds? Not even a science fiction cartoon?
The reason this bugs me is the last two stories I submitted were rejected. One about DARPA's oblique flying wing called Switchblade, and one about active sonic boom suppression on Gulfstream's supersonic business jet.
But a cartoon spinoff is more news worthy? I'm sorry, but this is shenanigans.
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What's this "time slot" you keep refer...
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I see... You don't have a TiVo.
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This is not news. This is not stuff that matters. Why on earth is this on the front page???
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Family Matters was a spinoff of Perfect Strangers.
Wiki to the rescue...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_spin-offs
So Sabrina the Teenage Witch (With Melissa Joan Hart) is a remake of a spinoff of The Archie Hour.
Damnit that's the problem with wiki....
There is a lot of overlap between geek culture and pop culture, and slashdot generally hits the nail on the head. In this case however, I have to throw my lot in with the '!news' ground and say this is not a topic slashdot should be covering, and it is not a direction I want to see it go in. I like family guy, and am mildly interested in a spin-off. In fact, i have a few opinions on the matter I might be inclined to share on a comment site - but not slashdot. Slashdot is my haven of geekhood, where I read about the latest hizzy fit between RMS and theo de raadt, SCO zanyness, steve balmars latest dance moves etc. It is not where I go for the latest goings on in the realm of 'generation X', pop culture, my-face-bebo-boy land. It does overlap, but that doesn't mean there aren't boundries.
Sure, there was a few articles about futurama - futurama = sci-fi = geek. No problem. Perhaps somehow a confusion arrived thinking futurama = animated, family guy = animated, therefore it is geek! Family guy has no geek crediential. No reason to be on slashdot. This is not fox-watch, not 'animation-maniac-fans.com'. They are not using some highly clever bit of software automate production of the two shows. It is news for pop-culture, not news for nerd.
Where is it going to end - a sidebar with the top ten funniest you-tube clips? 50 different smiley characters and RTF entry text box to spice up the comments (not fogetting flashing text)?
Lets try to keep slashdot geek, and let the pop-culture sites do pop culture.
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largely viewed by nerds, and adult animation is mostly enjoyed by nerds, and dammit, it's a good show. Why ask a question to which you know the answer?
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... maybe this is news for us nerds who can't stand Sci-Fi or Star Trek or RPGs but don't complain every time an article about one of the above is posted?
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South Park? That show cracks me up! I just don't understand how busy men such as Perle, Feith and Wolfowitz found the time to write half the episodes!
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It's not April 1st.... so that's not it.
Is there another practicing Hindu on mainstream American television?
This is a serious question, I can't think of one, but I don't watch much TV...
That says more about mainstream American TV than it does about Apu.
Another SOMETHING UNEXPECTED unfunny show BIG NOISE for people RANDOM YELLING with advanced ADD.
Mod me troll or flamebait if you must, but I just cannot bite my tongue... er, fingers. To borrow some rhetoric from the Filthy Critic, holy shit does this show fucking suck. I cannot understand for the life of me how anyone finds any merit in this incessantly crude, unimaginative, overbearing, insultingly banal bullshit. It defies reason. I noticed a lot of banter in previous comments in which South Park and the Simpsons were discussed and/or criticized. Any mention of these two has no place in a discussion of Family Guy, which unlike those shows is a complete waste of time, resources, and intellect. The biggest conundrum of all is how in apparently trying so hard to wring laughs out of the audience at any cost, the writers of this mierda really are not trying at all. And yes, I'll admit I am editorializing, and have just wasted a good two minutes complaining about this absolutely miserable excuse for an adult animated comedy. Strewth.
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..sounds dumb to me. I like Cleveland well enough, but a whole show centered around him?
Hopefully it's less of a turd than American Dad.
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Complete with stereotypical accent, behaviour, job and number of kids. Yup about as respectful as a black man eating fried chicken, an Irish New York cop and a Brit with bad teeth.
Raj from The Big Bang Theory is Hindu, AFAIK.
Apu works in a convenience store, he has an abundance of kids and he even says "Good rice, good curry, good Ghandi, let's hurry." as a blessing before eating.
You can still claim he is the most visible and most respectfully written Hindu* character in mainstream American television but don't say there are never jokes about his race.
*Last time I checked wikipedia, Hinduism wasn't a race. I'll assume you meant to write Indian or something more relevant the racism claim.
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Don't read the stories that don't interest you. If you find that there's no reason left to read slashdot, don't read it. But don't expect it to cater exactly to your wants and needs. Personally, I couldn't care less about the latest hissy fit between RMS and Theo, the latest Ballmer antics, or most of the other crap you listed. Why should Slashdot cater to you rather than me?
I know my personal threshold for when I'll stop reading it. I've seen a few stories that make me question what editors were smoking. But I take serious offense when people try to pretend that their view of geekdom is the only valid one, and that slashdot should only cater to their exact view of it.
Andd btw, there's no confusion about Family Guy being geek. If you would have watched more than one or two episodes, you'd know that it is chock-full of geek humor, geek issues and geek cred.
In short, hand in your geek card, sign up for a frat, and stand in line for initiation paddling.
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I haven't looked into it, but I'm certain the writers of Family Guy are around my age (early 40s) and watched the same entertainment as I did. The cultural references thrown in often seem just for me - from "The Incredible Hulk" TV show closing music, with Stewie on the road hitchhiking, to Peter being a game character in Tron. I love it.
So when I read they are spinning off Cleveland's character (whom I don't really care for, BTW), my first thought was of "All in the Family" begetting "The Jeffersons".
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When watching American Dad, all I can think of is how it's more or less an extension of family guy as it is. I don't think there is anymore room for another one of Seth McFarlane's shows on TV.
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Cleveland? Give me a break! He's got to be the worst Family Guy character, other than maybe Chris Griffin.
I have to agree, a spinoff set around Quagmire or the guy in the wheelchair would be much better. Or, what about the old pervert from the Griffins' neighbourhood?
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