Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane: 'The new Flintstones will be like The Simpsons ...

[Kellie]

Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane: 'The new Flintstones will be like The Simpsons in the mid-1990s'

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has said that his remake of The Flintstones will be similar in tone to The Simpsons of the mid-1990s.

Speaking at the South by Southwest event A Conversation With Seth MacFarlane, he said the cartoon will be kept "more or less the same", but that the cultural references will be updated. The AV Club reports that MacFarlane said:

We're kind of shooting for the level of edge in mid-'90s Simpsons—you're not going to see abortion jokes.


He added: "We're trying to, essentially, stay true to what that show is. There's something cool to me about, in 2013, turning on your TV and seeing The Flintstones and having it look like The Flintstones... We kinda want to keep it, more or less, the same. The stories that we tell will be a little more current."

The pilot for the new show is still being written. MacFarlane later spoke to the Huffington Post about the new series of the show, saying: "It's like being handed the keys to a very old expensive car. You want to be careful not to be Ferris Bueller with it."

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[Hook]

Was wondering what kind of show this would be. Just I doubt it will be Simpsons funny because Family Guy isnt funny anymore.

 

[Swinny]

Was wondering what kind of show this would be. Just I doubt it will be Simpsons funny because Family Guy isnt funny anymore.

It's funnier than the Simpsons is right now. :tongue1:

I was kind of hoping they'd go completely over-the-top with Family Guy humor, just because it'd be ridiculous, lol, but this sort of thing makes more sense.

 

[Bad News Booty]

Simpsons never did much for me...cept for Ralph Wiggums

this could be interesting... but new voices will throw it off for me

 

[Castiel]

I'm sure MacFarlane can do a good Fred & Barney impression. I was worried he was going to say it would be like Family Guy, that would be terrible... sounds good to me now though!

 

[Swinny]

I'm sure MacFarlane can do a good Fred & Barney impression. I was worried he was going to say it would be like Family Guy, that would be terrible... sounds good to me now though!

Yeah, he's done them on Family Guy before and they sound pretty good.

 

[Hook]

Well yea it's funnier than Simpsons now. Yea was wondering if it would be adult or kids. Yea Seth's done Flintstones voices before.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Well this is good, I'd not care either way of it was Family Guy like or not since I like Family Guy but being like The Simpsons and not changing much how Flintstones was is a good thing to me also. I can't wait too see it cause Seth's shows are some of my favorite on tv.

 

[TroyTheAverage]

Since the Flintstones was one of my favorite cartoons growing up, I don't have much hope for this. I would prefer they just played reruns.

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