Best Television Show Tournament Round 1d: The Simpsons (5) vs Family Guy (124)

[Chris]

Plot: The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.
Genres: Adult animation, Animated sitcom, Satire
Created by: Matt Groening
Voices of: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer
On-air: December 17, 1989 – present


VS

Plot: In a wacky Rhode Island town, a dysfunctional family strives to cope with everyday life as they are thrown from one crazy scenario to another.
Genre: Adult animation, Animated sitcom
Created by: Seth MacFarlane
Voices of: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Mike Henry, Patrick Warburton, Arif Zahir
On-air: January 31, 1999 – present​

 

[Vegeta]

Damn what a battle for round one. Shocked neither show took their ball in went home since this is a later round match in round one. Went Family Guy. But both are awesome

 

[Jay-Ashley]

Went with The Simpsons because Family guy fell off hard

 

[Y2Jayne]

Family Guy for me. I like how it stays goofy the whole episode unlike The Simpsons where it feels like the second half of every episode is always too serious.

 

[Hoss]

Went with The Simpsons because Family guy fell off hard

I would say both shows did Though I do think post-peak Simpsons is a lot more bearable than modern Family Guy for me.

 

[Swamps]

I would say both shows did Though I do think post-peak Simpsons is a lot more bearable than modern Family Guy for me.

I agree that both shows fell off hard. However, The Simpsons were a huge part of my childhood. I remember when the show Aires on Thursday nights. Hell, I remember when most of the second season first aired.

 

[Jimmy King]

Simpsons all the way.

 

[Spider Matthau]

Recent Simpsons has been great. Family Guy has been a harder watch for me around the time they introduced Quagmire's abused sis.

 

[Hoss]

I agree that both shows fell off hard. However, The Simpsons were a huge part of my childhood. I remember when the show Aires on Thursday nights. Hell, I remember when most of the second season first aired.

I love both shows in their primes for what it's worth, though I kinda lived through Family Guy's more than The Simpsons'. But during the pandemic I went back and watched the glory days of The Simpsons, and it's for sure one of the best animated series ever. Excellent writing in the 90s. I think I'll have to go Simpsons here.

 

[Jay-Ashley]

I would say both shows did Though I do think post-peak Simpsons is a lot more bearable than modern Family Guy for me.

I don't think The Simpsons fell off as hard as Family Guy did. I have been rewatching The Simpsons and I am in season 13 and still enjoy it, but it all subjective anyways, lol

 

[Hoss]

I don't think The Simpsons fell off as hard as Family Guy did. I have been rewatching The Simpsons and I am in season 13 and still enjoy it, but it all subjective anyways, lol

I would agree. Like I said, Family Guy after a certain point is nearly unwatchable for me. After this long of them doing the same lazy joke formats in every episode, it's just annoying. Simpsons on the other hand never really becomes bad, just not nearly as good as the peak years.

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Simpsons didn't exactly fall off hard after Season 8, it mostly suffered from a gradual decline in quality of writing following the Weinstein & Oakley era. The last few years have been good for the Simpsons, but it's nowhere close to where it used to be in the 90s.

Family Guy fell off extremely hard after it got cancelled the first time. Season 4 and 5 were pretty mediocre, but it died a death as it went on.

 

[Dubble J]

I went with The Simpsons. I am a fan of both shows early stuff, but don't watch either anymore and haven't for years and years. That said, The Simpsons first several seasons are fucking classic and untouchable to me.

 

[Keith]

Simpsons for me.

 

[Cwalker]

2 shows that have both jumped the shark.

Peak Simpsons was better than peak Family Guy though imo so I’m going with that