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Anonymous
well, i think there's a lot more at play. recently, isaac hayes left south park due to differences with trey and matt over mockery of scientology, which hayes is a member of. couple that with the mentioned muhammed drawings that pissed the muslim world off, and there you go. yeah, family guy's not afraid to display religious figures and other "sacred" images in an irreverant fashion, but so does south park. in fact, the series is based on it, as the "first" episode was Jesus vs. Santa Claus.
as far as writing goes, first seasons of shows are always sucky. they're prototypes, as the network is not sure what they can and can't get away with. usually when shows realize they're about to get canned, the writing becomes a lot looser. you can see the progression in family guy. when family guy returned, there was a lot more media attention on it, which i'm sure made execs at fox even more paranoid of going too far over the line. and besides, i imagine that consistently writing stuff for an audience with high expectations for ten years is nigh impossible.
the bottom line is, the world needs to lighten up.
i think we all can agree, though, that american dad was a cheap and tawdry doppelganger of family guy.
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